Book Three - Defiance by Chelsea Sinclair
Feb. 19th, 2019 06:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmk418Definitely skippable.
What a disappointment. I normally look forward to books in Ms. Sinclair's Masters of the Shadowlands series and have been wondering if she was going to come out with a new one. This felt like an overlong introduction to her new Sons of the Survivalist series.
Basically, the novella didn't give me the things I love in the rest of the series- mainly, a lot of BDSM strung together with a little bit of interesting plot, ties back to other characters within the series (it made mention of his security guy which was supposed to be a friend, but was someone that I'd never even heard of before in the MotS series), and partly set in the Shadowlands (Z's BDSM club).
This book has a very basic plot- Z is targeted by an ex-military guy that he psychoanalyzed and got kicked out of the military. His wife Jessica is pregnant but follows him up to the not-so-wilds of Alaska to go to a funeral for the survivalist. Three of the four sons (who aren't actually sons, but rather boys that the survivalist has adopted over the years) are introduced in the book. They are not that interesting. There are a couple of sex scenes between Z and Jessica in the book but they weren't overly interesting.
I would say that the series has run its course.
What a disappointment. I normally look forward to books in Ms. Sinclair's Masters of the Shadowlands series and have been wondering if she was going to come out with a new one. This felt like an overlong introduction to her new Sons of the Survivalist series.
Basically, the novella didn't give me the things I love in the rest of the series- mainly, a lot of BDSM strung together with a little bit of interesting plot, ties back to other characters within the series (it made mention of his security guy which was supposed to be a friend, but was someone that I'd never even heard of before in the MotS series), and partly set in the Shadowlands (Z's BDSM club).
This book has a very basic plot- Z is targeted by an ex-military guy that he psychoanalyzed and got kicked out of the military. His wife Jessica is pregnant but follows him up to the not-so-wilds of Alaska to go to a funeral for the survivalist. Three of the four sons (who aren't actually sons, but rather boys that the survivalist has adopted over the years) are introduced in the book. They are not that interesting. There are a couple of sex scenes between Z and Jessica in the book but they weren't overly interesting.
I would say that the series has run its course.
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Date: 2019-02-23 07:50 pm (UTC)Jessica is my favourite, probably because I entered the world seeing it through her eyes. I relate to her the most. I'm not so sure I've liked the way her and Z's relationship evolved, though. Why does every couple end up being unable to leave the D/s aspect in the club/bedroom?
I'll probably pick this up anyway because I just can't help myself.
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Date: 2019-02-24 06:58 am (UTC)It's weird since I'm usually on board with all the BDSM stuff, but there's a line that sort of unsettled me which was when Z said to Jessica "who better to beat on than the mother of my unborn child?" It felt like it crossed a line from happy-fun BDSM to spousal abuse. Maybe if I read it again, I would feel differently, but that just seemed wrong.
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Date: 2019-02-24 03:56 pm (UTC)Bluh. I'll let ya know what I think after I read it.