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Blurb
The holiday season is lonely for construction worker Benjamin
Morgan, a big muscular guy who just wants to submit, obey, and serve. But the
men he’s attracted to usually don’t have a dominant bone in their bodies. He’s
done seeking his BDSM dreams with someone who isn’t interested in putting him
in his rightful place—on his knees at their feet.
When a friend sets up a meeting with Foster Ridgeway at the BDSM club, Entwined, Benjamin has his doubts. Of course he is attracted to bookish Foster, who works for the same construction company, but how will someone so small and delicate-looking master Benjamin? But when Foster—the tiny temple of dominance wielding a crop—heads toward Benjamin, he might get what he’s always wanted, just in time for Solstice.
When a friend sets up a meeting with Foster Ridgeway at the BDSM club, Entwined, Benjamin has his doubts. Of course he is attracted to bookish Foster, who works for the same construction company, but how will someone so small and delicate-looking master Benjamin? But when Foster—the tiny temple of dominance wielding a crop—heads toward Benjamin, he might get what he’s always wanted, just in time for Solstice.
Review
There are delightful stories and then there is The
Longest Night. This is possibly the sweetest, cutest, and sexiest story
I’ve read this year. If there is any ‘angst’ in this story it’s dealt with in
the first few pages before we enter scene after scene describing how two men,
who were obviously meant to be together, open up to each other and reach
heights they’d previously only dreamed about.
When the story starts Benjamin fears he’ll never find a Dom able
to accept that Benjamin doesn’t have a dominant bone in his body, despite being
built like a house. Then a friend arranges a meeting between him and Foster,
who may look delicate but is as Dominant as it is possible to be, as well as
the personification of Benjamin’s every dream.
Benjamin’s subsequent journey into submission, going deeper
with each encounter, is glorious, not to mention very enticing. And Foster is
just about the perfect combination of Dominant verging on cruel and deeply
caring. I loved every moment of their times together and read the story with a
smile on my face from start to finish.
If I do have a reservation is that I would have loved to see
Benjamin through Foster’s eyes. Benjamin’s submission, explored from his own
perspective is glorious but I have no doubt it would have been even more magical
if Foster’s emotional reactions had been described too. Since this whole story
is told from Benjamin’s point of view we don’t get that and, given that this is
a shortish story that’s entirely understandable, but I do feel it would have
given their journey an extra edge.
There is no angst or conflict in this story and that
delighted me. The connection between these two men, once they ‘recognize’ each
other for who they are, is swift and the bond between them all but automatic.
Given that Benjamin and Foster are perfect for each other, any form of conflict
would have been contrived and I’m very happy it wasn’t shoe-horned in just for
the sake of it.
Overall a wonderful story if you’re in the mood for a pagan
holiday story featuring two adorable men and delicious sexiness.
