Review: just disappointing
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2012
This erotic short story begins very well.There is a tense atmosphere, not only erotically tense, and it builds more and more.That the two leads are a policeman and a District Attorney, both in the closet, only adds to it and gives the story more depth.True, here and there there are some redundant descriptions, but up to the moment the two men land in between the sheets the story is really good.The first sex scene is perhaps a bit mechanical but it makes sense in the plot.From there things go downhill.The point of the second half of the story is supposed to be the two leads deciding whether there can be a future of sorts for them. It might have been even more interesting than the already good first half.Unfortunately the cop turns into an insecure jerk who humiliates a former lover and the DA turns into a distant, dominating character more suitable for a bad S/M story.It is just hurried and unappealing not to mention that -as it often happens with lady authors- the two end by codifying their sex into strict top/bottom roles with more than a tinge of gratuitous dominance/submission.This did it for me. What attracted me to this story in the first place was that both lovers were strong willed, self assured, physically imposing. That thet were on a par and had to make concessions to make their relationship work added enormously to the tension and therefore to the interest of the plot. Choosing to redirect them into the customary D/S tracks was a huge letdown.