Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Break for Them
SERIES: Golden Retrieval (Book 2)
AUTHOR: Emily Alter
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 253 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 7, 2022
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Sama has three things he truly enjoys in life: the kinky club he owns, the cam shows he streams, and his best friend slash bodyguard. Not necessarily in that order.
Blas is the club’s bouncer, and the hunk who gives Sama everything he wants when the camera is on. He’s also hopelessly in love with his friend.
Aníbal doesn’t understand their dynamic, but he understands sadism and he knows he has what it takes to satisfy Sama’s more masochistic needs.
It seems impossible for Blas and Aníbal not to clash at every turn, especially when the future of the club Sama and Blas have put everything into is in danger. There’s one topic they agree on, though, and that’s Sama—the boy who wants nothing but to break for them.
Break for Them includes: sounding, figging, heavier impact play, sex workers, best friends who don’t see what’s in front of them, friends who don’t understand what took them so long, and sadists who have never known community and don’t know what to do with it.
REVIEW:
This is a new-to-me author and series.
Sama loves many things, his job as a cam boy, the Fetish club he owns with his best friend Blas, pain and his best friend Blas but he doesn’t know it. Blas loves Sama so much that not only is he his bouncer in their club but his body guard when he goes for in-home “visits” with his clients and preforms with him on his streaming when requested. Anything to be close to the man that means everything to him. When one of Sama’s biggest contributors/admirers and sadistic Dom Anibal shows up in their club he doesn’t like it one bit. And, after a bit of a quarrel, Sama disappears alone to the extreme sadists house he puts his foot down. But when Anibal offers a way for them to finally get out from under the stifling debt the club ownership has caused can he really turn him away?
This was one of those books I didn’t particularly connect with. It was a bit too hard play and not necessarily my cup of tea. I did like watching Blas and Anibal dance around each other. It was obvious that both men cared for and wanted Sama but didn’t know how to navigate around the other Dom. I think I connected more with the more loving and nurturing Blas. It was poignantly obvious of his deep love and commitment to his best friend and that he yearned for more. I was thankful they resolved that sooner than later. I guess there were age differences between the men and I assume that Sama and Blas were a bit older than Anibal but no idea how much. I just knew that Anibal was 24 and quite more financially able than the other two men.
I liked the daddy Dom dynamic that Sama and Blas were learning to navigate with their move to relationship status. And I liked that Anibal was learning to balance himself however I couldn’t connect to his deeper sadistic side. I’m too much of a softie for it. The sounding, digging and paddling worked but I’m not for breaking skin and blood. And I need a deeper, more loving relationship. If you like that sort of thing then this is the book for you. It is well written and explores the rougher side of the kink but just wasn’t as much for me.
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