Rating: 2.5 stars out of 5
Joel has finally walked away from his abusive ex and is ready to meet new people. But that isn’t easy for a guy who’s shy, self-conscious, and struggling with his body image.
Andre has wanted Joel since the first time he laid eyes on him, and finally Joel is single. But Andre is a Dom and a sadist, and Joel is unapologetically vanilla. There’s no happy medium—either Andre reins in the kinky side that took him years to accept, or Joel grits his teeth and subjects himself to kinks that aren’t his thing. No matter who bends, someone’s going to be unhappy.
They agree to walk away, but they keep circling back to each other. Though their kinks might not line up, the chemistry between them sizzles and the emotional connection keeps getting deeper. But none of that will get them anywhere if they can’t find some kind of middle ground in the bedroom.
Unfortunately this was a story that did not work for me and while I understand where the author is coming from it’s not in my comfort zone. Andre and Joel eventually find a compromise but I don’t feel an open relationship is a compromise when Andre has fully proven he can have a BDSM scene without sex but apparently it isn’t something they think can last. It just feels like they are forcing a relationship to work and I didn’t feel it would.
Michael Ferraiuolo did an alright job with the narration but from the beginning I felt the characters sounded quite hoity-toity and that annoyance last through the story. I really wanted to like the characters but between the whining and jumping together and apart joined with sounding that way just threw it all off for me.
I like the cover art by Garrett Leigh and thought it works well for this story.
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Audiobook Details:
Audiobook, 4 hrs 10 min
Published: November 16, 2019 by Riptide
Edition Language: English
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 