Reviewed by Caroline
TITLE: Hush
SERIES: The Manse Book 4
AUTHOR: Lynn Kelling
PUBLISHER: Enspire Publishing
LENGTH: 398 Pages
RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2018
BLURB:
Rune Tooby is a smartass rebel and closeted gay biker with The Born Soldiers motorcycle gang. Rune’s life centered on casual sex and less-than-legal employment, until a pickup truck full of homophobic white supremacists rammed into his bike, destroying his hearing and shattering his life. Learning to live deaf and silent overwhelmed Rune, sending him to humbly beg help from the last people he trusts completely: the rich and powerful Dominants of the Manse, who trained Rune in the arts of BDSM.
Oliver Hughes, cocky day trader and sexual Dominant, lives a life of indulgent luxury. Despite this, he feels adrift and unneeded since his beloved submissive, Jackson Whitney, became absorbed into life as a family man and cardiologist, leaving him little time for his Master. When a meeting between Rune and Oliver is carefully arranged by the leaders of Manse, it starts a wild ride, sweeping up everyone who gets too close to the explosive pair. Rune and Oliver find themselves on a path filled with frustrating miscommunications, rage-filled vengeance, and painfully unearthed secrets. (M/M/M)
REVIEW:
Hush is the story of 3 men, almost 4 if we include Adam, who all have very strong ties to each other but is anything but conventional – it even includes another fully committed relationship outside of Oliver, Jackson and Rune but the whole time I was reading it it felt right and as though every man involved was getting what they required.
Oliver and Jackson have as steady relationship as possible given they are not actually partners in the full sense of the word. They have a loving BDSM relationship but Jackson also has a family and Oliver feels as though something is missing – he hasn’t quite got everything he needs but it isn’t until he meets Rune that he realises just what it was he was missing.
Rune is strong, feisty, closed off and broken. He survived a trauma that was meant to kill him but he came out of it a very different man and he has had to come to terms with a world of silence. He is a man on a mission dealing with anger that consumes him and that leaves him on a path of self-destruction. He is the type of character that readers will be rooting for from the start and with the help of his old friends at The Manse he gives himself over to Oliver – he offers him his submission but it’s rocky from the start and that’s before the shit hits the fan.
Rune dazzles Oliver with his vulnerability, strength and sense of moral compass but he also infuriates him, scares him and makes him fall deeply for him almost from the start. Rune falls quickly for Oliver too but his mistrust of people and his feelings of being useless mean it’s a bumpy road for both of them and that’s before Jackson, Oliver’s other sub, enters the picture. Whatever it is that draws these three men together works well for them even with Jackson’s other life. Then we have to add in Adam – long-time best friend and confidant of Oliver who although not in a relationship with any of these men is definitely part of their relationship. There is a lot of trust in this story and I think ultimately that is why it works so well – they all balance each other out.
There are dark times too when Rune’s past hits too close to home and collides with his present. There is hurt and Rune quickly plays the blame game which threatens everything these men have built but as always they stand together to try and fix things and let me tell you when Lynn has her men fix things it gets kinky!
Really enjoyed this latest addition to The Manse series and would highly recommend. Fingers crossed for Adam’s story next! 🙂
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