Review: I REALLY wanted to LIKE this...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
Dom Wars, Round One by Lucian Bane came very highly recommended by the fans of Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads. It also had great reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, so I had no problem jumping right to it and getting started on this series. I WANTED to LOVE this story, but I couldn't find a good enough reason for that strong of a word. Dom Wars was good and entertaining at times, but when you have a character (Tara the heroine of this story) who ruins the whole thing for you, it's just so dissapointing. I don't think I have ever hated a character so much, and I have read ALOT of stories where the characters pissed me off to no end, but it was just something about Tara that drove me absolutely crazy!Lucian, on the other hand, was a GREAT character! Complex, strong, and intriguing, it was HIS character, and HIS alone that kept me going through this read. I wasn't a fan of the BDSM aspect in Dom Wars at all. I get that Lucian was trying to find out who he really was, find his inner Dom and give in to what it wants, but the step by step instruction manual, and the fact that this whole thing was a reality show, it just didn't work for me.I felt the emotion and connection (thought I didn't get it) that Lucian had for Tara, but I didn't get anything from Tara. I'm a big fan of stories that make me feel what all the characters are feeling, and I just didn't get that from this story. It's quite possible that I am in the minority with my opinion on Dom Wars, but it just didn't work for me on quite a few levels. I'm no stranger to reading BDSM Romance, so maybe it's just that I'm more in to the 'BDSM fluff romance' where the emotions are out in the open and so clear for everyone to feel, and not so much into the 'forced feelings' that was trying to push through.I've heard that each book in the series gets better, but I haven't decided if I'm willing to test that theory.