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A review by lezreadalot
At Her Feet by Rebekah Weatherspoon
3.0
This won't work for everyone and it didn't completely work for me, sadly. I had the potential to like this a lot more than I did (I'm always in the market for good f/f erotica), but the last quarter of the book just wasn't it for me. I always have to tread light with BDSM romances because I'm just so picky! There's one aspect of the kink that I wasn't prepared for, but I genuinely didn't mind it. It's some other, more mundane things that ended up bugging me.
Suzanne and Pilar meet on a kinky website, and embark on a relationship that addresses both their needs. I really liked that this was super frank and open in discussions about sexuality and kink. They both have to figure out exactly how they fit together, and it's always rewarding reading that, instead of a scenario where they magically slot together perfectly. This slants more to erotica than romance, but the sex scenes never got overwhelming, or boring, for that matter. I really liked Suzanne as a character, and Pilar had her good qualities as well. Their chemistry was fantastic.
Where this started to fail for me, I guess, is with some of Pilar's attitudes/reactions. A couple things she said about withholding affection so that Suzanne would always come back to her sorta rubbed me the wrong way. She wants almost total control over Suzanne, and it works, because that meshes well with Suzanne's needs, but I didn't love it. This has more to do with my own likes more than anything; I just don't enjoy reading about lifestyle D/s, and as the book went on, we got more of that. Most importantly though, there's an instance of sexual harassment and then a more serious sexual assault, and Pilar's reactions to both incidents were completely baffling. Where you would expect her to go apeshit, or be super protective, or super comforting... she chastised Suzanne in one instance and distanced herself completely in the other situation. It was so confusing, made me mad, and honestly sapped a lot of my enjoyment for both the character and the romance.
This is also a book that shows its age in some of the language/terms used. Nothing super egregious, but still... eh. I've also read some of Weatherspoon's more recent work, and this definitely isn't her best writing. Nothing bad about it, just a little run-of-the-mill. This was really sexy and certainly different. It has its audience! I just really wish some of the character stuff played out differently.
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Suzanne and Pilar meet on a kinky website, and embark on a relationship that addresses both their needs. I really liked that this was super frank and open in discussions about sexuality and kink. They both have to figure out exactly how they fit together, and it's always rewarding reading that, instead of a scenario where they magically slot together perfectly. This slants more to erotica than romance, but the sex scenes never got overwhelming, or boring, for that matter. I really liked Suzanne as a character, and Pilar had her good qualities as well. Their chemistry was fantastic.
Where this started to fail for me, I guess, is with some of Pilar's attitudes/reactions. A couple things she said about withholding affection so that Suzanne would always come back to her sorta rubbed me the wrong way. She wants almost total control over Suzanne, and it works, because that meshes well with Suzanne's needs, but I didn't love it. This has more to do with my own likes more than anything; I just don't enjoy reading about lifestyle D/s, and as the book went on, we got more of that. Most importantly though, there's an instance of sexual harassment and then a more serious sexual assault, and Pilar's reactions to both incidents were completely baffling. Where you would expect her to go apeshit, or be super protective, or super comforting... she chastised Suzanne in one instance and distanced herself completely in the other situation. It was so confusing, made me mad, and honestly sapped a lot of my enjoyment for both the character and the romance.
This is also a book that shows its age in some of the language/terms used. Nothing super egregious, but still... eh. I've also read some of Weatherspoon's more recent work, and this definitely isn't her best writing. Nothing bad about it, just a little run-of-the-mill. This was really sexy and certainly different. It has its audience! I just really wish some of the character stuff played out differently.
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