Reviewed by Kimberley
TITLE: Building Bonds
SERIES: Kiss of Leather Book # 1
AUTHOR: Morticia Knight
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 162 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 11, 2015
BLURB:
Kyle’s a natural sub who builds dungeon furniture, yet has no interest in BDSM. It takes a hunky Dom to show him just what he’s been missing.
After Kyle’s partner of five years leaves him for another man on the night of their housewarming party, the shy, early-thirties carpenter needs to do a major reassessment of his life in addition to raising some serious cash. With no one to help him pay the lease on his Los Angeles condo, he worries how he’ll survive. His best friend sets up a meeting with one of the Doms and partners at Kiss of Leather, a gay BDSM club being built as a premier destination for those who want the best of the best.
Master Gavin not only wants the best—he demands it. When he meets Kyle, he assumes that part of the builder’s reticence to share anything personal with him must be due to his experiences with an abusive former Master. Not one to back down from a challenge, Gavin determines to break through the walls surrounding the beautiful man he can’t get out of his mind. He’s hopeful that once he convinces Kyle to sign an initial contract, Kyle might be the first sub to open up his heart.
Misunderstandings and accusations almost destroy everything between them before they have a real chance to begin. However, the true obstacle becomes not only whether Kyle will embrace BDSM as a lifestyle, but also whether he can handle a full-time D/s relationship with a big, bad, scary Dom who’s as sexy as hell.
REVIEW:
This is the first book in Knight’s Kiss of Leather BDSM series and I must tell you that I’ve enjoyed reading about Kyle and Gavin.
Unceremoniously dumped by his ass of an ex-lover, Kyle, a sweet and very shy man who builds furniture enters into a business deal to make the furniture for Kiss of Leather, thanks to his best friends who is a member of the club. Kyle is a natural submissive, he’s not expressed interest in the lifestyle before and really has no idea of how it works outside of what his friend tells him and what he sees in cache of online porn.
Sparks fly when he meets Gavin, a Dom and one of the co-owners of Kiss of Leather to iron out the details of the deal.. They’re immediately attracted to each other but Gavin mistakenly thinks that Kyle is a part of the lifestyle and instead of Kyle correcting Gavin’s assumptions, he doesn’t say anything. That is the only tiny thing I didn’t like about the story. I felt that added a lot of unnecessary drama and misunderstanding when it could’ve been cleared up immediately. That was to me, a minor little thing and didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the story.
I loved how these characters interacted with each other. Gavin was patient with Kyle, understanding that Kyle was naïve about the lifestyle and wanted to ensure he knew exactly what he was getting into with it. I particularly liked how he explained everything prior to doing anything with Kyle and didn’t just make the decision to tell Kyle what he was going to do. He made sure that he had Kyle’s total consent to everything he was entering into.
I also love the fact that it was an interracial relationships, those are one my favorite types of reads in this genre.
The story flowed along nicely and the series is definitely a must read.
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