Review: BDSM Lite for Geeks
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
Wow! This was a short but decidedly hot and sexy story. Ivan and Camilla are neighbours in an apartment complex near the university where they work. He is an astrophysicist with an intelligence of near genius proportions but with a social ineptitude that borders on Aspergers. Camilla, a computer script monkey at the same university, is his friend and neighbour.He hardly seems to notice her as a woman but she's been harbouring a secret crush on Ivan who has, innocently, been showing off his gorgeous physique by jogging topless in the oppressive Texan summer heat. He's a man of routine, set in his ways, hyper focussed on anything he sets his mind to - Camilla can set her watch by him. Their relationship never really progresses beyond this until Ivan has a proposition for Camilla.Ivan has an upcoming social function where he will need to charm potential donors for his faculty. He knows he doesn't have the social skills required so he asks Camilla to help him. She takes him on thinking she can perform a Mr Darcy style transformation with her Flirting for Evil Geniuses 101 lessons. As they spend time together working on his manners and behaviour, Camilla is aware that he is starting to look at her in a way that he has never looked at her before.It turns out that Ivan needs control in everything that he does and that includes sex and beneath that very nerdy exterior, he is a Dom of Steel!! What follows is a highly erotic, very sexy affair. It's BDSM lite, no clubs, no edgeplay but it is still extremely hot. Camilla finds that submitting to Ivan satisfies her in ways she could never have anticipated and takes to D/s like she was born to it.Ivan is a real revelation. He is the epitome of an eccentric but brilliant professor but he's also very passionate and surprisingly tender. They start to develop a beautiful closeness and how does a geeky and socially inept professor tell his submissive in an email that he misses her? This is how....Sense memories of you persist and do not seem to abate as the day progresses. It's disconcerting, Camilla. I don't like it when my mind plays tricks on me. I would much rather simply have you here in the flesh, to feel and taste and smell with my actual senses. Instead my mind keeps conjuring this false perception of your presence. I think it means I miss you.Please excuse me while I melt into a submissive puddle at the feet of Professor Ivan.I really loved Ivan. He's completely without pretence, brutally honest, socially clueless but also a very passionate and tender man and their affair is very steamy. All that intense focus that he employs in his science is deeply erotic when it's applied to the D/s dynamic - lucky Camilla!This was my first novel by Delphine Dryden but it definitely won't be my last.