Title: Hitched
Series: Hammer #20
Author: Sean Michael
Genre: Erotic Romance / BDSM
Length: Novella (62 pages)
Publisher: Torquere Press (July 23rd, 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥2 Hearts
Reviewer: Thommie
Blurb: The proposal was the easy part, but can Marcus and Jim survive planning the wedding?
Jim asked Marcus to marry him on Valentine’s Day and his master said yes. That should have been the hard part, right? Jim goes into full perfectionist mode, though, wanting everything to be just right for his master, and soon he’s stressed and unhappy.
When the planning also interferes with Marcus and Jim’s usual routine, miscommunication and misunderstandings follow. Is a wedding really worth all the aggravation?
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Review: Well I was expecting a kinky and funny little short here, but that is not exactly what I got. Thing is I came to dread those three little words, you which ones, the “I love you”. I suppose this being a proposal/wedding themed story I shouldn’t have been surprised, yet silly me I had a difficult time getting used to read them every five sentences.
All in all, I don’t think this plot was ideal for me. The kinky stuff that should have made it worth it simply didn’t reach me. I couldn’t get into the spanking/bl routine the guys had; I couldn’t get into the mushy lovey-dovey situation at all and of course a wedding and all the drama it entails, good God I seriously disliked it.
The character frustrated me a bit too. There was so much love in the air and zero communication; Jim was such a weird creature, so very anxious that I had trouble liking, and Markus, well I was too indifferent of him.
Their intimate scenes being practically the same thing over and over again didn’t help much to create a nice atmosphere or get the reader enticed and enthralled with. A serious lack of creativity there and I found myself wondering why am I reading the same passage all over again in a different page.
Bottom end, this simply wasn’t my gig. For a D/s relationship, I expected something else and didn’t enjoy what I got much.