this is one of those stories that had the right ingredients but just didn't come together nicely and work for me. i think the storyline was a little too forced and cliche: innocent girl warms up a little too quickly to the rough sex. laurel and flynn's relationship - as well as their separate characters - was just a tad too casual and laid-back for me to invest in and care for at all, as if they were almost lazily written. the sex was ok, nothing all that dark and twisted to me. just... meh. made no impression on me.