Done with this series after this book. No comparison to the previous novels. Can't believe it's the same author.No chemistry and sexual attraction. No buildup in the relationship. Extreme beginning to the D/s relationship - no slow transition. Ben the Dom is not the same calibre as those in the first two books. Melodramatic twists at end - let's add some zombies to the story line too! Alex doesn't talk like an American teenager either. Very disappointed in the first 60% of the book. Ben and Scott seemed nothing more than room mates and in order for the rest of the book to work for me, there at least needed to be some sexual tension and there was none. I hated the change to first person POV as it completely changed the tone of the book from the first two, which I enjoyed immensely. Not that I don't like first person, I just didn't here. Ben, at thirty, seemed a poor excuse for the usual confidence we see in a Dom, even if he was in training. It was nice that he wasn't the usual sugar daddy type, but too much emphasis was placed on his worry over money and his pride over taking help from the fund set up for their situation. For the first 60% it was if he were playing at it. Scott wavered between forthright and needy and after a while it became annoying. There was too much in the way of descriptions on food, shopping, cooking and cleaning. It seemed like these things were placed in for filler instead of the substance of the richly detailed stories from the first two books. Not until I reached the 60% mark, did the story take off for me. Up until then I considered marking it DNF. If it started from there, it would have been at least a 3.5 stars. Still I'd read another if it came up in this series and hope it returned to the tone of the first two. I'd be interested in a story between Jeff and Damian.
What do You think about Someone To Keep Me (2014)?
3.5 stars but rounded up. Enjoyable but some bits were a bit too unrealistic for me.
—kate
