Reviewed by True
TITLE: Grieving Royal
SERIES: Club Royal #3
AUTHOR: Elouise East
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 390 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 3, 2022
BLURB:
Despite being third in line to the throne, George doesn’t believe he will ever be king, and he is content with that knowledge. He prefers to live his life in the shadow of his brothers because he can hide his extra-curricular activities there. When his life is torn apart by grief, he loses himself in those shadows until he focuses on what matters to him. Love.
More media attention is the last thing Timothy wants. He left his hometown to get away from it, but his new position makes that almost impossible. Balancing the requirements of his teaching role, the needs of his new patient, and the feelings that should never have grown, he struggles to see the right course of action until the choice is taken away from him.
Stepping back inside the place where Eddie had been abused by the one person who should’ve taken care of him has been harder than he expected. Finding someone who is patient enough to help him through his anxieties about a BDSM relationship is easier. Unfortunately, royal duties threaten to pull them apart before they’ve even started.
As the three lives intertwine in the unlikeliest of situations, who will throw themselves into the deep end, and who will back away, scared of the repercussions?
This is an MMM book containing BDSM scenes and D/s dynamics in all forms. It also has lots of loving, friendships, family drama and, of course, a triple HEA.
REVIEW:
After I struggled through the first ten percent with all the different characters, I landed where I hoped I would. In Club Royal, where Eddie, the broken sub, approaches Master George and asked him for a scene.
First, there are some character introductions, you can feel something is going on, but nothing revealed, yet! Like Eddie, the barista, been through some rough time with a Dom, Timothy, a therapist, had to look out for a job far away from where he had one, out of the spotlight, and our Royal Prince George, with a lot of duties.
The scenes from George and Eddie are beautiful, delicate, and tentative. George is exactly what Eddie needs. George is also submissive how will this even work.
Then, a disaster happened. In the chaos George, Eddie and Timothy find each other.
“My dear boy, I’m so glad it wasn’t you.” Okay, that made me cry ugly, ugly tears.
What are the odds, George needs a therapist, Timothy is one and wants to help him. George needs more than that, he needs Eddie. Eddie wanted to keep himself together, not dive into all the feels with the first Dom who’s nice and caring, but the connection is too strong to let go.
It’s getting all more complicated when people get threatened.
The revealing was slow, I always have trouble with vague settings, where on the way information is given. I’m way too impatient for this, I understand, of course, it’s on purpose, but dang my nails didn’t survive!
At times the story was highly sensitive and sensual. I loved these moments. Even though I had some trouble with the instant romancing. It went a bit too fast.
There’s an amount of hurt in all three of their personal life, not so with each other. My dark heart wanted to be hurt between the three, that did not happen, they were solid. Their dynamic was well done.
While I didn’t always feel connected to or couldn’t feel parts of this story, it sure did something to me.
The story is from different views and angles, three is already much, five or six was a bit too, sorry to say, it took away the dynamic, I had to switch and switch.
Overall a nicely written m/m/m/ age-gap royalty story, slow-paced, for my pleasure a bit too soft, I expected something a bit more energetic.
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