Full joint review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 Amanda: All I want to do is just furiously bang my fingers against the keys to form a string of nonsensical words. But I think our preconceptions going into it would be a good start and how the book either met or destroyed those notions. Because admittedly, I was very nervous about reading this book. 
 RHG: I was intrigued because I have read a lot of non-con fantasy books that work in varying ways, but they're explicitly fantasy, and not structured around "is there some way to realize this fantasy in the real world that is safe, sane, and consensual?" And the fact that Pace was attempting to do just that, it's a high level of difficulty. 
 Amanda: I'm usually so critical of books that use non-con as a plot device or backstory. My main fear was that the non-con aspects of the book, both in a consensual sense with Jonah and a non consensual sense with Anthony, would be...porny in a way. Like in movies, with a non-con scene, it often lacks the brutality of the act and is done from a male gaze point of view. 
 But the scenes with Jonah, I never once got the sense that the heroine, Vivienne, wasn't a willing participant. Pace definitely nailed the psychological aspect of both spectrums. 
 - Amanda and Redheadedgirl