He’s fair and he just wants what he wants. He’s into some shady business but regardless of that, he’s actually a pretty good guy. Erik is the kind of character that I really like. Erik is quite open about who he is and what he likes. He’s finding his way and even as the time goes by, he still falls back on the thoughts that it’s wrong to want to have sex with men and even the submission to another man, makes is so very much worse to Reuben.Įrik is the other MC in this book. Having his freedom taken from him and being forced to be slavery to someone, not just the play submitting that he’d been doing is hard for him to grasp. Yet, when he gets his hearts wish, it’s not the way in which he wants. He’s this young guy who loves to submit, being forced makes him feel good about the fact that he’s not supposed to be that way. Reuben is this character that at times you wanted to hold on tightly and let him know that it’s all going to be ok and at others, you wanted to smack some sense into him.

I’ve not had the chance to read about pet play/pony play before and this truly opened my eyes to something new. REVIEW: This book was so different from what I’ve read in the past. Erik is a kind master, and one that Reuben thinks he could grow to love… but the power of his shame and his self-hate rise up inside him, threatening to tear him away from the love-and the lifestyle-that he could never have brought himself to openly desire. But when his compatriot betrays him, Reuben awakens to shackles, a filthy dungeon, and the knowledge that he is going to be forced to battle captive zombies for the entertainment of the Bylondon underworld.When he’s claimed, instead, by a powerful and stunning member of Bylondon’s ruling family, Reuben is willing to serve in whatever way ensures that he’ll see another day, even if that means training to become the perfect human horse. Discontented with his state of existence and with his own secret and self-destructive attraction to men, Reuben, the son of a baker, is convinced to engage in an act of rebellion against his father.

Pride by K.A. Merikan