Review: Emotionless 'Saviors'
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
Dominant Saviors - Book #2Let me begin by saying I typically LIKE Becca Van's work. I have ALL of her series/stories including Pack Law (my favorite series), Slick Rock, Elite Dragons, Terra-form, & her miscellaneous sci-fi & `normal' ménage.Unfortunately, I cannot say that I like the Club of Dominance series, at all. It has nothing to do with the BDSM factor, as I DO like many authors whose work is primarily that genre - such as Tymber Dalton, who is much harder core. The 1st book in the series, Between Two Doms, was mediocre at best. This one was slightly worse, I thought.I just could not get myself to care much for the heroine, Emma, who just gives over her life to 3, so-called, Doms. The `Doms', Tank, Gary, & Jack run rough-shod over Emma, decide her life for her & after a token resistance Emma rolls over & lets them take care of her. I'm all for an alpha male but these guys came across as Dominant for dominance sake, rather than actual caring alphas. Submissives are actually the ones who hold all the power in a D/s relationship even though a Dom controls their pleasure, this series heroines seems stripped of that and strike me as very weak the whole way around.*** Warning - some spoilers below:A Dom's job is to meet the needs of his sub & you might think that with three of them they could get the job done for one woman. Nope. They push & push until the `heroine' breaks and tells them enough is enough and decides to leave them because even as they train her, for weeks, she has NO idea of how they feel about her or where she stands with them. THEN they decide it would be a great idea to carry their sub to their dungeon & sexually press her/ seduce her into staying with them. This happens twice. If I'd been her, I'd have kicked them all you-know-where & told them to go to he**.There was a LOT of talk about safe-words etc... So the author was trying to show some of the more proper aspects of a Dom/sub relationship, but at the same time the Dom's were so emotionally unavailable to the sub that I felt severe neglect regardless.Also, I'm sorry, I understand that there has to be a driver behind a story BUT, there is NO WAY a woman who has been kidnapped, stripped, whipped bloody, & beaten is going to say, on the day she's rescued, "Gee, okay. I'll move in with 3 Dom's with forceful personalities who insist I do their every bidding".I could be wrong; however, this series kind of comes across as the publisher asking "Hey, we want you to write a BDSM series" and the author answering with an "If you insist."  She even forgets the name of the BDSM club around location 451 it changed from `Club of Dominance' to `Club of Discipline'.Ms. Van, I do really like your other stories, but I think I'll pass on any more in this series. I'll be sure to check your others out though.