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For Real (Spires, #3)

Alexis Hall

Start date: September 1, 2016

Finish date: September 30, 2016

Discussion: Book of the Month Club

Discussion leader: Jordan Lombard

Why we're reading this: For Real won the RITA Award!
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What Members Thought

May 03, 2015 Irina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: br-sofia, gay, contemporary, romance, erotica, bdsm, 5-stars, favourite, mel-rec, angst

Finally, FINALLY, I find my kind of book! The one that makes me cry, and smile, and think and ponder, the one that touches me deeply and warms my heart. The book that lets me care for two obscenely mismatched characters and feel the achievement of their happiness as my own.

I'm not a fan of BDSM theme in my books any more, nor am I particularly fond of erotica lately, but this one was unique and daring in those categories, so much that I couldn't decide at the beginning whether to be fascinated ...more

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Dec 31, 2016 Steelwhisper rated it did not like it

Shelves: british-authors, ageism, 1-bad, all-tell-no-show, meeeeeelodramatic, not-for-me, bland, boring, boring-sex, dub-con

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Jul 12, 2015 Grace rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mm-smut, mm-romance, mm-kink, mm-not-usa-based, 101-books-in-1001-days

Wonderfully written and just a seriously gorgeous book!

The relationship between Toby, a young and inexperienced Dom, and Laurie, an older, more confident sub, is really wonderful and the way their dynamic evolves and develops is just gorgeous. The sex is unbelievably hot and I just adored the characters. Seriously amazing read!

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Dec 01, 2020 Sam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mm-romance, favourite-author, riptide, 3-5-star, series, brit-author-and-or-setting, alexis-hall, have-had-this-on-my-bookshelf-for-s, 2020-reading-challenge, series-i-ll-definitely-continue

3.5 Stars

** rounded up because it’s by Hall. But I may still bring it back to 3 ...

Extended review to come ... possibly. Probably not, because sadly, I’m simply not that passionate about this book either way.

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