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Micah “Pup” Slayde knows he wants Tackett Austin the moment he lays eyes on him in the Guards of Folsom. Micah wants to have purpose, to be taken care of, and to take care of his Dom—wants to trust him completely, live for him, belong to him. To become his everything. Micah is sure Tackett is the one. The problem is, in order to be the perfect sub, he needs to stay focused, and that’s not easy for Micah, who suffers from what he refers to as a “broken brain.” Focus and adult attention deficit disorder rarely coexist.
Ever since Ty Callahan and Blake Henderson’s collaring ceremony, Tackett’s been thinking too much about his own loneliness. Even though Ty introduces Micah and urges Tackett to give him a try, Tackett isn’t so easily convinced. He’s spent his life pursuing a successful business career, and the subs he dominates almost never enjoy the kiss of his leather twice. Twenty years Micah’s senior, Tackett has no interest in taking on and taming such a young and naughty sub—but it’s difficult to resist such an adorable pup when he begs.
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6 primary booksGuards of Folsom is a 6-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by S.J.D. Peterson.
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I really tried to read this book and I thought I will, but I dropped it somewhere in chapter 11, that's almost 50% of the novel. I think that is the longest I read a book before dropping it.
The first thing that kind of bothered me was Micah's eyes. There's nothing wrong with them, but I got the colour the first five or so times I read 'baby blues'. That description didn't work for me because I imagined one solid, unsettling block of blue as his eye colour. At some point I replaced it in my mind with 'bright blue'.
Then, when it came to the main characters' relationship, I would have wanted more show and less tell. I find this is a major pet peeve of mine when it comes to books. Adding that to the way they talked about things, while neither of them actually knew what to do, missed the spot completely. They sounded like someone pretending to know what they talk about while in reality having not the faintest clue. I didn't feel for one second confident in their relationship, I didn't feel anything of what was said they were feeling, so when something happened to make one of them angry or happy I was genuinely surprised. I didn't know how it happened.
And finally, what actually made me drop the book, is the way their relationship started and, I guess, will evolve. What a lot of BDSM novels have in common is this matchmaking, where the friend(s) of the Dom (always the friends of the Dom) act as matchmakers between him and the sub. This happens so often and I really wanted them to gravitate towards each other naturally. Actually, when the characters were first introduced I didn't think they will start something.
If I would have managed to read the whole book I was already thinking of rating it two stars, maybe something would have happened to make me rise that rating, but I really wasn't expecting that. Now that I dropped it I can only rate it half a star. However, I think the book can be enjoyed, I'm sure other readers will like it way more than I did.
