Book: Safeword: Matte
Safeword Series #3
Author: Candace Blevins
Erotic Romance, BDSM
3 Stars... It was okay. Here's the blurb:
Matte, pronounced mah-tay, is the word used in some forms
of martial arts to stop a fight. It’s the Japanese word for stop or wait.
Sam (short for Samantha) has made a hobby out of learning the various fighting
disciplines, but she also happens to be a sexual submissive. What better
safeword than matte?
Sam wants to find someone to submit to who she can’t beat in a fight. She’s tried to make it work with men from the scene who know nothing about fighting, but it doesn’t feel real to her – she needs someone who can truly control her. However, after dating from the fight scene and discovering not all guys like to spank their girlfriends, she’s decided to just back away from the whole dating thing for a while… until Fate decides to step in.
Safeword: Matte is a stand-alone book. You do not need to have read the previous books in this series.
Sam wants to find someone to submit to who she can’t beat in a fight. She’s tried to make it work with men from the scene who know nothing about fighting, but it doesn’t feel real to her – she needs someone who can truly control her. However, after dating from the fight scene and discovering not all guys like to spank their girlfriends, she’s decided to just back away from the whole dating thing for a while… until Fate decides to step in.
Safeword: Matte is a stand-alone book. You do not need to have read the previous books in this series.
I gave Safeword: Matte 3 stars. It
was a good book, a quick read. The writing was good and the story flowed well.
The BDSM scenes were very well
written. I thought that Candace Blevins did a great job representing a healthy
scene interaction - the negotiation, the D/s and SM interaction within the
scene itself was all done well. I really liked that Ethan was a Sadist and that
there was no stigma attached to it here. In many of the books I've read, SM is
treated with kind of iffy attitude, often portraying the Sadist as damaged
(Christian Grey comes to mind) or angst-y about trying to come terms with these
desires... Ethan doesn't have these issues, he just likes to hurt women and
he's totally cool with it. That's hot. Likewise, Sam knows herself and doesn't
question her desires or worry that being a sexual submissive and masochist
somehow undermines her in other parts of her life. Again - hot. When they came
together sexually, some really explosive BDSM and sex came out of that.
Aside from the BDSM and sex scenes,
there was nothing remarkable about the story. The characters are nice and
there's definitely potential... but nothing really happens. It's just all kind
of middle of the road, trudging along and having fun sex in between. I kept
waiting for something to go wrong or maybe more introspection or something....
It was just missing that edge to make it a book that I'd want to come back to.
I haven't read any of the other Candace Blevins' books for fear that they'll
all be this bland.
I'd recommend this as a great BDSM book, if you're looking for more of a story
then I'd skip it.
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