Title: Spirit
Author: P.A. Friday
Genre: Contemporary, Slight BDSM/Kink
Length: Novella (70pgs)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (7th March 2012)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥3 ½Hearts
Reviewer: Pixie
Blurb: It’s hate at first sight when Grant McDowell meets co-worker Tristan Wetherby-Hyde. Working-class Grant fought his way up in the world and into a position at Spirit Advertising, and he can’t help but think that Tristan, son of the agency’s homophobic CEO, had everything handed to him on a silver platter.
But their differences aren’t enough to keep their mutual lust in check, despite Tristan’s fear of exposure and his father’s reaction. Both Grant and Tristan know exactly what they have to lose—what they don’t know is that their hearts are also at stake.
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Review: Grant thinks that Tristan is the stuck-up spoiled son, who has been given an easy ride in life and hates him on principle. Tristan thinks that Grant is an uncouth prat and hates him, because Grant hates him. The sparks fly and passion ignites, but are these two just too different.
A very hot novella where opposites are more than attracted. Grant is a man who has fought to get where he is today. He has stood on his own two feet and made it, as far as he has, on his own merit. He hates people who look down on him because of his accent or his schooling. When he meets Tristan for the first time, he thinks he has him pegged and is surprised by how things turn out. Tristan knows that he will always be a disappointment to his father and when he embarks on an affair with Grant, he knows that if his father ever found out that he was gay, then he would be sacked, chucked out and disinherited, but he can’t fight the draw that Grant has over him.
This is a hot story with a lot of sparks and passion between the two MCs. Tristan is a bit of a submissive and Grant a Dom and there is some mutual enjoyable violence between them. We get a slight feel for the characters and they are both seen dwelling on what has happened between them and what might happen yet. And although they come from completely different backgrounds they seem to mash well together. The sex is explosive and a little bit violent at times, but it is very hot.
I will recommend this to those who like opposites attracts, enemies to lovers, a bit of sub/Dom and an ending that is satisfying to both Grant and Tristan.