Second little rant (hope no one minds);
I had one beta reader comment with just "WOW". They were in the same room as me, but they were so shocked that I would write something like that, that they made the effort to type it out in the comment section. The part that got that reaction?
“Wow, you’re really tense. Maybe we should try giving you acupuncture. I’ve never done it before, but I always wanted to try sticking needles into a handsome guy.”
The weird part of it is that I later had a character make a subtle comment about bondage and no one batted an eye. So acupuncture is too scandalous for your image of me, but not bondage jokes? My beta readers for The Black Robin are weird.
I also loved when someone later in the story commented:
AWE!!!! My heart.{apparently I have one }
It's great to write something so sickly sweet that someone realizes that they do indeed have a heart.