It’s true that Noah and Tobias met in a private club, and use its facilities, but the sex is mostly between the two of them, so much that they talk about being exclusive almost from the beginning.

Probably the matching between Tobias and Noah is perfect right since both of them actually don’t want to go to the extreme of a D/s relationship, and that is exactly the level of BDSM that I can take.Īnother think that I can now appreciate in this series, is that, in the end, the sex between them is more intimate and less “scene” I really don’t like very much all the public display that most of the BDSM novels imply as ordinary.

So Noah is going through Doms like someone would go through boyfriends, testing each of them but finding them lacking. But for various reasons he has trusting issues, and so he cannot really fully depend on another man, something that is unbearable from most Doms out there. Noah is another character that has his job in his own blood, but in a different way than Tobias I think that Noah, a police officer, is always so focused in helping other people, in being good and in control, that in his private life he needs to let it go. Something that apparently I didn’t catch the first time I read this novel is that Tobias is not searching for a pain s**t, and that, if Noah was one, the relationship between them was never fated to start. Tobias invested a lot in a relationship with another sub, Phan, but he was not the right man for that job basically Tobias is a caretaker, he is a vet and he has the need to take care for other people embedded in his behaviour, he cannot really dish out extreme pain, not even if the other man is asking for it. I realize now, more or less 5 years later, that indeed this series is way more “mild” than other novels I read after that.īoth men involved in this relationship, the Dom Tobias and the sub Noah, come along with different needs clicking together. Pain/pleasure games, 24/7 D/s relationships, flogging, gagging, and on and on, was really too much for me at the time. I admit, I was not ready I remember that I started to read the first book, this one, but I was not able to continue. Elisa_rolle Deviations: Submission is like the 101 course about Gay BDSM Romance when you are a newbie in the genre, and you are like testing the water, it’s very likely that you will stumble upon this series, or at least it was like that for me.

Submission by Chris Owen