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ppchili93 's review for:
Preferential Treatment
by Heather Guerre
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Finally an adequate and believable depiction of a healthy femdom relationship where a billionaire tech hero is obsessed with giving his knyazhna (princess) everything (and I mean everything - on his knees too). It was actually quite refreshing to read about a bdsm arrangement that was depicted so organically. Kate and Mikhail both exert a natural dominance and submission that plays perfectly off of the other. Neither of them have to change to be together and get what they want and need out of their relationship. In fact, their sexual and emotional desires evolve together and only become more fulfilling as they explore their connection. I was especially into Mikhail's immediate obsession with his Katya - she told him off and he awoke from a yearlong streak of celibacy and a lifetime of straightforward sexual urges and arrangements. Both of them were relatively emotionally scarred, but Mikhail was literally that DW meme (he couldn't see the signs he loved Kate because he simply couldn't read).
I was also amused by Guerre's lack of subtlety in confronting the inherent moral issues associated with billionaires. These characters openly discuss how problematic that kind of money is and Kate spends much of the book grappling with conflicting guilt at taking/spending money in a sexual arrangement and pleasure at sticking it to the 1% by donating thousands of dollars to different charities (including a women's shelter that funded abortion access).
I was also amused by Guerre's lack of subtlety in confronting the inherent moral issues associated with billionaires. These characters openly discuss how problematic that kind of money is and Kate spends much of the book grappling with conflicting guilt at taking/spending money in a sexual arrangement and pleasure at sticking it to the 1% by donating thousands of dollars to different charities (including a women's shelter that funded abortion access).