Review: Hot and sweet, it missed a little bit of angst
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2011
This was a good book and there were a lot of things about it that I liked. Mischa and Tom's first meeting was awesome and it gave a light tone to the book. Even if the main characters start a BDSM relationship where there is a lot of pain, for the main part the attitude of the two protagonists is very - I don't know how to explain it - mature, solid: Tom wants to submit, Mischa wants to be in charge; Mischa likes to give pain, Tom likes to take it. For Mischa, Tom becomes something more than a playmate, because Tom is a very independent young man who's trying to succeed in life and his personality shines through him even when he completely surrenders to Tom.The love story is very sweet and hot. What I missed were more emotional moments and more personal conflicts. At the end of the book there is an episode that shatters Tom and Mischa's up to that moment perfect relationship, but it came very late and it _was_ resolved, but it wasn't enough in my opinion, or maybe it came too late. I think I would have preferred if it had been more or less in the middle of the book in order to spend a little more time with the characters and to have a better insight in their personality, because it's when things get rough that people show what's inside them.The book is written in third person and the point of views shifts from a character to the other, but it reads like a journal, where people are just telling about what has been happening to them, without needing to talk about their past, because they know it, of course. I felt that the two protagonists didn't have a background, I couldn't understand why they were like that. I liked them, but I felt disconnected from them.In spite of that, it's a book I'd recommend to those who like to see how a relationship starts from great sex and develops into a love story and don't like angsty books.