Review: Safe Sane Consensual. This book is not.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2012
I am really wondering if the other reviewers are friends of the author. If their not, they must not know about real D/s. You know the normal stuff like after care and what not. Reading the description it looks like a good book. Girl leaves guy, moves away starts over. Eight years later Both are involved in BDSM and meet again at the same club when said girl is given the option of retrain or leave.How could there be problems with the good description. A lot, believe it or not, a lot could be wrong with it. Lets just look at the book itself. Annie moved a hundred miles away from her home town. And yet Luke and Annie still end up in the same club....OK uh well I can let that go. Even though in Chicago we had three clubs alone downtown. But I can let it go.  It seemed like an ok written book. I did have some problems with the author not keeping the story straight (How long has Luke been a Dom 6 years or 8)  But then the BDSM side makes an appearance and leaves you saying What the.So Annie's roommate is a Sub and introduces Annie to the lifestyle. Ok believable. Annie enjoyed being top at the being but after eight years Its no longer true. She tops from the bottom, doesn't trust any Dom to play with, and has a limit list longer than my arm. Ok it could happen. So I started not liking the book when Annie gets in trouble for not address a Dom as Master right away. First off this is High Protocol not all D/s or even BDSM is about High Protocol. Annie also gets in trouble for lying to the same Dom and trying to avoid him. Now I can believe that she could get in trouble for Lying to a Dom, but not wanted to play or scene with him. No that should NOT have gotten her in trouble. Why? because if a sub doesn't want to play with someone, they shouldn't be forced to play with them. Subs always have the right to say yes or no to a Dom. So that upset me. During the scene (which neither Annie nor the Dom talked about before hand, limits nor safe words.) So during this scene the Dom choose to use somethings thats on Annie's Hard limits. Um hello red flag anyone? So I don't blame Annie for using her safe word. Which when she called it the Dom didn't know what it was. She's called to the Owner's office (With no aftercare of any kind) where he tells either she retrains or leaves with a membership refund. Ok lets stop there and look at Luke.Luke, left at the alter, after two years moves on with his life. Some how finds out about BDSM and likes being in control so he trains to be a Master. (You can train to be a Dom, Master can either be just a name to some or another level of BDSM to others) So he trains and starts taking on Subs. He is know for being a harsh. In fact his to harsh and is asked to join the retraining program.So they ask a Dom who needs to be retrained to retrain a sub....Um noooooo. Not smart.Neither retrainy is given someone to guide them during a scene. They are in fact able to come in when the club is not open and go in to a private room. After Luke starts the scene he does a couple things and then Kisses Annie. For some odd reason the kiss freaks Luke out NOT because it shows he still cares for Annie but because it some how gives her all the power in the scene. So he ends said scene and walks away. Doesn't even untie her or help take off the nipple clamps. And No After Care. Instead had the DM (who just happens to be there walking around the club (at least the author put a DM in her story, though I only think she did it because of this part)) untie Annie. BUT WAIT I thought she was cuffed. MAKE UP YOUR MIND.I couldn't read any more after that. This book was to expensive to the bs that it is. This author should be ashamed because this book is just as bad as 50 shades of Gray.Want to read a good book look up Masters of Shadowlands. Those are good books. So save yourself the money and DONT buy this one.