Review: Phew
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2012
I was really surprised that I loved this book. I have had it on my kindle for a few months now & was unable to read past the first scene as I thought the book was going to be too hard-core for me. I am so glad that I persevered.This is an unusual take on the BDSM theme. We have a hard-core Dom with sadistic tendencies & a novice sub without a true masochistic bent...yet they work so well together! The sadism was a bit hard to take at times but the genuine trust & caring that they shared seemed to make it okay in the end.I liked the way that Tom wasn't humiliated or subjugated by Mischa. For me, I find books where the humiliation of the sub is an integral part of the scene, harder to read than this book was.This book was a really satisfying read & I found the ending perfect (not so for other reviewers) I like the fact that the book ended on an upward swing to something better rather than tying up all the loose ends. Life can sometimes be messy without a neat resolution of problems so this ending made for a more 'realistic' conclusion for me. Having said that, I would love to read more books with these characters. Does Toby get his HEA? Does the carpenter-sub (can't remember his name) find his perfect Dom? What does Mischa do to Tom to further stretch his boundaries?