Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Drive My Car
AUTHOR: Megan Slayer
PUBLISHER: Totally Bound
LENGTH: 49 pages
BLURB: Can the one being led, do the leading?
Miles Hornish has seen it all—men, women, ménages…but none of them make the grade. No, this self-made real estate magnate wants one person to share his wealth, his bed and his platinum handcuffs. No one seems to fit the bill—except his limo driver, Fynn. But Miles has issues in his past. Will Fynn be enough to help Miles overcome his past?
Fynn Gold likes his job chauffeuring Miles. What’s not to love? Witnessing encounters in the back of the limo and being the one person Miles can trust…it’s a dream job. Except Fynn wants more with Miles than endless miles on the road. He wants to be the only person in those shiny handcuffs. Can Fynn convince Miles he’s ready to be more than just a driver?
Sometimes it takes the right pairing to make love work out right
Reader Advisory: This book includes the use of sex toys, anal sex, BDSM play and a flogger or two.
REVIEW:
For over a year Fynn has watched his boss seduce and play his way through the city of Cleveland. Sometimes he has watched a little too closely. Even though he knows that if he is caught with his hands off the wheel, and down his pants, it could very well cost him his job. But something about Miles calls to him. Calls for his submission and complete surrender to his domineering boss.
For over a year Miles has watched and waited for a sign that his driver wants more from him than just a job. After the death of his lover, he might not be ready to open his heart to another, but well, that doesn’t mean he can’t taste what’s beneath Fynn’s lovely exterior. He’s rich. He’s in control. And Fynn is going to be all his.
Neither man expects to fall so completely. Or put so much on the line. But the bonds they choose to put on each other might just be the things that heal them both.
This short story is all about the sex, and the ways that sex complicates everything. Fynn could lose everything if he dares to make a pass at his boss. And Miles could be at risk of another gold-digging, cheating lover, if he dares to trust that his employee wants more than a little play.
I really like the dynamics that these two have together. The risks, the taboos, all of it make for an interesting relationship. And well, BDSM is certainly one of my favorite kinks in my books. Give me a man who knows how to wield a whip, and another who loves to feel its burn, any day.
Unfortunately, while the pair were hot when they got together, individually, and out of the scenes they play, they seem to display all the emotional maturity of a fifteen year old. Miles, who is supposed to be this cool, collected Dom, seems more like a teenager going after his first crush. Fynn isn’t much better. After maybe an hour together he has declared he wants to spend all his time under Miles’s domination. After one night he is head over heels in love. After one day he is ready to move into Miles’s house. They both declare they love each other, but they don’t really know each other, so I find it very hard to believe. That they can have feelings, yes I understand, but Miles even called Fynn his best friend, when up to that night they had never had a conversation deeper than Looks like rain tonight. The way their emotion sway from high to low, is too fast and too abrupt for me to believe it.
There are also some major continuity issues. At one point Jack, Miles’s ex, is dead. Then he is alive. Then he is dead again. It may have been just the wording that confused me, but it got to the point where I was half expecting zombie!Jack to wander into the scene and try to make off with Fynn’s brain. In fact, I would have appreciated it, because then the story would have some outlying menace, some threat, that wasn’t just OMG! I Love Him! What If He Doesn’t Love Me!!! (Ok, I exaggerate, but it got pretty bad in the hormonal reactions between these two).
Whenever these two were focused on the other, when it was just skin and suction and hot pleas in the night, the story picked up–but I had a hard time getting past how most attempts at interaction between the two came off and formulaic romance-novel dialogue. It felt like they were saying lines at each other, not talking to each other. And all the dialogue that they spoke to themselves sounded unlike anything a real person would say out loud. Maybe it is just me, but when I am talking to myself I don’t normally speak in stiff, structured sentences. And if I try, it always weirds me out. If these thoughts had remained in an inner dialogue it would have helped the story flow a little better. And probably would have annoyed me less.
The story had some good points, like the sex, but the scenes that worked around and up to these scenes of domination and submission, seemed to undercut the power dimensions they were trying to build up between them. Maybe if they didn’t seem to want to play those roles outside the bedroom, as well as inside, than maybe I could have worked with it. But when a couple is trying to take a BDSM relationship to that level I expect it to be reflected in their actions and thoughts. Since it never was, I just couldn’t connect who they were supposed to be with who they actually were.
Carissa rates it – 
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