Reviewed by True
TITLE: Hot Blood
SERIES: The Braided Crop Ranch #4
AUTHOR: AE Lister
PUBLISHER: NineStar Press
LENGTH: 205 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 7, 2023
BLURB:
Oliver Lambert has taken his photography skills and run with them. By the time he’s thirty, he’s made a name for himself and now has jobs whenever he needs them. He likes to be behind the camera, watching the world through a safe lens, protected from actually engaging with it.
An unexpected referral takes him somewhere he never expected—a kinky fetish ranch in the Muskokas, where men pay to play pony and trainers teach them how to behave.
Adam Marsland needs a visual record of the Braided Crop Ranch and it’s been a while since the website photographs were updated. When he’s given Oliver’s name, he immediately hires the man to come for the summer session to immerse himself in the ranch and its activities.
Oliver is out of his depth, but the challenge of photographing the beautiful men at the BCR is something he can focus on. Safe behind the lens of his camera, Oliver finds the ranch to be seductive and shocking. He can’t help admitting a fascination for the people who make the Braided Crop Ranch what it is.
But just because he knows how to take a great photo doesn’t mean he’s prepared for everything he encounters, especially when it comes to a recalcitrant ponyboy named Puck.
*Note: The timeline of Hotblood is prior to the events in Stable Hand but should be read either as the fourth book in the series or as a standalone.
REVIEW:
Oliver is more than excited to start his job for the next six weeks as a photographer at the Braided Crop Ranch. Taking pictures for the BCR website and magazine update.
The whole concept of the ranch speaks to Oliver’s imagination and when he’s honest and looks at himself he knows he got some connection to it.
From the very beginning, Oliver is obsessed with one of the pony boys, Puck. A beautiful, recalcitrant ponyboy, who’s quite hostile to Oliver, scowling at him as much as possible.
He wants to get to know this guy, there’s an intensity between them that can’t be denied. Watch them get nearer!
If you are familiar with this series you know the owner Adam, and Dom Kamal, they are spectacular characters!
You’re also familiar with the kinky concept of the Ranch, the stables, the training, and the kinky trainers.
I love the self-confidence of especially Adam and Kamal, always open, fun, and honest, the easygoing way on one side and the sturdy, strong dominating way on the other.
The whole story felt intimate and precious, there are attractive scenes and hot intimate encounters. It’s all maybe a bit on the sweet and mellow side.
I don’t want to sound dissatisfied, but I hoped for a more solid end.
Overall a captivatingly written story, with a nice comfortable pace, it’s kinky, gentle, soft, and kind of sweet.
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