REVIEW: 'All About the Boy' by P.A. Friday
Title: All About the Boy
Author: P.A. Friday
Published: July 25, 2016
Publisher: NineStar Press
Cover Artist: Natasha Snow
Genre: Erotica; Contemporary Romance
Length: 49 Pages
Tags: Gay; M/M; Bisexual; Anthology; BDSM; Novelette; CW: Dub-Con; CW: Kink; CW: Violence
BLURB:
Some men like gentle loving—others like to switch up the power. In P.A. Friday’s collection of stories, explore the raunchier, edgier side of lust—a space where domination and control can be the greatest turn-on.
From Stefan finding out the hard way just how straight he isn’t, Jake who has to learn to behave or take his punishment, to Kel juggling two very different lovers at his workplace, doing what you’re told has never been sexier.
Excerpt from Publisher:
Usually, Jake liked to do as he was told. He obeyed Alessandro’s every whim and behaved impeccably—especially in the presence of his master’s friends.
Usually.
It was not because he feared punishment that he did so, either. Far from it. It was because he loved the look on his master’s face when Jake was obedient. That expression of pride in his boy—in Jake—and the warmth of his smile. Jake would do anything for that look.
Still, there was one of Alessandro’s friends to whom Jake couldn’t take. No matter how many times he met the man, he didn’t warm to him—had, in fact, an instinctive revulsion towards him. In his presence, the temptation to disregard his usual obedience was always strong. It wasn’t the fact that Leo had once been Alessandro’s lover—Alessandro had had, and continued to have, any number of lovers. Indeed, with Alessandro’s permission, several had played with or been pleasured by Jake. But when it came to Leo, the rules changed.
4 HEART READ
REVIEW:
If you're looking for a reprieve from sweet, fun-loving, HEA reads P.A. Friday’s anthology All About the Boy will give you just that with three very different tales.
In a scant 49 pages Friday manages to give you a few bold and tantalizing liaison’s which are as diverse as they are fierce in their delivery. Not over the top but just the right amount of primal illustration to grab your attention and torment your imagination.
Pretty Little Straight Boy begins with four friends since high school on a camping adventure. Finding themselves drunk, and bold, they decide to play a game of hide and seek.
When the meek seeks out and finds the strong the penance he delivers ends up being a role reversal that ultimately transforms a gay man and a perceived straight man, as they both find what it is they didn’t know they needed. In each other.
Be prepared to squirm just a little bit here as the “prep” for taking such a well-endowed man was minimal at best. But overall this short was very delicious in its telling of power exchange.
Making Amends takes you on a completely different journey as you witness a typically well-mannered submissive being reprimanded by his Master for his disrespect toward a visiting friend.
Not only does the punishment result in the sub visiting the playroom for the first time but the second half of the discipline has him making amends to the disrespected himself. And leaves you wondering if this is a one-time thing or a new arrangement.
I found Making Amends to test my limits on how comfortable I was with the dynamics of this particular type of correction.
Office Politics, brings a whole new meaning to said term as Kel does some sexual “juggling”. Giving to and taking from his employees.
An exhibitionist at heart, obviously, he flips both sides of the coin from Dom to sub. But his dominant partner is about to take things too far and Kel’s only hope lies in the man he just dominated.
This last of the stories is a little rough in its interactions and skirts the line of sexual abuse, almost as in a date rape scenario, but in the same regard doesn’t leave you feeling as if Kel was overly violated.
As a whole the stories in All About the Boy were a gritty escape for the mind. They may appeal to those who are tempted by taboo but aren’t sure just how much they can endure. P.A. Friday gives you a peek at a little dominance, in consensual forms, and then takes you right to the edge without tipping you over. It is worth an hours-time to check this one out.
An advanced reader copy of All About the Boy was provided to Kimmers’ Erotic Book Banter, by NineStar Press, in exchange for our fair and honest opinion.
P.A. Friday fails dismally to write one sort of thing and, when not writing erotica and erotic romance of all sexualities, may be found writing articles on the Regency period, pagan poetry, or science fiction. She loves wine and red peppers, and loathes coffee and mushrooms.
