Review: If I Can't Have you...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2011
As I was reading the Unrequited Dom the lyrics to "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman and Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" kept playing in my head. Cash has had his eye on Sugar ever since his stepmother married Sugar's father. There is a 10 yr age difference and over time Cash realizes Sugar has the perfect temperament to be his ultimate submissive to his Dom, but all he has to do is wait and plan her initiation into the D/s lifestyle. The training starts after Sugar's father dies.  Cash takes on the responsibility of disciplining Sugar. His method of choice is bare bottom spanking for bad behavior, which he dishes out until her 21st birthday. On her birthday he decides to take their relationship to the next level and go for the total package. Cash has secretly lusted after Sugar for years and feels he has her primed and ready to fall into his bed and keep her there forever. Sugar falls hard but can't come to grips with her sexual need to be dominated  and disciplined by Cash.TUD has all the ingredients for a 5 star read but I gave it 3.5 stars because I got tired of the retelling of incidents and situations. Faulkner will have Sugar reminisce about previous conversations she had with Cash and then have Cash repeat the same conversation. I did not mind suspending my belief that anyone would endure bare bottom spanking into adulthood, but what I did take exception to was how long it took them to get it on and the amount of times they did. When I'm in the mood for smut I want a little less talking and much more action. The characters were likeable and I loved how Sugar was a bit clueless about how Cash truly felt about her which almost made him loose his mind when he thought she would leave him for the second time. I also loved how he zeroed his sights  on Sugar and no other woman would do. He truly wanted the best for her and in his own way made sure no matter what she was protected. In spite of my negatives I enjoyed this book.