Madame

2.75 rounded up to 3

I might be in the minority here, and forgive me for the unorganized thoughts, but I really was unimpressed with Madame.

Spoilers ahead

My first and biggest gripe is that the two scenes with Eden and Jade are either being recorded for Clay, or in a voyeur room with other people watching. Not just for the two of them to be with eachother. We were promised a scene of Jade flogging Eden, a private one on one without Clay there!, that was then taken away by Jade being stupid. It also felt very Gay For You with Jade and Eden. It would have been so easy for Jade to have already had a girlfriend in the past, or less hand wavy of just kissing girls drunk at a party.

I also personally did not like going back and forth between the past and the present between Clay and Eden in small paragraphs. I felt like it would have flowed much better if we got everything with the both of them first, and then the rest of the book.

I also felt like there were too many tropes just packed in here for the sake of either marketing or the author really wasn't interested in writing more books on SPC but was contracted to do so. I think it would have been much better for Jade to simply be Clay's girlfriend and really explore being a Switch, then to shove Age Gap and Boss's Daughter in there too.

I also don't know if its be cause I loved Praise, Give Me More, and liked Mercy (still havnt read Eyes On Me) but really didn't care for and DNF'd Highest Bidder that's clouding my judgement.

This just wasn't my favorite and I'm dissapointed. Maybe Sara Cate's stuff just isn't for me.

4.5 ⭐️
you guysss... i went into this as blind as i could & i ate it up!!!! which isn't surprising, that's how i was with every single book in this series. but this one??? eden, clay & jade really warmed my heart & made me so so happy. they all grew so much in this book, it was insane! i'm going to keep this short & sweet because i don't wanna spoil ANYTHING. i definitely recommend going in blind (except checking trigger/content warnings)! the ending is so bittersweet but this series holds an extremely special place in my heart & always will!