Age & mother/daughter play creep me out, so this wasn't my thing. If it is your thing though, you might love this.

I would give it 3/5 stars but there was a sexual harassment scene, the aftermath of which was handled poorly. I don't get why there needed to be drama for the protagonist to make life choices and grow-up. Weatherspoon also used the same trope in "The Fling".

Character in need of emotional development - enter drama - lover distances themselves in the protagonist's time of need for their sake - protagonist finds enlightenment - happy ending.

Personally I don't think the outside element that causes the extra drama is needed for the protagonist to grow as a person. But it makes an easy plot device and I'm ok with that. What I dislike is when the "drama" is a sexual assault/harassment. And what I hated was the way it was handled in this book.

Other than that, sure, this book was pretty freaking hot. ( )

Sometimes we like to jump headlong into books, often without even reading the synopsis. That way we feel we can be completely open to the book; a blank slate so to say, willing to absorb the story and character without any preconceived notions. At Her Feet was a book that we picked up because its cover looked like a sassy, urban romance which would have fun dialogues. We were stunned that this turned out to be a BDSM (more dominant-submissive than bondage and sadomasochism) book! BDSM is not a genre that we are drawn to in any way but we also like to finish a book that we’ve started. This one is about a Domme-Sub, with a mommy-little girl kink/fetish added on.

Read the full review @https://www.bestlesficreviews.com/2019/01/at-her-feet-by-rebekah-weatherspoon.html ( )

This is a BDSM book but it focuses on a sub-genre that may not have the same appeal as the usual bondage-heavy, pain-filled, D/s books. I wanted to be surprised so I avoided all reviews. Honestly, I was expecting something edgier but it actually turned out to be cutesier (is that even a word?). The cover should have given me a clue but I thought I was looking at a dominatrix and not the sub. :) Oh well, did I enjoy it? The fetish-specific particulars didn't do anything for me. The plot is realistic, though not very exciting. The leads are nice but bland. The sex is hot but not earth-shaking.

There are many lol scenes in 'At Her Feet' that I thoroughly enjoyed. The emotional ones though, don't come off as well..as Suzy the sub sounds too often and too much like a whiny, needy girl and the dom is just too 'motherly' to be sexy, although, of course, that is exactly what the author intended :) As for the author's prose, I think she'd make a very good YA author. I've read her first book (Better Off Red) which I thought was pretty good but was more YA in appeal.

What's with all the 5 star reviews? Didn't know so many people are into this particular fetish. ;-)

P.S. The cover may be adorable, but it's actually misleading. Both of the lead characters are clearly women of color. ( )

Well, this definitely wasn't what I typically read, but that's a good thing. The blurb on the back caught my eye - although it doesn't mention the whole mother/little girl dynamic to the book, which simultaneously freaked me out a little and intrigued me at the same time - and it was a good read to see how the kinkier side lives.

I'll admit it - I'm vanilla. The kinkiest thing I've ever done wouldn't be laughably vanilla to the characters in this book, I think. But I'm fairly fluent on the lingo, so there wasn't anything that positively stumped me in the book; the author does a good job of throwing in explanations of the terms, too.

How the relationship develops between Suzanne and Pilar is interested to read. The author adopts a first-person narrative, so the reader can see what's going on in Suzanne's head at all times - including her trust issues (with which I can personally identify) and how those color her interactions with Pilar.

My one real complaint is how the book ends; the ending is not the book's strong suit. Valerie, Suzanne's boss, happens to be a Mommy and sexually harasses Suzanne at the workplace. Suzanne ends up quitting her job over the incident, and the only repercussions Valerie seems to have are in the Mommy/little girl community. Bonus, once Pilar finds out about the incident, she doesn't respond to Suzanne's texts and ignores her for days. I thought this was extremely weak and out of character for Pilar.

And let me say how much I love, love, LOVE the diversity in this book. There's Suzy/Suzanne, who is half-Jamaican and half-Korean; Pilar/Mami, who is Latina; and Gloria, who is Asian (the author never specifies more than that) and a trans woman (well, "little girl"). Plus there are two little girls (actually little girls, as in younger than ten years old) Suzy befriends, whose names I can't remember, who are African-American and Korean.

One thing that irritated me was the cover (this did not affect the rating of the book). Yes, I know that the cover often bears little resemblance to the book inside, but this cover shows a clearly white female’s legs. Neither of the main characters is white. Couldn't we have had Mami's legs on the cover instead, especially since Suzy mentions how attractive they are more than once? ( )

I loved the way this book started out but then it went downhill. As I got annoyed with the plot I told myself books need conflict and that I would give the book at least 3 stars, but I just can't.

My low rating has nothing to do with the authors writing skills, Weatherspoon is a great writer, and not just for the romance genre. My rating is about my dislike of some of the plot points.


My loathing started when Pilar took Suzy to a party she knew her boss would be at and then Pillar accused Suzy of not trusting her enough for being upset? I understand the rules that Pilar just couldn't say that Suzy's boss would be there but just dropping her in there with not warning about the high odds of meeting someone she works with feels like a violation of trust to me.

But what really took away from my ability to give this book 3 stars was Suzy getting sexual assaulted, I don't read romance for that. Not only was she assaulted by her boss but Pilar decided to stop talking to her for it. Oh sure there is a wonderful make up at the end and Suzy accepts all the blame for what happened and the boss gets a "bad rep" in the local community. After all that happened the happy ending felt forced and pasted on.


I feel like an ass for giving this book a low rating after winning it in a give away, and from everything I've seen I like the author as a person, I just don't like the book. ( )