Review: The Deep End by Kristen Ashley

Title: The Deep End
By: Kristen Ashley
My Copy: Ebook from Publisher
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Enter a decadent sensual world where gorgeous alpha males are pleasure slaves committed to fulfilling a woman's every desire. At the elite Honey club, no boundary will be left untested, and one's darkest desires will become a sensual reality.

Olivier isn’t sure what he’s gotten himself into when he joins the Honey Club, only that a dark part of him craves the lifestyle offered by this secret, exclusive club.

When Amèlie invites Olivier to surrender, she pushes him to explore his deepest desires as a submissive. As they grow closer and find themselves falling harder than either of them anticipated, the truth about Olivier’s past could threaten the budding relationship they both long for.

Normally if you would have asked me to read a book about a Domme and her sub, I would have politely declined.  For some reason a relationship between a Domme and her sub is not something I go for when I pick up a book…except when Kristen Ashley writes it.  In fact, I just need to make a button that states, “Except when Kristen Ashley writes it” because everything that she does is just pure joy. She totally rocked this genre. 

I was slightly worried about how this was all going to work out.  KA writes alpha-males and she writes them well.  I pondered as to how she was going to deliver a male who is the sub in a relationship instead of the one that takes charge by calling all the shots and is the true alpha.  I guess this book is my lesson that I should never doubt KA and anything her brilliant mind writes because she made it work….oh, did she make it work.  While Amelie is a Domme, she finds herself attracted to an alpha-male sub (I didn’t even know a type like that existed) and there starts the whole story.

Amelie and Olivier were not the kind of couple that I would have normally fallen for but I did.  They are also not the kind of couple that I could see falling for each other but they did.  The dynamic between them was solid and perfect, leaving me feeling the sense of fulfillment when they were together.  Both were able to give each other something that the other craved and together they both learned to trust again.