Review: Rough Start for Me, but Awesome Book Overall
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
After reading Sapphire, I had hoped I’d jump into Ruby and fall for Dani and Bobby the way I had Adam and Taylor, but that wasn’t the case. I think that the fact that they didn’t know each other previously pulled me out of the story immediately. I’m not a prude by any means at all and I don’t have a problem with stranger sex or barely know each other sex. However, I found the lengths that these two went to after just meeting a little off putting. In this BDSM type of world, I would think at least one night of getting to know each other would be beneficial. However, their story went from odd to beautiful as they did get to know each other and did let go of their secrets.I still didn’t get a lot of the beginning, but that’s probably because I just don’t understand the world of the D/s lifestyle. Also, I get kind of tired of these dominant males immediately deciding they know that these strong woman need to be controlled in the bedroom. It worked in Sapphire because Adam had watched Taylor for a long time. It wasn’t really an immediate situation. With Dani and Bobby, it took one small conversation over him not serving her that made him decide he had to control her. And then luckily for him, they ran into each other and she just jumped right into it. Huh? And then he knew her body better than she did; knew her wants, her desires, her kinks, but not her name. Do men like that exist cause all the men I meet seem to need a little guidance to figure even half of that stuff out.I do have to say that Jeffe Kennedy can create an amazing visual. I felt like I was in New Orleans with Bobby and Dani. I saw every color, every building, every person they passed on the street. I even almost felt like I could hear the Cajun accent of Bobby…yum. Ultimately, I loved the way this book developed, although the ending seemed a little abrupt. I almost wish we had more time to see Bobby and Dani continue their discovery of each other and ultimately themselves. I wish I had more of a chance to get to know Bobby since he still seems like a huge mystery. Hopefully, Jeffe will revisit these two somehow, someway, someday. I’d definitely pick it up. I was pretty sure throughout reading the first half of this book that I was going to give it a three star rating, but that last half amped it up and made this definitely a four star book.Arc provided by the publisher via Netgalley for an honest review