What ties you to your lover? Love, need, desire, scarves, rope or ribbons. Enjoy Key To Me by multi-talented author and artist Jet Mykles. This short story is also included in the TIES THAT BIND anthology collection.
Jet is a writer of sexual fantasy with a firm belief that all men are at least partially gay, that vampires are just people with a liquid diet and shapeshifters live on every block.
Can you believe this is my first Jet Mykles story? I know! I'm an idiot! I now fully realize that!
Wow. Just, WOW! This was one of those right-up-my-ally BDSM books. You really can't say an awful lot about it without giving the surprise away, but I absolutely loved it and thought it was incredibly hot and ended on a nice romantic note as well.
I'm so excited to read a bunch of Jet Mykles books now. This one really got to me! *fans self*
Noah has a secret admirer. He receives mystery gifts, each a little more suggestive and kinkier than the last. He is desparately trying to figure out who the sender could be. He is intrigued and turned on and the mystery and suggestiveness of the gifts is really getting him going.
Does he want what the gifts are asking? Should he? Thankfully, he does, and though the mystery man keeps him and us in suspense through a few actual encounters, they are extremely sexy and fun. Noah is more shocked than surprised by the reveal, and it wasn’t a total surprise for me, but it was exciting nonetheless.
This was a really quick read that I really enjoyed. The writing was smooth and very well paced. I loved that we were led along for just enough to not be too frustrating, and then able to watch it all play out in a sweetromantic ending. I’d definitely pick this one up for an afternoon delight.
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 9/10
PROS: - This story is mushy and unbelievable but deliciously romantic. Scene after scene after scene had me thinking, “aww…” - The plot/mystery isn’t really very mysterious (at least, I figured it out very early on in the story, which I’m sure would be the case with most readers), but I still loved it. NOAH doesn’t figure it out, of course, so there are some cute scenes when he’s adorably clueless about the identity of his secret admirer. - I found the sex scenes to be both super sweet and super hot.
CON: - When the identity of the secret admirer is finally revealed, Noah is very excited about who it is. But he hasn’t had a single wistful thought about this guy earlier in the story: no “he was hot, too bad Noah couldn’t have him” comments anywhere. So the speed with which Noah proclaims love for the guy felt a LITTLE rushed to me.
One of the oldies I reread. Short and sweet. Noah is looking for his secret admirer who makes him hot by the gifts he has been sending. The revelation will surprise him. But also explains how the secret admirer knows Noah's deepest desires and darkest secrets and gives him exactly what he needs while demanding what his own heart wants. It's not difficult to guess the identity of the secret admirer for the reader, there are only a few possibilities, but the fun is in Noah not knowing until the end.