Yes, Master by Margaret McHeyzer with Giveaway

Synopsis

***** THIS PROLOGUE CONTAINS DISTRESSING CONTENT. IT IS ONLY SUITED FOR READERS OVER 18. *****

ALSO CONTAINS M/M, M/M/F, M/F AND F/F SCENES!!!

My uncle abused me. I was 10 years old when it started. At 13 he told me I was no longer wanted because I had started to develop. At 16 I was ready to kill him. Today, I’m broken. Today, I only breathe to survive. My name’s Sergeant Major Ryan Jenkins and today, I’m ready to tell you my story. “Master would flog me if I did, she won’t be happy when I tell her what happened here.” “Master?” “Stella.” Oh, Master.    

Excerpt

I startle awake as I leap off the bed and sprawl on the floor. “Ry!” Mason yells from the other side of the door. I jump up off the floor and swing the bedroom door open. “You scared the shit out of me, Mason.” I run my hand over my eyes and face trying to wake up. “What do you want, man?” But I’m met with silence. When I look over at Mase, he’s staring at my body. He’s mouth’s open and his eyes are so wide. He rakes his stare down my body, then back up again. He lifts an eyebrow as he ogles me. I look down and notice I’m completely naked. I fell asleep on my bed with just the towel wrapped around me and he scared me with his bashing that now I’m standing before him totally exposed. He’s not moving away, and neither am I. “Mason.” I lower my voice as he looks up at me and just stares. He can see straight through me, totally bare and open, for him to see all my secrets. “We need to leave in an hour,” Mase says as he takes a step closer to me. I can feel his heat, and my body instantly reacts to him. Don’t be a coward Ryan, just reach out and touch him. His brown eyes turn from a hard brown into a molten chocolate as we stand a mere step apart from each other. Our breathing is labored and rapid. Mason reaches forward and brings his hand up to my chest, but before he touches me, his demeanor changes and he retracts it, dropping it beside his body. “I can’t,” he whispers as he turns away from me and goes into his bedroom. My head spins as I close my door and stand completely ashamed in my room. He doesn’t want me. Why would he? I’m broken.

 

Kota's Review

When you see a Blurb with a warning such as this heed it…  I mean really HEED it – because this prologue is confronting, heart wrenching and written with such technique that it is nothing if not believable.  I suspect no one here will enjoy this prologue… but it is however essential to this story.

Yes, Master is essential the story of Ryan Jenkin’s struggle with life after his repeated, violent and degrading years of abuse at the hands of someone who is trusted with the care of a child.

I found this story hard to put down while I was torn with the feelings it evoked.  Predominantly from a male POV, the emotion was …  ughhhh…  still today I struggle with the emotion.  I may react to this book differently to others.  I see the techniques and behaviours of grooming and abuse on an almost daily basis with my ‘other’ job.  This book hit the nail on the head with the power abusers have over their victims, the insidious nature of the abuse they perpetrate and the perfect grooming of the adults around them that enable them access and opportunity.  

The emotional void that Ryan was left with, and the external shell that was his life to the outside world was so well represented of a proportion of victims.  Ms McHeyzer thank you for not sugar coating the reality of this horrendous epidemic that exists for our children past and present.

Moving past how Ryan became so broken takes us to his journey from the brink to regaining some self worth.  This is where Stella, Mason, Lucy, and Jo play relevant and integral roles in this story.  Mason and Ryan have been best friends since they were very young.  Now in their mid-thirties life has been hard for them both.  Underpinning their relationship is an attraction that they have both been hiding for a number of reasons.

Mason meets Stella…  who is his Domme.  Mason introduces Stella to Ryan…  and welcome to the world of Yes, Master!  

I found the BDSM story engaging.  I don’t claim to know about the lifestyle, but I found this story to be believable in the way it was depicted.  Watching the relationships between Mason and Ryan; Ryan and Stella and Mason and Stella develop and evolve kept the pages turning.  

The linking of the conflicted emotions between sex and sex acts with Ryan’s abuse and his trauma responses made these interactions full of compassion and sensitivity all the while he explored his ability to regain control over his life.

This story wraps up in a perfect – karma is a bitch ending, and while there were elements of the story that I wish were unpacked further for Ryan, Stella and Mason – this one really gripped me.  It was for me, hard to compartmentalise the fact that my heart was breaking for Ryan, while simultaneously beating because of the sex…  

As far as I am concerned, this was a confronting story told with brutal honesty, but with compassion.  It is explicit, it contains M/M scenes in graphic details – if you are faint of heart, not a fan of M/M and details bother you – steer clear.  If you like real, gritty, confronting, sexual, compassionate stories and M/M is not a turn off give this a go…  I am rating this 4 hearts, missing the last heart solely because I needed more depth from the other characters, and more details from Ryan’s past relationships to enable me to truly celebrate this journey. 

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About the Author

I don't do 'normal'. I've found that the more I write, the more I like being different to other authors. I write in first person, and I love to challenge a reader. I take the normal and switch it around. For me, I really enjoy getting a reaction from a reader. So if I can evoke an emotion (regardless of if it's the emotion the reader wants) then I figure that I've done my job as an author I want to be. I really quite revel in taking people out of their comfort zones and pushing them to read something different. My genre of writing is, well quite frankly, where ever my mind goes. I won't label myself because I don't like sticking to one genre. My goal with writing is just to take people away from whatever is going on in their lives, even if it's only for a split second. I'm a go with the flow sort of person and don't really take a course of action to get where I am going. I live in the moment and don't usually worry about tomorrow because whatever life is due to bring me, I'll be happy to accept. I love my family and friends and will help anyway I can if someone needs it. I really don't like people that are nasty just because they can be, I don't believe that's necessary, I mean life's hard enough as it is! I hope you enjoy my books, I've had a hoot writing them. There's more to come..... Til next time. M xx

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