Review – How to Train Your Dom in Five Easy Steps by Josephine Myles

How to Train Your Dom really was a surprise for me in how much I just flat out enjoyed it.  ~ Leigh, Guilty Pleasures 

Description:
Sometimes the little head really does know best.

Jeff White’s needs are simple. All he wants is a submissive to help him explore the dominant side that his ex-girlfriend couldn’t handle. Problem is, inexperience in both dating and domming has resulted in a string of rejections.

What he needs is an experienced sub willing to show him the ins and outs of controlling a scene. Unfortunately, the only one willing to take him on is male, and Jeff is straight. One hundred percent, never-gonna-happen straight.

Easygoing painslut Eddie Powell doesn’t care that Jeff is younger, working class, and shorter. Eddie likes a bit of rough, and Jeff fits the bill perfectly. The trick will be convincing him to follow Eddie’s five-step training programme—which would be easy if Eddie wasn’t starting to have feelings for the rough-around-the-edges landscaper.

Once Jeff lays his hands on Eddie, things definitely get out of hand. But it’ll take more than hot, sweaty, kinky sex to persuade him to come out of the closet—especially to himself.

Warning: Contains a happy sub, a confused Dom, a high ratio of sex to plot, misuse of root ginger, and a suitcase of kink. Written in Jo’s usual exceedingly “English” English.

Review copy provided for an honest review

After perusing the summary of this book, I was chomping at the ball gag to read it. Seriously, anything that is described as “a high ratio of sex to plot” sounds good to me! But I got a lot more than I was expecting packed into five easy steps.

Don’t get me wrong. There WAS a high ratio of sex to plot! No complaints there. But there was also a relationship growing, and I did not expect the tenderness that lay beneath the rough exterior.

As the pain slut sub, Eddie is just adorable. He is cheeky and easygoing and exactly the opposite of Jeff, who is gruff and brusque and adamantly not gay. Eddie is extremely likeable, cajoling the blue-collar landscaper Jeff into a relationship that blossoms without him even knowing it. Jeff, on the other hand, is portrayed as basically an overbearing boor. He says whatever comes to mind, no matter how insensitive, and doesn’t seem to give a thought to anyone else’s feelings. But as we get to know him, we see a different side to the man that Eddie saw all along. We see someone that is looking to earn another person’s trust and find that person he can love. We find a man that is not uncaring, just unrefined.

I was expecting to be put off by a lot of little things in the description, but they all actually worked for me. Jeff being younger, shorter, more blue collar than his posh sub Eddie was not the turn off that I expected it to be. These characters were both just adorable in their own way, and the book was steeped so much with a British feel and English colloquialisms that I found it to be actually charming and funny.

How to Train Your Dom really was a surprise for me in how much I just flat out enjoyed it. Give me anything with a BDSM flavor and I will be happy, but this book really was so much more than just a sub mentoring someone in how to be a good Dom. It was about someone learning to accept who they really were and to accept and appreciate love where they found it.

And let’s be honest, anything where a man wears a leather kilt can’t be bad, can it??

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