Love Unlimited (Love Language #4) Review

When you have everything you want, is it wrong to want more?

Dustin has the perfect summer to look forward to. His genderfluid boyfriend, Landon, is moving in so they can fully embrace the Daddy/boy dynamic they’ve both been craving. His best friend, Zhong, found an adorable partner in Ash, whose puppy play interests fit perfectly with an asexual Daddy.

And when the two couples spend time together, everything seems right.

Uniting two fragile, new relationships into a foursome could spell disaster. Or maybe their love for each other could be unlimited.

Love Unlimited has two Daddy Doms with very different age play styles, a fierce middle, an sweet little, impact play, puppy play, and a HEA for everyone. This is the fourth in the Love Language series celebrating Deaf characters and Deaf culture. It continues story lines from Love Lessons and Love Limits, which should be read first.

General Impressions

A new Reese Morrison book to make my week!!! And it's the end of the series so I might never see these characters again *crying*.

This is the sequel to "Love Lessons" and "Love Limits" so it might be best to begin there. And since you are there, "Love Language" is AWESOME.

"Love Unlimited" is not the regular "meet, fall in love, conquer all problems" romance arc or a quick read with a poly HEA and average kinky sex to spice up your day. This is a story about four regular people that love each other and are considering changing the parameters of their relationship(s). This book features healthy depictions of romance where there is plenty of talking and people taking their time with sex scenes hot as lava.

I think of this book as a slow-burn, but one where most romantic relationships are already formed and where the romance and/or physical intimacy takes a passenger seat compared to the existing bonds of care, respect and friendship. As a reader, I was both rooting for them to be together romantically and happy to see them be comfortable and happy hanging out as friends who loved each other.

These characters took their time knowing each other and themselves and changing their relationships only after making sure everyone was comfortable and knew what was going on and what to expect of an ethical polyamorous relationship where people got different things from different people and that was never seen as something sad or a lack on someone's part but people finding the most amount of happiness and care from those they loved.

It was so comforting to read a romantic story where physical intimacy meant more than sex and has different degrees of importance depending on the character and relationship and that just felt real: real people that were not Hollywood pretty being seen as desirable, real sex scenes that involved prep and cleaning up after and a believable depiction of different kinds of families and how queerness is seen by them.

This being a book about two pre-established romantic relationships, also allowed the author to immerse us not only on the romantic side of them but on the day to day like of being busy with work or meeting the partner's family as well as how to present their relationship depending on who they are around. I liked seeing that being portrayed as a personal choice and self-preservation rather than making a character feel pushed back into the closet or unsure about their partner's commitment.

Reese Morrison once again was able to write a romantic story without falling into any cliches of what a kinky relationship is supposed to look like. I particularly liked seeing scenes in which Doms were also taken care of, comforted, and reassured as much as their subs but most of all I loved seeing people's boundaries not be questioned or need an explanation to be respected. In romance books particularly, there's this idea that your boundaries change for THE ONE once they ask you about them and magically know how to make you conform to what is expected by them and society in the bedroom. Here that does not happen and penetrative sex is not the only kind of valid intimacy: people do what they want and are comfortable in the bedroom and it's still one of the HOTTEST books I have ever read (think Ao3 kind of hot!).

I am gonna miss these characters and the universe so much.

Thank you so much to the author for allowing me to read their book. I can barely wait for whatever they gift us with next.

Rating: 5/5