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A review by psudelta
The Men with the Golden Cuffs by Lexi Blake
2.0
This review will be all over the place because my thoughts about this book are all over the place.
Picture this: two hot guys who share everything, including women, are in the market for a woman to spend the rest of their lives with. In walks said woman who just happens to want to be shared with two hot guys...let the games begin.
This is Adam, Jake, and Serena's love story. Serena is an erotic romance writer who is being stalked and needs a bodyguard. So, she gets two in Adam and Jake.
I've never read a book with a menage storyline because quite frankly, I just couldn't wrap my head around the concept. I can barely tolerate men individually so juggling two just seems like the very definition of madness to me. However, menage really was secondary to the story in my opinion.
What I didn't understand was something that I came across in "The Dom Who Loved Me" but that I chalked up to my somehow missing clues from the author. These are some of the outest Doms that I've ever read about. These Doms are in Bible-banging Texas where their D/s club has to be kept on the DL. Yet, Adam, Jake, and their Dom colleagues would drop lines like "she's such a good sub" or "this Dom isn't pleased" in the presence of people who were SO NOT in the life. I had to go back and reread scenes to see if I missed where the author said that the vanilla folks had left the room but no, they were there. So my question is, are these Doms supposed to be private or no?
And here's another thing, suppose the Doms are completely comfortable with allowing everybody that they encounter know that they're Doms. When did it become okay for them to make the decision to make their sub's preferences public knowledge? Serena, the heroine in this book, wasn't even in the life...she had only fantasized about it. Unless I missed it, there was no negotiation where she agreed to let Adam and Jake discuss her personal sex life with the world at large. Heck, she was being stalked so the whole point was to keep her out of the public eye as much as possible.
As I mentioned, I can't imagine juggling two men because quite frankly, men are just very large children with deep voices and facial hair. While I enjoyed Jake's evolution from "closed off emotionally skittish GI Joe" to "I can't live without her", Adam was frequently immature and petulant. He was like that in the first book in the series so at least he was consistent, but I would have liked for him to acquire a bit of maturity instead of the petulance that he seemed to favour.
Overall, the book is okay. Peel away the menage angle, and you have a fairly easy to guess "whodunit" coupled with the requisite "misunderstanding leads to breakup leads to makeup".
Picture this: two hot guys who share everything, including women, are in the market for a woman to spend the rest of their lives with. In walks said woman who just happens to want to be shared with two hot guys...let the games begin.
This is Adam, Jake, and Serena's love story. Serena is an erotic romance writer who is being stalked and needs a bodyguard. So, she gets two in Adam and Jake.
I've never read a book with a menage storyline because quite frankly, I just couldn't wrap my head around the concept. I can barely tolerate men individually so juggling two just seems like the very definition of madness to me. However, menage really was secondary to the story in my opinion.
What I didn't understand was something that I came across in "The Dom Who Loved Me" but that I chalked up to my somehow missing clues from the author. These are some of the outest Doms that I've ever read about. These Doms are in Bible-banging Texas where their D/s club has to be kept on the DL. Yet, Adam, Jake, and their Dom colleagues would drop lines like "she's such a good sub" or "this Dom isn't pleased" in the presence of people who were SO NOT in the life. I had to go back and reread scenes to see if I missed where the author said that the vanilla folks had left the room but no, they were there. So my question is, are these Doms supposed to be private or no?
And here's another thing, suppose the Doms are completely comfortable with allowing everybody that they encounter know that they're Doms. When did it become okay for them to make the decision to make their sub's preferences public knowledge? Serena, the heroine in this book, wasn't even in the life...she had only fantasized about it. Unless I missed it, there was no negotiation where she agreed to let Adam and Jake discuss her personal sex life with the world at large. Heck, she was being stalked so the whole point was to keep her out of the public eye as much as possible.
As I mentioned, I can't imagine juggling two men because quite frankly, men are just very large children with deep voices and facial hair. While I enjoyed Jake's evolution from "closed off emotionally skittish GI Joe" to "I can't live without her", Adam was frequently immature and petulant. He was like that in the first book in the series so at least he was consistent, but I would have liked for him to acquire a bit of maturity instead of the petulance that he seemed to favour.
Overall, the book is okay. Peel away the menage angle, and you have a fairly easy to guess "whodunit" coupled with the requisite "misunderstanding leads to breakup leads to makeup".