Lonleypurplecat's Reviews > Make Me, Sir

I am a total sucker for the type of romance where the hero/heroine has to go undercover and then inadvertently falls in love with the love interest and then there is much angst when it is revealed that the hero/heroine has lied to and then the hero/heroine has to regain their trust somehow and then they live happily ever after. It sounds very formulaic, but I eat that type of thing up. What I expected from this book was an undercover romance with some steamy kinky sex scenes thrown in for spice. Unfortunately, the ratio of kinky sex to actual romance was waaaaay out of wack (like, 80% sex and 20% romance and plot). Much of the book was focused on actual BDSM practices, which isn't necessarily bad- but I wanted an actual romance with character development and relationship stuff instead of a relationship jacked up on sex. Unfortunately, this book didn't deliver. I don't know if it was just me, but I felt very uncomfortable reading the scenes where Marcus "punishes" Gabi or acting bratty, especially when he spanked here until she was crying and she looked like a racoon cause her tears had smudged her mascarra. Although she didn't use her safeword, she was telling him to stop, so it's disconcerting to rationalise that she wanted to be spanked to the point that she felt pain.