Review: Desperate Measures

✨Maybe a little plot spoilers but I wanted to bring some subject matters to light just so you know what you might be getting into! 🖤

So I’ve been very excited to start this series! I love the idea of Disney Villain retellings! Mix that with erotic romance and you’ve hooked me (no pun intended)! So Katee Robert starts us out with Jafar and Jasmine’s story! 

I went into the book relatively blind. I didn’t know it was a contemporary setting before I started, so I was actually confused for the first ten minutes of reading! 🙈 Once it clicked it was supposed to be modern day, suddenly Jafar’s suit made sense 🤣

I got to say I felt a little apprehensive when I first got started. I have read quite a few BDSM stories and I was worried that this was going to fall under the “Male Dom wants Female to submit and He has to teach Her how to be a Sub” trope. That is a trope made popular by 50 Shades and while many authors do it well, I’m SUPER over it! But I am pleased to report that Desperate Measures actually went in a different direction! And it turned out to be my personal brand of kink. 

That being said I want to put a trigger warning out there ⚠️ While all the steam in the book IS consensual, the characters like to role play and pretend that it’s coerced (with safe word at the ready). So if that’s not your thing, you might not want to dive into this one. 

What I loved was that it explores a brand of sexual fantasy that is actually very common but not talked about because it is seen as taboo and even shameful. Through the story, Jasmine makes a lot of self discoveries about her sexuality and realizes that she has nothing to be ashamed of! She OWNS her sexuality and gets an amazing and POWERFUL finish in the book! 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4.5 read for me! The beginning was a bit shaky but as I kept reading I really LOVED IT! 

🖤Katie