Review: This is not a good book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
Failure to grok: total. This is one of those books where not only do I not get it, I am perplexed that other people seem to think it's awesome.I'm getting the impression that maybe I am just not made to read lite-BDSM romances, because I never understand why they are popular (I keep trying, because I am... a sucker.)Complaints I have about this type of book:*Why are they always set in a BDSM club? I don't understand this at all, because a BDSM club seems like a faintly silly, costumey backdrop, like you're doing sexy sex stuff at a Renaissance Faire.*Why is there so little attention paid to the actual emotional connection between the two leads, when that's... what you have? That's the whole thing. The rest is just accessories. There's no buildup of believable sexual tension or emotional connection between the hero and heroine in this book. The writing tells us (but provides no evidence) that the tension is thick and immediate, that there is some kind of connection between these two.*Why is the writing kind of not super amazing?For me, this book is just not worth reading. There must be other books that toy with these ideas but are able to convince the reader that there's a connection between the two leads, surely.