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The Pleasure Houses of Nyph #3
And It Is Powerful
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“Sexual gratification is achieved through control and self-actualization. It is submission. It is dominance. And it is powerful.”
Synge is an anomaly in the Granite Pleasure House: a Sadist who is not aroused by pain. He’d entered Granite to learn to master the pain of his tormented childhood, not to inflict it on others. That doesn’t stop those who relish pain from seeking him out, but Synge is used to refusing them – until a desperate, virginal slave named Rown offers himself. Afraid that someone else will break the beautiful boy, Synge accepts – and Rown will learn that what his new master wants from him is not at all what he expected.
“Sexual gratification is achieved through control and self-actualization. It is submission. It is dominance. And it is powerful.”
Synge is an anomaly in the Granite Pleasure House: a Sadist who is not aroused by pain. He’d entered Granite to learn to master the pain of his tormented childhood, not to inflict it on others. That doesn’t stop those who relish pain from seeking him out, but Synge is used to refusing them – until a desperate, virginal slave named Rown offers himself. Afraid that someone else will break the beautiful boy, Synge accepts – and Rown will learn that what his new master wants from him is not at all what he expected.
- GenresM M RomanceFantasy
40 pages, ebook
First published February 9, 2011
About the author
K.R. Foster
12 books13 followersI've wanted to be an author since I was a child. Now I just want to be a better one.
I probably wouldn't have even started writing original fiction if I hadn't received a fortune cookie that said: You have a charming way with words and should write a book.
When I'm not writing--which isn't often--I edit for other writers, read, and sing.
I probably wouldn't have even started writing original fiction if I hadn't received a fortune cookie that said: You have a charming way with words and should write a book.
When I'm not writing--which isn't often--I edit for other writers, read, and sing.
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March 14, 2011
When I started reading this story it wasn’t what I expected. Its starts off talking about this world of Nyph and how it has its different categories of people, sadists, masochist, and slaves. So one would think it would be about dominance, spankings, and things of that nature, but it wasn’t. It’s a story of one man trying overcome the violence of his past.
I really like the character of Synge; he’s a strong man but doesn’t use that strength or his title over others to dominate them. For this man, his lifestyle is strictly for his own healing -- a coping mechanism. I found that Synge was a real respectable man and even more so when he takes in a slave name Rown. He accepts Rown’s offer to take him home because Synge knows it’s the right thing to do to keep the other man safe. Not the typical behavior of a sadist.
At first I thought Rown was a poor misguided youth who had been abandoned by the people in his life. I found out that Rown had a plan from the very beginning on how to get what he wanted for himself and Synge. In a world where the weaker are pushed into a submissive role, it was refreshing to see this young man as confident and determined to get what he wants out of life.
This book is the third in the series and I look forward to reading the two prior stories. This is a touching love story between two men living in a world separated by dominants and submissives, but more than that it’s about two men who have had hard lives and how they overcome their past to find their own happiness together in a world where they feel alone.
Originally posted at http://whippedcream2.blogspot.com/201...
I really like the character of Synge; he’s a strong man but doesn’t use that strength or his title over others to dominate them. For this man, his lifestyle is strictly for his own healing -- a coping mechanism. I found that Synge was a real respectable man and even more so when he takes in a slave name Rown. He accepts Rown’s offer to take him home because Synge knows it’s the right thing to do to keep the other man safe. Not the typical behavior of a sadist.
At first I thought Rown was a poor misguided youth who had been abandoned by the people in his life. I found out that Rown had a plan from the very beginning on how to get what he wanted for himself and Synge. In a world where the weaker are pushed into a submissive role, it was refreshing to see this young man as confident and determined to get what he wants out of life.
This book is the third in the series and I look forward to reading the two prior stories. This is a touching love story between two men living in a world separated by dominants and submissives, but more than that it’s about two men who have had hard lives and how they overcome their past to find their own happiness together in a world where they feel alone.
Originally posted at http://whippedcream2.blogspot.com/201...
January 18, 2011
The third and final book in this series about a world where pleasure houses are organized into three different types of training, focuses on one man in Granite. Trainees rise to the level of Sadist or Masochist before receiving contract offers, and for them everything is about domination or submission.
Synge is the third brother who has been abused y a cruel mother, but different from Phyre (in book one) and Bryne (in book two), Synge has tried to escape his past by becoming a master of giving pain. He hates himself for it - for being like his Sadist mother - at the same time as he thinks it will protect him from ever becoming like her. After all he doesn't enjoy giving pain, and the annual reminders his House requires of him make him sick. But it is the price he has to pay for freedom during the rest of the year.
Rown is a Slave, an illegitimate son of a noble and that makes him a member of the lowest tier of society. He has to do whatever someone asks him, whether he likes it or not. Synge falls for him before he realizes what is going on. Now all he has to do is make Rown understand what he really wants - and that has nothing to do with Sadism.
If you like stories about men who are not what they seem, if a white knight coming in to save a man who has few hopes for a good life, and if you're looking for a read that is as sweet as it is hot, then you will probably like this short story.
NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review.
Synge is the third brother who has been abused y a cruel mother, but different from Phyre (in book one) and Bryne (in book two), Synge has tried to escape his past by becoming a master of giving pain. He hates himself for it - for being like his Sadist mother - at the same time as he thinks it will protect him from ever becoming like her. After all he doesn't enjoy giving pain, and the annual reminders his House requires of him make him sick. But it is the price he has to pay for freedom during the rest of the year.
Rown is a Slave, an illegitimate son of a noble and that makes him a member of the lowest tier of society. He has to do whatever someone asks him, whether he likes it or not. Synge falls for him before he realizes what is going on. Now all he has to do is make Rown understand what he really wants - and that has nothing to do with Sadism.
If you like stories about men who are not what they seem, if a white knight coming in to save a man who has few hopes for a good life, and if you're looking for a read that is as sweet as it is hot, then you will probably like this short story.
NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review.
February 11, 2011
the last brother's story is sweet and nice. and vanilla XD
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