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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
I'm reviewing book 1 and 2 together.
I wouldn't exactly say I enjoyed this duet, due to the humiliation that this story was focusing on, but it definitely kept me interested. On one hand seeing how the MC would deal with wanting a specific arrangement, but getting something different held my attention, but I feel like it was rushed. I hoped the author would go even deeper with the emotions and would linger on certain issues Ryder and Griffin were facing. Also details were missing, that of course were not important to the story, but to me it would have made all the difference. For example there wasn't much revealed about Ryder's abduction: where he was at the time, how the whole auction went down...was there even an auction? hmm... His girlfriend was nonexistent, relegated to one word. I found that annoying.
Overall I found it a little superficial. And for that matter there was the whole 'look' thing. Griffin arranged this thing so he would get a companion. He was lonely, he had no one because of how he looked, everyone abandoned him. But it was barely made an issue in the book. Ryder made a few snide comments, but I think Griffin made a bigger deal out of it than it should have been. What I mean to say is there was a contrast between what was said about Griffin's look, and how it actually played into the events... does that make sense? The reader was told that Griffin is ugly and no one wanted him because of that, but I feel like it wasn't an issue. The topic barely came up.
Both MCs background is kind of a mystery, we only got to know the bare minimum. Ryder is a frat boy, got himself somehow abducted. Griffin is a musician, or was at least, and he was still working in the industry but we don't know much about that.
I liked that Griffin was a bad guy, who, even though had every step carefully planned out, was wavering. He questioned everything he was doing. In a dark book the main character is usually someone who knows what he's doing, you know being dominant and all that. So it was refreshing to see someone not fully in control. I guess that's in part thanks to Ryder's defiance, which was also a nice touch to their dynamic, I liked that he was mouthing back to Griffin every chance he got.
This is a gay for you story and I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's different than other gfy books I read before, because it's usually about a guy who had some kind of experience with other boys when he was a kid, or at least had some inclinations towards men, but denied it. Here however Ryder claimed he was not gay. Not gay! So it was really about Griffin trying to change him. And hmm.. I dunno.
Overall I liked it.
I wouldn't exactly say I enjoyed this duet, due to the humiliation that this story was focusing on, but it definitely kept me interested. On one hand seeing how the MC would deal with wanting a specific arrangement, but getting something different held my attention, but I feel like it was rushed. I hoped the author would go even deeper with the emotions and would linger on certain issues Ryder and Griffin were facing. Also details were missing, that of course were not important to the story, but to me it would have made all the difference. For example there wasn't much revealed about Ryder's abduction: where he was at the time, how the whole auction went down...was there even an auction? hmm... His girlfriend was nonexistent, relegated to one word. I found that annoying.
Overall I found it a little superficial. And for that matter there was the whole 'look' thing. Griffin arranged this thing so he would get a companion. He was lonely, he had no one because of how he looked, everyone abandoned him. But it was barely made an issue in the book. Ryder made a few snide comments, but I think Griffin made a bigger deal out of it than it should have been. What I mean to say is there was a contrast between what was said about Griffin's look, and how it actually played into the events... does that make sense? The reader was told that Griffin is ugly and no one wanted him because of that, but I feel like it wasn't an issue. The topic barely came up.
Both MCs background is kind of a mystery, we only got to know the bare minimum. Ryder is a frat boy, got himself somehow abducted. Griffin is a musician, or was at least, and he was still working in the industry but we don't know much about that.
I liked that Griffin was a bad guy, who, even though had every step carefully planned out, was wavering. He questioned everything he was doing. In a dark book the main character is usually someone who knows what he's doing, you know being dominant and all that. So it was refreshing to see someone not fully in control. I guess that's in part thanks to Ryder's defiance, which was also a nice touch to their dynamic, I liked that he was mouthing back to Griffin every chance he got.
This is a gay for you story and I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's different than other gfy books I read before, because it's usually about a guy who had some kind of experience with other boys when he was a kid, or at least had some inclinations towards men, but denied it. Here however Ryder claimed he was not gay. Not gay! So it was really about Griffin trying to change him. And hmm.. I dunno.
Overall I liked it.
In the follow up to The Beast’s Beauty, Griffin and Ryder are still both trying to figure out how to control and shape their relationship. Griffin wants Ryder to be the perfect puppy and Ryder wants freedom. In a bid to gain control over the situation, Ryder rejects acting like a puppy and starts acting like a kitten. At first, Griffin is upset, but he adjusts to the transformation of his puppy into a kitten, at the same time Griffin goes through a transformation himself. At the end of the book, both Griffin and Ryder have to make hard choices on what they want out of their relationship and future and how that’s going to look going forward.
Overall Rating: 3 Stars. The writing was fine, but there still wasn’t enough sex scenes for my taste. The main reason I’m reading this series is for the BDSM and kink sex scenes. This book was much better than the first book, but that’s because it felt complete, which the first book did not. I still think both of these books should be combined to make one book in order to make the story flow better. There’s a few inconsistencies between the two books, but those were easily ignored.
Overall Rating: 3 Stars. The writing was fine, but there still wasn’t enough sex scenes for my taste. The main reason I’m reading this series is for the BDSM and kink sex scenes. This book was much better than the first book, but that’s because it felt complete, which the first book did not. I still think both of these books should be combined to make one book in order to make the story flow better. There’s a few inconsistencies between the two books, but those were easily ignored.