A romance story that wanted to be one with an edge but to me it failed in that regard. To me it was simply a light hearted romance story that had no real conflict and since the beginning you knew that characters will end up together without any real issues standing in their way.

 

I got this book for free on Instafreebie and this was my first time reading this author so I will give her a benefit of a doubt and not lower my rating to 2 which if I go by all the factors included would be a more realistic rating.

 

 

Summary:

 

Natalie worked very hard to open her bakery and now she is working just as hard to keep it open and profitable. Since she doesn't have a lot of time for dating she decides to experiment with her darker side and go to a master/slave aka bdsm seminar. There she is insantly taken by Nash and they start a relationship. Little later she finds out that she is pregnant and moves in with him and they live happily ever after.

 

Now my issues with this book:

 

1. If you go the BDSM route (and please do) then really go that route, not do it half heartedly. And by that I mean how Nash keeps saying he is her Master and kinky but doesn't really act the part. He is loving, caring, sweet talking, wants kids and a wife and white fence and all that. Just like any other man in romance novels. If you can't do BDSM then please don't. Because we who love it and practice it do not appreciate being said how licking semen off the floor is disgusting or choking is not natural etc. It is insulting so please stop. Either do it right or don't do it, write what you are actually comfortable with.

 

2. Characters have absolutely no obstacles to not be together. They are both single, attractive, young, interested in each other and they both want a family. The only thing that was tried to be pushed as an obstacle is that Natalie's bakery would have to be now put on hold, which makes no sense because Nash can buy her half of the freaking city if he wanted to so there are absolutely no obstacles to overcome.

 

3. If you try to portray the hero as a billionaire womanising bad boy then don't just say that in one sentence and then for the rest of the book show him in a completely different light. And by that I mean that he is actually a loving sweetheart who really wants to settle down. I don't see the point.

 

4. Adding a sub-plot which leads nowhere to add more pages. More accurately adding a remodeling of the building where bakery is located in and making a big deal and fuss about it when later on it is not even mentioned. It was set up to seem like later that will turn on Natalie and Nash will have to step in to save her but nope, nothing, that whole beginning of the book was entirely pointless.

 

 

There are, of course, positives to this book as well which I thoroughly enjoyed. Such as some of the ideas and thoughts the main hero displayed here and there. If he would have been a character like that to his core and from the beginning to the end of the book I would have loved it.

 

 

"I wanted a slave; I wanted someone that lived and breathed for me, not for herself.

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I was born in the wrong damn century."

 

 

"I like slaves. I like to take women like you that have the weight of their world on them and break them down to the core. Women that aren’t used to being ordered around but want it. Women that would never be caught dead in public being told what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. I want you to learn to trust that I would never make you do something that goes against who you believe is yourself. And then, I want you to submit to me knowing that no one will ever be able to shake that belief."

 

 

"I want a woman that lives for me. A woman that can make it look like she's her own person, but in reality belongs to me, blood and soul. I want a woman that obeys me but still makes her own choices - makes her opinion known."

 

 

Now that's a perfect man in my humble opinion. Truly a missed opportunity in this book. I would have loved actually seeing that character presented here and not an everyday sweetheart who falls head over heels in love with this woman first time he sees her.

 

I hoped for something different, something new but I was left slightly disappointed.

 

If nothing else, this book was worth reading if for nothing else then for this sentence that made me laugh and with which I wholeheartedly agree:

 

 

"I was born in the wrong damn century."

I should have bought a physical copy because I have a 14 year old boy as a houseguest this week and him and I are going to end up in a boxing match over my tablet. As soon as I shuffle back through the book and refresh my brain on what has happened so far...Austin strikes again and poof...TABLET GONE! Would it be wrong to beat the crap out of a friend's 14 year old son?

 

HERE'S WHAT I HAVE READ SO FAR:

 

Susan is in a rut. She continually allows people to take advantage of her kindness and never receives the appreciation or gratitude for all that she freely does for those around her. By living her life to please everyone else she has no clue how to make herself happy and feels desperate for a change. She is getting nowhere with counseling and after years of seeing no progress her counselor threatens to section her if she doesn't do something to try and better her life. Out of desperation she talks her colleague Pat into going to local pub with her to have drinks. She meets Gary, the owner of the pub, after getting a little banged up after an altercation with a drug dealer. Gary takes her to his room he keeps for himself in the bar to let her get cleaned up. Susan notices the room is decorated with photos depicting BDSM scenes with various naked women and men bound with ropes and chains.

 

“I usually take those down when I have visitors.”

 

“They're...um...”

 

“Real. Yes. Most of them.”

 

“I don't understand.”

 

Susan reminds Gary of what he had been like many years ago. She looks tired. In her he saw his chance to pay forward the kindness he had been shown when he was lost. Gary acts as guide for Susan into the 'scene' (BDSM community) and gets the wheels turning on finding a dominant partner for her. Mark, The dominant is reluctant to go forward with another relationship. His last relationship ended when his partner K died of lung cancer a couple of years ago.

 

I am really enjoying this book. I like the writing style and that this isn't type book written for the purpose of masturbation. This is BDSM written by an author who actually knows 'the scene' and has lived the life. After reading what I have so far I realize that books like 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James  and The Professional by Kresley Cole have gotten it wrong on many levels.

 

Well, this is certainly not your Mother's goose. The Real Mother Goose is a retelling of many nursery rhymes [I'll never think of little Mary's (Mary, Quite Contrary) garden the same way again!] with a wicked BDSM twist. Mamma Goose is trying to keep a handle on her house of rhyme characters while anxiously awaiting the return of Father Goose, her Dom. There are eager-to-please flowers, unique twists on old favorites like Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Little Boy Blue. I have to say, although I'll never again be able to read my nephew nursery rhymes without thinking about these characters, this book was scorchin' hot. My one big "I can't go there" involved Mother's catgirls and boys b/c I'm a pet owner and Ewww. Human qualities or not, just nu-uh.Anyone who's read (or thought about reading) anything by Selena Kitt knows (or should know) that her books take ya places you may not wanna go or may never wanna leave. Just a friendly head's up.