A review by bitchie
For Real by Alexis Hall

5.0

This was amazing and sweet and sad and sexy, all at once. I always love when an author switches PoVs, and really makes me see BOTH guys as unique individuals, and not the same exact voice. I loved how Laurie is posh and experienced, even while being insecure and lonely, and how Toby is, in so many ways, a typical 19 year old. Even his thoughts are rambly and young and all over the place. I don't pretend to understand the whole BDSM thing, why you'd need to submit your everything to someone else, but I do love it when an author can make me at least kind of get it. I never got why Laurie and Toby wanted or needed what they did, but I got that it was a real thing for them, and that's ok, for him and people like him and Toby. Sometimes, I feel like I haven't loved enough, or in the right ways, because I've never had that feeling of "anything you want me to do" for another person, I just don't get it, but I loved seeing it here.