When tragedy strikes The Chambers, Dom Geoff Hanover gets dragged into something he didn't want - the care and training of Kit Green, an unruly submissive. Geoff swore to never take a boy again, but Kit is a sexy hot mess.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. (1)gay romance
I’m from New Orleans, that’s N’awlins for those of you who speak the language. I grew up in the Riverbend, or Carrollton, for the old timers, but was a Quarter rat from the age of 11, taking 3 buses to go to art class on Burgundy Street at the Cabrini Doll Museum and NORD center. I attended University of New Orleans and have a BA in Fine Art. My mother worked at Tulane University, six blocks from our house and when we were kids my brother and I parked cars in our driveway for the Saints games at Tulane Stadium. We could get six cars down the drive, two on the front lawn, and two on the street and we only charged $2 a car. We made enough to buy a coupla roast beef po’boys at Comeaux’s on Hickory St. and a snowball over at Williams Snow Ball Stand. We lived 1/2 a block from a cemetery, but doesn’t everyone in N’awlins? We used to watch jazz funerals from our front porch.
Now, my family lives in Katy, Texas. I have a “real” job, a truly supportive and understanding husband, two incredible kids, and a slightly neurotic dog. We used to have a guinea pig, but the dog killed it. Did I say slightly?
My son is 15 and has Asperger’s Syndrome (high functioning Autism) and Crohn’s Disease, and is a constant lesson in patience, acceptance and managing expectations. He’s super smart, loves video games, fencing, movies, building with legos, and hanging around the house. Like me, he believes that it’s all about him. Sometimes, I wonder if I don’t have Asperger’s, too. Oh, and he’s very handsome.
My daughter, 13, is so creative it’s scary- she loves to paint, draw manga and anima, build dioramas with any box she can get her hands on, create worlds with legos and then make movies with them, sculpt people, animals and objects with those little twist ties from the grocery store, does pottery, and wants to be a lifeguard. And she’s smart, too. And beautiful, inside and out.
I write for a few hours in the evenings and on weekends as much as I can, without neglecting my family. (That laughter you hear is my husband) I attend a critique group, and do whatever the kids are into at the time.
DNF. The BDSM is lacking, it's not safe, sane and consensual. Neither of the main characters are in a solid space emotionally to be starting a new relationship and they entirely bypass safeguards, perhaps because of that, but I'm more inclined to blame it on lack of knowledge of the lifestyle on the authors' parts.
This is a super-short story about two men who have each been hurt by previous BDSM relationships. Kit has lost his sir, who was an a** as far as I can tell, and did not deserve to be called sir. To add insult to injury, Kit is left to Geoff in the dead sir's will. Geoff has been hut by a previous boy stealing from him, and isn't ready to start a new relationship. Yet he does, after a very short time (a day), and that really shocked me.
I can see the beginnings of something good here, a potential for more, and I liked Kit a lot. Geoff - not so much. For a supposedly strong Dom he has amazingly weak willpower. Personally, I think these two need to stick to kinky sex for a while and leave all the talk of "training" and 24/7 until they know each other a lot better...
I am such a huge fan of this series now! This author is very good at characterization. Geoff and Kit were really likeable. Each man had his own problems from at the start of the book that made the plot of the book interesting. I really felt satisfied with the ending but still wanting to read book two in this series.
In light of the current popularity of BDSM books in the media today, I want to say that this is how BDSM should be written. So if you’re looking for good books that center around this theme look no further than this series.
Emotionally unsafe BDSM. Stupid irresponsible Dom directs sub to hold sub position while he goes to the opera for the evening. Sub is watched by the bodyguard. Too long of a task and not personally monitored on the first full day of a new relationship. Stupid.
And what happened to the rest of the story. It reads as though the author just decided to quit.