Yet another special snowflake from the Twilight fandom to think it's okay to file the VIN off her fan fiction. See comments. ( )

I've rated this book two stars, first because I never give one star unless I didn't like the story AND the writing was incompetent. The writing skills were fine in this case, though the first person POV was bothering me as it sometimes does. But I really didn't care for the story itself.

I'm a huge BDSM fan, mostly because I love the emotion and character depth achieved in many of the relationships. But in this case, the characters lacked depth and felt cold to me. It's hard to care what happens to people during sex scenes when you don't feel like you know who they are.

So, I'll just say this story was not for me and I didn't finish it! ( )

If I was an author of erotic fiction I would be very pissed off if the cover of my novel had a guy on it with zits all over his shoulders. That just doesn't scream erotic.
If I was an author of any book I would be very pissed off if the editing was substandard and the text was littered with spelling errors. That just doesn't scream professional.
I am not an author. I am a reader though and those are things that would turn me away from buying the book. Thankfully I was privy to receiving a free copy but I do like to be honest in my reviews and felt that those issues should be mentioned.
The Forbidden Room is an erotic novel that revolves around the main male character Jayden, his soon to be male master who is named Ethan and a fellow submissive, a female named Lexi. Jayden's foray into the world of BDSM wasn't totally believable in my opinion. He is renting a room at Ethan's house, enters the "forbidden room" and gets caught doing so and thus is told he must leave the house for good unless he appears in the room fully naked at a given time and day by Ethan.
Whatever happened to renters rights?
Jayden goes along with this and becomes submissive to Ethan's desires and finds himself enjoying the experience of being dominated and disciplined which encompasses giving Ethan oral sex and being the recipient of anal sex. Before this experience Jayden was, apparently, heterosexual.
Enter Lexi.
Lexi is already Jayden's submissive and what follows is plenty of three way BDSM encounters with Ethan always controlling the action.
The sexual encounters are written very expertly and the author's talent certainly lays in her descriptions of these encounters as they are beyond just sexual in that they are also filled with emotional desire and yearning. Through this one can see how much the three characters need and rely upon each other.
I am new to erotica, and have never read any erotica that dealt with homosexuality, and perhaps this is how erotica is meant to be. However, I would have liked to have seen more character development in relation to their lives outside of their group.
One thing I didn't like about the story was the open ending that will have you needing to buy the second novel if you want to know how things progress. Perhaps a more rounded ending with the tease of a second novel would have worked better?
Overall, I did actually enjoy this novel although it was more of a learning experience and initiation into the world of literary erotica than it was a great read. I think if I had read more erotica, and had other novels to compare it to, I would have enjoyed this more. A decent enough read though. ( )