Rating: 1.5-2 out of 5 stars
Alexander Bryant has lived his entire life making everyone else happy. After meeting Lincoln, will he have the courage to finally do what makes him happy?Alexander – I like to imagine myself a rebel – an ass-kicker that takes what he wants regardless of what others think. I make my own path and flip off the people who don’t agree. I laugh in the face of conflict. Nobody tells me what to do.
In reality, everything about me is a lie – past, present, and future. The Bryant name requires certain things and all my decisions are based on those requirements. I like football, but the family name demands I love it. I want to be an artist, but the family name demands I be a lawyer. The family demands I fall in love with a nice girl, but I’m falling for, well, the opposite of nice AND girl. I’m a coward and a liar.
Lincoln – I like to imagine myself a loner – a cold heartless bastard that takes what he wants. I lived the biggest part of my life with parents that were ashamed of me for more reasons that one could begin to count, so I trust no one.
I have a low tolerance for bullshit and hate liars.
So why did I go and fall in love with the biggest liar of them all?
Unfortunately this book didn’t work for me for a lot of different reasons. I had issues right from the beginning because one of the first scenes is Alexander being pulled up onto the stage at a BDSM club and not wanting to go. He was uncomfortable, had been drinking and didn’t know the Dom doing the scene (our other MC Lincoln). What kind of decent Dom would do this? After this Lincoln sends Alexander’s friends away (Who leaves their friend with a total stranger like this?) and then Alexander wakes up naked in Lincoln’s bed the next morning. That is the beginning of their “relationship”. Nothing that happened in this first part of the story made any sense to me. I couldn’t get my head around who would do these things. I didn’t find it either sexy or romantic. It was more “Run from the controlling psycho while you still can”.
I didn’t care for Lincoln at all. He was pushy and did not come across as a Dom, just a controlling guy who wanted his way. There were no discussions of what Alexander was comfortable with or wanted. Alexander was supposed to be a straight guy but there was no real discussion of that and he jumped from never having sex with a guy or being in a BDSM situation to full on scenes. None of it seemed realistic to me. If not unrealistic then at least very unsafe. I didn’t feel that either character was well developed at all. All they really do is have sex and it bothers me when authors just throw in a bunch of sex and expect that I will equate that with emotional development.
A lot of the book was poorly edited and it contained my biggest book pet peeve ever. Guys referring to each other as “pussies” every time they have an emotion or feeling. I can’t stand seeing my gender used as a slander (& in such a crude way). If it had just happened once or twice I would have overlooked it but it happened almost 30x. Also, despite having had previous satisfying relationships with women, Alexander decides he’s “gay” for Lincoln. I’m not fond of bisexuality being dismissed and overlooked as a plot device.
Honestly I would have do not finished this book had I have not been reading it for a review. I didn’t not care for the characters and I found the plot very unrealistic. The writing style did not appeal to me and I had personal issues with a few things as mentioned. This book unfortunately was not a win for me.
Cover: I love the cover. I think it’s fantastic and it’s what drew me to the book in the first place.
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Book Details:
Kindle Edition, 217 pages
Published September 7th 2016 by Dark Hollows Press LLC
ASINB01LT3OB92
Edition LanguageEnglish
SeriesGame Day #1
Published September 7th 2016 by Dark Hollows Press LLC
ASINB01LT3OB92
Edition LanguageEnglish
SeriesGame Day #1
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 