Reviewed by Cheryl
TITLE: Gagging the Gharial
SERIES: Kinky Critters #5
AUTHOR: Caitlin Ricci and A.J. Marcus
PUBLISHER: eXtasy
LENGTH: 38 pages
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Kyan hid his true self away, afraid that Sai would reject his kinky side. He tried to be happy with Sai in a love without kink, but when his true side slipped out, he lost Sai. Rejected and heartbroken, he moved back to Chicago, leaving Vegas behind forever. But his mom wants to check in on her sister, Lady Leo, and Kyan finds himself being sent to Las Vegas again.
He never expected to find Sai in Kinky Kritters, the premier kink club for shifters in Vegas. Sai was very vanilla, and Kyan is shocked to hear that he’s been playing with strangers. When he and Sai decide to try out things again, that decision opens up a world neither of them knew they could have.
But is it enough to get back together again, or is one kinky night the last time they’ll have together?
REVIEW:
Short but ever so sweet.
This is the first of the Kinky Kritters books I’ve read (It is the fifth in the series) but I didn’t feel that anything was missing from having not done so.
The story is surprisingly well realized, with background, relationships, and backstory all present and not lacking clarity. For a work so short, it packs in a lot.
If nothing else, I love this book for introducing me to the gharial, which is a wonderful creature that I had never heard of before. It is the second biggest crocodile in the world and is, sadly, a declining species. I can’t honestly say it’s cute, but unusual would be a good descriptor, as well a huge and bloody terrifying. Although Sai is cute-as-a-button, I would not want to meet him in shifted form.
Sai and Kyan are very different characters and the authors managed to give them both distinct personalities. Although the story was simple, it had enough going on to make it interesting. I particularly like the fact that they didn’t have Sai do a complete about turn. At the end of the book Sai is still not heavily into kink but his mind has opened far enough to give them their happy ending. I think this is more realistic than having had him turn into a pain slut or slave boy. Even so, I totally bought into the fact that the two were now compatible enough to work.
Not that Sai didn’t have to earn his happy ending. Things were never going to go back to the way they had been, especially overnight, but they were both more open to working on their likes and dislikes and there seemed to be a spirit of compromise on both sides.
Don’t be put off this book because it’s short. It delivers a punch and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
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