Title: Just A Little Bit More
Series: Take It like A Man Anthology
Author: Mychael Black
Genre: BDSM / D/s
Length: Short Story (16 pages)
Publisher: Torquere Press (January 29th 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥2Hearts
Reviewer: Thommie
Blurb: Dylan Mackenzie has a secret. He lives a double life: that of an attorney…and a submissive. He’s never told anyone about it, not even Max Castille, his best friend of twenty years. Dylan plays at a BDSM club in the neighboring town, where no one knows him beyond his insatiable need to have his body stretched to its limits. He likes the anonymity.
Max Castille hasn’t been in the scene for quite a long time, and the slave auction at a local club is the perfect opportunity for him to step back into the lifestyle. When the slaves line up for the charity auction, though, Max gets the shock of his life.
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Review: This is a very short story that was first included in the Anthology Take It Like A Man. its theme is obviously how much and dignified someone can take…
This particular story though failed to achieve its goal for me. Due to its length it had no real place for development thus the focus is on the smut between the characters, Dylan and Max, who apparently have been friends for twenty years, harboring a crush (secretly) for each other and though Dylan knew Max was a Dom he kept his own kinks a secret. Until the day, they run into each other on one of the most famous BDSM clubs in town. To make matters more complicated Dylan has volunteered to auction himself for a charity, an opportunity that Max doesn’t disregard no matter how shocked he is to see his best friend up on that stage.
The opening scene for me was quite good. The lack of info or intense feelings there didn’t drag the story down, as it’s an introduction of Dylan’s kinks with a random Dom. However as the story moved on I expected that years long crush our MCs kept in their hearts to show and it literally failed.
Anyone that has been in a long-term crush will agree with me that emotion can consume you, steal your sanity, and literally burn you from inside out. The longing, the craving, the incredible heartbeat that literally steals your hearing, the heavy breathing as if all oxygen has run out of the building, that all-encompassing desire to crawl into your object of desire’s skin and merge yourself totally and irrevocably with him the moment you get your hands in him… You get my point? Yeah, all that was lacking and the scene between Max and Dylan was flat-out unappealing.
It certainly was not a bad story, but it simply failed to give me what it promised, not to mention that Max’s kink, as a Dom didn’t even make it in the scene despite tantalizing us when it was first mentioned. Thus my low rating for this read.