Review: Really good but I needed more...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
This was an interesting read for me. The novel took me further than I have ever really read about in the BDSM scene. It's a front row seat into Presley deciding to join a BDSM Club. Going from being the good girl to giving herself over completely to Dmitiri as a submissive. It is not a choice that she is 100% confident with. She knows that she has a desire to be submissive but she is not sure how far she is willing to let that submission go and the Club is asking for 100% submission.Presley battles with herself a little bit, trying to figure out just how crazy she is to give into this life style and if it is really for her. There are many different levels and intensities of living the BDSM lifestyle and she has to figure out where her limits are. She has Dmitri to train her, and apparently this is a big deal because Dmitri hasn't trained a sub in 4 years. Being one of the masters of the Club, it is a duty in which he has not taken part of. That changes when he meets Presley, and that is not where the changes stop. Dmitiri finds himself wanting more with Presley. He thinks about the possibilities of being more than just her Dom.The book plays on Presley and her innocence, it seems to be the main attraction that Dmitiri has to Presley and is mentioned many times. I am not new to Erotica or BDSM novels but this one is focused mostly on the physical side of being a dominate and a submissive.  I am not saying there is no emotional attachment between Dmiti and Presley because near the end we get to see some of that, and there is evidence that their relationship is on course to move beyond the Dom/Submissive relationship, which was the driving force that kept me reading.But then the book ended before I could get enough of that.The book ends at the beginning of that emotional connection really starting to take form and I wanted more of it. It still felt like a very physical, ownership of a Dom/submissive relationship. I wanted more evidence that he cared about her beyond just being her Dom. I personally need more of an emotional connection between my characters, it has to go further than being just a submissive or protecting only because he is her Dom. That is a default of being a Dom and a submissive. I needed to know and feel that Presley was different, that she wasn't just his submissive. I didn't get enough of that.Having said that, I honestly read this book in one sitting as much as I could. I really connected with the authors writing style and I would read more from her in the future. The book is well written and the story moves forward at a catching pace. I was pushed to my boundaries and found myself slightly uncomfortable at times and furious with Dmitri at others. This could have easily been a 4 heart review, but when it comes down to it, I just wasn't given enough for me to be completely behind this couple. I feel like they needed to explore so much more of their relationship beyond the club. I guess I was left unsatisfied. If there was to be a second book about these characters I would read it in a heart beat. I just can't say that I would ever re-read CLAIMED again without knowing there is more beyond it.