Reviewed by True
TITLE: Compulsion by Clare London
AUTHOR: Compulsion by Clare London
PUBLISHER: Jocular Press
LENGTH: 313 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 30, 2023
BLURB:
The past always catches up with you. Max Newman should know—he’s been running from his since that one, fateful night.
Now he’s left the darker streets of London behind him and returned to Brighton to lick his wounds. Though he insists the club life is no longer his scene, one evening he lets his friends drag him out dancing. And suddenly the simple life he’s tried to lead gets complicated.
At Compulsion, the Medina Group’s newest hotspot, Max meets Seve Nunez, a member of the Medina management and a man used to taking what he wants. The sexual chemistry between Max and Seve immediately leads to an intimate encounter in the backyard of the club—just the kind of dangerous behaviour Max is trying to forget. Despite that, he can’t help but crave more, and Seve seems just as eager.
But Max soon suspects that Seve may not be the scrupulous businessman he claims. Max has seen the Medina Group at work before, and what he saw got a good friend killed. He’s not sure what future he has with Seve, but he’ll have to decide whether to trust in Seve’s innocence or keep running. The wrong choice could land them both in mortal danger.
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This book was previously published by another publisher. It has been re-edited in UK English. The story itself remains the same, but there’s now a whole 13k words of extra content which I hope you’ll enjoy.
REVIEW:
Max is on solid ground now, thankful he can live with his friends Jack and Louis who are a couple.
They are happy to have him with them, instead in London.
They know something happened to Max when he was there, and left the city in all haste.
Jack and Louis insist Max should go out with them, after months of living as a hermit.
At the newest club Compulsion, Max came eye in eye with a beautiful man, Max can’t take his eyes off him. And Sev can’t either. In no time there’s a hot encounter in the back alley.
The next week ditto, they can’t get their hands off each other. When Max understands Sev is the new manager and part of the Medina Group, things changed.
What happened to Max was because of the Medina Group. Max’s time in London was bad and traumatized.
It’s a quite complicated situation, they can’t stay away from each other, but what happened in London was huge.
He can’t let that happen again, here in his safe space. Sev isn’t the bad guy, but it is a family business.
I wish I loved this story more, I’m not sure where to put my finger, there were a few things, one, I couldn’t fully connect with the main characters, I didn’t feel their chemistry, and it lacked romance, also the communication was vague, and there were too many distracting sidesteps in acts or conversations. What I did like was the good development of the crime and mystery part. Overall, I did enjoy this journey, it was quite exciting, the end product was a good and captivatingly written story, the plot was complicated and well thought out, and the story had a steady comfortable pace.
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