Andy has high hopes. His freshman year of college is a chance to escape his small town, his religious family, and his old reputation as a nerd. Best of all, it's a chance to escape bullies like Bryce, who have ridiculed, humiliated, and tortured Andy for six years. And college might even be a chance to come out of the closet, maybe even find a boyfriend.
Having to stay in a triple seems a small price to pay. His roommate Davey seems like a nice enough guy, and not too bad to look at, even if he is a motorcycle-riding bad boy. At least, he seems nice until they meet their third roommate: by a sick twist of fate, none other than Bryce, who's eager to pick up where he left off in tormenting Andy.
The plaything of two live-in bullies, Andy despairs at first. But soon the teasing grows into something more, something that touches on some of his darkest and kinkiest desires. College, it turns out, is a tangled web of quiet corners and dark rooms, and secrets that roommates keep between themselves. And sometimes if you listen carefully, under the clashing music and noise, you can hear the jingle of handcuff chains and the slaps of belts on skin.
This stand-alone novel is a part of the Dorm Tales series.
Thomas Carver lives the dream, with one foot in the midwest and one on the west coast. He's been seen at the opera and at the biker bar, a cocktail party and the alley behind the dumpsters. He's worked in the hot sun and the air-conditioned office, and knows all the gradations of pleasure between caviar on his tongue and sand between his teeth.
This was not BDSM with humiliation play. It was bullying and sexcapades - not my interest. Main issue - I really detested Andy. He had an inflated egocentric personal reality but was actually TSTL. Bullies Bryce and Davey were cardboard characters just there to torment Andy.
I was expecting this book to be a little more than it ended up being. The spice was not really bdsm. The bullies were just that bullies, they are not doms. They are scared men who were also rather boring as characters.