Snow's Reviews > Balance

What the fuck is this?!

First of all, when i read the blurb, I have to admit i was intrigued cause honestly I am a sucker for a SPORT romance and it was like an immediate pull, I also saw some high reviews, and even though I NEVER read the reviews before I make a decision to read the book myself, now I regret not doing so.
1. I have no problem with the big age gap between the characters (it's not my fav, but I don't mind it)
2. I have no problem with taboo/forbidden subjects (God knows, I have read enough of them to be able to gain a personal satisfaction from it, no matter the quantity of the mentioned)
3. I'm no prude, either…pfft

BUT

I found out that I DO HAVE a problem with UNDERAGE SEX, (especially if one of the acting parties is an actual ADLUT and should KNOW better than engaging in a sexual intercourse with a minor) no matter how the female character „seems“ mature, there's an existing LAW regarding a person's legal maturity, no matter the way person „looks like“, „acts like“ or „seems like“,
there's a reason for that LAW, cause it builds a sort of a safety line for the „mature look alikes“, but still very young. And why do they need that kind of protection too, cause they are teens, hormonally driven, emotionally hypersensitive, almost unstable in co-ordinating the mixed turmoils of enormous span – emotions vs. physical and biological functions, and the LAW is not FOR them per se, it's for those who SHOULD KNOW better but ACT against it.

Especially regarding the girls, physically/biologically they are women, fertile, beautiful, fresh, unspoiled young inexperienced human beings, therefore, I am sure, very tempting and alluring BUT emotionally and mentally there's a fuckin huge gap, more like an abyss of insecurities, awaken desires that they have no knowledge of how to sustain, make it work, indulge in it, or even control it…you learn all that, while you are GROWING UP, while you get to know your body, get to know how your body reacts and how to make your body react accordingly to the information your BRAIN is giving you.

Now, if you are confused with all the mixed up emotions and hormonally induced reactions they do become prey and when an older man states that she „seduced“ and „pursued“ him, and HE as a fucking ADULT with a DICK, couldn't „control“ his little friend from definitely ILLEGIT action,

You pursued me every chance you got and you know it. A man can only take so much before he loses his fucking mind and caves

Oh, you poor bastard, you and your little DICK are in pain, right?!





who's the fucking GROWN UP here?

Not to even mention the cheating part, I won't even go there, right now…

So when the author writes a WARNING like this:

If grafic language and underage, consensual sex are bothersome to you, I highly suggest not reading this novel.

You didn't do shit with it, you just made your conscience clear, and actually passed over the responsibility to someone else, the reader, and let's just hope the next potential reader is an ADULT who will know the difference between the actual CONSENTING sexual intercourse between the TWO consenting grown ups, or even if they are not of the legal age yet (cause of course, you can't forbid the teens to have sex, BUT in that case, you can try your best to EDUCATE them how to protect themselves and hope for the best they are AWARE enough to USE the same protection, of which THERE is NONE in this book).

And just because she said YES, doesn't mean HE, the ADULT, had to act upon it, cause after all she still is just…a little inexperienced

“I was kind of afraid to keep going. Not afraid of Kova, but because for the simple fact I had no idea what to do when I reached him. I mean, my friends talked about it, i knew, but I'd never done any of it myself.“

No SHIT, Sherlock!

But not to worry, he'll show you, cause…he KNOWS best, doesn't he?

You put your little fingers around my cock. Stroke it hard. You know you want to.

Fucking, really?! REALLY?!
You know it! Cause a 15 year old said YES, and she sure the fuck knows what she wants and what she's doing?!



This really gives me the creeps��



I'm truly sorry for ranting like this, but this very issue actually destroyed this book…

And author's note:

My main goal was to focus on the beauty of the actual sport, but also show what goes on behind closed doors and how working with a coach for nearly forty hours a week can transpire into something more.

lost its initial meaning, cause neither I have enjoyed the described sport, nor have I actually „felt“ something „MORE“ happening between the coach and his gymnast on the emotional level as I have initially expected and really thrived towards it, other than his tantrums, and mood switches in between intermezzoes of giving her his sad, sad life story!!! He fuckin had one job only, to coach her!



It was merely impulsive lust and an incompetence of an ADULT, who should be developing trust, to keep his DICK on a short leash. Instead we get to see the ADULT acting like a fucking spoiled, jealous, cheating asshole who deserves not only my contempt but also a huge fucking punishment in prison.

I hope you take the plunge and look outside the box before making judgement

I did, all of the three, plunged in, looked outside the box then made MY judgement.

I might have sounded like a short-sighted bitch right until now, but I don't give a fuck, cause now, I'm speaking as a mother - I just hope I'll be successful in educating my kid to know the very difference in consenting to something she's lurred into and the actual given consent made in judgement based on the knowledge and advice from someone more apprehensive than the fucking Google research.

And in the worst case scenario, don't be alarmed just yet, I will act upon this…with any means available…

This was wrong on so many levels

And yet, thank God it's ONLY fiction, right?!





*drops mic*