“Tips & Trysts” by Rebecca Kinkade [Femdom Book Review]

These days, opening with some sort of trigger warning is increasingly the default for fiction. Sometimes this is a link at the start of the book to an author site, to avoid spoilers (and bot based censorship). Some books, on the other hand prefer a paragraph of simple tags, with no other context. Still others, as in this case, choose to give you a few pages of notes before you hit the story itself. More often than not, in romances it’s also a chance for the writer to get a second shot at a blurb and set the expectations for what kind of book this is. You can therefore tell a lot about the author’s attitude to their material by what is flagged and how they do it. By this, you can also consider what isn’t mentioned. On the one end there are nervous, considerate warnings, the kind which hold the reader’s hand and prepare them that something bad happened, but it was off page, they swear it will be ok. At the extreme other end, the warning is more like an old timey horror host, leering…

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