Review: Alphabet Soup

6:13 pm 25 November 2016
Alphabet Soup - C.B. Conwy

I absolutely loved this sweet hurt/comfort BDSM story, right up until one thing happened that totally ruined the book for me. I’m still kind of angry.

Andy, a 24 year old muscular carpenter knows he wants to sub, but he thinks someone has to beat him really hard for him to feel something.

It is clear to CK that Andy has suffered some sort of abuse in his past and that Andy has very strange ideas how a scene should be. Andy doesn’t need more abuse, he needs someone who cares about him.

Andy is not used to someone being bigger than him, but CK is. He is also sweet and considerate and wants to talk. About everything. CK wants to know what Andy likes, not just what he thinks he wants a Dom to do to him..

This had some very good hurt/comfort going on. Andy was very damaged and CK was just so sweet and understanding. I really loved these guys together. I also loved that there was no relationship angst whatsoever.

But then…. something happened that I really really hated.


CK wants Andy to understand more about a power exchange and how a real D/s scene should play out. So he arranges a sub, new to the scene, for Andy, so Andy can feel how it is to ‘play’ the Dom for once. I got that, I really did. But then CK left and Andy has a scene with the other guy. There is a bj involved and a handjob. I didn’t want that. I didn’t want to read about Andy telling the other guy he was hot on his knees while sucking him off. I wanted Andy with CK, not with someone else. Even though both CK and Andy talked about it and both agreed it is not cheating like this, since CK arranged it for him.

I can do a threesome in a BDSM relationship, I really can. But in this case CK wasn’t in the same room (he watched on a monitor in another room), and it didn’t feel right to me. I didn’t feel as if CK was involved in the scene, and that’s why it just felt like Andy had sex with someone else. And to top it off, the guy had a boyfriend who was waiting in the hall. The bf wanted the guy to get what he wanted but he himself couldn’t give it to him. The sub and the bf were both very hesitant about it. That all felt so wrong.

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That’s why I thought I’d give this book 4.5 stars, but eventually settled on 3. :(

Bdsm MM Hurt-Comfort