AUDIO REVIEW: Worth the Risk by Kate Hawthrone (Giving Consent #1)

- March 03, 2023

WORTH THE RISK

Giving Consent - Book One

by Kate Hawthorne

Release Date: August 14, 2018

Review

It’s easy to see Kate’s love of kink and men with emotional baggage in this book. Worth the Risk is heavy on both.

Gregory and Landon broke up just before College when Landon decided not to attend the same school as Gregory. It left them both broken. And like all events in our lives, the men interpret what transpired differently. Both are hurt and angry.

When they run into each other at the kink club Landon owns, emotions run high. It’s not easy to sort their way through. Trying to reconnect as boyfriends and Dom/Sub. Especially as Landon is quick to emotion and quick to bolt.

They have an intense BDSM relationship that was interesting to see coalesce, but there was also intense love. All the more so as an audiobook.

If you’ve never listened to a BDSM audiobook while at work…we’ll your work day is missing out! My day definitely flew by.

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Synopsis

At eighteen, Landon Miller was sure about two things--he was a submissive and he was going to be with Gregory Douglas for the rest of his life. That was until parents and school got in the way, and he found himself in New York, thousands of miles from the man who had learned how to take him in hand. Feeling abandoned by the person he’d come to rely on, Landon has no choice but to set his sights on a new and lonely future.

Years later, behind the bar at Rapture, the BDSM club he’s built on a foundation of disillusioned dreams and broken bricks, Landon finds himself face to face with his favorite memory and greatest regret—Gregory.

Seeing his first love again is the only inspiration Gregory needs to commit himself to forging his way toward the future he always envisioned…one with Landon yielding and bending to his command. Determined to recapture the magic of their first love, Gregory works to right the wrongs of their past so they can move on together.

Battling through the resentment from their youth, Landon is unexpectedly called back to New York, and Gregory can’t help but fear the past is repeating itself. Fighting familiar feelings of helplessness, he makes the decision to give Landon what he needs, even if that means not chasing after the man he adores…again. Gregory can only hope when Landon returns, he won’t throw away the love they’ve fought and risked everything for.

Worth the Risk is the first book in the Giving Consent Series. It is a 78,000 words of kinky, steamy, second-chance BDSM romance.

About Kate Hawthorne

With over two dozen published romances to her name, Kate Hawthorne has built a recognizable brand around telling emotional stories that pack a figurative (and sometimes literal) punch. Existing on a steady diet of wine and coffee, Kate spends her days dreaming up angsty stories full of heat, kink, and heart. Kate now lives in Louisville, where she spends her time writing romance, reading romance, and hiding from the humidity

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