Nope. Nope. Nope.

Big fat pile of nope.

DANGER SUPER WARNING VERY BAD DEATH CAUSING TYPE BDSM PRACTICES PRESENTED AS NORMAL IN THIS BOOK

This book presents itself as a realistic depiction of a D/s couple's life. Maybe it is. People seem to think it is.

This book presents choking and breath control like something you can do safely as long as you know the choked person's limits. Nope. Nope. Nope. You can't.

Here, read Jay Wiseman's writing about breath control and why it's dangerous and you shouldn't do it. www.jaywiseman.com/SEX_BDSM_Breath_Closing_Argument.php

So look. I can happily read problematic as shit fantasy erotica where people do horrible things, ignore consent, get killed by tentacles, I don't care. And it doesn't bother me when the book telegraphs clearly that what it's presenting is an unrealistic fantasy. This book telegraphs that it's presenting a realistic depiction of a healthy relationship, and for the most part I suppose it is, even if it's not the kind of thing I find hot to read about. And then it depicts and presents as normal the dangerous practice of choking. And that's a bit pile of NOPE. That goes beyond Not My Kink, beyond squick, and all the way into This Book Is Bad and I have to tell you it's bad.

Now about the rest of the book.

The writing was OK. I mean, at least as good as 50 Shades of Grey. But that's not saying much and I know I am damning it with faint praise. Also it was not sexy.

The one good thing I can say about this book is I learned what the thing I really hate is called "Hight Protocol". "High protocol" is a fetish for having stupid rules, doing housework, not being allowed to talk, capitalizing the pronoun of the sexually dominant partner, and addressing each other by stupid made up names like "Sir" and "slut" and not just in bed for kicks but all the goddamn time. High Protocol is not my kink and I think it's a stupid kink and I never want to read another piece of erotica with it again.