Sarah Sutton’s Reviews > Spare the Rod > Status Update

Christ a bomb? The author is so desperate to make a point about the excess divisive politics, social media, social justice warriors, etc that the story is turning completely absurd and unbelievable just so there's room to say "see, look what could happen!" And the reality is there is no reason to be this ridiculous. This is a caricature of what could and does happen & it's ham-handed and over the top, ugh.

Scratch that....this is devolving into absurdity.

Maybe I actually like it now :)

This is not a romance novel nor is it about BDSM. Marie Sexton's got Opinions and needs to talk about them.

Again, I don't even disagree, but seriously if I wanted to hear about this I'd actually read a book about it or just go on soc-medes myself. Honestly about 75% of this book is ranting about social justice warriors, partisanism, and social media. The actual story is completely obstructed.

Normally I'm down with a book having social context/messaging but this book is really getting annoying. It's just a medium for all of the things the author currently finds annoying. I mostly agree, but I didn't pick up this book to hear about all the things wrong with social media culture or generation X. It's not subtle and ironically reductivist. If I didn't love the characters so much this would already be a dnf.

Ugh Marie, did you have to be a union hater? I love this series and you're making it damn hard to keep going. Stick to kinky love stories and stay away from union busting, sooo many misconceptions. Give me a ring, girl. I'll clear things up for ya!