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Review of Every Other Weekend by Jaxson Kidman God, Jaxson Kidman must hate me and all his readers or something, because every single damn time his writing tears my heart out. Every Other Weekend , like all his stories, is beautifully raw and real, and broke my heart with its sheer intensity. Ramsey and Jordyn's story is my favorite Jaxson story since Dear Everly . Ramsey and Jordyn had an arrangment, but as arrangements are wont to do, it changed. Changed because feelings. Because. Somehow Ramsey meets Jordyn's young son and that's where the change started. She hadn't wanted them to meet, but you know, life doesn't always go the way you want it to. And that right there is part of why I love this (and all of Jaxson's writing), because he doesn't shy away from telling it like it is, making his characters behave in ways that we all behave, in realistic ways. The things that happen around and to Ramsey and Jordyn are things that can, and do, happen to al...

Review of Tied Up by Sionna Fox When Kate breaks up with her longtime (5 years) dom/boyfriend to take a job across the country, it's because she's fallen out of love with him (or so she thinks). Now a year later she's back in Boston knowing she'll end up seeing him again, and not knowing how she'll react or how he'll react. Ian has missed Kate every single minute since she left him high and dry a year ago. He still doesn't know why she left him, can't figure out how she suddenly fell out of love with him. He does figure it was something he did, or didn't do, but isn't sure of anything beyond that. And now that she's back, he wants to see her again, to talk to her, maybe even get her back. But of course things don't go smoothly, don't go according to plan because life. And that's the part of this story that I like. It feels more realistic than most BDSM reads, than most so called romances. And yet, this isn't a romanc...