Baked Fresh

I should have borrowed Conventionally Yours by Albert instead of the bind-up of the first three books in this series. I didn't because I thought it would likely be a little more YA angsty and thought this series sounded cute and sweet. Jokes on me because this book is way to dramatic and angsty for me.

I do like Vic and Robin as characters - but I really don't like them together. First, friends with benefits always has more sex than I like, so I was prepared for that. I wasn't prepared for Vic to tell Robin (during their first time together? I can't remember) that he was going to ‘lick him all over.' That is so not my kind of kink.

Also, I'm not a big fan of most D/s relationships - and this one hits several of my least favorite tropes from this: older, bigger man is the dom; younger, slighter man is the sub. And I would have liked to have been warned that there is a ten year age difference here. (I don't dislike age differences, I just don't understand them. Especially when the younger is in their early twenties and the older has so much more life experience and they really have little to no common ground. Like this book.) Then there's the ‘boy' do this and ‘boy' do that and ‘baby let me take care of you' and I loathe ‘baby' as a term of ‘endearment'. (And am not the biggest fan of a sub always being called ‘boy'.))

And then we have all the drama. Like boatloads of drama and I just don't care any more.

And, finally, I nearly DNF'd this book twice (first because of the zing of energy when they touched, and the awareness between them and all the other sixth sense feelings I hate in romance and second because I started getting lack of communication vibes reminding me of the first book) and I kind of wish I had. (Though I will say that Vic and Robin seem to have a much healthier relationship and I do think they are much better for each other than the couple from the first book is/was.)

(I'm done with this series here, because at least the third book tells me there's an age difference and even more ‘no strings attached sex' and this is not me. Bye.)