Review: Ms. Sub Shop Girl
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
Sub shop girl or Laurel has been coasting through life. She's pushing 30 and has two roommates and a waitressing job while she has an engineering degree. She's not pushing herself enough for a life she wants. She sees a couple arguing and tries to vocally intervene, but when that goes nowhere she spots this rather larger than life man physically intervene. She's automatically curious and follows him (in a non creepy sort of way). She buys him lunch and he casually in a non-commitment way invites her to a bar. Well, it's a bar, but an underground boxing club.She goes and bumps into one of his f-buddies and they casually talk. She gets invited to watch them have sex and while a part of her is appalled, but she's definitely curious. She goes over, watches them and desperately fantasizes it's her he's doing the rape scenario with. She thinks whether or not she would like that and when he asks her if she'll be into it, she agrees. From then on the meet weekly and little by little she does girlfriendy things and wonders if there could be more to their relationship.The novella is told in the third POV, but only from Laurel. I was surprised by this. Normally CR's are told in the first POV, heroine only. So it was a pleasant surprise. I love the hero's POV, so I missed not having it. But I think it works really well here. It's like we're in her shoes and going along for the ride. We don't know anything about Flynn, we just know what she knows. We don't know when he switches, we don't know why he does the things he does. We only get those answers when he tells her.At first there's something a bit cold with Flynn, he's clinical and very down to business, but Laurel comments on of all that. The book is very self aware as well. Many of the questions you have, Laurel also has.Still, I felt like I would liked Flynn's POV. Like that scene when Laurel first sees him boxing and he's doing that well and all of a sudden, he is doing well. I kept waiting for the next shift to start with "then I saw Laurel." And I wondered where exactly he started to shift from just having rough sex to actually caring for her and wanting more of a real relationship from her. But regardless, I enjoyed this novella and look forward to her other books.