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periodicreader's review
5.0
My Internet Alter-Ego is a professional pervert. I guess that makes me, periodicreader, also one? But I'm not really. Most people in contact with my alter ego are surprised to hear that I don't particularly enjoy reading romance or erotica. I think it's because, for awhile I was completely saturated in it and it became too much...and also everything was very similar.
When I was contacted by the author of Give Me Thorns to review her new book, I was a bit wary, but I was intrigued by the idea of the story, so I said OK.
Stevie is an African-American butch lesbian who rides a motorcycle and is into rough sex. There is a closed door in her house that only certain people are allowed to look behind. When she sees Megan arguing with her now ex girlfriend on the street, Stevie swoops in to rescue the damsel in distress and gives her the pieces of the puzzle to change her life. Please notice that I didn't say that Stevie changed Megan's life...because that's not what happened. Megan changes her life and becomes her ultra-self because of experiences she has with Stevie, but Stevie doesn't do any of the actual changing.
My own inner dialog the during the last quarter of this book was something like, “YES PLEASE! GIVE THE CHARACTERS OF YOUR BOOKS THE ABILITY TO BE SELF-RELIANT ANT AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS BASED ON THEIR LIFE EXPERIENCES!!”
The sex in this book is well written, which is not something that I come across often. It has romance without being romantic. Most importantly though, THERE IS CONSENT ALL OVER THE PLACE AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO READ ABOUT IT!
When your a lesbian that is involved in BDSM, you end up having a lot of the same conversations over and over. The author faces those conversations, writes about them and then moves on, just like we do in real life. There is no teetering back and forth with, “Am I really a freak because I like this?” “What will my friends think?” or people who question your identity and decisions by asking, “You did what? Where?” In order to tell a sexy BDSM story you do not have to push regret upon the characters. It is insulting that so many authors think that's a part of the play. Elizabeth Andre understands the kinks and the discovery, as well as the self-awareness that comes along with becoming the person you are when you are in a scene.
I think that my favorite thing about the way the story in Give Me Thorns is told, is that nothing written for shock value. This is a love story about discovering one's self within the ties of bondage. It's beautiful, it's meaningful and it's one of the most realistic “Lesbian BDSM Romances” (if that isn't a niche, I don't know what is) that I've read in a very, very long time. In real life, lesbian romances don't usually play out like porno movies, even though a whole lot of the world thinks that they should. They unfold and breath just like every other type of romance does.
Elizabeth Andre's characters might be part of a fantasy she created in her mind, but they are also people that I could know and be friends with. They are realistic to a fault, from their non-monogamous/monogamous lifestyles, to their ability to articulate their wants and desires in and out of the bedroom.
When I was contacted by the author of Give Me Thorns to review her new book, I was a bit wary, but I was intrigued by the idea of the story, so I said OK.
Stevie is an African-American butch lesbian who rides a motorcycle and is into rough sex. There is a closed door in her house that only certain people are allowed to look behind. When she sees Megan arguing with her now ex girlfriend on the street, Stevie swoops in to rescue the damsel in distress and gives her the pieces of the puzzle to change her life. Please notice that I didn't say that Stevie changed Megan's life...because that's not what happened. Megan changes her life and becomes her ultra-self because of experiences she has with Stevie, but Stevie doesn't do any of the actual changing.
My own inner dialog the during the last quarter of this book was something like, “YES PLEASE! GIVE THE CHARACTERS OF YOUR BOOKS THE ABILITY TO BE SELF-RELIANT ANT AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS BASED ON THEIR LIFE EXPERIENCES!!”
The sex in this book is well written, which is not something that I come across often. It has romance without being romantic. Most importantly though, THERE IS CONSENT ALL OVER THE PLACE AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO READ ABOUT IT!
When your a lesbian that is involved in BDSM, you end up having a lot of the same conversations over and over. The author faces those conversations, writes about them and then moves on, just like we do in real life. There is no teetering back and forth with, “Am I really a freak because I like this?” “What will my friends think?” or people who question your identity and decisions by asking, “You did what? Where?” In order to tell a sexy BDSM story you do not have to push regret upon the characters. It is insulting that so many authors think that's a part of the play. Elizabeth Andre understands the kinks and the discovery, as well as the self-awareness that comes along with becoming the person you are when you are in a scene.
I think that my favorite thing about the way the story in Give Me Thorns is told, is that nothing written for shock value. This is a love story about discovering one's self within the ties of bondage. It's beautiful, it's meaningful and it's one of the most realistic “Lesbian BDSM Romances” (if that isn't a niche, I don't know what is) that I've read in a very, very long time. In real life, lesbian romances don't usually play out like porno movies, even though a whole lot of the world thinks that they should. They unfold and breath just like every other type of romance does.
Elizabeth Andre's characters might be part of a fantasy she created in her mind, but they are also people that I could know and be friends with. They are realistic to a fault, from their non-monogamous/monogamous lifestyles, to their ability to articulate their wants and desires in and out of the bedroom.
genej101's review
2.0
Decided this, stories like this, are not my thing. Don't like the name calling, humiliating part. Don't like sadists. Have read so much about the problems women have in orgasming, who knew all that was needed was to have your own sadist and you immediately become not only multiple orgasmic but able to do so just by being told. May be true. Suspect it's not. Only reason it has two stars is that there's a sort of happy ending.
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