Title: Snowed In
Series: Hunt & Cam 4Ever: Book Three
Author: Adira August
Publisher: Self-Published/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 148 Pages
Category: BDSM, Contemporary
At a Glance: Adira August has said that as long as these guys are talking to her, she will continue to write this series. Oh, I hope these guys keep talking to her for a really long time!
Reviewed By: Carrie
Blurb: Trapped by the blizzard outside…
Hunter Dane & Camden Snow contend with the storm raging inside.
In the pre-dawn darkness, Hunt moaned and thrashed under the comforter. Finally, the nightmare receded. He settled, breathed deeply several times, and opened his eyes.
“You okay?” Cam asked.
“Sure,” Hunter smiled, half-awake, not remembering. “I’m here with you. Safe inside the storm. Away from … all the crap of the last few weeks.”
Cam moved his hands over Hunt’s body, soothing and gentling. “Safe inside the storm.” Not safe from the storm, but safe inside of it. Isolated. Protected. Safe.
But Cam knew Hunter wasn’t safe; his demons came with him: a dark and twisted possession by blood and cruelty and murder. Being snowed-in for days would allow the darkness to eat away at Hunt until his very skin would seem too small. He’d beg Cam for the flogger. And hate Cam for denying him.
There was a solution, but the so-called “Full Metal Dom” was afraid. So very afraid the fragile bonds between them would not survive.
To help Hunter, he had to do the one thing he swore he would never do.
Review: Ok, I don’t know about you, but I have been carrying around a great deal of anxiety about our two favorite boys since the ending of the previous book. But, as Elsa says… “Let it go, let it go!” Ha! All that ANGST! Just rolling off the shoulders! The intensity and the tautness of the emotions with these two men up until now has had me strung on a wire, and we have finally reached a softer, more loving point in Hunter and Cam’s relationship. That is what this book is all about. It gives us Hunter’s total submission and capitulation to the reality of a loving, symbiotic relationship with Camden. We needed this as readers. This is the taking-a-breath book. The one where our main characters are not involved in any superfluous activities or police investigations, and totally focused on just each other and the cementing and acceptance of what they mean to each other. Even though there are no dead bodies in this one, you still need to pay attention. Adira August is an intelligent writer. Each of her paragraphs have meaning, and her characters have depth and levels of emotion and perception.
This is not a standalone book. We have been on a journey with these guys, and frankly, this book is EXACTLY what we, the audience, needed to be able to solidify our trust in this relationship. Because it has been so intense, we needed the steadying influence of the realizations that Hunter and Cam BOTH experience in this story. It’s a love story, with a bit of total power exchange thrown in to spice things up a bit. As if we needed that with these two …. Adira August says it best in her forward to the story, ‘This is a culmination.’ We have been building and building layer upon layer of emotional groundwork for how Hunter and Cam will be able to stand together for the books and stories to come. Everything has been up in the air, they have given everything to each other, and now they need to recognize that fact and build and prepare for their future. All the deep, dark demons that have plagued Hunter have, for the moment, been exorcised. They have spent so much time in service to each other (in their respective roles) that they haven’t looked up and noticed what they have built together.
It all began in On His Knees, when Hunter first comes to the realization he needs Cam, and only Cam, to dominate him, to humiliate him, to own him. From there we moved to Matchstick Men, where Cam realizes he wants Hunter forever but needs Hunter to find his own pathway to both him and the same realization. Cam becomes a surety for Hunter, the man who grounds him in reality when his demons want to take over. Next comes Dancing Men, where our MCs learn they are compatible outside the BDSM aspects of their lives. Cam is more than just a pretty boy Olympian; we find depth in Cam with this installment in the series. Up till now, it has pretty much been about Hunter and his needs. In Dancing Men, we discover needs within Cam, and begin to see how Hunter is the yin to Cam’s yang. Finally we get to Snowed In, and for once, Hunter finds peace—peace in Cam, peace within himself, peace with his world.
“It’s the connection, I think. The touching opens a channel and energy flows. It might sound fanciful, but I don’t know another way to explain it.” He went back to the couch, sat next to Cam and took his hand. “Every time we were together, you touched me. Until the parking lot, when you left and wouldn’t kiss me, when you thought about leaving me. “That’s when I got crazy, when I could barely do my job for the fear we’d never touch each other again. I couldn’t deal with what was really not a very bad case. But now, all through the storm, you touched me or made me touch you.” Hunter smiled. “I don’t need breaking, Cam. I don’t think I’ll ever need that again. You put yourself in me. Now, I’m always touched.”
Book five, Psychic Men, comes out in the spring of 2018, and Adira August has said that as long as these guys are talking to her, she will continue to write this series. Oh, I hope these guys keep talking to her for a really long time! We have had parallel storylines going on in these books, Cam and Hunter’s growing relationship, and the police investigations Hunter is involved in. Now that our main characters are somewhat committed, these books can explore more crime and mysterious pathways. I am really looking forward to Psychic Men, and I absolutely recommend this whole series from book one onward.
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