Reviewed by True
TITLE: To Trust and To Touch
AUTHOR: Vivi Anne Hunt
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 220 pages
RELEASE DATE: December 13, 2022
BLURB:
You can watch, but you can’t touch.
Alex performs at the infamous adult club, Kink World. He’s only in it for the money, and he has one rule: no touching. He doesn’t trust anybody that much. However, a chance encounter with a man who is the very epitome of the word safe may change all that. A man who runs a charity for abandoned queer kids, who has a five-year-old daughter, and who is unlike anyone Alex has ever met.
After years of focusing on raising his daughter and running his charity, Sigh’s status quo is shaken up when he meets a man covered in vine tattoos outside his brother’s club. The young man stirs a longing he has ignored for far too long. However, he seems unwilling to let anybody in, so Sigh faces an insurmountable challenge to overcome these barriers and find some way to connect.
Will Alex ever let someone touch him? Will Sigh find somebody to fill the emptiness? Will the men find a way to heal together?
REVIEW:
Alex is twenty-five, quite strained, working at Kink World club, just for the money. Well, that was obvious because he seems to hate it, all that grumbling. Keep attention because he got his reasons.
Alex got no one, only plural jobs to pay the bills. He doesn’t want to be touched, so the contract at the club includes that, no touching.
Meeting the older Sigh shakes up his protected world. Sigh is patient, and kind and gives him the space he needs.
After Alex is attacked, Sigh takes him to his house to stay as long as he wants. Sigh got an amazing five-year-old daughter who thinks the world of Alex.
A lot is happening, in big lines, there are trust issues, a lack of clear communication, and trauma. We got Alex who thinks he’ll never be enough, and Sigh who tries to convince him, whatever Alex can give will always be enough. Alex wants to believe, but it’s not easy at all.
It’s a slow burn, logical, because losing trust in humanity takes a while to gain, if ever.
It was an interesting story, I read it in one sit, it’s not perfect but I really enjoyed it.
The big thing from Alex, needed, in my opinion, more attention after revealing it, it was a serious shocking situation, where the police should get involved. In my opinion, it got not the attention it needed.
The focus of the story was more on Alex his coping, Alex and Sigh their relationship, and Sigh’s family and business.
Still, it was an intense read, captivatingly written, I couldn’t put it down until I finished.
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