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2.5
This novella is separated into two parts.
The first part is Dan and Kyle meeting each other, while really hitting it off with a healthy dose of flirting. I thought they had good chemistry, and it was actually kind of sweet.
The gist of their personalities was that Kyle is super shy and insecure, while Dan is assertive and confident. It’s a dynamic I really like.
The second part kind of had me shook, though.
It’s a month later and it begins with Kyle and Dan doing some.. role-playing. I was sort of blind-sided by it, but decided to just go with it.
The role-play consisted of a non-consensual scene (which is a kink I actually don’t mind reading about), but also featured the ‘aggressor’ (fake rapist) being very homophobic, which wasn’t my thing at all.
Derogatory language and humiliation has never been something I enjoy, and this scene definitely wasn’t an exception to that. The whole thing in itself wasn’t particularly badly written, though. It just wasn’t necessarily for me.
The novella then ends with the two of them being all ‘cuddly’ again, which I suppose was nice after all that nastiness.
Although I have to say that I thought Dan didn’t treat Kyle super well in their last conversation about “being boyfriends”, so that once again pissed me off. It kind of ruined a little bit of the romance for me, because it made it seem like Dan didn’t care all that much about Kyle yet.
In conclusion, this was pretty well written and I think there is actually a great build-up and characterization for such a short novella. I do wish we didn’t skip a whole month in between the two parts, as I would have been interested to see their relationship grow.
Anyway, I could totally see people enjoy this (most of the time I did too), but I’m simply not sure if it was really the best fit for me.
I’ll probably still give the next one a try at some point though, mostly because I am interested to find out what it will be about.
The first part is Dan and Kyle meeting each other, while really hitting it off with a healthy dose of flirting. I thought they had good chemistry, and it was actually kind of sweet.
The gist of their personalities was that Kyle is super shy and insecure, while Dan is assertive and confident. It’s a dynamic I really like.
The second part kind of had me shook, though.
It’s a month later and it begins with Kyle and Dan doing some.. role-playing. I was sort of blind-sided by it, but decided to just go with it.
The role-play consisted of a non-consensual scene (which is a kink I actually don’t mind reading about), but also featured the ‘aggressor’ (fake rapist) being very homophobic, which wasn’t my thing at all.
Derogatory language and humiliation has never been something I enjoy, and this scene definitely wasn’t an exception to that. The whole thing in itself wasn’t particularly badly written, though. It just wasn’t necessarily for me.
The novella then ends with the two of them being all ‘cuddly’ again, which I suppose was nice after all that nastiness.
Although I have to say that I thought Dan didn’t treat Kyle super well in their last conversation about “being boyfriends”, so that once again pissed me off. It kind of ruined a little bit of the romance for me, because it made it seem like Dan didn’t care all that much about Kyle yet.
In conclusion, this was pretty well written and I think there is actually a great build-up and characterization for such a short novella. I do wish we didn’t skip a whole month in between the two parts, as I would have been interested to see their relationship grow.
Anyway, I could totally see people enjoy this (most of the time I did too), but I’m simply not sure if it was really the best fit for me.
I’ll probably still give the next one a try at some point though, mostly because I am interested to find out what it will be about.
dc7's review
3.0
This was a weird one for me. The lover interests had no chemistry in the first half of the novella and I nearly DNF'd. I was also frankly quite bored. Those problems were resolved in the second half, but I don't think the series will keep me engaged - won't continue.
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