Title: Fettered
Series: N/A
Author: Lyn Gala
Genre: MM / BDSM
Length: Novel
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (February 22, 2013)
Reviewer: Thommie
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥4.5Hearts
Blurb: Dylan Carter has always played second fiddle to his perfect older brother, but now that brother is implicated in a terrible crime, and Dylan’s family is imploding. Dylan can’t hide anymore. Knowing he’s falling apart, he searches for something or someone to hold him together—and lands in a BDSM bar called the Stonewall.
Dylan doesn’t understand Miss Dolphinia, the hard-drinking queen who seems determined to play matchmaker. But more confusing is the way the powerful men in leather make him feel. In her wisdom, Miss Dolphinia sends Dylan off to a back room for his introduction to the world of erotic spankings and bondage.
Dylan’s teacher—for want of a better word—is the very dominant Vin Hauser. Vin likes to play hard, but he’s honest with himself—he knows all those men want is a strong hand, not a long-term relationship. Yet Vin can’t help but hope Dylan might be different.
With controversy over his brother’s sins stirring up danger around him, Dylan needs Vin’s support more than ever. But until he and Vin learn to trust each other, Dylan will have to face his fear and the growing threats alone.
Product Link: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3595
Review: What an excellent read Ms. Gala provided yet again. I loved this book and dear Lord, I got so lost in this, and I’m having difficulty coping with reality at the moment. And it is so satisfying reading a novel that leaves you sated, not lacking or needing more. This book will take you into another world, an old one I might add, with dark cravings, kinks and even things most people would call perversions, yet the clarity of this world is so brilliant, so balanced that I would find it hard to believe someone might actually feel the same after reading it.
This is Dylan’s story. And amazing character that made even me want to take him under my care. Dylan is a young man of 19 years old. He is the baby of the family with an older sister and brother. He’s always been abused by his brother and his sadistic antics, but Dylan truly believes that was just brotherly games, and cruel jokes meaning no harm. Until his brother is arrested for torturing and raping three young women that is. Dylan is seriously shaken by this, his world slipping away from his hands and nothing to anchor him. In addition his mind keeps replaying the pictures of bondage tools and whips that were found in his brother’s house. The deep, dark craving consuming him makes no sense and in a last attempt to find answers Dylan finds himself at the Stonewall, a club famous for its leather men…
Like a small bleeding fish in the middle of a tank full of sharks Dylan is surrounded by powerful men who want to show him their world. In the midst of his confusion and his inability to recover from the overwhelming feelings Dylan meets Vin and his first introduction to bondage and spanking takes his breath away. Vin is perfect, and although he is a complete stranger Dylan can’t stop from trusting him his sanity.
However Vin is dealing with his own insecurities and love is not something he is after. He never hooks up twice with someone either in order to avoid getting attached. But as hard to get he plays even stubborn Vin can’t help himself faced with wide-eyed Dylan, his beauty and his innocence. The trap is set and Vin has to accept that he’s in for a long ride with the most perfect sub he’s laid eyes upon.
In between Vin’s obsessions and possessiveness, and Dylan’s struggle to face and confront his life the two men fight together to keep what they both value most than anything, each other.
Well, the above is just a small summary of what you are about to read and I might add it’s only a poor glimpse of the beginning of this story. You will read a novel that will blow your mind away with its vivid scenes, its intense and palpable feelings, a full plot that is heartbreaking and skin-crawling with the presentation of a naked truth that doesn’t shy away from its brutality and perversion.
You will love Dylan and his vulnerable soul; you will adore and worship Vin and his gorgeous, commanding personality. You will absolutely die for Miss Dolphinia and her incredible ways. You will hate some characters with a passion and feel you heart shatter for others. In the end you will close this book and give a small sigh feeling content and completely sated.
In my opinion this book is a must read not only for the fans of the genre, but mostly for everyone else as it is a beautiful take on this very peculiar world.