Despite the old song, "It Takes Two", there are times when three is the magic number as the author so deftly shows us in this story. For me, this story got off to a little bit of a slow start as a result of the flashback scenes employed to set the stage. By midway in the story, I couldn't put the book down and by the 3/4 mark, I was entrapped in one of the most erotic, intimate, compelling stories I've read in a long time. I was so engaged that I put the book down because I didn't want it to be over.
Archer and Bennet are two men whose love was perfect in some ways yet the relationship just didn't work because of their too-similar needs in the bedroom. Even though they didn't make it as a couple, there was never a lack of caring. Each went his separate way with feelings of regret and neither found anything that came close to the love they had for each other.
It is sixteen years before Archer and Bennett meet again.
I met the members of this band in earlier books of this series and enjoyed the earlier stories. I felt that the author set a beautiful table for this series, set in multiple locations as the band was operating from an NYC base and touring nearly constantly. The name Downward Spiral, unfortunately, describes the current state of this band and it's members as we join Josh, the drummer for his story. Although Jude is the major character of this story, other members of the band are secondary characters integral to the story, especially Lincoln.
The quick rise to success with unanticipated fame with constant touring has negatively affected each member of the group, individually and as a group, but none more than Jude. His relationship with family and his own self-talk is a catalyst for a self-perpetuating cycle of behavior followed by guilt, followed by more bad behavior. Because he's been told he's worthless, and his own father didn't care enough to hold him accountable, he believes that he is worthless. He increasingly lives up to his own self-image and the image that he believes others hold of him. His self-defeating behavior continuously reinforces his belief that he is worthless. We join Jude, his band manager/friend Archer at a point when the situation has come to a breaking point. Something needs to change. Archer has taken responsibility for everything to do with the band, both personal and professional he finally reaches the conclusion that he needs help. Despite personal misgivings, he calls former lover Bennett who is a highly regarded celebrity handler. For Bennett, life is about structure and rules, consequences, punishments and reward and above all control. At loose ends, Bennett is interested in the challenge but he has more than handling Jude on his mind.
For some, this story could have triggers of self-harm, overdose.
This exciting and deeply satisfying story includes blazingly erotic, explicit sex, consensual dominance and submission and mild daddy kink.
I highly recommend this series, read in order. Although it is possible to read this as a standalone, the reader is doing his or herself a disservice by not starting at the beginning. Pardon me while I start again with Replay #1. This is so good!
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Three is definitely more fun.
What an amazing read this book is. This is the story of Downward Spirals Drummer Jude and his spiraling life with drugs and his fetish with having sex with prostitutes he feels that paying a prostitute their are no feelings involved. Archer is manager and secret crush hire his ex Bennett to try and pull Jude back in line and boy does he do that. This story will pull at your heart strings and I thoughly enjoyed it.
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- Fay's MM ReadsReviewed in Australia on May 13, 2019
Three guys that fit perfectly together.
