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PUBLISHER: Ellora’s Cave
LENGTH: Novella (roughly 19k)
GENRE: BDSM erotic romance
COST: $4.45
The heavens have opened on Elsie Meyers as she rushes to her job interview. Without the time to at least check her make-up, she goes into her meeting with John Bennett soaking wet, only to have a surprise come tumbling out of her briefcase at the wrong moment. All it takes is sight of the flogger Elsie has to unleash the attraction John feels for her.
She’s in search of a new Dom. He’s looking for a new sub. This is one job interview that gets them both what they want.
You know, it’s very hard to sit and pay attention to a story when it seems to want to do everything it can to make me hate it. There’s the heroine who takes a flogger with her on a job interview – and I’m sorry, but the excuse that she forgot to take it out of her briefcase is so far beyond lame that it’s not even funny. How she can call herself a professional is beyond me. There’s the repetition of words I hate that yank me out of the sex scenes. There’s the utter lack of anything resembling a plot, which wouldn’t be so bad if I actually liked the hero and heroine. There’s the obligatory happy ending, that’s so tacked on, it might as well not even be there.
I like BDSM stories. I do. Though this doesn’t claim to represent the lifestyle but only elements, it still fails on so many levels that I wish I hadn’t succumbed to the urge to buy it. It’s okay to claim to show only elements as long as the hero and heroine are likable. But I just can’t stand behind a woman who takes a flogger to a job interview. She claims to be a professional. A software design engineer. What professional woman in this day and age takes a flogger to a job interview if they want to be taken seriously? Elsie uses the excuse that she keeps forgetting to take it out after retrieving it from her previous Dom’s house, but come on. This is her briefcase. She doesn’t open that sucker once when she’s home? I don’t buy it.
Most of the time, the sex is hot, but Ms. McCray has a tendency to overuse certain words that make me cringe. I realize they’re romance staples. That doesn’t mean I have to like them. Someone out there does, however. Ms. McCray isn’t a bestselling author for nothing. Maybe because she indulges pure fantasy about having three gorgeous men, ready and more than willing to satisfy your every desire.
If you’re looking for erotic fiction without thought to originality or a believable heroine, feel free to check this one out. It’s short, and the sex is hot as long as you can tolerate the liberal use of the word, “core.” There are worse ways to spend a few spare minutes.
| Readability | 4/10 – Too many words that make me cringe, and not enough commas to punctuate it correctly and make it easier to read. |
| Hero | 6/10 – Hot as hell for a Dom, but other than that, not much personality. |
| Heroine | 2/10 – Frankly, anyone dumb enough to take a flogger to an interview deserves to be flogged. And not in the good way. |
| Entertainment value | 4/10 – The sex was hot when I wasn’t getting distracted by all the words I hate, but the rushed ending totally crushed any believability it might have had. |
| World building | 5/10 – There was a world here? Other than the party, I didn’t see it. |
| TOTAL: | 21/50 |
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