The Boxer

3.5 Damn GR and it's lack of 1/2 stars

I enjoyed this and I'd recommend it to fill a couple of idle hours. It's a short read, the story actually ends at about 80%, about a two guys in a kidnap fantasy with testosterone flying hither and thither. Boys. snorts I can't say it's a ‘thing' for me, my only prior reading experience in that realm is Willing Victim by Cara McKenna (amazeballs) but that's really a whole other, less formal kind of play. (Loved it)

Our MC's, let's call them The Boxer and The Dom, reasons are set up on a play date by the Dom's matchmaking boss. They meet, sizzle, and burn everything around them. It was ... nice? Don't get me wrong, I did have to unbutton the top of my coat while on the train, but it all had a whiff of ‘set up for a series' feel, which I don't mind, but it did require the reader bringing a lot to the party: what brought The Boxer to this point? How or when did The Dom become a Dom? It all takes place that one day/night and then we skip ahead 6 months and ... I'll stop here. Don't want to ruin it. It was fun and it was free. End of story.

A special woozy heart for that cover! faints

I had one particular niggle, but it might be an entirely personal taste/idea kind of thing: The Dom is only 24 and The Boxer 30ish. That's cool. However the level of wisdom and also brokenness exhibited by The Dom stretched my credulity a bit. At 24 I was a dumb idiot. *Shrugs*