Book Review: Pain Slut (Subs Club book 2) by JA Rock

Release Date: September 14, 2015
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Format: Kindle
Pages: 282 pages
Genre: LGBT, BDSM
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Synopsis: 

Honestly, I’m ready to take a step back from the Subs Club. Making the kink world a safer place for subs is the sort of bandwagon I’d have boarded as an idealist in my early twenties, but now I’m a pragmatist in my late twenties. I prefer to focus on adopting and raising a child.

But unexpected factors inevitably derail my plans. Like Drix Seger—attractive and the first genuine sadist I’ve encountered. If I were not in the process of renouncing my masochistic ways and becoming the normal, responsible potential father the adoption agency wants to see, Drix and I might do well together.

But he has a foolish name and belongs to a cult of vampyres, and I am quitting kink. So why does Drix’s infatuation with blood and biting make me so hot I can’t think straight? And why, when he looks at me, does he seem to see something beyond a basket case with a stick up my ass?

Can I start a new phase in my life without leaving part of myself behind? Please send help.

—Miles

Review: 

Miles is conflicted.  He doesn't want to be Vanilla but is worried that his kink will negatively effect his desire to adopt a child.  He is struggling and then he meets Drix.  Drix teaches Miles that everything doesn't have to follow a specific plan, that you can release control and not be a total mess. That sometimes you have to just go with the flow.

I really love the characters in these books, they are funny, yet serious, and the friendships are strong and supportive.  I struggled with the whole adoption process part of the book since I'm very familiar with it and this strayed monumentally from what I know, so it was hard for me to set it aside and just flow with the story (guess I have some control issues myself! ). Aside from that I thought this book was very well done and the story line just got stronger as the book progressed.  This is a well done bdsm series but warning the scenes are graphic and hardcore.