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A review by inkstndfngrs
Off the Ice by Avon Gale, Piper Vaughn
3.0
First, for anyone following my reviews: I did not love/hate this in the same way that I love/hate Rachel Reed's Game Changer series. This was *fine*, but I didn't love it. Am I reading the other two books? Yes. Am I tolerating them? Barely.
I'm going to just go right out and say it: I don't like the implied D/s dynamic. If you want to tell a BDSM romance, then just let it be a BDSM romance. Instead, the whole thing came off as unappealing and gross to me.
Don't get me wrong. I liked Tristan. I totally get people expecting you to be one thing and wanting another. I didn't like Sebastian. He was kind of an asshole. Over-the-top. It felt like he was supposed to be, like, mildly Sherlockian. Calculating. Cool. Collected. And instead, he's just a jerk and I really think Tristan could do better.
I was also not really into the...slapping/hitting thing. Again, I *get* it, but it was just not for me. I don't understand why that particular treatment --which was solicited, yes, is what's going to get someone out of their funk. Please don't try and explain it to me. If I have learned one thing while exploring kink, it is that I usually don't want to know.
I'm going to just go right out and say it: I don't like the implied D/s dynamic. If you want to tell a BDSM romance, then just let it be a BDSM romance. Instead, the whole thing came off as unappealing and gross to me.
Don't get me wrong. I liked Tristan. I totally get people expecting you to be one thing and wanting another. I didn't like Sebastian. He was kind of an asshole. Over-the-top. It felt like he was supposed to be, like, mildly Sherlockian. Calculating. Cool. Collected. And instead, he's just a jerk and I really think Tristan could do better.
I was also not really into the...slapping/hitting thing. Again, I *get* it, but it was just not for me. I don't understand why that particular treatment --which was solicited, yes, is what's going to get someone out of their funk. Please don't try and explain it to me. If I have learned one thing while exploring kink, it is that I usually don't want to know.