REVIEWED BY CINDY
TITLE: Eldridge’s Release
SERIES: Club Rebellion Series Book 1
AUTHOR: Evelise Archer
PUBLISHER: MLR Press
LENGTH: 69 Pages
RELEASE DATE: March 8, 2018
BLURB:
Eldridge Cristoff worked hard and rarely played, always leery of letting himself go after the humiliation he suffered at the hands of his college boyfriend. Best friend Isabella Catana, submissive and lover of Johnson Petri, invited him to a night at an upscale BDSM club, Club Rebellion-owned and operated by Johnson and his trio of friends. All dominants.
Dalton Peters has never collared his own sub nor had the desire until he met Eldridge. Dalton was immediately taken with the skittish man, deciding to make it his mission to release Eldridge from his sexual prison.
Slowly Eldridge realized the world he was meant to be in. A loving man and master at his side; he discovered submission was not a weakness but a true testament of his strong inner spirit.
With Dalton’s careful guidance, Eldridge had no choice but to give into his desires and heart, allowing Dalton to dominate his body and soul.
REVIEW:
I’m not sure where to start with this review. I picked this book up because BDSM is a favorite genre of mine. I read it voraciously and so I’m always on the lookout for a good story.
The premise of this story is interesting and I think the author had good intentions but it just didn’t pan out for me.
Eldridge is a man who was treated horribly by a past lover and had every right to be reluctant to get back into the BDSM world.
Dalton is a Dom who’s never wanted a sub of his own before.
My main problem with this story is that everything was just too fast. Someone who went through what Eldridge did should have been a little more reluctant to trust a man who wants to “own” him.
And I would have like to have seen Dalton try harder to win over Eldridge’s affections. This story required time so that we could connect with both men and understand their mindsets better.
This is a big case of “instalove” and sometimes it works, but in a setting like this, it just ruins the whole story. Eldridge deserved more time to come to terms with himself and the chances he was going to have to take to get where he wanted to be.
And Dalton, well, there’s no real motivation for him to change his tune beyond “he’s beautiful” and that doesn’t work for me either.
I finished the story so I could review it, but that’s about it. Also, the use of “nether region” in a book about the BDSM lifestyle? There are so many more appropriate descriptions that could be used to build the proper atmosphere for this story.
It has potential, but it’s just to short. This story should be about Eldridge overcoming the horrible thing that happened to him, and about Dalton overcoming his own issues to help Eldridge find his way. There’s no angst here and it needs it to make it work.
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