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3.89 AVERAGE

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

vmgomez92's review

4.0
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

suzyqhf's review

5.0
adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Very well written. Very clear exploration of primal kink. 

This was a great palate cleanser! Not as smutty/kinky as I expected for a book in a series called Kink Camp, but a good time. No third act break-up or anything and low angst overall, but I also didn’t feel an emotional connection to the book. It was a fun read, but also a bit forgettable.
adventurous dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: Yes, and the side characters are a delight!
Perspective: First person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium to fast
When mains are first on page together: Takes just a bit – 7%
Cliffhanger: This ends with a happily ever after for the mains but there is a bit of a plot cliffy for the future book (kind of like a stressful phone call the book ends on regarding the next characters)
Epilogue: Yes, 11.5 months later
Format: listened to the audiobook from my library (Hoopla)
Why I chose this book: @imromanticallyinvolved has brought it to my attention a few times and when I found it on Hoopla I had to try it!
Mains: This is a M/F romance between a cisgendered hero and heroine (I think both mains may be bi? There’s jokes and references to partners that seems inclusive and other people joining in on sex – but this is an assumption of mine. At the very least, the book is LGBT+ positive)

Should I read in order?
This is the first book in Anders’ Kink Camp.

Basic plot:
When a fantasy is posted on the board during Kink Camp, Grace realizes she can live her own fantasy anonymously….

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- Kink Camp setting – the camp where all the fun happens
- heroine learns to fulfill her fantasies
- size difference – heroine isn’t small but he’s huge
- masquerade
- secret identity
- primal play, praise, throat play, masks, hair holding….
- higher steam – 6ish full scenes

Ages:
- hero is 33, didn’t catch heroine

First line:
Male primal hunter seeks female prey for a one time anonymous hunt.

My thoughts:
I LOVE the idea of this series/book. Kink Camp sounds like so much fun – and the way it was done was so enticing. Rules and safety aspects set up but the freedom to explore – the side characters were delightful. The humor, the fun...I loved it all.

And primal play is one of my favorites. Masks. Secret identities. I love all that so this book was right up my alley. I was surprised how much I fell in to this story – I was just looking for a good time honestly and while I got that, I also got some delicious angst and relationship development in the latter half. I loved getting to know Grace and Liev and really loved Liev’s vulnerability and slow opening up to a relationship again.

I’m definitely going to be grabbing the next one in the series!

Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating from me: 5 stars
Favorite book: This one by default

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- partner death
 

Author content warnings? Nothing on audio but there’s a mention on goodreads you can find them on the author website


Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
 
Safe sex: 
  Condoms used, heroine is on the pill (third scene he doesn’t have a condom so they stop), then eventually do it without a condom 
 
How’s the consent? 
  It’s good – there’s the element of fear and control but it’s kink camp and everything is consensual and there’s safe words 
 
Pregnancy/children in story? 
  No pregnancy on page – I cant recall if the want/desire for children someday is there but I think it is 
 
9% - 🔥 primal play in the woods – nipple play, doggy
29% - 🔥 another primal play in the woods – oral for her, sit on my face oral
52% - 🔥 again in the woods – bj
55% - 🔥 dry humping-ish
65% - 🔥 hero jerks off in the shower
90% - 🔥 kisses, oral for her, anal 
 
adventurous hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5

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unwindwithagoodbook's review

5.0

I really loved how this novel showed the fun and consensual side of BDSM. The main guy runs Kink Camp and has some other cool skills you find out about as the story goes on. He’s been through a lot of loss but is finally ready to embrace life again. The main girl has also faced her own struggles with loss and often puts responsibility above her own dreams and talents.
A good friend of hers thought it’d be awesome to take her on a fun getaway, so they go to Kink Camp. That’s where she meets the MMC, and things get really fun, sexy, and a bit wild between them. There are tons of great characters, hilarious moments, and witty banter, but I don’t want to spoil anything from the book!

amacrae's review

4.0

This book was so much fun!! So campy and fun sexy vibes at kink camp. The coolest part of this book in my opinion is that the author based it on her own experiences at a kink camp. It made the read feel much more personal!