Review: Boo Tex! Still love the series though
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2013
Well, I hate to say it, but this book just frustrated me to no end. In Shooter (book 1 of the series) I adored Tex. I knew, he was most likely going to be my favorite. Especially learning about his BDSM lifestyle.However, in Shooter, they make it seem more like a fetish than a real lifestyle. We learn in Tex that it is indeed a very serious lifestyle for Tex.So basically, Tex meets Abby right when Abby is driving into town. She is of course, in search of a new life for herself. She's from Vegas and just wants to start over and do things on her own.She's this one of a kind hot chick that not only works on cars, know's all about them, shoots guns and is a total bad a** chick, but it also seems might be the perfect sub for Tex.Slowly they start experimenting together.Here's were I run into my issues: Tex isn't sure if she's a true sub. So he wants to put her through training, because absolutely in no way will any relationship work unless the woman is a sub...a TRUE sub...not just playing like one here and there. It actually turned me off of Tex quite a bit. I feel like, Dom's usually want their subs to be happy and comfortable in the relationship. That's their job as the Dom. But I felt like he was coming off WAYYY too selfish...just worried about himself and was she going to be able to live up to his standards. I mean I know he's got to work her up to what he feels he needs to be able to do to her, but Jesus dude, chill the F out a little bit.THEN ! OH SWEET LORD ABOVE, THEN he actually got p-ss-d at her, because during her weekend where she gave him ABSOLUTE control over her, she started feeling a little caged in and kind of like a dog (which is a completely normal mental response, duh Tex who studied Psychology), so what's he do to reassure his sub? HE tell's her he will treat her like a dog and calls her a b-t-h and makes her sleep naked and chained to the bathroom floor. Makes her eat and drink like a dog AND MAKES HER Pee IN THE YARD like a dog. Talk about degrading. Then, he screwed her in the a**, literally and emotionally and told her to leave after treating her like a dog.Of course, our heroine, who to me, is just obsessed and not in love, gets over it and apologizes to him for hurting him and not being what he wanted her to be.I was not expecting my Tex to come off this way. Even his apology to her a few weeks later (after she yet again groveled to him)was pathetic. Heck, I don't want the jerk anymore, someone else can have him.I felt like our heroine just had no self respect. Dom/sub is mutual respect for each other and trust. There is no way that respect and trust are actually there. A Dom can't get mad at his sub and take it out on her and abuse that trust because he know's she'll let him. And that's exactly what Tex did.Don't even get me started on the whole story line about how she basically "runs" Las Vegas. Yeah...whatever.I was totally disappointed on where this went and felt like the author was way off on the Dom/sub relationship. He didn't want a sub, he wanted a Pet, which is exactly what he called her.OHHH! And then there's the part where he brings in a female Dom and let's her have her way with her. Toward the end she, to me, convinced herself to enjoy it (even though the whole time she was worried that the guy who set it up was testing her to see if she'd "cheat" on him, but I felt like she just felt trapped and didn't know what to do. Cue the dog scene mentioned above that follows. See what I mean?? I just found so many things emotionally wrong with this story.I don't feel like it was a romance at all. Not even the parts where Tex, later in the book, started becoming the old Tex again. By that point my love for him had checked out and all I could think about is her having to pee in the grass and getting forced enemas.Maybe I'm way off, and you'll love this story, but you can definitely check me off that list. More power to ya if you can read this and enjoy it. I was just wanting Tex to be so awesome and was highly disappointed. Boo Tex.Now all that said I can not WAIT for the next book. Shooter was awesome and I am holding on hope that Easy, Hawk and Caleb have just as good of stories as Shooter. If so, I'll consider Tex a small bump in the road instead of what I consider it now.