Title: Breaking in His Beta
Series: N/A
Author: Victoria Vallo
Genre: Sci-FI
Length: Novella (91 pages)
Publisher: Poison Girl Press (October 17th, 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥ 2.5 Hearts
Blurb: Rhys had a place of honor with the Prince Regent—even sharing his bed at night—but everything changed when his master gave him away to pay a debt. Now Rhys belongs to a man named Stryker, who immediately makes his intention of claiming Rhys, body and soul, very clear.
Stryker has waited years to find the perfect beta, and he knows from the first touch that Rhys is the one for him. Rhys responds right away, and Stryker simply can’t get enough of him. Stryker works to get Rhys to admit that he wants Stryker as much as Stryker is growing to need him, but Rhys’s stubbornness isn’t the only conflict they’re destined to face…
ASIN: B00FZZQEK0
Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-His-Beta-Victoria-Vallo-ebook
Reviewer: Leigh
Review: Stryker is an assassin hired by the Prince Regent to kill his father the King. In order to pay the Prince sells Rhys to Stryker. Rhys is twenty years old and has been servicing the Prince for twelve years total. The last four of which have been sexually, but only using his hands and mouth. So he is still a virgin, which Stryker likes, a lot.
Seriously, there should have been a warning on this book about at least dubious consent. Rhys is called a servant, but if you can be bought, sold, or traded, it seems more like a slave to me. But that is my opinion. Stryker pretty much tied Rhys up and forced their first time on him, even if Rhys did enjoy it in the end. That was the beginning of the end for me. I didn’t like Stryker from the start, and I felt bad for Rhys. It didn’t really get better for me.
The writing style itself was good which is the reason it has the heart rating it does. But the start is about what I would call very dubious consent at the least. Then Stryker spent most of the time trying to get Rhys to admit how much he liked it and wanted it. I found Stryker completely arrogant and too cock sure of himself. He never really gave Rhys the time to acclimate to the change in circumstances.
It went from one sexual scene with a little talk to the next sexual scene. There was no explanation or descriptions of the world the author has created. It’s Sci-Fi and the MCs talk about planets and The Republic but never really in great detail.
I feel like there could have been so much more here and it would have been a fantastic story. But as it was, I was just left unsatisfied.
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