Silken

By: Isobel Starling

Narrated by: Gomez Pugh

Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's Summary

Matthew Fisher loved being a dancer, but his 10-year ballet career came to an abrupt end with a knee injury. He had to find a new way to make a living, and luckily, his sister was friends with Annabelle Ramsay-Aiken, only daughter of property magnate Sir James Aiken. She arranged an interview, and six months on the job training saw Matthew stepping out as a real estate agent for Aiken Luxury Lettings. Now, instead of stretching at the barre, Matthew spends his days inspecting the vacant London homes of their rich and famous clients.

Losing his dance career had left a huge hole in Matthew's heart, and to fill it Matthew began a Tumblr blog dedicated to his fetish for wearing lingerie. He wanted to give his followers the impression he lived a charmed life, so decided to use A.L.L properties as locations for erotic photo shoots.

One of his online followers presses all of Matthew's buttons, and a long distance, online Dom/sub relationship develops between them. But when the relationship suddenly moves from online fantasy to real life... can Matthew really submit?

Please Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of gay sex, BDSM, and cross-dressing.

©2017 Isobel Starling (P)2017 Isobel Starling

A prelude to something better

This audiobook is short but sets up what promises to be a great series.

So the question is: if you meet a Dominant through the internet and you follow the training he guides you through, are you truly a submissive? HIS submissive?

In this case, Matthew (Silken) is a ballet dancer whose career has ended prematurely due to a knee injury. He has taken a job tending rich people’s residences. He is surrounded by luxury he will never himself enjoy.

He is not defeated and his relationship with the mysterious online Dom (Austin82) keeps him going. Exclusive – or so he believes – he follows his Master’s every command with the promise of a fulfilling relationship.

There are some quirky twists and turns, along with some intriguing and hot sex scenes. Who knew suction cups would be so useful? I love the theme of men enjoying sexy lingerie and the touch of BDSM adds heat, which I always enjoy.

Gomez Pugh is one of my favourite narrators and given that Matthew is British and the series takes place in London, I would have expected a British narrator. Pugh, however, does a great job. His accent for Matthew is good, but his deep and husky Austin is amazing.

I recommend this short fun and sexy read.

Silken

I’ve been wanting to check this book out, the blurb was really intriguing. I love books with MC’s who love lingerie, and a bonus Matthew/Silken is a dancer as well. I kinda hated Austin, but that’s personal preference and not against the Authors writing. And I really wanted to Love this book. But. I think if I would have just “Read” the book instead of “listening” to the Audio. I would have liked it better. I did think the Sexy scenes were Great & the BDSM was written well! Totally HOT! But. There was something about the narrator, he wasn’t bad, but he just didn’t work for me specifically on this book.

Cross-Dressing, Bondage and Dominance, Oh My!

-=> A 2 hour Look into an M/M, D/s, Bondage and cross-dressing relationship that has developed online but comes to fruition.Matthew a.k.a. 'Silken' WAS a dancer In Great Britain until the catastrophic injury left him out in the cold. Now he is a property manager with a dominant partner, online only, from America.To say anything more would spoil for potential listeners, so I will have to leave it at that. Sorry…

Be warned or if you wish to indulge, please reread the 1st line of my review for ALL that this short story includes.

Gomez Pugh's Performance was a bit slow for my liking. That was easily fixed by speeding up the playback to 1.2 5xon my Audible app, then it was nearly perfect. I love his British accent, as well.

Credit worthy? Probably not, as it is short and the MSRP is very reasonable. I would recommend buying it out right\, as the price is very reasonable – and less than the cost of credit.

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Great Narration

This was a great short read. Full disclosure, it is a M/M romance. The narration was great! As in most short stories, there is a decent amount of build up to a tasty treat at the end. I am not new to the BDSM genre and can say this fell on the tamer side so if you are looking for an entry and prefer M/M storylines, this is a great read for you. I look forward to reading more of Isobel's work. My only thought is that I felt like it ended to soon when we got to the juicy part :) Still liked it though!

Note: I received this book in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion. It in no way affected my opinion.

Short and sweet.

This is a new to me author. and I have found that I really like stuff. ( I highly recommend “ as You Wish”) This story is good. It is a great look into a crossdresser, how they feel, and his Master. To me, it shows just how connected a this type of relationship can be.

Gomez Pugh In this book seemed to be reading a little slow. But it was nothing speeding it up to X1.25 didn’t solve. Once I did that, he was great.

I voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

A sexy young man in lace

An online Dom and a sexy young man in lace - yum! I fell in love with Matthew and Jack. The storyline is both sweet and melancholy, and Gomez Pugh did an excellent job of conveying the characters' emotions. I especially loved his raspy voice for Jack. The only drawback was the ending, which was rather abrupt and unexpected. I would have liked the story to have been longer.

Fantastic

I was delighted to find that this was set in Aiken Luxury Lettings world. Matthew was a dancer whose career was cut short by an injury. Turning to a blog for comfort, he finds himself in an online Dom/sub relationship. As part of that relationship, Matthew is set goals. He meets those goals as he works for A.L.L. Real life now interferes with his online relationship and Matthew has to decide if he can submit without the internet as a buffer. I loved the way Isobel Starling brought these two men to life. They quickly become so much more to you. Listening to it on tape made it even better. I lvoe how audio beings books to life.

What do a silver fox, a nosy apartment manager, and a drawer of silk panties have in common?!! HEAT!!

Sooo, I listened to this hot little 🔥🔥number some months back and forgot to review it. It’s still stuck in my head and that says a lot considering all of the books I read and listen to. But then, Isobel Starling is amazing and Gomez Pugh does a delectable sexy and tension-filled narration. 👏👏

One last word: MANTIES!!! 😱🔥🔥🔥

A short but egregious BDSM novella.

This was a really good BDSM novella. Isobel Starling has an uncanny way of combining kink and sweetness.
Gomez Pugh was a new to me narrator, and I simply loved his voice.

Short, sexy and voyeuristic

I'm a big fan of Isobel's writing style and Gomez's narrating skills. Even though this is a short story, I think it showed enough relationship building with an interesting premise. It hit the spot during the drive to doctor's office 😁
💗
The author and the narrator did a great job!

"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Nice little hot book

Hot short D/S story with a little lingerie and online action. Narration is really good

A good short audio

If you've not got long then this will keep you busy for a bit. Not sure about the accents on the audio.
But it's OK.

as good as the ebook

The story is always 4 or 5 stars, because if I wouldn't like the story as ebook, I wouldn't listen to the audiobook.

The performance from the narrator is also very important for me. I can't listen to a lot, because my English as a non-native-speaker isn't so perfect to follow a whole story over hours, when the narrator speaks too fast or too sloppy. Normally I have to SEE the person, who is talking to me in English. It took me a little bit, to come into the narrator, but at the end, it worked. I only have to take a few breaks between. I'm just not yet finish with the book, but I listen enough to give a review.

PLEASE READ MY RATING SYSTEM!!!

To my ratings:

5* - very very good
it's like an A+

4* - very good and will be often re-listening
it's like an A

3* - it's more then a one-time-listening, but not more then twice a year.
it's like a B

So hot and sweet!

Such a hot and sweet story! The characters and narrator really pulled me in. I highly recommend this book!

Excellent

Such a perfect short story and exquisitely narrated by Gomez Pugh. I was spellbound listening to it.

Awesome

I listen to this book.it is so good, Matthew career came to an end of a knee injury Matthew was a ballet star, finding another job he fines he can become his true self, it was a fantastic book to listen to, Gomez Pugh was outstanding with the characters, it was concise in content and very enjoyable. Highly recommended.