In the year of 2026, I’m DNF’ing books if they’ll be less than 2 stars. There’s no time to waste when I could be reading a book I’ll actually enjoy/love.

With that said, Dom-Com was one of my anticipated releases for this year. The plot and the cover screamed a good time. Unfortunately, the good time stayed in the first 20% of the book.

This book kicked off strong, diving straight to the BDSM club, where Rae is going for the first time as a brand-new sub. She discovers the club has a “speed dating” event going on that fails for her, except for the mysterious General.

Rae and Grant’s first interaction had me GAGGED! This man was only massaging her shoulder, and I was ready to bark at him to do the same thing to me.

I expected that same heat and chemistry to carry throughout the story. Spoiler alert: they did not. As soon as they discover they’ll be working together, they turn into children, fighting over a list of rules—a boring plot device that, quite frankly, didn’t land for me. It got dragged on for way too long, to the point it turned me off. It tried giving The Hating Game, but instead, it gave a watered-down imitation—it had more annoyance than tension.

TLDR: the chemistry and tension that hooked me early on fizzled out, replaced by repetitive and annoying arguments that didn’t move the story. What could’ve been a sharp and sexy novel ended up feeling flat. By the time the romance was starting to go somewhere, I was already checked out.

I received an eARC for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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