Review: S&M 101?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
S&M; 101Sometimes reading BDSM books is like watching a train wreck. You don’t really want to watch but you can’t seem to look away.This book was all about the sex and submission, as seen mostly from the Masters eyes, and lesser so from the point of view of the submissive.After reading ’50 Shades’, I have found myself reading more and more BDSM books, they’re like my train wreck. On the one hand, I can’t understand why anyone would put themselves in a position of submission to another willingly, and allow another to hurt and oft times degrade them, and yet, at the same time even in a story such as this, there is that ever-present happy ending you seek, even in a relationship that may seem a little warped to you.There were times when this book made me cringe and I desperately wanted to look away, not because it was graphic, but because of the rawness of the M/s relationship.A lot of the reviews I read said this was a stand-alone book, even though technically it is the second book in the series, (the first being ‘Fate’).I don’t know whether we would have a better understanding of our characters and what has brought them to this moment in time, certainly we are given glimpses into their past and can come to some conclusions, but other than sex and being privy to some of their inner thoughts, mostly about being either the Dom, or sub, not much else really happens in this book.