K.L. Hiers

Ah smut. I'm typically a little more circumspect about including unbashedly smutty smut on my goodreads page - I definitely have some, but it makes up a very small percentage of what I actually read.

I vaguely try to keep this profile PG13 I suppose.

But oh gosh. This is literally 25 short vignettes about kinky smut. Something for almost everyone (assuming you like kink, fetishes, m/m smut, bdsm...) with some sweet moments and amusing moments.

Chapter 6 remains my favorite chapter, but Jimmy trying to stay in "character" when role-playing with Boss Cold was so fun. Boss Cold's careful attentiveness before, during and after their lessons. Smaller family-ish moments between the two.

All so adorable and sexy.… (altro)

Before any one says a word - smut. This is Plot filled smut. Character driven smut? Emotional smut?

Whatever - there's a lot to enjoy here beyond the kinky sex.

Maury the Mouth being a softie. Jerry being so gods damned patient. Rowena being so BAMF.

I'm not saying this is a SWEET book, but its definitely a book wherein Hiers spent time considering everything. Giving equal attention to the building relationship between Boss Cold and Jimmy as to how the world fits together.

Now for me - very much outta my wheelhouse. Its m/m (and not adorable m/m, its hardcore), its kinky, its violent, and the worst sin--its CONTEMPORARY, but after reading the sample I had to read it.

Partially cause it has an origination in a favorite ship fandom, but mostly because hot damn Boss Cold is brutally gorgeous. Don't mind me, he said, just fucking up all your careful ideas about acceptable behavior.

Tease me, taunt me, wreck me - baby I'm sick for want of a villain.

Anyhow - while its not hard to guess certain elements (Hiers does a bang up job with the secondary characters, but there's no hiding a prick like Corman), there's a gratifying sense of NAILED IT when pieces come together.

(Gods I can hear Boss Cold making a bad joke if Jimmy said "Nailed It" in his hearing)

Looking forward to the next book!!… (altro)

Hmm so the bulk of this book takes place about a year after the end of COLD HARD CASH (the prologue not withstanding). Which means Jimmy has had a YEAR of trusting Boss Cold.

Yet our precious idiot is really bad when he's panicked...which he's panicked a lot.

There isn't AS MUCH of my favs (Rowena and Doc Queen), but I was dazzled by how Cold got most of the characters in the book to do what he wanted. Mostly.

God damned onions.

Smut runs amok here, with all new bedroom (or not so bedroom) games each chapter, but Hiers does a good job of balancing everything.

Having read the short story collection after this (A COLD HARD COLLECTION), that's kinda the end of the road (I think) for Cold and Jimmy. STRAPPED FOR CASH is about Mickey and Roger meeting (so a prequel book), which I'll read, tho maybe not quite as fervently as the others (I like Mickey and Roger, I like Boss Cold being the actual front and center moreso).… (altro)