Review: A nice story about a convincing triad
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 7/10PROS:- This is an iteration of the BDSM lifestyle that I don't often see depicted in fiction: people who play hard and are serious about their kink, but who leave it behind the doors of the bedroom rather than incorporating it into other areas of their lives also.- I enjoyed reading about a couple who are perfectly happy together but also perfectly interested when someone else intriguing comes along.- Witt does a good job of establishing the differences in Angel and Dante. One is calculated and the other is laidback, but they are deliciously similar sexually. The power struggles when it's just the two of them in bed together are interesting to watch. The author certainly convinced me that these two men need a submissive partner so they have someone they can both order around.CONS:- I don't like the convention of using first person point of view that moves from one character's perspective to another's. It throws me off every time a new scene starts and I have to reorient myself as to whose head I'm in.- I found the guys amusing at times. I didn't find them near as amusing as they find themselves, though. All three of them snicker and splutter and choke back laughs at quite a few things that I didn't find all that funny, and their amusement started to grate on me a bit.- One of my pet peeves is overuse of particular phrases or descriptions of actions that characters do over and over. There are several of these repetitious elements in this story, but the one that annoyed me most was the repeated occurrence of "playful glares."Overall comments: I had some minor issues with the writing, but overall I liked this. There's quite a bit of eroticism in the story that isn't outright sex, which I enjoyed. It was like a nice long session of foreplay. The focus here is on sex, though: Unless you like a healthy dose of it in your romances, you should probably stay away from this one. Moments of emotional connection tend to happen immediately leading up to or immediately following a sex scene.