REVIEWED by Jay V.
TITLE: The Geek and His Bad Boys
AUTHOR: R. Cayden
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 224 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 25, 2019
BLURB:
Frances:
I thought I was just going to get a tattoo.
It was so out of character. All of my gaymer friends thought I was going to chicken out because I’m afraid of needles.
But I was done being scared of things. I had spent enough of my life being scared.
Scared of bullies. Of my father.
Scared of every jerk who put me down.
The thing is, Striker and Dante? The tattoo artists?
They scare me.
They scare me because of how amazing it feels when I’m with them.
They scare me because, once we get together, I’m doing things I never thought I would do.
And most of all, they scare me because of how much they love each other.
Could I dare to be loved like that, too?
To be theirs?
REVIEW:
Striker and Dante have a fairly volatile relationship. They can’t quite seem to get on the same page when it comes to getting along. Frances is comfortable in his secure little bubble of life, but he starts to yearn for a little bit of change. He announces he wants a tattoo and his friends aren’t sure he can handle it. After some chance encounters with both Dante and Striker, his life begins to start to move away from the rut in which he’s stuck. Could Frances be the key to taming Striker and Dante while they tame him?
I love myself some MMM as I’m always fascinated in how an author will deal with the multiple levels of a relationships – they actually become cubed within a thruple. R. Cayden does a decent job of flowing through the thought process of the potential to form such a group. Some might say that Striker and Dante have too much unreasonable conflict with each other, but the story unfolds to flash back to why they behave the way they do. It might even make one wonder why they are together at all with all their bickering, but their similarities are also there, and their history and background keep the two together. With a series of almost too coincidental encounters, Francis falls in to their laps. He has his own issues, with his fear of change and protecting himself from all the bad things that could potentially happen, it almost cripples him, making his life static. When he finally starts to yearn for more, things begin to change and all of them, especially Francis. He becomes bolder in his actions but not without some serious internal pushing.
I won’t say this is a perfect book. It’s riddled with typos, which usually bother me, but none of them were so glaring as to cause confusion. There is a little BDSM, but it is fairly mild and fits the personalities of the characters, explaining why they have the potential to work so well together. The early part of the book drops us right in on Striker and Dante’s conflicts that can be almost jarring and redundant but maybe since I had a feeling this was going to be the case, I was more patient than normal. There is some suspension of disbelief that needs to happen, but they all have some redeeming qualities that make this story enjoyable as a fun, light romp.
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