I don't know where to start with this one. I really wanted to like it because of the premise, but not my cup of tea is what I felt in the end. I mean I find a little spanking titillating, but when it is basically pain for pleasure and involves whips... not so much.
I really liked the MCs, Ivy and Asher, but all the whipping and spankings kinda took up too much of the story to really allow for the romance to flourish. By the end I felt like Ivy was suffering from some kinda stockholm syndrome. There are huge gaps in logic and so much about the political landscape left addressed, that it was just a mess. Most of the novel is spent trying to legitimize the reasons why it is good thing to smack your woman around and that that gets her hot, so long as you don't smack her in the face or draw blood. Like I said, not my cup of tea.