I'm overall a fan of Anna Stone's and I've read most of her books. The relationship aspect of this book is much the same as in the others. Intense romance, light BDSM. Just frothy escapism for those of us who enjoy those kinds of things. (Sidebar to people irritated with the BDSM: It's basically the entire point of Anna Stone's books, this is why you read reviews first. Sidebar to the people irritated with they/them pronouns: Don't read sapphic books if you don't support all of the community.)
Of course I knew going in about the kidnapping piece, and was willing to suspend my concerns about Stockholm syndrome I would have if this was happening in real life. Same with the age gap; 22 and 38 is eyebrow raising but legal and I can tolerate it in this genre although I would certainly have concerns in real life.
However, the reveal at the 3/4 mark gave me major, major ick. Spoilers ahead...
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Hopefully that worked, I don't think Amazon has a way to do spoiler tags. Anyway, it turns out that Ava had a relationship with Tess's mother. She does not reveal this until after she and Tess have begun a relationship. Not only that, but Ava says repeatedly that she should have found Tess earlier, after her mother died. If that had happened, they would have had a parent child relationship. Thinking about that in the context of their actual relationship just freaks me out.
Ava never knew Tess as a child, the connection to her mother is never stated as a reason for their attraction, and I don't get any vibes that the book is attempting anything incest adjacent. But keeping that a secret from someone you're sleeping with, combined with the age difference, combined with the hypothetical parent child relationship if Ava had found Tess even a few years earlier... I'm so surprised that didn't bother anyone else!
And I do think the book could have been made to work without that connection. They could have just been friends; she could have left out Ava's desire to find Tess as a child. I get the impression that it's supposed to deepen the sense of romantic tragedy but it just does not work for me. It's really too bad because otherwise I enjoyed their relationship and connection and the campy drama of the kidnapping plot.
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