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A review by joyfulgirl
All the Way by Kendall Ryan
4.0
So everyone else has really covered the storyline, which I think is great. It was handled well and as someone who has had a SA in their past, I think it was handled pretty well.
What I found really weird is how Owen’s “sexual preferences” were handled. It’s treated almost like he’s a Christian Gray Lite because he like light spanking and calling the shots? It was super vanilla and they made a huge deal out of it. Of course it was a conversation for him to have with her because of her past, but it was honestly weird to me how it was handled. And how she was implying there is something wrong with him for liking that but she loves him anyway, that’s really not cool either. People just like what they like. And to THEN add on that backstory of his as an “explanation” for it (which is crazy, no one needs an explanation for the things they like with consenting partners in the privacy of their own homes. . Or wherever) and do nothing with that . . . I didn’t like it at all.
I did like the book overall so I kind of just cringed and moved on, but I have read several reviews and none of them mentioned this. Maybe I’m crazy but I found it pretty problematic.
What I found really weird is how Owen’s “sexual preferences” were handled. It’s treated almost like he’s a Christian Gray Lite because he like light spanking and calling the shots? It was super vanilla and they made a huge deal out of it. Of course it was a conversation for him to have with her because of her past, but it was honestly weird to me how it was handled. And how she was implying there is something wrong with him for liking that but she loves him anyway, that’s really not cool either. People just like what they like. And to THEN add on that backstory of his as an “explanation” for it (which is crazy, no one needs an explanation for the things they like with consenting partners in the privacy of their own homes. . Or wherever) and do nothing with that . . . I didn’t like it at all.
I did like the book overall so I kind of just cringed and moved on, but I have read several reviews and none of them mentioned this. Maybe I’m crazy but I found it pretty problematic.