Review: Rowing and D/s Love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2013
This is a wonderful love story with a very unusual BDSM theme.  Ben is a student at a university and lives and works in a boathouse so that he is able to cover expenses and get to practice rowing for free.  Lucien is a wealthy Lord and Olympic rower who needs a second for his two person rowing races and ends up asking Ben to be that second person.  Both Ben and Lucien are out gays, but Lucien is a Dom and Ben is not into BDSM although he recognizes his submissive nature.  There is a considerable pull and tug between the two of them but they quickly fall in love even though Ben is at best reluctant to submit to Lucien.  The sex scenes in this book are extraordinarily hot, and the BDSM in them is not of the whip and pain variety other than spanking, but rather it is in the sex play itself.  The kinky sex makes Ben understandably uncomfortable, but it is with his consent and ends up with his having incredible sexual release.  While Lucien appears at first to be aggressive and somewhat unpleasant, as we get to know him  better, it is clear that he is in fact a lovely and loving man who is not only in love with Ben but is very up free to show it in public.  This excellent book is a novella but I truly wish it was a full novel; perhaps a sequel will be written to follow Ben and Lucien further into their lives.  It definitely is a book I could read many times and enjoy it repeatedly.  At this time, L.M. Somerton only has about five books in this genre, and I would not hesitate to recommend them all.  If you have not read any of these books, you are in for a treat, so go for it.