Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - Voyeur

I went into this one thinking one thing but then left wanting more. So the whole premise of this book is that this FMC is down on her luck and ends up working at a club where people can go and watch some things happen and live out their voyeuristic dreams. Callum is a long-time member and has been going for quite a while. Still, Oaklyn only started working there to gain money for school since her mother took her loan check, and she needed cash fast, or she would get thrown out of school. As the book progresses, it is like Oaklyn's life is coming together, and she is finally getting to a place where she is happy, not stressed, and living a good life. But the whole goal was always to pay for school. Working at the club was never going to be a long-time thing.
Meanwhile, Callum's life went backward. When we first meet him, he's a college professor, his life is all put together, and even though he lives a boring life, he's happy with it, but things explode when he meets Oaklyn, and he falls hard and fast for her. Until he realizes that she's his student, things implode, and he spirals from there. Things go downhill for me when he starts getting super controlling over her and jealous of her job. He knows this is just a way for her to make money to pay for school, and he even met her there. By the point he starts getting jealous, she's primarily a bartender and never leaves the bar, so he has no reason to even get jealous. It's just a pain dealing with it, and the book went down a different road, and I missed the beginning of the book or even spending time at the club. Overall, The series centers around this club differently, but I liked this one even though I was left wanting more.

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renharms's review against another edition

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dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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himynameisalex's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.25

So, I’m still reading this book. But In the book they make it very clear that she is very thin woman, which is not bad at all. But they literally say in the book that if there is a woman with a tight ass or fuller breasts that they don't take them seriously in a relationship. And that thinner women do get taken seriously in a relationship. And that shocked me. How can a female writer write that in a book when she can literally decide the male pov ? That really threw me off.

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flor3nce17's review against another edition

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dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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forgottencupoftea's review against another edition

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dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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teachreadrepeat's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This was... not very good. It was recommended on TikTok and it sounded up my alley, so I decided to check it out. I love the Voyeur club aspect of this and the professor/student scenario, but Callum was insufferable. He was a hypocrite the entire time and I cannot stand people who shame sex workers. Do not enter into a situationship with someone who works in that world if you're not going to be okay with it... Possessive love interests can be written very well, but Callum was not. I also thought Oaklyn put up with way too much from him. If the author had focused more on his trauma only, than the unnecessary jealousy plot line, I think this would've gotten a higher rating because that part was good. Also, WHY did this man kiss with his eyes open so much??? 🤦‍♀️

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tankytoon's review against another edition

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challenging emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I liked this book more than I thought I would. It touched on deeper subject matters than one would have have expected from an erotic novella.

True to his description, Callum is as sexy as sin, and his intense gaze actually hides years of trauma and his fight for a nuance of control. Something about a young university professor being so mysterious and broken at the same time intrigued me. Only when he did meet Oakley, a supposedly naive student moonlighting as an adult entertainer (not exactly a whore she insists, but entirely true), did Callum break his reservations and let himself feel.

Being both stubborn, Callum and Oakley finally succumbed to each other, after a lot of heartaches and forgiveness.

I was glad that it was more than sex between them but the scenes and even phrases started to get repetitive towards the back end. Could have added a bit of the aftermath, and also explained how Callum could have afforded to go to the exclusive sex-club in the first place for 5 years.

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anastashamarie's review against another edition

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⚠️ Trigger warnings neededn: Graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse; sexual assault on a college campus; sexual content; alcohol abuse; significant age-gap; taboo relationship

DNF @ 66%.

This might be a little spoilery but I'm not saying anything I didn't already say in the TWs so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Look, I like a dark romance with over-the-top, toxic characters as much as the next gal, but this just doesn't do it for me.

The mental health professional in me was just screaming at the MMC the whole time. Like sir, MAYBE if you would actually focus on a relationship with a woman instead of just jumping to sex first thing, you'd feel comfortable enough to talk about your life and feelings instead of just panicking. Maybe the significant trauma you went through requires you to go slower and build trust and communicate. Maybe that's why you actually are finding success with this girl... because you got to know her as a human instead of just going on a date and then being like "why isn't sex working when I have trauma and don't trust this stranger?" Didn't you see a therapist? They should have talked to you about this if they were worth their copay. Why is a 19 year old the most emotionally intelligent person in this guy's life?

Nevermind the amount of internalized misogyny that is on display here by having a character who is a successful PhD-holder (with a university job and his own freaking astronomy lab) focused solely on sex as the end-all-be-all of life. And this expectation to bang strangers is forced on him by everyone in his life, too! I get it, sexuality is important, I'm a fierce advocate of that. But it's also not everything! There 👏 is 👏 more 👏 to 👏 life 👏. I fell like everyone just needs to chill.

Lastly, alcoholism isn't cute. I said it. So yeah, this book isn't for me.

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