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In a shattered world, Blake and Io only have each other...
In Sin Row, corrupt cop Blake Astor rescued his rent boy lover Io Spencer from arrest after the death of Io’s pimp.
Now they’re on the run in post-apocalypse Canada, both afraid of the future and even more afraid that they’re going to end up meaning everything to each other.
Reader Advisory: This book is a sequel to Sin Row.
Publisher Note:This hard hitting book contains one ménage scene.
In Sin Row, corrupt cop Blake Astor rescued his rent boy lover Io Spencer from arrest after the death of Io’s pimp.
Now they’re on the run in post-apocalypse Canada, both afraid of the future and even more afraid that they’re going to end up meaning everything to each other.
Reader Advisory: This book is a sequel to Sin Row.
Publisher Note:This hard hitting book contains one ménage scene.
77 pages, ebook
First published March 5, 2012
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March 10, 2012
This is a sequel to Sin Row, a book that left me fascinated but not really comfortable with the way Blake treated Io. I hadn’t expected a sequel, but was really curious to see what Scarlet Blackwell would do with the story. It could have gone many different ways. While this is still not a conventional romance in any sense of the word, and there is plenty to leave any reader uncomfortable, this second part of the story explained a lot of what is going on in Io’s head and takes a long, deep look at the new relationship. The issues that any ex-prostitute would face when taking up with a cop (crooked as he may have been) are faced head-on.
Where Io seemed helpless due to the circumstances, needing to make a living by selling his body because that was the only thing he knew how to do, in the first book, the sequel delves deeper. The shocking truth is that Io is also helpless in the face of needing to believe in himself. He can’t. He sees himself as worthless, and behaves in a way that ensures he gets attention the only way he knows how. It risks his new, very tentative relationship with Blake, but he cannot seem to stop himself. This book is about him learning to change, painful step by painful step. His road to believing that he deserves to be happy is long and littered with relapses, but that makes the process all the more credible and gripping.
Blake has a lot of growing to do as well. He knows he loves Io, even though he won’t admit it, but he has no idea how to deal with Io and his need for more than one man. Blake wants fidelity, because that is proof of love to him, but realizes Io doesn’t share that value. It was impressive to see how far he was willing to go to ensure Io is happy, and that ability to work with Io as he grows is what saves the day. Bake loses it a few times, but he always comes back – until there is a solution they can both live with.
If you want to know what happened to Blake and Io, if you are curious what could possibly be next for them, and if the psychology of fighting beliefs that make you despise yourself interest you, this is a book you might like. Different from the first book, it didn’t take me any time at all to like it. The conclusion to this stage of Io and Blake’s journey was a nice surprise and, for me, deeply satisfying.
NOTE: This book was provided by Total-E-Bound for the purpose of a review on QMO Books.
Where Io seemed helpless due to the circumstances, needing to make a living by selling his body because that was the only thing he knew how to do, in the first book, the sequel delves deeper. The shocking truth is that Io is also helpless in the face of needing to believe in himself. He can’t. He sees himself as worthless, and behaves in a way that ensures he gets attention the only way he knows how. It risks his new, very tentative relationship with Blake, but he cannot seem to stop himself. This book is about him learning to change, painful step by painful step. His road to believing that he deserves to be happy is long and littered with relapses, but that makes the process all the more credible and gripping.
Blake has a lot of growing to do as well. He knows he loves Io, even though he won’t admit it, but he has no idea how to deal with Io and his need for more than one man. Blake wants fidelity, because that is proof of love to him, but realizes Io doesn’t share that value. It was impressive to see how far he was willing to go to ensure Io is happy, and that ability to work with Io as he grows is what saves the day. Bake loses it a few times, but he always comes back – until there is a solution they can both live with.
If you want to know what happened to Blake and Io, if you are curious what could possibly be next for them, and if the psychology of fighting beliefs that make you despise yourself interest you, this is a book you might like. Different from the first book, it didn’t take me any time at all to like it. The conclusion to this stage of Io and Blake’s journey was a nice surprise and, for me, deeply satisfying.
NOTE: This book was provided by Total-E-Bound for the purpose of a review on QMO Books.
March 8, 2012
Please note, that I am be biased when it comes to Scarlet Blackwell. Because she's the only author that I give free pass to, to some plots I might hate from others. She has given me rape scene, erotic scene, double penetration scene, sex in every chapters, and I still go back to her stories. Well, people do have their different addiction :D
Personally, I think this following sequel to Sin Row is better than the first book. While that one, for me, is Blake's story, how he comes from indifferent to caring about Io that he is willing to run away with the rent-boy after , this one is more of Io's story. The structure of the story is still written from both men's perspective, BUT, in this one, I get to know better on why Io prefers to be a rent-boy and seems to be addicted to being fu*ked.
Io needs to feel like he's in control. When he gives away pleasure to other men, he matters. He feels alive doing sex. He fantasizes of being gang-banged because in that sense, he feels important. But with Blake on his side, when Blake start to be an important figure in his life, Io is scared. He's scared that it means that he will be dependent on Blake. That he will be no longer himself. Io doesn't understand the concept of fidelity, and in this sense, I think this messed up character is actually interesting to read.
Meanwhile, for Blake, he has come to understanding that Io needs to feel being cherished. Even when he's jealous of sharing Io, Blake comes to the point that he can start to live with it. My favorite line from Blake will be ...
"Your customers fu*k you. I make love to you."
I do think that they get their HEA (this story ends with . However, I have no idea whether they will keep the sex just the two of them, since Io still struggles with the concept of not sharing himself to others.
Warning: There's one ménage scene and very very brief scene about attempted suicide with pills. And yes, there are still A LOT OF SEX!!!! But I am enjoying them all :p
Personally, I think this following sequel to Sin Row is better than the first book. While that one, for me, is Blake's story, how he comes from indifferent to caring about Io that he is willing to run away with the rent-boy after , this one is more of Io's story. The structure of the story is still written from both men's perspective, BUT, in this one, I get to know better on why Io prefers to be a rent-boy and seems to be addicted to being fu*ked.
Io needs to feel like he's in control. When he gives away pleasure to other men, he matters. He feels alive doing sex. He fantasizes of being gang-banged because in that sense, he feels important. But with Blake on his side, when Blake start to be an important figure in his life, Io is scared. He's scared that it means that he will be dependent on Blake. That he will be no longer himself. Io doesn't understand the concept of fidelity, and in this sense, I think this messed up character is actually interesting to read.
Meanwhile, for Blake, he has come to understanding that Io needs to feel being cherished. Even when he's jealous of sharing Io, Blake comes to the point that he can start to live with it. My favorite line from Blake will be ...
"Your customers fu*k you. I make love to you."
I do think that they get their HEA (this story ends with . However, I have no idea whether they will keep the sex just the two of them, since Io still struggles with the concept of not sharing himself to others.
Warning: There's one ménage scene and very very brief scene about attempted suicide with pills. And yes, there are still A LOT OF SEX!!!! But I am enjoying them all :p
February 11, 2013
I loved this one even more, than the first book!
So hot and intense and tender and just what I like to read )))
Although I sympathise with Io very much Blake's my favorite hands down. Loved his understanding of Io's motives and his willingness to indulge Io's desires to be fucked by strangers for money, but I do hope Io'll keep his promise and his struggles with the concept of fidelity will be successful.
The ending's very satisfying, I loved it :) That doesn't mean I wouldn't want to read more about Blake and Io, though )))
So hot and intense and tender and just what I like to read )))
Although I sympathise with Io very much Blake's my favorite hands down. Loved his understanding of Io's motives and his willingness to indulge Io's desires to be fucked by strangers for money, but I do hope Io'll keep his promise and his struggles with the concept of fidelity will be successful.
The ending's very satisfying, I loved it :) That doesn't mean I wouldn't want to read more about Blake and Io, though )))
August 17, 2018
** 3.5 stars **
September 5, 2012
I admit I found the first book weirdly hot. However, the second book was just a hot mess. This is when the run-away couple are trying figure out their relationship to each other. Instead they don't. The length, the writing and plot were abysmal. No point on dwelling on it anymore.
March 15, 2012
I'm still hoping for some depth for the story. Hope there is a sequel with something more deep, more revealing of the characters
March 18, 2014
3,5 stars
January 17, 2016
4 'Can't give Blake and Io any less' stars.
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