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Demands #5
Direction
For a relationship to work, it is not just love which is demanded. Direction is, too.
Garrett has never really settled. With loud opinions and a strong character, he makes people both admire and fear him in equal measure.
Tim and Derrick weren’t prepared for the hurricane they were letting into their home. Openly polyamorous, Garrett wouldn’t be the first–nor the last–person they let into their bed.
A relationship between a ballet dancer and two bakers with a past they thought they’d left behind could work, but only if they took the time to figure out what each of them needs.
Direction is the 5th book of the Demands series. Although they can be read as stand-alones, characters from previous books will make multiple appearances throughout the series.
Content Warning: This book includes mentions of eating disorders, physical parental abuse, and fatphobia.
Garrett has never really settled. With loud opinions and a strong character, he makes people both admire and fear him in equal measure.
Tim and Derrick weren’t prepared for the hurricane they were letting into their home. Openly polyamorous, Garrett wouldn’t be the first–nor the last–person they let into their bed.
A relationship between a ballet dancer and two bakers with a past they thought they’d left behind could work, but only if they took the time to figure out what each of them needs.
Direction is the 5th book of the Demands series. Although they can be read as stand-alones, characters from previous books will make multiple appearances throughout the series.
Content Warning: This book includes mentions of eating disorders, physical parental abuse, and fatphobia.
- GenresPolyamory
256 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 2, 2022
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February 8, 2022
I so very much wanted to like this book. The idea was great I love couples who add a third and I also love dancers but this one just did not hit the mark for me.
First we have a character named Garrett and another character named Derrick which got confusing, descriptions like “The dancer“ or “the baker“ which in my opinion is a terrible way to describe a person. Which leads into my criticism that there was quite a lot of tell and not a lot of show. I didn’t get a good feeling for these characters as individuals, or in the case of Tim and Derrick, as a couple. There was a fade to black sex scene in the beginning of the book between the couple which really bothered me. I wanted to understand their dynamic better, but was denied that opportunity. Then a little while later Garrett finds a hook up on Grindr that is fully written out.
Then when Garrett gets back home from his hook up he gets the third degree from the couple he lives with who, are also on Grindr as poly and have said they invite partners into their bed. The message from the couple was “ don’t message us through Grindr even as a joke” and “ always tell us where you’re going when you have your own hook up” and “ we can’t get involved with each other because we live together and it would be awkward“. Which may all be true but at this point in the book I did not have any kind of feeling about these three having any connection at all so it seemed intrusive for a couple to butt into a single man’s sex life.
I think this author has a lot of potential but also needs skilled beta readers for critical feedback.
First we have a character named Garrett and another character named Derrick which got confusing, descriptions like “The dancer“ or “the baker“ which in my opinion is a terrible way to describe a person. Which leads into my criticism that there was quite a lot of tell and not a lot of show. I didn’t get a good feeling for these characters as individuals, or in the case of Tim and Derrick, as a couple. There was a fade to black sex scene in the beginning of the book between the couple which really bothered me. I wanted to understand their dynamic better, but was denied that opportunity. Then a little while later Garrett finds a hook up on Grindr that is fully written out.
Then when Garrett gets back home from his hook up he gets the third degree from the couple he lives with who, are also on Grindr as poly and have said they invite partners into their bed. The message from the couple was “ don’t message us through Grindr even as a joke” and “ always tell us where you’re going when you have your own hook up” and “ we can’t get involved with each other because we live together and it would be awkward“. Which may all be true but at this point in the book I did not have any kind of feeling about these three having any connection at all so it seemed intrusive for a couple to butt into a single man’s sex life.
I think this author has a lot of potential but also needs skilled beta readers for critical feedback.
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