Primal kink Dom, anyone?

We really threaded the needle with this alien hero’s brand of scary Dom-energy: he was a consent king and fated mates-level devoted; but he was also bossy, he was genuinely turned on by her fear (so we really went there), oh, and he was the biggest, baddest 10 foot tall Godzilla-looking alien on the planet. 

Horniness inducing venom: amazing. And is it just me, or can we say that once the character has a dragon snout instead of a human-ish face, we’ve fully crossed the monster Rubicon? It feels like an important difference 😅

But, because I’m in my picky era, there was an emergent property to this story that I wasn’t connecting with. It had the following there’s things—which I didn’t enjoy happening all at once…
◾️ a primal/prey kink awakening 
◾️ a hot-and-cold heroine who doth protest too much
◾️ only a seven day timeline until the big baddie stuff

Idk, something about the story containing all three of these made it feel slightly stressful to me. Yet, if it had contained only two of them (in any combination), I would have loved it. Am I making any sense? 🤔