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Velvet Glove #2.4
Two Men For Two Brothers
Can two brothers and two damaged young men find a family in each other? Marketing Blurb: Kytan and Rivan love what they have, but they know they need more. When two emotionally damaged young men find their way into Ky and Van's lives, they decide they've found the perfect family. Can they convince Hinton and Jewel they know what's best? Originally on the Turn of the Screw Subscription Service and in the print volume Velvet Glove: Volume 2.
137 pages, ebook
First published July 3, 2012
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Sean Michael
663 books1,212 followersOften referred to as "Space Cowboy" and "Gangsta of Love" while still striving for the moniker of "Maurice," Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and persuing the kama sutra by channeling the long lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to "Chicago."
A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.
Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.
Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
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July 5, 2012
"It is time we loved each other four on four": SM does brothercest (again).
Rivan and Kytan are very *ahem* close brothers.
Kytan is handpicked to rehabilitate Hinton; a man who has no BDSM experience, but who does have deep long-term psychological problems that lead him to cut himself.
"Malachi says you have someone for me?"
Trip nodded. "I do. A colleague of mine referred a psychiatric patient to me."
Ky arched an eyebrow. A psychiatric patient? Intriguing. "And my name came up because?"
Malachi chuckled. "Because you're a controlling man, Kytan, and you and your brother are the most stubborn men alive" (p. 16).
Rivan picks up Jewel; a homeless man, who has no BDSM experience, but who does gave a drug addiction and a lifetime's experience of sex work. Rivan chooses Jewel because he wants a sub who will have no other thought but him.
[Jewel's] friends were all outside and made up and dressed up and high and laughing and he was naked in a chair, needing a hit and drinking weird water (p. 58).
The brothers encourage everyone to get along . . .
"Yes. Yes, beloved. Our bed. Our love. Our family."
"Yes. It is time we loved each other four on four" (p.128).
Thank god this is fantasy, because in the real world you have just set the scene for some interesting news headlines, and a blown-out police budget (plus some overtime for the crime scene investigators).
For me, the book dragged. A lot. I was downright excited about the foursome aspect, but the BDSM didn't do it for me. Kytan uses full body wrapping and hand mitts to subdue Hinton. Jewel seems to be off the drugs after 24 hours, but Rivan holds him and won't leave him alone for some considerable time. The book, therefore, is about restraint and blow jobs. Because both boys are so damaged they don't impose any other rules, and there is no service, for example.
As a serialised story alternate chapters focus on each couple. Right at the end (page 118 of 137) they start to play together, and there is more penetrative sex.
Kytan and Rivan also have such stilted dialog that they don't seem human. I mean, they're probably not. It's a futuristic setting with space travel: they could be non-human. They actually sound like pod-people who are trying to blend in with humans, but haven't got the hang of colloquialisms yet.
"What is going on here --I shall have security called and you all will be taken to a penal colony" (p. 108).
Apart from the opening when Kytan and Rivan meets their boys the whole story takes place in the brothers' suite at the Glove, so there is little interaction with the other characters from this universe.
Jewel saved the book for me. Michael writes him blunt and somewhat wry.
Kytan reached up, fingers finding the bottle of lube and handing it down, Jewel working to slick Hinton's fingers.
Hinton watched, wonder in his eyes. "I'm going to... inside of Kytan?"
Jewel nodded. "Yup. Slick him right up so Rivan can fuck him. It's cool" (p.129).
Without Jewel this would have been a 2-star for me, but it's still only a 2.5. If you like forced closeness and hand-feeding then you'll enjoy it more.
Rivan and Kytan are very *ahem* close brothers.
Kytan is handpicked to rehabilitate Hinton; a man who has no BDSM experience, but who does have deep long-term psychological problems that lead him to cut himself.
"Malachi says you have someone for me?"
Trip nodded. "I do. A colleague of mine referred a psychiatric patient to me."
Ky arched an eyebrow. A psychiatric patient? Intriguing. "And my name came up because?"
Malachi chuckled. "Because you're a controlling man, Kytan, and you and your brother are the most stubborn men alive" (p. 16).
Rivan picks up Jewel; a homeless man, who has no BDSM experience, but who does gave a drug addiction and a lifetime's experience of sex work. Rivan chooses Jewel because he wants a sub who will have no other thought but him.
[Jewel's] friends were all outside and made up and dressed up and high and laughing and he was naked in a chair, needing a hit and drinking weird water (p. 58).
The brothers encourage everyone to get along . . .
"Yes. Yes, beloved. Our bed. Our love. Our family."
"Yes. It is time we loved each other four on four" (p.128).
Thank god this is fantasy, because in the real world you have just set the scene for some interesting news headlines, and a blown-out police budget (plus some overtime for the crime scene investigators).
For me, the book dragged. A lot. I was downright excited about the foursome aspect, but the BDSM didn't do it for me. Kytan uses full body wrapping and hand mitts to subdue Hinton. Jewel seems to be off the drugs after 24 hours, but Rivan holds him and won't leave him alone for some considerable time. The book, therefore, is about restraint and blow jobs. Because both boys are so damaged they don't impose any other rules, and there is no service, for example.
As a serialised story alternate chapters focus on each couple. Right at the end (page 118 of 137) they start to play together, and there is more penetrative sex.
Kytan and Rivan also have such stilted dialog that they don't seem human. I mean, they're probably not. It's a futuristic setting with space travel: they could be non-human. They actually sound like pod-people who are trying to blend in with humans, but haven't got the hang of colloquialisms yet.
"What is going on here --I shall have security called and you all will be taken to a penal colony" (p. 108).
Apart from the opening when Kytan and Rivan meets their boys the whole story takes place in the brothers' suite at the Glove, so there is little interaction with the other characters from this universe.
Jewel saved the book for me. Michael writes him blunt and somewhat wry.
Kytan reached up, fingers finding the bottle of lube and handing it down, Jewel working to slick Hinton's fingers.
Hinton watched, wonder in his eyes. "I'm going to... inside of Kytan?"
Jewel nodded. "Yup. Slick him right up so Rivan can fuck him. It's cool" (p.129).
Without Jewel this would have been a 2-star for me, but it's still only a 2.5. If you like forced closeness and hand-feeding then you'll enjoy it more.
June 27, 2015
Sean does damaged people best. It sounds awful saying that, but his empathy, his 'feels' is why i love him and 99% of what he writes. To be honest the only thing he does that gets a lower rating from me is when it isn't a full story. He has this annoying habit of giving us snippets of genius leaving us wondering where the rest of the book is.
Yeah, you drive me nuts sometimes! So go back to rubbing your beautiful boys together and seeing what sparks, and I'll keep devouring them. Thank you for making my days better, and for not making me ashamed of what i love to read.
Yeah, you drive me nuts sometimes! So go back to rubbing your beautiful boys together and seeing what sparks, and I'll keep devouring them. Thank you for making my days better, and for not making me ashamed of what i love to read.
February 20, 2015
2015 Re-read:
Well. Read as pure fantasy, this works.
Still, there are things that make me squeamish if I allow myself to think about them. Not the fact that Rivan and Kytan are brothers; their relationship clearly is balanced and no one will get pregnant, so who cares that they’re related? The same cannot be said for the boys, though. (Except for the pregnancy bit, thank god.)
The story does avoid non-consensual contact, but neither boy is really in a condition to give valid consent. And then they’re brainwashed into being the brothers’ little sex slaves.
Not that it is all about sex. In fact, that is in part where the squicky comes in. This reminds me a little of a certain type of paedophile fantasy. (Turns out those might to be less about rape and force – and more about having kids love them and want them sexually. Some of the worst kinds of paedophiles use their position of power or trust over kids to manipulate them into doing whatever because the kids think they are loved in exchange.) And… encouraging the boys to also be sexually active with each other? And everyone with everyone? And calling it a family? It reminds me so much of something I stumbled across years ago and have since wished I’d never seen. *shudder*
So there is that. Sorry to have brought it up at all. I’m fairly certain that this book is a well-meaning fantasy among consenting adults.
Even with that settled (gotta be, or this can’t be read with a serene mind), Rivan’s attitude towards the street kids illustrates something else. Most patrons of the Velvet Glove are filthy rich. They splurge their income on fantastic luxuries, like real meat or real water. Some end up taking in a poor guy and making him their forever love (and boy toy), showering him with the luxuries he never knew before. Meanwhile the masses are starving (or close to it) and the fact that kids have to prostitute themselves from an early age to survive on the streets garners no more than an “oh, how sad” from the rich. Sure, having money does not mean you owe anything to the poor and suffering. But I haven’t yet heard of anyone trying to do even just a little bit about it in this universe. Are there even shelters? Do help organizations exist? Does anyone care? Does not seem like it. And our wonderful, rich Doms and sundry don’t appear too fazed by the status quo either.
I know, I know. Must read this as pure fantasies. I am trying! It’s just that this sort of thing, this apathy in the face of suffering and need, blends into the characterization, so then it begins to matter. ^^; I am weird.
In the end this was not a bad story.
It certainly proved interesting, with the Rivan/Jewel half more engaging then the Kytan/Hinton bit. Then again I appreciate that in a story about a double pairing the two relationships don’t echo each other. Been there, read that, got bored by it. In that context, having the two developing relationships differ so much from one another (aside from the basic theme being the same, of course), is a boon no matter how it is achieved.
So anyway, there’s just a tad too much that made me uncomfortable to be able to freely say I liked it.
Well. Read as pure fantasy, this works.
Still, there are things that make me squeamish if I allow myself to think about them. Not the fact that Rivan and Kytan are brothers; their relationship clearly is balanced and no one will get pregnant, so who cares that they’re related? The same cannot be said for the boys, though. (Except for the pregnancy bit, thank god.)
The story does avoid non-consensual contact, but neither boy is really in a condition to give valid consent. And then they’re brainwashed into being the brothers’ little sex slaves.
Not that it is all about sex. In fact, that is in part where the squicky comes in. This reminds me a little of a certain type of paedophile fantasy. (Turns out those might to be less about rape and force – and more about having kids love them and want them sexually. Some of the worst kinds of paedophiles use their position of power or trust over kids to manipulate them into doing whatever because the kids think they are loved in exchange.) And… encouraging the boys to also be sexually active with each other? And everyone with everyone? And calling it a family? It reminds me so much of something I stumbled across years ago and have since wished I’d never seen. *shudder*
So there is that. Sorry to have brought it up at all. I’m fairly certain that this book is a well-meaning fantasy among consenting adults.
Even with that settled (gotta be, or this can’t be read with a serene mind), Rivan’s attitude towards the street kids illustrates something else. Most patrons of the Velvet Glove are filthy rich. They splurge their income on fantastic luxuries, like real meat or real water. Some end up taking in a poor guy and making him their forever love (and boy toy), showering him with the luxuries he never knew before. Meanwhile the masses are starving (or close to it) and the fact that kids have to prostitute themselves from an early age to survive on the streets garners no more than an “oh, how sad” from the rich. Sure, having money does not mean you owe anything to the poor and suffering. But I haven’t yet heard of anyone trying to do even just a little bit about it in this universe. Are there even shelters? Do help organizations exist? Does anyone care? Does not seem like it. And our wonderful, rich Doms and sundry don’t appear too fazed by the status quo either.
I know, I know. Must read this as pure fantasies. I am trying! It’s just that this sort of thing, this apathy in the face of suffering and need, blends into the characterization, so then it begins to matter. ^^; I am weird.
In the end this was not a bad story.
It certainly proved interesting, with the Rivan/Jewel half more engaging then the Kytan/Hinton bit. Then again I appreciate that in a story about a double pairing the two relationships don’t echo each other. Been there, read that, got bored by it. In that context, having the two developing relationships differ so much from one another (aside from the basic theme being the same, of course), is a boon no matter how it is achieved.
So anyway, there’s just a tad too much that made me uncomfortable to be able to freely say I liked it.
July 28, 2012
✰✰✰½
Like every Sean Michael book I've read, there's lots of sexin' and this one is no exception.
Two brothers, Kytan and Rivan search for and find new pets - Dove, aka Hinton and Jewel, Little Love and each have their work cut out for them. Both pets are damaged, Hinton is a cutter because he saw his family burn to death and Jewel is a drug-addicted prostitute. Ky and Van lead their new pets on a sensual journey to form their new family. There is a taboo element so if you don't like that, you won't want to read this book.
Like every Sean Michael book I've read, there's lots of sexin' and this one is no exception.
Two brothers, Kytan and Rivan search for and find new pets - Dove, aka Hinton and Jewel, Little Love and each have their work cut out for them. Both pets are damaged, Hinton is a cutter because he saw his family burn to death and Jewel is a drug-addicted prostitute. Ky and Van lead their new pets on a sensual journey to form their new family. There is a taboo element so if you don't like that, you won't want to read this book.
September 28, 2019
Love conquers all
A whore and a man who cuts himself find homes love and what they need to be whole to brothers help and help themselves to each other
A whore and a man who cuts himself find homes love and what they need to be whole to brothers help and help themselves to each other
November 2, 2012
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 8/10
PROS:
- This story essentially contains three romances: one between the twins, Rivan and Kytan, and then one between each twin and his boy. I liked all 3 of the relationships, and I actually believed at the end that their little family would work.
- Kytan’s initial assignment with his boy, Hinton, is to prevent Hint from cutting himself to express his emotional pain. The way that Kytan does this, as well as his overall gentleness with Hinton, is lovely.
CONS:
- It always annoys me when the characters mention something more than once (in this case, a certain step in the sexual relationship of two of them) and then the story ends before I get to see that happen.
- I found it just a little bit odd that Rivan and Kytan refer to each other so often as “brother” rather than by name.
Rating: 8/10
PROS:
- This story essentially contains three romances: one between the twins, Rivan and Kytan, and then one between each twin and his boy. I liked all 3 of the relationships, and I actually believed at the end that their little family would work.
- Kytan’s initial assignment with his boy, Hinton, is to prevent Hint from cutting himself to express his emotional pain. The way that Kytan does this, as well as his overall gentleness with Hinton, is lovely.
CONS:
- It always annoys me when the characters mention something more than once (in this case, a certain step in the sexual relationship of two of them) and then the story ends before I get to see that happen.
- I found it just a little bit odd that Rivan and Kytan refer to each other so often as “brother” rather than by name.
July 6, 2015
This is actually a repub of the same book which has a whole bunch of reviews but a different cover. TBH, it's better than some of the Hammer books I've bought lately. Two brothers in an intimate relationship each find their own boy, one an emotionally damaged cutter, the other a drug addicted hooker. Of course through the use of bondage, spankings, with-holding drugs and a fair bit of sex, all is well and they all end up in bed together. If that's what you are in the mood for (the BDSM is very very light), it's a decent choice. If you are fans of the Velvet Glove, there is really very little interaction with any of the other characters, once they take custody of their boys, they basically stay in their suite 24/7.
October 7, 2014
A shortish story from the Velvet Glove Series.
Kytan and Rivan, 2 brothers, set out to find a sub each from themselves.
Rivan takes Jewel, a street whote addicted to Risque and Kytan takes Hinton, a damaged young man who cuts himself.
This has the makings of a good story which I would like more of.
There is Brocest between Kytan and Rivan and then when their subs join them they become a foursome.
Kytan and Rivan, 2 brothers, set out to find a sub each from themselves.
Rivan takes Jewel, a street whote addicted to Risque and Kytan takes Hinton, a damaged young man who cuts himself.
This has the makings of a good story which I would like more of.
There is Brocest between Kytan and Rivan and then when their subs join them they become a foursome.
July 7, 2012
2.5 stars (rounded up)
Not a lot more than some hot smut. It was pretty sweet and pretty short for being split between two couples, but I needed to turn my brain off for a while and this was good for that. Plus, I mean, it's brothercest and I always love that!
Not a lot more than some hot smut. It was pretty sweet and pretty short for being split between two couples, but I needed to turn my brain off for a while and this was good for that. Plus, I mean, it's brothercest and I always love that!
September 13, 2012
Do you like brothers in love? Do you like stories with lots of sex? Do you like the hurt/comfort trope? Did I ask if you like lots of sex? If you answered yes to the above questions then this just might be the story for you. :)
January 29, 2016
Wow this was incredible and now I don't know where to go from here...I certainly found a new kink. I wish it was so much longer but it was a really great read. This book has broken me.
Highly recommend it a million times over!
Highly recommend it a million times over!
January 1, 2018
Originally updated February 13, 2014
December 14, 2016
3.5 Stars
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