Review: Emotional and Intense
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
This review will appear at My Secret Romance Book ReviewsEmotionalIntenseTwo words that describe Above the Dungeon to a T. The emotion is not a tear-jerker, emotional roller coaster, but more of a discovery of ones self and all the feelings that go along with that. Everything in this book is intense. Every scene, every conversation, every look is full of promise, discovery, or emotion.Dare fled his life to start over in the city. He's staying with his cousin and working in a gay fetish bar. Roman owns the bar and the dungeon below it. Jeff is Roman's slave.Roman takes a liking to Dare and brings him into the BDSM lifestyle as well as an introduction to enjoying men in a sexual way. Dare takes it all in stride while questioning things as he goes. It wasn't an easy introduction for Dare, but he handled it well. Jeff takes all this in stride since it's Roman's will.This was an interesting story and one I loved to read. SM Johnson did a fantastic job with delivering a wonderful story and giving each character so much depth. A wide range of emotions were dealt with in this story. We had fear, jealousy, love, new love, lust, infatuation and acceptance.My only problem with this story was the changing of the POV. We kept flipping from Jeff's POV to Dare's POV. On top of that it switched from third person (Dare) to first person (Jeff). Every time there was a switch I was dropped out of the story. My suspension of disbelief was interrupted, and it took me a few minutes each time to get back into the story.Overall a very good story and I plan to read the second one in this series. I have to see how things turn out. There was no great cliffhanger at end of the story, but there were some unanswered questions.I received a copy of this book from the author.