The final installment of The Subs Club has been a long time coming for me to read. For that, I give Ms. Rock sincere apologies. This book is a smorgasbord in kink lifestyle preferences. This matches up to the many POV switching throughout the book. Normally, I am not a fan of switching from one to another POV in the 1st person. In this book, it works and it is kind of fun, even if at times I have to re-orient myself and figure out which I is talking. Sort of like multiple split personalities.

I find that Drix is still the one that befuddles me and I want to learn more about his vampiric energy ways. Very Asian in influence and I like it. It is interesting to see this group of socially awkward friends with their partners going around in a paintball hunt. I have always thought paintball would be a great game for the kink lifestyle. Ms. Rock brings it to life in a great erotically charged manner.

This book should not be read as a standalone. It is a lot to handle all the different pairings from the first 4 books. I kind of feel like this series is ended prematurely because there are still a couple of characters that scream for their own stories. Especially when Drix notices something going on with Dave's arch nemesis. C'est la vie.

What I liked about this book is that it brings together all the friends who suffered and grieved post a kink related death. Seeing them reconciling the death and moving on is quite a feat. The realism in this is appealing and I wish the outcome in this tale would be how it is in real life. Kudos to Ms. Rock for taking a very hard topic and humanizing it. This kinky erotica is recommended to readers who like fun, spankings and kinky shenanigans.

And so the series ends.

And it is an imaginative and creative series with such diverse couples who each have really diverse kinks. I enjoyed this series because there is actually a real story here. A group of friends have to come to terms with the death of a friend at a local sex club. This changes their attitudes towards the Dom/Sub scene and they decide to make it safer by creating the Subs Club. Each episode shows how the friends each find a love of their own that allows them to express their kink but also to find some kind of resolution and peace about the loss of their friend.

And they also find a way of working within their community to make it safer for everyone but they do this through the love they have for each other and their love of community.

This book brings all the friends and their partners together for a slave hunt and we get to see each of them hunting and evading hunters, and at the same time addressing little issues within their relationship - saying I love you, moving in together, growing up, feeling safe, expressing gratitude, breaking down invisible walls and just loving.

My favourite couple is of course Kamen and Ryan with their own brand of shared nerdiness which perplexes their friends but binds the two of them together. We also get to revisit Dave and D, Drix and Miles, and Gould, Kel and Greg.

There is so much happening in this story but the author has a way of weaving the individual voices of each character into a fantastic crescendo of completeness. I felt a pang of regret when the story ended. It is the kind of series that binds you to the characters and you just don't want to let go at the end.

A great epilogue for a great series.

Copy provided by Riptide Publishing in exchange for an unbiased review.

I am a huge fan of J.A. Rock's Subs Club series, so was so excited when I found out about the Slave Hunt. I will note that this should not be read as a standalone. You need to read the previous four books first to full enjoy this as we revisit all of the characters from the series and this is an extended epilogue of sorts that was all kinds of fun. I can't even begin to express how very much I enjoyed this story. It is told from ten different point of views and covers the events of the two hour slave hunt. I really loved that we were inside the head of characters we previously had not experienced. All of our couples return and many started the slave hunt in a way they were not hoping to, but over the course of two hours, they realize that at the end of the day, what matters most is love and being with the people you care deeply for. This was a wonderful end to a wonderful series and while sad to see it end, it has left me with a huge smile on my face.

I have to admit this up front — I haven’t read ANY of the The Sub’s Club series before reading this book. Which, I do plan on changing now.

But, I have to admit that while yes, I was a bit lost while reading this, simply because I haven’t read the other books, I still loved this book! It was written in a very fun, yet interesting way. I loved how each character had their own chapters, giving their own perspectives on the hunt.

This book completely did what I had thought it would and made it so that I now want to read the rest of the series and get to know the characters even more. I’m sure after I do that, then the characters will make better sense to me.

Now, even though I was confused and didn’t understand some of the characters, and the way they were acting, I did still rate this 5 stars. Simply because it has driven me to now read the rest of the series.