If It Flies (Market Garden, #3) in Riptide Publishing

Jan 30, 2013 Monique rated it it was ok

Shelves: lgbt

All work and no play makes Spencer a dull boy! and I hate to say it but until the last 20% of the book things don’t improve!

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I am a huge Aleksandr Voinov fan and have grown to love L.A Witt in the previous instalments of The Market Garden series, but unfortunately If It Flies didn’t fly for me!

I am actually lost for words… Ha, me speechless, now that doesn't happen often. Usually I can waffle on for pages in awe of Mr Voinov’s writing even the two previous short novellas from these two great All work and no play makes Spencer a dull boy! and I hate to say it but until the last 20% of the book things don’t improve!

I am a huge Aleksandr Voinov fan and have grown to love L.A Witt in the previous instalments of The Market Garden series, but unfortunately If It Flies didn’t fly for me!

I am actually lost for words… Ha, me speechless, now that doesn't happen often. Usually I can waffle on for pages in awe of Mr Voinov’s writing even the two previous short novellas from these two great authors produced plenty of inspiration and effusive dialogue. I loved Tristan and Jared and instantly engaged with the characters and was invested in their story, the fact that it was off the charts hot and smouldering with lots of luscious sex also helped. So what went wrong? same two authors but two new characters!

Persuaded by his friend Percy, Spencer joins him for a night at Market Garden, the high class whore house catering to all needs and requirements. While adjusting his eyes to the darkness he see’s a vision of blond hair and green eyes dressed in low slung leather trousers and bare chest with nipple piercings walking towards him. Spencer, not sure what he wants and has absolutely no idea of the protocol in such an establishment, is tongue tied and totally out of his comfort zone, wishing only for the ground to open up and swallow him whole!

As a Lawyer, Spencer was the one usually in control, yet somehow Nick had an inexplicable power over him and although he questioned Nick’s commands in his mind, Spencer’s body had already reacted. Spencer trusts Nick, he wasn’t sure why but he was enjoying his voyage of discovery in to the world of BDSM, and embracing his inner pain slut, Nick pushed the boundaries and every one of Spencer’s buttons to the point of euphoria, he did things to his body and took it to places he had never dreamed were possible… Being with Nick was all consuming, something he had never experienced before and he wants more!

The first third of the book was the meet and the first sex scene, now considering how smouldering Tristan and Jared were in such a short novella you would think that more page time for these two would see your kindle self combust, but unfortunately that was not the case. This is told form Spencer’s POV and on his own he was not engaging enough to keep my attention, I just couldn’t connect to him at all, with no personality or quirks to get excited about. Nick was a Dom, so I would expect him to radiate power when he appears on page yet all I got was detachment, he was aloof with no real conviction. The first sex scene was drawn out and totally uninspiring and for me to put a book down in the middle of a sex scene is unheard of!

The middle of the book was a little better, although we lost 3 months in a flash and I would have liked more time to see the relationship develop, and then their arrangement all of a sudden goes wrong! We have a little visit to a sex party that I didn’t quite see the point of and then at 20% FINALLY I got the characters and book I wanted. We saw a side to Nick I would have liked to see earlier, there was depth of emotion and feeling from him where we had previously had cold and calculating, I understand he is a prostitute and perhaps that was his way of dealing with it, but we were given nothing to endear him to us. The last few pages were heartfelt and actually quite beautiful and I only wish we had seen more of their character and personality earlier on in the book.

I still <3 you both and hope that it was just me that didn’t quite get it, maybe an off day, who knows! But it will certainly not deter me from reading more of the series. Please bring us more of Tristan and Jared as a couple I adore them!

2.5 - 3 star read

This ARC was provided by Riptide publishing through NetGalley

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Mar 01, 2013 Lisa Arbitrary - AttentionIsArbitrary M/M Blog rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult, bdsm, favorites, erotica, sexy-sexiness, m-m-romance, voinov, must-reads, riptide-publishing, la-witt

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4 Intense Stars

Spencer braced against the bed and forced back tears that were increasingly from pleasure more than pain.
Pleasure? From--
Snap.
God, yes.
Snap.

Longer than the first two books in the series combined, this book plays with deeper connections. I thought the Market Garden books might maintain the lighter, sweeter tone of the first two, but no. Instead, Witt and Voinov approached this one with more intensity, if you can believe it. One of the things they did carry over th ...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Brandilyn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2013, mm, bdsm

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I always love it when a series gets better and better with each offering. The Market Garden series from the duo of LA Witt and Alksandr Voinov definitely fits that bill. Voinov has a penchant for deliciously twisted heroes and Witt is great with developing lovable charcters. Together they really are an unstoppable force. If it Flies differs from the first 2 books in the Market Garden series, Quid Pro Quo and Take it Off, in that it is a fu ...more

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Jan 31, 2013 Vishous marked it as read-next-m-m

Shelves: m-m, adult, series, short, male-pov, aleksandr-voinov

8 more days ......

i can live with that...

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Mar 09, 2013 SueC rated it really liked it

Hot enough to split trees? Absolutely. Witty? Very. Am I in love with Nick? Completely (he is so delicious I could scream).

Perfectly paced scenes which had me captivated the whole time. I felt like Nick was coming right through my kindle. His presence was powerful and his voice commanding. Clever display of interactions and communication (showing both the light and dark, tender and brutal aspects of BDSM).

Then amidst all the saucy kinkyfuckery, there was beautiful poetry (I particularly
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Mar 11, 2013 G.B. Gordon added it

Shelves: favorites

Holy hell. That was all kinds of amazing. I think Devon and Nicky just got company on my top kink shelf. I just want to read this over and over. So. Well. Done.

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Mar 12, 2013 Thomaidha Papa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: m-m, favorites, too-hot-and-sexy, contemporary, kinks-and-fetish, bdsm, funny

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If I say I didn’t expect one hell of a ride and extremely hot scenes in this book I’d be quite a liar, but still I’m shocked at how easy it was, yet again, to get lost in the Market Garden universe.

In this book we meet Spencer, a lawyer whose life is filling up with work stress and is at the end of his endurance. He needs something, yet he has no idea what. When his coworker Percy suggest, or rather pushes him to join Review written for MM Good Book Reviews

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If I say I didn’t expect one hell of a ride and extremely hot scenes in this book I’d be quite a liar, but still I’m shocked at how easy it was, yet again, to get lost in the Market Garden universe.

In this book we meet Spencer, a lawyer whose life is filling up with work stress and is at the end of his endurance. He needs something, yet he has no idea what. When his coworker Percy suggest, or rather pushes him to join the Market Garden clientele, Spencer makes up his mind that even a prostitute would be better than his hand and another lonely night.

If only things were that simple in life. The moment Spencer hits the club his eyes are drawn and stay on a cocky and arrogant rentboy, Nick. But Nick is not just a prostitute and Spencer is never in control. Nick is a Sadist and Spencer quickly finds out that he is a Masochist.

Between the two there is a Dom/sub relationship that, while it is meant to remain strictly business, is somehow escalating to something more. But what much more could a whore and a lawyer possibly have?

While the idea might make you think of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, this book is anything but. There is a wonderful Sadistic/Masochistic relationship here that I loved reading. Both authors were great in making the magic happen yet again. I loved Nick, he is so alluring, and you just want more and more of him. And Spencer was a very sweet one but he won me over when things went all wrong. Especially the end scene, where he confronted Nick again, I loved the fact that he just didn’t bent over and surrender just like that. They were both quite a pair and their chemistry had me mesmerized ever since they met.

And I must not forget about the amazingly humorous text and dialogues. I don’t know who of the authors has that streak or if it’s a combination of them both, but dear Lord half the time I couldn’t stop laughing; my favorite being Spencer’s inner thoughts and his shock at discovering himself in Nick’s company.

What more can I say, this book was awesome and like the previous it has me on my toes, anxiously waiting for the next one. Totally worth it and I can’t recommend it enough.

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Feb 21, 2013 Traci rated it it was amazing

Shelves: m-m, 5-star-books

Love the continuation! I am turning into a Spencer fan. Cannot wait to finish the next book. Nick is turning out to be one of my favs as well

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Mar 14, 2013 Sam rated it really liked it

Shelves: mm-romance, will-re-read, favourites, aleks-voinov

I'm really enjoying everything about this series. The writing is great, and the sex is hot. This story delved into this pair as a truly developing couple—and it could, even in one book there is almost twice as much writing as the two others together. I really liked 'them' ... a lot. Spencer has an interesting and definable voice, and even though you don't hear from him, Nick is intriguing. I'd love to get into his head. Nick and Spencer didn't quite gain the hold on me that Tristan and Jared did ...more

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