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A review by nuschananny
Meet Your Match by Kandi Steiner
Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.
I basically skim-read the whole thing, expecting something to pull me in: the love story, the characters, some plot.
But compared to this, "Icebreaker" is pure suspense.
The things that really put me off:
There is a recurring theme of non-negotiated dominance play. It's never talked about explicitly, I think the author assumes that both characters are into it. It bleeds over into "real life" from the sex scenes and that really annoyed me. It starts with him calling her pet, and she objects "I don't like that, don't call me that" - he continues.
And their second sex scene is a disaster, at least IMO.
He has unprotected anal sex with her, he assumes (correctly) that it's her first time, he doesn't use lube but only her own slick (I thought we left that trope behind in the 1990s) - at the end he deposits semen on her stomach - which she tastes. Ick. There are much fewer germs in your v. than in your mouth - your anus? Germ central. I couldn't shake the feeling that this whole book read as if a man had written it.
Or a woman who is only familiar with old-school erotica written from a male gaze.
I enjoyed e.g. the male POV scenes in "Adiron" from Runy Dixon or "The Wedding before Christmas" by Kati Wilde. Here, something felt off from the start.
But compared to this, "Icebreaker" is pure suspense.
There is a recurring theme of non-negotiated dominance play. It's never talked about explicitly, I think the author assumes that both characters are into it. It bleeds over into "real life" from the sex scenes and that really annoyed me. It starts with him calling her pet, and she objects "I don't like that, don't call me that" - he continues.
And their second sex scene is a disaster, at least IMO.
Or a woman who is only familiar with old-school erotica written from a male gaze.
I enjoyed e.g. the male POV scenes in "Adiron" from Runy Dixon or "The Wedding before Christmas" by Kati Wilde. Here, something felt off from the start.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
There is a recurring theme of non-negotiated dominance play. It's never talked about explicitly, I think the author assumes that both characters are into it. It bleeds over into "real life" from the sex scenes and that really annoyed me. It starts with him calling her pet, and she objects "I don't like that, don't call me that" - he continues.
And their second sex scene is a disaster, at least IMO.
He has unprotected anal sex with her, he assumes (correctly) that it's her first time, he doesn't use lube but only her own slick (I thought we left that trope behind in the 1990s) - at the end he deposits semen on her stomach - which she tastes. Ick. There are much fewer germs in your v. than in your mouth - your anus? Germ central. I couldn't shake the feeling that this whole book read as if a man had written it.
Or a woman who is only familiar with old-school erotica written from a male gaze.