Review: Catnip for fans of alpha males and rough fun.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2011
I purchased this because I saw a lot of people liked it and I was, frankly, looking for an erotic romance with intelligent characters, dirty talk, and rough sex. Yeah, I said it. :)Flynn is a boxer and spends his Fridays and Saturdays in a Fight Club scenario. He's a good guy, but he does like to play out non-consensual or rough roleplays. There's a safe word and rules, but once it starts he's committed. Afterwords, he'll drive you home or let you stay over. Laurel finds this all out and doesn't think it's her thing -- and then she changes her mind. Being an erotic romance, things end well for them.It was a good read. The talk was explicit, the roleplays were sexy. Toward the end, with only slight hints of it before, we deal with some of Laurel's baggage and that slowed things down a little. I read a lot of books where people have issues and they deal with them, I do it happily, but in Erotic Romance I really want to keep it simple. This stuff tends to change the whole tone and suddenly the book you bought for the explicit stuff goes all sensitive. Maybe because the writer things the reader needs to know that the hero can make sweet, sweet love to the heroine, too -- maybe lots of readers do need that. ::shrug:: It was already clear though that the hero was a good guy. The heroine knows that, because she made him chicken pot pie. (This is in no way a weird euphemism.)4 stars for what it is and what it's meant to be, and because there are not enough books like it in the genre -- where people are sane, but with truly wild imaginations and a taste for uncompromising roleplay.Price has nothing to do with how I rate a book, but I will take a moment to comment that these books are getting crazy expensive. Insane. Especially for the shorter works out there. More than any other genre, these are impulse purchases, and seeing some of these prices kills that impulse -- particularly when there can be substantial quality differences from book to book.