14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolute Must Read, October 6, 2008
This review is from: Switch (Paperback)
What do you get when you put two Dom's together in the same room? You get Claire Thompson's SWITCH. A funny, sweet and extremely HOT and boy do I mean HOT, this is another fry the circuits in your computer HOT READ!!! (well I did read it on ebook - lol) This Book comes HIGHLY recommended by me, especially if you love BDSM then this is an absolute MUST READ for you!!
Nathan not much into titles of dom/sub he feels they are just titles for those playing at dominance/submissive games. He meets Dane and there is an instant connection between them. Dane says he is a dom, Nathan see's something in him that leads him to believe differently, can he convince Dane to explore this? Should he even try to convince another dom that he his is actually a submissive? That is his dilemma because his feeling for Dane are growing fast. Is their even a future for these two dom's?
From the minute Nathan asks Dane "So, if it's not too personal, how long have you been submissive, Dane?" The sparks start to fly in this book. Can two dom's fall in love and live happily ever after - your going to find out if it is possible in this book. The unfolding romance in this book is so sweet, as we watch Nathan help Dane explore his submissive side, it this something Dane even wants or is he to much a Dom to ever submit to Nathan, his decision is further complicated by his growing attraction to Nathan will he loose him if he is just to dom to submit?
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Switch by Claire Thompson, October 24, 2008
This review is from: Switch (Paperback)
Dane sees himself as a Dom. He is a young and successful businessman, and he is used to be domineering at work as well as in his private life. He is not born from money, but he is doing well, and he likes to show it, to prove that him and only him has done that. At 29 years old he thinks to have all, but a chance encounter in a bar changes everything.
Nathan is 26 years old and an artist. But he is not a struggling artist, he is from a wealthy family and he has the authoritative behavior of who knows well what he is and what he can do. Basically he is a good boy and so he is not the classical spoilt baby of too much permissive parents, but he is used to drive his life where, how and when he wants. In a scene, Nathan compares himself to a lake, with its peaceful waters; I would bring on the metaphor: he is like a lake in the a mountain plain: he receives the agitated waters of mountain streams, he placates them with his huge basin, and then he releases the waters in big rivers, ready to flow away toward the valley. Till now Nathan has never taken a lover with him forever, but then he is only 26 years old.
From the first moment they meet, Nathan sees in Dane something that no one never see, a yearning to be a submissive lover, the need to give up the control. Dane, even if gay, is a very conservative thinker: if you are bigger, older and wealthier, you are the Dom. And since he is bigger, older and he believes wealthier than Nathan, he doesn't take in account that he could be a sub with Nathan. But Nathan, probably since he had a pretty easy life, has never felt the necessity to follow common rule, and so he is ready to prove to Dane that he can be a real Dom, with the real sub.
Dane feels the D/s life as a way to prove something to the world, it's another way, along with his job and his Mercedes, to prove that he is a successful man; Nathan instead looks at the D/s life like a private thing, a lovers game to bring on in the intimate comfort of a bedroom. Becoming Nathan's sub, Dane will not lose his outside independency, but he will not, deep inside him, that he belongs to Nathan.
Probably of all the D/s books I read by Claire Thompson, this is the one I like the most, since maybe I'm more similar to Nathan's point of view on D/s: thinking on it, I always liked books in where the pleasure/pain games remain inside a private bedroom rather than when it's displayed in a public dungeon.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for Newbies, December 31, 2009
I read A LOT of erotica, maybe too much. I'm also a big fan of m/m romances and all sorts of bdsm, both fiction and non. That being said, my expectations are perhaps a little higher than most. Overall, I enjoyed the premise and the story between the two men. I found their interaction believable, smooth, and I was genuinely interested in them.
However, the constant text book descriptions of bdsm, D/s, and the submissive thought structure, took away a lot from the story for me. This is very typical of this genre. It's almost as though every author or person involved in the 'scene' is constantly explaining how consensual and safe engaging in this type of bed sport is; it's exhausting. I would much prefer being taken on a journey through the mind of both of these characters AS they experience the situation, not in some post conversation. Show me how consensual, safe, and sexy the situation is - don't tell me. I will say though, if you don't know much about 'the scene', you might learn something.
Also, as someone already mentioned, the book is in need of some editing, but the text remains easy to navigate.
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