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lezreadalot's review
1.0
I should have stopped at the first one lmao.
Or at least I should have stopped a few minutes into this one when someone made a fatphobic comment and I was like 'ugh do I really have time for this' but then I thought 'okay it's only a few hours long, and maybe it'll get better', proving that I really do not ever learn.
- Max is terrible and pathetic. I already have no patience with overly possessive, 'I own you' type D/s, and this was that, and seems to be creeping up on lifestyle D/s. Seriously, the bits where he's all but yelling 'I want to own your mind as well as your body because I am dominant, I am going to dominate you, I am a dom, I wonder if I say that enough times it will make it true' were skeevy and pathetic by turns. I could not take him seriously at all now that he and Ethan are in an actual relationship.
- He really was serious about his dumbass colour theory. This idiot really makes Ethan, a bodyguard, someone who's supposed to blend in and be inconspicuous, go out on protective duty wearing cream and white and dove grey with pink ties. All because 'subs can't wear dark colours'... I'm ascending.
- Max keeps holding everything over Ethan, reminding him about how he's supposed to be constantly grateful for everything he does for him and it's fucking: gross.
- Max makes Ethan say "you know everything and I know nothing" or something like it and I was really supposed to think that was sexy. Yo... It wasn't.
- Can we all agree that the cabaret club scene was the silliest thing in the woooooorld. What did Max expect to happen when he initiated a scene in public, when they're sitting RIGHT NEXT TO his number one enemy. Isn't he supposed to be some kind of mastermind? When you think about it, it's actually all his fault that the kidnapping happened lmao.
- In the last book Max made some kind of comment about how he's going to show Ethan 'the capitalist dream' or something like that and wow he was not joking. Yikes. One of the big points in this book was 'hey unions are bad actually.' YIKES. Idk anything about irl Vegas policies or politics but. YIKES!!!
- Near the end of the book Ethan is musing about being in the closet and coming out to family and friends. I always appreciate when, in books, coming out isn't the be all and end all, the key to happiness. Some people have to live in the closet and it's just like that, and it hits home a lot of me. THAT SAID, Ethan says something along the lines of 'I'm not ashamed of being gay, it's just not important enough to tell my homophobic parents, who just have different values' and man idk it made me feel Some Type of Way.
- (The type of way was bad.)
Nick J. Russo was great again, I'll look out for other books he voices. Just not this series lol.
God. @ myself: please just stop listening to/reading books when you suspect they're going to be bad. Just stop and move on. Stop 'giving them a chance'. Give YOURSELF a chance. Please.
Or at least I should have stopped a few minutes into this one when someone made a fatphobic comment and I was like 'ugh do I really have time for this' but then I thought 'okay it's only a few hours long, and maybe it'll get better', proving that I really do not ever learn.
- Max is terrible and pathetic. I already have no patience with overly possessive, 'I own you' type D/s, and this was that, and seems to be creeping up on lifestyle D/s. Seriously, the bits where he's all but yelling 'I want to own your mind as well as your body because I am dominant, I am going to dominate you, I am a dom, I wonder if I say that enough times it will make it true' were skeevy and pathetic by turns. I could not take him seriously at all now that he and Ethan are in an actual relationship.
- He really was serious about his dumbass colour theory. This idiot really makes Ethan, a bodyguard, someone who's supposed to blend in and be inconspicuous, go out on protective duty wearing cream and white and dove grey with pink ties. All because 'subs can't wear dark colours'... I'm ascending.
- Max keeps holding everything over Ethan, reminding him about how he's supposed to be constantly grateful for everything he does for him and it's fucking: gross.
- Max makes Ethan say "you know everything and I know nothing" or something like it and I was really supposed to think that was sexy. Yo... It wasn't.
- Can we all agree that the cabaret club scene was the silliest thing in the woooooorld. What did Max expect to happen when he initiated a scene in public, when they're sitting RIGHT NEXT TO his number one enemy. Isn't he supposed to be some kind of mastermind? When you think about it, it's actually all his fault that the kidnapping happened lmao.
- In the last book Max made some kind of comment about how he's going to show Ethan 'the capitalist dream' or something like that and wow he was not joking. Yikes. One of the big points in this book was 'hey unions are bad actually.' YIKES. Idk anything about irl Vegas policies or politics but. YIKES!!!
- Near the end of the book Ethan is musing about being in the closet and coming out to family and friends. I always appreciate when, in books, coming out isn't the be all and end all, the key to happiness. Some people have to live in the closet and it's just like that, and it hits home a lot of me. THAT SAID, Ethan says something along the lines of 'I'm not ashamed of being gay, it's just not important enough to tell my homophobic parents, who just have different values' and man idk it made me feel Some Type of Way.
- (The type of way was bad.)
Nick J. Russo was great again, I'll look out for other books he voices. Just not this series lol.
God. @ myself: please just stop listening to/reading books when you suspect they're going to be bad. Just stop and move on. Stop 'giving them a chance'. Give YOURSELF a chance. Please.
walford's review against another edition
3.0
Not quite so satisfying as the first. Real life rearing its ugly head? Not sure I will continue.
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