Midniteillusion's Reviews > Sweet Surrender

I was super excited to read this book. It's the first in a series that I happened to got one of the books for free so I went ahead and bought the others so I could read them in order. But this book had so many issues I ended up skimming the last half of it.

I know this book is 10 yrs old and BDSM has become much more popular but still to imply any kind of D/s relationship isn’t “real” or a sub isn’t a “real sub” because it’s not the relationship you’re (the hero, if you can call him that) looking for is way off and very off if one knows anything about the BDSM community. The heroine wants to explore BDSM and D/s this book paints a really poor picture of BDSM along with anything "kinky". Giving it a “She can’t possibly know what she wants from sex, she’s just a woman” vibe along with “women don’t go looking for kinky sex until a man shows it to them”.

It continues to have a very condescending and negative towards women, BDSM, subs along with the LGBTQ community throughout.

I'm not sure what this book/author hoped to accomplish other than painting a picture of an abusive and manipulative relationship along with showing exactly what BDSM is NOT.

BDSM should involve safe, sane, and consensual acts (sexual or otherwise) this book is not that and shouldn't be viewed as a reflection of it.