Girl Trouble by Miranda Baker

Girl Trouble
by Miranda Baker
Pages: 93
Date: March 25 2014
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Series: Come Again (4th in series)

Review
Rating: 5.25 out of 5.0
Read: September 8 2016

This is very much a story that requires the reading of 'Top Student' and 'Girl Trouble'. Considering this is a series of stories that are roughly 90 pages in length, the ones that get a full number, I am uncertain why Top Student (at 60 pages in length) is considered a .5; especially as Top Student and Girl Trouble go together as something like part 1 and part 2 of the Bonita Pritchard/Kat St. James story.

Destiny & Johnny are in book 1. Alisa Mane and Mark Winters are the stars of book 2. Crystal LaRusso and Ryan something star in book 3 (which is actually more than 90 pages at 157). Then Bonita & Kat star in books 3.5 and 4 (well, Kat, Destiny & Johnny star in book 3.5, though Bonita’s presence is felt since Kat is there for Bonita). Therefore this is an interconnected series based around a sex shop called Come Again – owned by Bonita. So, since all but book 3 are nearish the same length (give or take 30 pages), then this should just be a five book series, not one where Top Student gets side-tracked as a ‘fill in’. Especially since books 3.5 & 4 go together.

Or, in other words, if you read only one ‘sub-series’, read 3.5 & 4. Though ‘Girl Trouble’ is currently missing. Curious if there’s a connection to the fact that the only F/F book in the series is the part of the series missing from Amazon (there’s a FMF scene at the start, but it’s a waking up from it scene, not graphic detailed scene). Wait, no, ‘Hook Up’ is also missing. So scratch that idea.

Right – that above wasn’t really what I wanted to say/write about.

‘Top Student’ is currently free on Amazon as of this writing (September 8 2016). I read that story back in April of 2014 and really enjoyed it – a mix of FMF, and FF that one. A story about a woman who is attempting to locate and be with the woman who she loves, but who is dodging her ‘for reasons’. So she, Kat, heads from California to the east coast and the sex shop known as ‘Come Again’. Searching for that woman, for Bonita. But she can’t find her. She does, though find out that Bonita has been spending a good deal of time in the BDSM world. And she gets two of Bonita’s friends to help her understand that world, because she wants to do everything she can to get Bonita back. So that’s what ‘Top Student’ is about – Destiny & Johnny teaching Kat.

This story here, though, isn’t ‘Top Student’. It’s ‘Girl Trouble’. Part two of the Bonita/Kat story. Two years after I read part one; I finally got around to reading part two. No real idea why I took so long.

Kat St. James and Bonita Pritchard grew up together. And played together. Sexy games. But St. James had a dream, a dream of making it huge in Hollywood, a dream that Bonita didn’t’ feel like she could be a part of, or, in other words, she decided she had to step aside to allow Kat to spread her wings and fly. They did keep in touch over the years, yearly visits. Until three years before the start of this story here when Bonita started dodging Kat’s visits.

Kat has sent out feelers/messages to try to lure Bonita back to her.

Story starts, though, with a self-destructive Kat bouncing around, drunk, and looking for something to overwhelm her mind, so she hooks up with a man and a woman – mostly because the woman reminds her of Bonita.

Eventually, though, Bonita breaks down and visits Kat.

They have a lot of fun together, Kat and Bonita; mixed with both fearing what will happen in a week (Kat is determined to bind Bonita to her and Bonita is determined to leave after a week). Lots of feelings, emotions, graphic dominate/submissive sex; and the kind of ‘flash backs’ I like.

I do not particularly like flash backs (or forwards, or sides (a parallel story that follows a different plot line that may or may not intersect the current story)). This author here showed that you can reveal certain information in a few words without having to have hundreds/thousands of words – you can drop hints about that growing up together, of getting ready for prom together, of the games they played, by side comments, by lines here or there, without having to interrupt the flow for a mutli-chapter 10,000 word jaunt into flash-back land. Quite lovely, that.

I mentioned in a status update that this is exactly what I had been looking for for years. And that I had had the book for 2 years before I got around to reading it. By ‘what I had been looking for’ I mean a good solid strong dominate woman who has true feelings of love mixed up with a submissive, though in her own way strong woman who also feels the stirrings of love. That complements each other – Kat being wild and reckless and domineering – but pulled back from the edge by Bonita; Bonita being something of a control freak who needs, wants, and gets release from these control needs through the trust in Kat.

Or something like that. I’ve probably overrated Domme/Submissive books in the past, and I probably overrate this one. Tis my life to do such.

September 8 2016