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What Comes To Hand (2013)

by Tripoli(Favorite Author)

2.76 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

M/M Romance Group @ goodreads

review 1: Controversial – that pretty much sums up what I felt and apparently where many others landed as well. I could definitely feel the sadness that drove Eli to attempt desperate measures in saving his relationship with Rob, his Dom and lover for quite a few years. I could also appreciate the creative techniques that Rob used to reassert his control over Eli once his head was back in the game (which was not really a game, but seemed to be the full-time dynamic of their relationship). I did take issue with the “you don’t really mean that” disregard from Rob when Eli used his slow down word, but otherwise enjoyed reading about a realistic occurrence of forgetting to focus on the important things (our relationships) when life kicks us in the butt. Thanks for this contri... morebution to the LHNB event!
review 2: Well. I barely know what to think about this one. There are a few words that come to mind: "seriously disturbing" and "I wish I hadn't read this" come to mind. "Insect play" in the tags given to the book is what should have stopped me from reading this story in the first place, but my curiosity got the better of me, I guess. That is entirely my fault and a personal issue.It all starts so well: a couple in trouble, trying to reconnect, going on a weekend retreat in an old hotel. Sounds promising, right? A bit of bondage, or even serious kink is something I do enjoy reading about, but this story? About halfway through it began to press all the wrong buttons for me. By that time I was too invested in Eli's fate to be able to stop reading, no matter how much I wish I could have.What isn't a personal issue and what made me rate the book the way I did, is that the way Eli, the sub, was treated by Rob, the Dom, was disrespectful, seriously non-consensual, and then his safeword was ignored. IGNORED, I tell you. That really got to me. Eli's fear during the insect scene was so real, his pain even more so, and you can say whatever you want, but the Dom, at that point, was NOT in control (nobody controls wasps crawling on a man's cock, locked in place by an inverted glass and agitated by the poor sub's desperate struggle to get away). That is DANGEROUS and plain stupid!And no matter how much they end up professing to love each other at the end, I was never convinced Eli really wanted that torture. He may have endured it to please Rob, but that was born of desperation so he wouldn't lose his Dom, nowhere did I find a hint that he was into pain.So, the bottom line is I don't even know whom to recommend this to. I guess if all of the above intrigues you more than it disgusts and horrifies you, and if you're into horror and torture, then you may want to read this story. Others seem to have enjoyed it, but I was, unfortunately, not able to. less

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