I felt the guys were too frazzled and every time they said they needed to talk and figure things out, nothing was resolved. They got sidetracked with either sex, or love, or some other topic. Even at the end, it felt like they didn't truly resolve anything. The resolution didn't come through the pages to me. I'm not into BDSM, so maybe that's part of it, but I've read other books where you can really feel what the characters are feeling and thinking. That was lacking here as far as working things out. I felt really disconnected to the story.