TITLE: TOGETHER IN CYN
AUTHOR: JENNIFER KASEY
Pages: 157
Date: 29/07/2013
Grade: 4-
Details: No. 1 Members only
Received from Smith Publicity –
Ellora’s Cave Publ. through
NetGalley
Own / Kindle
The Blurb:
“She knows it’s wrong. Cyn
shouldn’t have feelings for fraternal twins Jared and Chris, her best friends.
She shouldn’t want them to tie her up or strap her down, to take her one at a
time—or together. The only way to control her taboo desires is to write them down
and lock them away in her diary. Guys like Jared and Chris could never be
interested in someone like her, or in the kind of sex she craves.
But Jared and Chris have read her diary, and sweet little Cyn is in for the shock of her life. The brothers not only own a members-only BDSM club, they want her. Need her. And now, with their unlimited funds and an entire establishment devoted to fulfilling her darkest pleasures, they’re going to claim Cyn for their own.
Inside Scoop: If you have a kink, this book probably has it too. If you like your ménage romances extra hot with a side of male-male romance, spanking, voyeurism and girl-on-girl action, come and get it.”
Cyn has been in love and lust with fraternal twins
Chris and Jared for as long as she can remember. She has never told them that
though or that she has very kinky fantasies involving the two of them. She’s
too afraid that admitting to her feelings or acting on them would spoil the
wonderful friendship they have. But, if they could read her mind, the twins
would soon discover that there is only one reason why they never see her with a
man:
“Because I’m in love
with you and your twin. Have been for almost a decade. I’ve got a journal at
home filled with what I want you to do to me and I’ll never be brave enough to
show it to you."
Cyn would rather do without than disappoint herself as
a result of sleeping with somebody who isn’t Chris and Jared and so:
“My sex life…well,
visualize the Titanic sinking and you get the gist.”
Nothing can convince her that her fantasies could come
true:
“Chris and Jared
were my every fantasy and I ached for them. I craved something dark and
dangerous I had no right to want – not from them both.”
Until she discovers that the twins have read her diary
and not only know all about her fantasies but also share them. While she always
knew that Chris and Jared liked her and wanted to look after her, she never
imagined that their feelings could be any deeper. But now that the secret is
out the men don’t waste any time making sure that Cyn is theirs and knows it:
“You’ve always been
more important than any house or club and that was before we claimed you.”
Cyn may have had fantasies about submitting to the
twins for as long as she can remember, she isn’t sure she will actually be able
to do that. Her background and past experiences make her weary of that which
she graves. The twins however recognise something in her; they know that she is
more than capable of fulfilling her fantasies:
“You were born to
take pleasure so all-consuming it threatens to steal your mind, and mine. You
were made strong enough to submit to not only one Dom but two. Two men who want
to push every sexual limit you’ve every conceived of and fall with you over the
precipice into something you never knew existed.”
Or, as a new found friend in the twins BDSM club puts
it to Cyn:
“Submission is a
beautiful thing. Giving yourself so freely to someone else. Trusting them.
Believing in them. It takes a strong woman to be able to do that.”
It takes time, reflection, long overdue honesty and
being forced out of their comfort zones for this trio to become what they were
meant to be. For Cyn it means accepting, at last that:
“…they needed me to
be nothing more than myself.”
I’m not quite sure what to say about this book. I
liked the idea behind the story, I liked the characters in it and loved the
very hot sex scenes. On the other hand, because I liked the story so much I
would have loved to see more of it. As much as I enjoyed the enticing
descriptions of everything Cyn gets up to with her two lovers, I wanted to read
a bit more about her back-story and the mental battles she went through as a
result of what had happened to her. I longed to read more about what she had to
work through in order to really give herself to the brothers. As it is, we
don’t find much about her thought-processes. And the same is true for the
twins, especially Chris. As it is written it feels as if the back-story is only
there to give the author an excuse to write very steamy and delicious sex
scenes. And in this book the back-story is just too good and intriguing to be
treated in that way.
But, and I know I’m starting to contradict myself
here, I’m also grateful that the author didn’t turn this book into one of those
angsty stories in which the heroine is forever second guessing herself and we
seem to play the “will she – won’t she” game for pages on end.
I guess that what I’m saying is that I could have done
with this book being maybe fifty pages longer. Fifty pages which could have
told us more about the characters back-grounds and everything that Chris and
Cyn went through in order to overcome their issues and reach their happy
ending. As it was written both Cyn and Chris went from feeling completely
incapable of submitting to or inflicting a certain act, to jumping, feet first,
into a rather extreme version of exactly what they were so afraid of. That
turn-around, while intriguing, would have been far more believable if there had
been a bit more of a build-up to it.
For me this was one very hot, very explicit and
extremely sexy story; an easy and enticing read that could have been more with
just a bit more attention to the background story and the characters’ thoughts
and feelings. If, however, you are looking for a steamy story filled with sexy
scene after enticing sexy scene than this is just the book for you. Jennifer
Casey does know how to write hot sex very, very well.
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