Review: Power Play by Eliza Gayle
Power Play
Eliza Gayle
LooseId [link to buy]
ASIN B006DJPR6E
Rating: 4 out of 5 paddles
Blurb:
She wants the escape. He wants control. They both need love.
Jennifer Croft is at the peak of her career. As a bondage model at Altered Ego, she’s become the crème de la crème of the fetish world, ensuring herself a top spot in her profession. The world is her oyster. Her personal life on the other hand… It’s not pretty. Only her fascination with pain play keeps the ghosts of her past at bay.
After tragedy sends Daegan McKenna to the South for a much needed change of pace, the last thing he expects to find is a closet submissive hiding in plain sight.She’s hot-tempered and in denial — a heady combination that brings out the dominant looking for a challenge. He’s already loved and lost more than one man should, but the haunted look in her eyes prompts him to make her an offer.He’ll indulge her darkest fantasies, if she’ll agree to give up control. Thenhe’ll let her go.
Unfortunately,the past never stays in the past and old insecurities cause complications neither of them wanted. Now temporary is not enough.
Review:
Jennifer is a bondage model who likes pain play. It’s the only thing keep back her inner demons and she indulges herself when the need arises. But, Daegan has set his sights on her even though Jennifer will not be a slave to any man, or so she tells herself. I have to admit to liking Jennifer, mostly because I was in a similar mindset at one point in my life. She is running from her past and strongly denies what she knows she wants. She plays at a club on occasion and models bondage positions, but has never given herself over to someone completely.
Daegan is just the man that Jennifer needs. He keeps pushing and pushing,watching the little signals that tell him when she is hiding or ready to run and then backing off every so slightly while she gets her feet under her again. There were moments I felt like Daegan was a real jerk and I didn’t like him at all. But, there were more moments where his insight and care giving of Jennifer out weighed anything else and really made him a good Dom.
Power Play is really more about the act of submitting and working through the pain and expectations of getting there. One thing I have to admit that I liked is that when Daegan punishes Jennifer it is really a punishment and not just a prelude to sex like you find in so many mainstream BDSM books. Eliza Gayle did a great job at delving into the emotions and issues surrounding the act of giving up control and taking control. Power Play brought tears to my eyes at moments as well as made me turn on a fan and get a cold drink!
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