Deviations: Submission by Chris Owen & Jodi Payne

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Deviations: Submission is like the 101 course about Gay BDSM Romance; when you are a newbie in the genre, and you are like testing the water, it’s very likely that you will stumble upon this series, or at least it was like that for me. I admit, I was not ready; I remember that I started to read the first book, this one, but I was not able to continue. Pain/pleasure games, 24/7 D/s relationships, flogging, gagging, and on and on, was really too much for me at the time. I realize now, more or less 5 years later, that indeed this series is way more “mild” than other novels I read after that.

Both men involved in this relationship, the Dom Tobias and the sub Noah, come along with different needs clicking together. Tobias invested a lot in a relationship with another sub, Phan, but he was not the right man for that job; basically Tobias is a caretaker, he is a vet and he has the need to take care for other people embedded in his behaviour, he cannot really dish out extreme pain, not even if the other man is asking for it. Something that apparently I didn’t catch the first time I read this novel is that Tobias is not searching for a pain s**t, and that, if Noah was one, the relationship between them was never fated to start.

Noah is another character that has his job in his own blood, but in a different way than Tobias; I think that Noah, a police officer, is always so focused in helping other people, in being good and in control, that in his private life he needs to let it go. But for various reasons he has trusting issues, and so he cannot really fully depend on another man, something that is unbearable from most Doms out there. So Noah is going through Doms like someone would go through boyfriends, testing each of them but finding them lacking. Probably the matching between Tobias and Noah is perfect right since both of them actually don’t want to go to the extreme of a D/s relationship, and that is exactly the level of BDSM that I can take.

Another think that I can now appreciate in this series, is that, in the end, the sex between them is more intimate and less “scene”; I really don’t like very much all the public display that most of the BDSM novels imply as ordinary. It’s true that Noah and Tobias met in a private club, and use its facilities, but the sex is mostly between the two of them, so much that they talk about being exclusive almost from the beginning. The story maybe started like a convenient matching of two people searching a good night, but then it soon moves to love and long-term commitment, even if the commitment was enshrined by a D/s contract. But I can see (and I know since this is only the first in a 4 books series) that this relationship is fated to moved beyond this contract and into a partnership looking for more than sex.

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Paperback: 316 pages
Publisher: Torquere Press (June 26, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933389850
ISBN-13: 978-1933389851

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Comments

[minami77.livejournal.com]

Mi manca ancora da leggere l'ultimo della serie e ad essere onesta non credo che lo leggerò. Non che non sia bella tutta la serie che comunque ha la pecca di un po' tutte le serie secondo me, ovvero che gli ultimi libri non sono mai all'altezza dei primi.

Anche qui la storia va un po' deteriorando secondo me, soprattutto non ho amato molto la direzione che hanno fatto prendere al personaggio di Tobias, che trovo compleatamente diverso e assolutamente privo di carisma e di quel che che rende un Dom degno di questo nome nell'ultimo libro che ho letto rispetto al primo della serie, dove invece era un carattere molto ben definito, forte e dominante appunto. Insomma, credo lo abbiano un po' svilito e quindi di conseguenza non risulta più credibile nel suo ruolo.

Inoltre non mi è nemmeno piaciuto il modo in cui hanno gestito tutta la faccenda di Phan, ma non voglio dirti di più perchè già ho detto troppo e te magari non ami gli spoiler XD

insomma, tutto sommato mi è dispiaciuto questo decadimento ecco.

Un abbraccio cara ♥

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Da vari commenti mi sembra di capire che vale la pena leggere libro 1 e 2, ma poi per il resto devono proprio esserti piaciuti questi due, altrimenti no ;-) Devo dirti che io non sono una fan del BDSM quindi non so, vedremo... ci sono talmente tanti altri libri che voglio leggere