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< The Best Revenge > < St. Nacho's > < Happy Onion > < Horizons > < Rush in the Dark: Common Powers 2 > < Acting Naughty > Andrew Grey

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Tyler O'Connor, a successful antiques dealer, meets aspiring artist Mark Burke when Mark's mother decides to sell some of her antiques collection. Tyler is enchanted by the quiet, reserved artist and works up the courage to ask Mark to dinner. Despite the date's success and their mutual attraction, Mark's happiness takes a blow when his mother learns that he is gay and throws him out of the house. Unsure of where to go, Mark shows up on Tyler's doorstep and finds shelter. Tyler's encouragement and support help kick-start Mark's career, especially when Mark finds that Tyler inspires him in the bedroom as well as the studio. But they're daunted when bad memories of the past, struggles in the present, and fear for the future strain Mark and Tyler's budding relationship. As the old saying goes, the best revenge is living well-and in this case-loving well, and with that in mind, Mark and Tyler go in search of happily ever after.
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< The Best Revenge > < St. Nacho's > < Happy Onion > < Horizons > < Rush in the Dark: Common Powers 2 > freaks

< Cheating Chance > < The Assignment > < Under My Skin (Books I&II) > < The Good Thief > < Crossing Borders > < With Caution > James Buchanan

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(Gritty, Real and Hot)

(Excellent Read!)

(Cheating Chance by James Buchanan)

(Cheating Chance)

(Sensual romance, exciting plot and fascinating characters.)

Buchanan, James. "Cheating Chance", MLR Press, 2008.

Gritty, Real and Hot

Amos Lassen

Brandon Carr is a vice detective who is deep in the closet even though he has tattoos and swaggers with "bad boy cool". He has built himself his own little world but it begins to crack when he meets gaming agent Nick O'Malley at a Goth convention. Nick lusts for Brandon and he tries hard to break Brandon's cool. Together they begin a sexual affair which begins to move to a more serious level. Together the two men begin a probe of cheating, drugs, murder and money and the investigation influences their relationship and causes it to come to an end. The two men seem to be total opposites; Brandon keeps his desires hidden with him in the closet while Nick is out and perfectly comfortable with whom he is. Nick wants love and Brandon avoids it. Nick knows how he feels about Brandon but fate and karma work against that. Yet when Nick finds himself in a situation he cannot control, Brandon is there to get him out.
While Nick is Goth with long black hair and teeth like fangs, Brandon is typically he-male but when they meet they enjoy a night of passion. Both men are difficult. Brandon can be sweet and loving when alone with Nick but cold and detached in public but he realizes that having Nick is better than not having him. As the two men get more involved in the investigation, the differences come to the surface more and more. Nevertheless I found myself loving both men.
The book tends to be quite dark and the thriller is more obvious than the romance. The sex is hot and sometimes kinky but there is something to learn here about casinos and what kind of life a vice detective leads. This is first-rate erotica and its two characters are extremely endearing.

Finally! I just finished reading Buchanan's new one CHEATING CHANCE, and it did not disappoint. James Buchanan is now on my auto buy list...man can he write! If you can, pick up EVERYTHING by this author, you'll love it. Buchanan rocks!!!
Nick is an agent for the Eletronic Services for Gaming Control at Las Vegas and he is also a goth guy with long black hair, almost fangs like a vampire and with an heaser for car. If not for his tanned skin of Native American descendant, he would be the perfect vampire. At a goth convention he meets Brandon, a cop from North California. After a night of passion Brandon says they can see again but that he is in the closet at home and he is not ready or willing to correct this position. And Nick is rebounding after a bad breakup with his last lover. Not the best fundaments for starting a lasting relationship but they try.

But Brandon's attitude when they are in public, his continuing flirting with girls, and the murder of one of Nick's former colleague, soon after they spoke on phone, puts Nick on top of suspects.

Both Brandon and Nick are difficult characters. They are not typical, not full good heroes and not at all bad boy. In looks they are maybe more bad boy, but Nick is also a sentimental character. He is jelaous and he is still trying to overcome the inferiority's feeling left him by his former lover. And the reaction he has when said former lover pissed him off is a clearly proof of his sentimental and hot nature.

Brandon instead is like Dr Jeckill and Mr Hyde: he can be soo sweet and loving when he is alone with Nick, and then so cold and detached when he is in public. Maybe not the right choice for one like Nick that in this moment would need a bit of reassurance. But still Brandon manages to outweight the bad moments with the good ones: in the end not having him is a lot worst than having him with some issue they have to overcome.

Cheating Chance is a good thriller, more adventure than romance, and even if the sex is a bit kink and there is a good bondage scene, it's not overly erotic (and it's not a complaint, I want to say that there is a good mix of sex and story...)

Nick O'Malley is an agent for the Nevada gaming commission. Brandon Carr is a vice detective. They meet at a goth convention. Nicky is goth all the way. Brandon is full of piercing and tattoos. They hit it off and spend the rest of the weekend in Nicky's hotel room but Nicky lives in Las Vegas and Brandon lives in California.

Nicky works as a field agent but also in the lab sometimes. He's doing the work ups on a few slot machines when he gets a call from a friend asking him to send him some of those parts. Not long after Nicky talks to him, he's murdered. Pretty soon Nicky's knee deep in possible Mafia connections, drug money and hired thugs. Nicky's got problems in his personal life too. His ex-boyfriend is sniffing around him again and he's falling hard for Brandon who's not out of the closet and doesn't ever intend to be. Things are going to get worse before they get better for Nicky and Brandon.

Cheating Chance is a little dark sometimes, hot all the time and very exciting. I love Nicky and Brandon. They're sexy and fun and incredibly hot together. Cheating Chance is more than a great story with two all around great guys who have amazingly hot sex. It offers an education in casinos, the mechanics of slot machines and what it might be like to be a vice detective. It's interesting, entertaining and very well written. I want more of Nicky and Brandon!

There is a scene with nonconsensual sex in Cheating Chance.

Nannette
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I like both characters here. Nick, an agent for the Gaming Commission, is fascinating. He is a computer geek and yet into the Gothics and the fetish, and makes no attempt to hide who he is. He seems to be comfortable with who he is yet beneath he is insecure and badly scarred by a disastrous 3 years relationship with Jake, an investment banker. And the scar deepen after another heinous encounter with his former lover. The scene here is pretty disturbing.
Brandon is equally interesting. He is a cop hunk but deeply in the closet yet he looks like a bad biker boy, with his tatoos and attitude.
These 2 men could not be more different yet the attraction is intense and pure lust when they meet in a Goth Convention. Thereon their path is not easy as Brandon makes it very clear he will not come out of the closet for Nick or anyone as his career as a cop come first. As for Nick who is a flamboyant gay, how could he ever hope to cope with a closeted boy friend. Yet they could not leave the other alone as their attraction deepen into much more.
The sex is very hot, with BDSM and Japanese bondage and their romance captivating.
However there is just too much tech jargon in this story, which I sometimes struggle with. I understand the plot needs it and it is an exciting storyline but I find my attention waning in some parts as the writer gives us over the board in-depth knowledge of programming, slots machines and gaming crimes in casinos. Would have been a much better read if the tech jargon is pruned. This is the reason for the 4 stars.
Another angle which I find odd is the abrupt change in Nick's sexual needs. In the beginning he comes across as a submissive bottom but that abruptly changes in one encounter with Brandon. Very hot here but this sudden sexual preference is puzzling. The same goes for Brandon.
Still this M/M romance adventure erotica with its two fascinating characters is not to be missed.
Vice Detective, Brandon Carr, despite his tattoos and bad-boy cool, lives in the closet with no intention of ever coming out. Then he meets Nevada Gaming Agent, Nick O'Malley, at a Goth convention and his perfectly constructed world starts to crack. Nick's passions for him, a restored hearse and rope bondage might drown Brandon's will. With the odds stacked against them they try to move from simply sex to something more. Sparks fly as the pair probes a world of cheating, murder, drugs and money laundering. The investigation repeatedly derails their relationship, finally forcing Brandon to choose between staying in the closet and saving Nick's life. #1 in the Taking the Odds Mystery Series!
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< Cheating Chance > < The Assignment > < Under My Skin (Books I&II) > < The Good Thief > < Crossing Borders > freaks

< Capote: A Biography > < In Cold Blood > < Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career > < Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) > < The Complete Stories of Truman Capote > < Other Voices, Other Rooms > Gerald Clarke

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Da Capo Press
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(Decide how interested you are in Capote's life.)

(I've read better)

(Tragic Triumphant Truman)

(Stunning Insight)

(Details of Truman Capote)

I have mixed feeling about this book, which is why I have given it a three star rating. If you are very interested in Truman Capote, then this is the biography to read. It is a very detailed and well-written book. If you have only a little interest, however, it may be overwhelmingly long. My husband got to page 374, and put it aside, asking me to tell him if he should finish it or not. Being only mildly interested in Capote, I found that I could only read the book for an hour to an hour in a half at a time. Gerald Clarke could very well be the only biographer who really knew Truman. Clarke thought that he would be spending two or three years on the book, and it would be a short book. Instead the book became a 547-page book that he spent more than 13 years researching and writing. He talked to hundreds of people who knew Truman, and even more importantly he spent 9 years observing and interviewing Truman himself, often in restaurants, but also at Truman's home on Long Island as they both lived only a few minutes apart from each other. Over the years they became close friends. The book covers his unhappy childhood, his rise to fame, his downfall, and his sad death. Expect lots and lots of pages about his relationships with the wealthy and famous people he hung out with. It is because of this that my husband became bored enough to put it down, and the reason why I sometimes laid it aside after only reading for an hour. Still, when I read the last page, I felt I had read as definitive a telling of Truman's life as could be told. So, did I tell my husband to finish the book? Yes I did. I also told him to read the Afterward, which is only three and a half pages long.
This has to be the second worst book that I've read in along time. His flings and the details that the writer goes into aren't always that interesting. The writer does name names and some are a shock and make you think. However, saying that the book could of been pared down at least 75 pages by omitting some details of his love life I didn't care to know.
After seeing the two movies about Truman Capote's writing of "In Cold Blood" ('Capote' and 'Infamous'), I wanted to first read the letters he'd written during this period which helped me to understand what really went on sans the Hollywood-izing of the story. But the letters were even better - juicier and more colourful than any Hollywood version; and I was compelled to read most of the rest of them from other periods in his life.

Then I read some of his short stories (starting with the haunting "Miriam") and his first novel. But nothing could have prepared me for the story Gerald Clarke told of his friend, Truman. It's an American success story and yet one of the worst tragedies I've ever read. What a colourful man! I was amazed at every word, every thought he recorded, especially when he was instructing a young writer:

"One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing - and reading. Reading good books written by real artists - until you understand why they are good."

"One only really learns from what one enjoys."

"Good writing isn't (necessarily) fancy writing."

He always said to write what you know and called his character depictions 'portraits.' "A writer ought to have all his colors, all his abilities available on the same palette for mingling..." Reading Clarke's biography together with Truman's letters gave me a renewed passion for literature.

Truman always turned the drab fantastic:

"In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city."

And I realized he was one of the ultimate mystic artists:

They said of Truman: "A mediumistic voice speaks through him in the most impeccable of accents."

"In times of terror or immense distress, there are moments when the mind waits, as though for a revelation, while a skein of calm is woven over thought; it is like a sleep, or a supernatural trance; and during this lull one is aware of a force of quiet reasoning..."

Every writer needs to read Capote, who always unabashedly revealed every aspect of himself to the world - his struggles, his pain, his triumphs and tragedies. It was obvious how difficult writing was for him; it took all the energy he could muster to stay focused on a project.

"It is as though one were a secretary transcribing the words of a voice from a cloud. The difficulty is maintaining contact with this spectral dictator."

All this from a self-taught, self-made southern boy who came from worse than a broken home. He got his first job at 17 at the New Yorker where he made his mark and wrote for periodicals and women's magazines at a time when they published fiction; and he attended the writers' colony - Yaddo in Syracuse, NY - and learned from the older men in his life who became his lovers.

Truman was a world traveler, moving in two distinct circles of people: the rich and famous with whom he hobnobbed and sailed the seas; and a small group of a few of his close friends, who were more honest with him and allowed him to just be himself. He made friends of enemies and enemies of friends - through his writing and his paradoxical ways; and his tortured love life and terrible struggles with addictions are detailed quite vividly here.

The biography was obviously a very difficult undertaking for Gerald Clarke and, like Truman's writing of "In Cold Blood," stretched on for many years more than he'd planned. The story of Truman's life up to "In Cold Blood" was exciting, amazing and a marvelous success story. The chapters of his life after completing his masterpiece and up to his death were the rest of the story of a slow, agonizing downward spiral on the road to a terrible end. But Truman led an astonishing life full of interesting events, travels, and people of extraordinary renown and it's best to try to remember the man's art - though most believe he squandered away a good part of his life and talent - for there would have been a huge void in the world without him.
This Biography of Truman Capote by Gerald Clarke is breathtaking in its' inisght into the man and his deamons. Capote was a genius to say the least but was human in his hurts and disappointments in life. People obviously used him over and over again. As a gay man who wanted to be accepted he was terribly vulnerable and thrown away like garbage by many of his so called friends. Lee Radziwall called him a "Fag" which hurt him deeply. Many gay people have used alchohol to just make it through life. Mr.Capote was not alone. This is truly a remarkable inside look into a tortured life.
Although the large size of this book may concern you, it's a quick read. Truman Capote's life is painted in great detail.

Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authoredIn Cold BloodandBreakfast at Tiffany's,as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. Featuring many photographs, this book also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent—but not before he'd hobnob with the likes of Grace Paley and Lee Radziwill, feud outrageously with Gore Vidal and Jacqueline Susann, and stage at New York's Plaza Hotel the sensational Black and White Ball.
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< Capote: A Biography > < In Cold Blood > < Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career > < Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) > < The Complete Stories of Truman Capote > freaks

< Herland > < The Handmaid's Tale > < We > < Woman on the Edge of Time > < Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Penguin Classics) > < Brave New World > Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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(Mostly points for being just so rare and crazy)

(Where No Men Exist)

(Misunderstood)

(A Little Pre-Nazi Fairy Tale)

(good service)

Oh, this ones just all types of insane fun. Written near a century ago, Gilman has her 3 male protagonists crashland an early plane into a secret uptopia where men don't exist.

And what a wonderful world it would be, too. Gentle, highly evolved, all needs met, no pain, entirely communist (you can't even raise your own kids there). No icky sex (babies are born when a woman WISHES super hard for one). The women of Herland ease the men into their blissful way of life, the men come to realize what utter simpleton pigs they are (including realizing sex is awful and subjugating) and likely happiness for all, but Gilman never quite finished it.
In her novel of a positive utopia made up only of women, Gilman gives us a vision of what perfection would be like, if only the inevitable power, money and sex did not get in the way of things. In Herland, there are no men thus eliminating the sex motivations. And they live a highly socialized communal life within which most of the problems of modern society have been conquered or mastered.

The ladies of Herland have been isolated from the rest of the world for about 2000 years and during the early part of that period all the men in their society were killed or died off. This left a society of women only. To go on, they developed the ability to have virgin births, (in the modern wild turkey this exists today and is called Parthenogenesis, where in the absence of male turkeys, they may produce eggs that turn into female chicks) through an unusual biological quirk. But all the offspring are women.

Throughout the book references and allusions to Edward Bellamy's famous positive utopia book "Looking Backwards" are evident. Yet Gilman's treatment of the topic is fresh and interesting in that the element of sex is removed from the utopian environment. In addition, the concept of the story is that 3 men happen to find the utopia and this allows Gilman to engage in a long discussion with those men and the women of Herland; comparing their worlds.

Interestingly, even though Gilman wrote the book in 1915, not much seems to have changed. There is still injustice, greed, hate, love, war, peace and poverty. The book is a virtual wake up call to all societies, especially the Western Developed countries that there are yet things to be done in this world.

The book is recommended to those who are interested in a vision of a better world. While Gilman's vision is an impossibility, as was Karl Marx vision of perfect Communism, nonetheless, it gives us a real reason to think on the bright side of life, as it may yet be possible to achieve.

Obviously, many people who read this book -- including most of the reviewers here -- clearly misunderstood Gilman's tone and objective in writing "Herland." The purpose of the book is NOT to say that women are better than men in every aspect of life, or that women can survive without men. Indeed, the inhabitants of Herland realize that without males, their society is incomplete, which is why the three young women are encouraged to court the three male visitors. Gilman portrays two of her three male characters sympathetically and intelligently, and even the chauvinistic one is portrayed as intelligent, just misguided.

Gilman has two purposes, neither of which is to show the 'inferiority' of men. One, she wishes to show what a society would be like if everyone were treated equally. Two, and related, she wishes to show what society were like if people put the greater good above their individual goals. In that sense, Gilman's society is not socialism but more like anarchism -- there IS no central government; Herland operates like a large utopian family, in which everyone's role is equal and everyone has a very important role in society. No one's role is more important than any others, be they male or female.

The reason for the Herlandians' physical besting of the men is to show that women are only 'weak' because they are sheltered, and in turn are sheltered because they are weak; also, while the Herlandians were natural women living in the natural world, the men are essentially 'sheltered' by technology (all of them being specialists in an area) and thus are not physically trained as the women are. It's like a female Olympic runner beating a male who runs for his college in his spare time.

Of course, the book has flaws -- the utopian society of course, is without chink or problem, and Gilman ironically venerates traditional aspects of women, casting them into the stereotype of communal, compassionate, sacrificial mothers. The veneration of 'motherhood' almost religiously is hypocritical, as if every woman desires to be a mother. Predictably, no woman in the history of Herland seems to have a problem with denying self for the greater good, or the lack of tradition, or the taking away of her own children for communal rearing. For that, I have to say that Gilman -- while trying to deconstruct the typical notion of a woman -- inadvertently BUILDS it by assuming that all women have these characteristics naturally.
I can't believe all that is wrong with this book. If you really detest men and you haven't a clue how males think or how real societies operate, you might like this story. However, if you have even one foot in reality, you'll find it childish to the extreme.

Author's assumptions

1. Men are the root of all evil.

2. Anything men can do, women can do better (including writng utopian fantasies).

3. Men are unnatural, unnecessary, unattractive, unreformable, and unrepentant.

4. Sex should be non-existant.

5. Science and society works out just the way you want it. (See Kendal Hunter's prior review.)

6. The reader has boundless time to vest in useless novels.

It's important to keep in mind that the book and its ideas were coming into print just as the seeds of Nazism and Hitlerism were planted and being cultivated. Clearly the author's ideas would not have been out of place in that era of eugenics as a way to build an ideal society. Furthermore, in her book, the author glosses over a myriad of 'unpleasant' details fitting of a nazi utopia:

1. The book contains more than a hint of socialist Aryan one race, one ideal elitism.

2. Birth control (!!!) is hinted, which by definition must involve some form of abortion.

3. Capital punishment is hinted as this 'utopian' society's way of getting rid of undesirables.

4. Women would be identically featureless, classless, and (apparently) humorless. By definition, parthenogenesis is not unlike cloning at the ovum level, so all women would be identical, excepting mutants.

5. It left me wondering if even crying babies was too much to be tolerated in this society.

I struggle not to be too hard on a novel nearly a century old, a blueprint for a feminist, socialist utopia devoid of men and apparently anyone else unlike the author. If this were a book about a utopia about race, we would condemn it to purgatory. However, since it only trashes men, we 'liberal women' are expected to swallow it reflexively. Unless you are a woman who pulls out her vibrator whenever you think about killing off men, I can't imagine who the audience is expected to be or why this tale was resurrected.

A number of good science fiction authors have addressed this same topic with superior stories and I would recommend any one of them over this tale that should have remained buried in the trash heap of time.
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What I'm trying to show here is that with these women the whole relationship of life counted in a glad, eager growing-up to join the ranks of workers in the line best loved; a deep, tender reverence for one's own mother--too deep for them to speak of freely--and beyond that, the whole, free, wide range of sisterhood, the splendid service of the country, and friendships.
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< Herland > < The Handmaid's Tale > < We > < Woman on the Edge of Time > < Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Penguin Classics) > freaks

< Just Friends > < Out Of My Mind > < Handyman > < Diving in Deep > < A Matter O f Necessity > < Court Appointed: A Serving Love Story > Anne Thomas

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Amber Quill Press, LLC(2008-01-22)
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(JUST FRIENDS by Anne Thomas)

(Just Friends by Anne Thomas)

I am not generally a fan of BDSM. I find detailed descriptions of the rules and regulations of BDSM clubs extremely boring and tedious, and it's hard for me to take the hard-core scenes seriously with all the control and counting and whatnot. Serious BDSM books just make me giggle. Immature? Maybe (ok, yes), but at least I know what does and does not work for me in my reading.

I can't remember where I first saw this little gem from Anne Thomas, but the description stuck with me and I had a feeling it would be a great book even despite the mention of a BDSM club. I love it when a "hunch" delivers!

Grant and Eli are great characters. Grant is strong and sexy and extremely dominant, but he's also sweet and kind and scarred from a past relationship that went wrong. Eli knows that he wants to be more than just friends with Grant, and is willing to do whatever it takes to convince Grant that they should be together, even if it means entering into a lifestyle that is completely unfamiliar and even a little intimidating.

The two men don't spend much time in the BDSM club and there's only a couple of pages of "rules and regulations" (and the way Grant spells out the rules is actually really hot), so I'd rate this book as "BDSM-Lite", which actually works for me. I really enjoy light bondage, spanking, and D/s in my M/M romance when it's not bogged down by boring stuff like detailed lifestyle descriptions and crack psychology. The love scenes in this book are emotional and unbelievably steamy. Grant's awe and wonder at Eli's responses to him are sweet and sexy, and Eli's inner dialogue is smoking hot.

This book also employs one of my favorite character roles--the naturally dominant male that is willing to submit to the one he loves. I love to read about tops that are only willing to bottom for that one special man.

I don't know how to explain it, but everything in this book just worked really well for me. This is romance, so the boys do get their HEA, but the resolution is more tender than you'd expect in a BDSM-themed book and the way it happens is somewhat surprising. I love seeing the different facets of Eli's and Grant's personalities.

This is a great book, whether you like BDSM themes or not. The men are sexy, the love scenes are hot, and the romance is sweet. For just over $3, this book is pretty hard to beat. I only wish it had been about a hundred pages longer. I'd love to get to know these boys better.
Eli is in love with his best friend Grant. But since the beginning of their friendship two years ago, Grant has not given signs to wants something more from Eli, and has allowed to Eli to enter his world only as a friend. So Eli has settled himself to it and contents himself with their nights spent together in front of the television or speaking of their mutual interest, art: Eli is a painter, Grant a tattoo artist.

But one night Eli goes to Grant and he is out, his neighbour says he is cruising in a near BDSM club. Eli is struck; he can accept to not have sex with Grant if the thing is mutual, ma knowing that Grant is searching someone also ignites a rebellion in him: if someone has to come home tonight with Grant, he will be him.

When Grant sees Eli at the club, he thinks his friend is searching to try something new in his life, a little of kinky sex. And he volunteers to be his teacher. But the lessons between them grow in something more passionate they espect.

Grant is a "classical" character: he was wounded by love in the past and now he not allows himself to be really involved with someone. He uses BDSM and kinky sex to hide himself behind a scene and not slip out his true nature. When love knocks on his door, he relegates him to the role of friend to not loose him but also to not unveals his fears.

Eli is a quite man who contents himself with a normal life and a simple love. But when he risks to loose his lover, he unleashes all his courage and fight to conquer his prize.

A rather brief novel, with two tender characters. Not too inside to BDSM world, with only some scenes of role playing. An enjoyable reading, very romantic indeed.
Eli Walsh and Wolf Grant have been good, platonic friends for the better part of a year. Though Eli's always been attracted to Grant, he's resigned himself to being just friends. But when Eli finds out Grant cruises for dates at the local gay leather club, he goes there, determined to convince Grant that the only one he should be bringing home that night is Eli. The problem is that if Eli tells Grant flat-out he wants him, it could ruin their friendship. Eli's had that happen before, and he's not about to risk it happening again.

Grant's offers to mentor Eli in the BDSM lifestyle seems the perfect solution. Though Grant insists they'll remain just friends, Eli is sure that during the intimacy of their play he can show Grant exactly how he feels, make Grant crave Eli so much that he won't want their lessons to end. And when Eli learns how powerful submission to Grant can be, he's certain they're meant to be together.

But heartbreak in Grant's past has made him wary of falling in love. Can Eli convince Grant to take a chance on their relationship, or will Eli's confession of loving Grant destroy their friendship once and for all?

Genres: Gay / Contemporary / BDSM

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< Just Friends > < Out Of My Mind > < Handyman > < Diving in Deep > < A Matter O f Necessity > freaks

< Del Fantasma: BlackWolf > < With Love > < Out Of My Mind > < With Caution > < Marked > < Court Appointed: A Serving Love Story > Jade Buchanan

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Aspen Mountain Press(2008-01-04)
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(I absolutely loved this story, it grabbed me from the first page and kept me going till the last.)

(Del Fantasma)

(DEL FANTASMA: BLACKWOLF by Jade Buchanan)

(Hot paranormal action!)

(What a lovely M/M paranormal !)

When Adam Bates wakes to find his apartment trashed, his meager belongings destroyed, and himself hurting like heck and bleeding, he knows he has to get out and has no time to shift and heal. Scott could come back at any moment and Adam heads to the only place he feels safe, Del Fantasma, the bar where he works. He had only worked there for two weeks, but Cody would know what to do, assuming of course, he doesn't get fired for being late. He wants to go home to the comfort of his sisters so badly, but couldn't until he proved to himself and his family that he could take care of himself and doesn't have to follow his father's dictates. Adam can't stand the strangers that stare at him as he travels by bus to the bar, he knows if he had been in his other form his hair would have been on end. He needs to get away from the sweaty humans and have some time alone, but he simply can't afford it right now.

Marcus can't stand the coyote, but he'd take him any day over the humans packed like sardines around him. He was busy cursing the day he promised Cody he'd stay all night when the sweetest scent drifted across the room. Almost unerringly his gaze found it's way to the small man making his way gracefully through the crowd with a slight limp, he can't understand why his wolf is making a bid for freedom and has the strong desire to rush to the man's side and force the others away. When Marcus sees the man's hair and takes in his full scent he realizes he smells like a cat and looks like a tabby, but beyond that he smells like a mate and his wolf is roaring in approval when Marcus begins his hunt of the unsuspecting tabby. He has his work cut out for him though, because while mates should be cherished and protected, his has been beaten by a human and Marcus has to convince Adam that they belong together.

I absolutely loved this story, it grabbed me from the first page and kept me going till the last. Adam is naive and hurt, but with the attention and protection of Marcus he really comes into his own and I enjoyed his spirit. Of course who wouldn't love a man that turns into a tabby and says frog legs instead of cussing. Marcus is the quintessential Alpha and though his bite is as bad as his growl he still has a soft side and, as with Adam, I greatly enjoyed the fact he is a well rounded character that isn't one sided and can go beyond toughness to still be embarrassed and feel fear. Jade Buchanan has done a wonderful job with her installment in the Del Fantasma series, writing a hot story that doesn't skimp on the plot and character development and maintains that heat while still being a very sweet story. Though I have to say the drink this story is named after sounds rather disgusting, I liked the symbolism.

Reviewed at Bitten by Books Paranormal Fiction Review Site by Sarai
Tabby cat shapeshifter Adam Bates is having a rough time. After being beaten badly, he's late for work and afraid he'll lose his job. When he arrives at Del Fantasma to work, however, he meets werewolf Marcus. Marcus seems to be interested, and Cody seems to be matchmaking, but can there be any future for a cat and a dog?

Black Wolf is a quick, cute tale of two incredibly different men who turned out to be perfect for each other. Adam, who was young and alternated between being timid and tough, was adorable. I also liked gruff, prickly Marcus. The scenes between them were hot. I've enjoyed every Del Fantasma installment I've read, and Black Wolf was no exception.

Cassie
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This is a cute, sexy short novella (under 60 pages).

Adam is adorable and submissive without being wimpy. Marcus is tough and scary, but he treats Adam with absolute tenderness. Together the men make a super sexy pair. The sex is hot, the action is great, and the story is very creative.

I really liked Adam and Marcus, and I enjoyed the other Del Fantasma characters. I will definitely read the rest of the e-books in this series. I don't know if the Del Fantasma books should be read in any particular order, but I can honestly say I didn't feel lost at any time while reading this. FYI, it appears that many (most?) of the Del Fantasma books are M/F, so keep that in mind if you're a strict M/M fan.

My schedule is more conducive to short reads like this lately, so I'm
thrilled to have found this series of novellas.

For this price you really can't go wrong.
I LOVED this story. I admit it - I'm a sucker for dominant alpha males protecting their mates. And Marcus does not disappoint. He's big, scary and hot, hot, HOT! Plus the werewolf is a special ops agent to boot. How sexy is that? Cody, the owner of Del Fantasma, guilts him into taking some time off and visiting the club. Where a young, very naïve tabby cat is in need of some protection from an unlikely enemy. Adam isn't your typical bottom though. He's just oblivious to the dangers of life in the city at first, but he's not dim - just inexperienced. And he does have spirit. Now, Marcus has plenty of experience and is happy to shareit with enough steam to keep a reader sweating. Plus, I just plain liked both men. Jade has a way of imbuing her characters with charm and appeal that just adds to the eroticism. I was rooting for Marcus to swoop in and rescue Adam just as much as I wanted Adam to find his inner strength.

Overall, I highly recommend this novella for fans of erotic M/M romance who also like some paranormal spice and a good story. I was captured from the first few lines and sucked in to the end. Was this some great masterpiece of mystery or drama? No - just a great ride (pun intended). The sex is hot and the plot is more than enough to sustain the length. Plus it's a great backdrop for two fun characters I wouldn't mind visiting with again.
You have to love this pairing of shapeshifters, an alpha black wolf and his sweet tabby cat with claws. A short story but Jade Buchanan tells it so well that both plot and characters easily grow on you.

Adam is the young tabby cat shapeshifter who has yet to find his footing. Chastised by his father for liking males, he leaves home and tries to make it in the world of men. But survival proves difficult for this sweet tabby who has yet to find his claws. Fortunately he has friends in the Del Fantasma bar, whose owner, Cody, is more than willing to look out for him, including match making. Marcus is the pure alpha black wolf shapeshifter who has even served in the army. One sniff, and he knows Adam is his mate nothwithstanding the tabby cat form. Thereon, is it just a matter of convincing, which does not need much, and protecting his mate from human bullies. Get this from aspenmountainpress if you do not have kindle.

Jade Buchanan is a marvel. So far, her stories (mostly in Changeling press) are short but they are very involving and enjoyable.
Adam Bates is in trouble. He's virtually penniless, is being threatened by his landlord, and now he's late for work at his new job. Expecting to be chastened by his boss, Adam doesn't expect Cody to provide him with a protector instead. He definitely doesn't expect his minder to be a big, bad wolf with attitude.

Marcus Black has just arrived at Del Fantasma after his latest black ops mission. He's ready for some R and R, but Marcus won't refuse Cody when he asks him to help a little tabby cat. When Adam is threatened by his landlord in front of Marcus, his alpha wolf won't let him stand by and let it happen.

Adam is about to find strength in submission, and his own set of claws. Marcus is about to find the mate he's been searching for in a deceptively small tabby. Now, if only they can hold on long enough to survive.

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(A Big Disappointment)

This work was a disappointment. The short fantasy work is just that fantasy. It lacks the dynamics of human heart and drama. The descriptive elements are thin at best and the dialogue is flat and lacks any touch of reality. The seduction is flat, and is seduction in name only. The story lacks the issues, problems, pains and joys a lesbian or bi-sexual woman faces.
A board housewife goes on holiday with her daughter while her husband is away on a business trip. She takes a side trip and visits an old friend. Her friend uses the opportunity to seduce mother and daughter. Soon both are addicted to lesbian sex. Mother and daughter are so starved for lesbian sex they start seducing all of their neighbors and friends.

One small thing threatens to bring a halt to their fun; Tom is coming home from his business trip. The mother comes up with a plan for the her daughter to convince her step-father that lesbian sex can be just as exciting to watch as it is for them. Can they convince Tom that the family that plays together stays together?
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(A View To The Time)

(A romantic tragedy you'll not soon forget)

(It's ok if you like cowboy movies)

(Very Interesting)

(Learning to Write Short Story to Screeplay)

When i see the movie you recieve the love that Jack and Ennis transmit. But in this book you can read the movie and see the original story that it take my tears. This beautifull but tragic remember to humanity that we are equal. So i recomend to buy this book, so anyone can treat the homosexuals equal as if they are heterosexual. GREAT BOOK.
As far as short stories go BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, at 64 pages, is one of the best. Not a traditional Western, but rather a more modern (1960s through 1980s) story of two young rodeo cowboys who fall in love one summer while working as sheepherders on the title mountain. The characterizations are deep and very true to the era and one can really feel the pain of yearning that young gay men of that era would truly feel, and understand the circumstances of how one of them at least, felt it was impossible to make a life together; so they would meet up at different periods in their lives to rekindle the romance. While it is a tragic story, it is expertly written and Annie Proulx's prose is meticulous in its intent. The characters are so concrete they will stay with you for a long time.

This is the version to get if you are interested in comparing the story to the screenplay, as of course the movie takes the entire short story and expands it. Also included are revealing essays by Annie Proulx, Diana Ossana , and Larry McMurtry.

Mark R. Probst
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I had to purchase this book for a college course, otherwise I probably would never have read it. I found it boring and realized that it's probably better suited for either men who like cowboy stories, or people who are into studying how to create a screenplay from a move. The screenplay stays very true to the short story. The best part about this book is the essay in the back by Proulx. I suggest you read it before you read the short story as it answered my main question, which is why a straight woman in her 60s would write a story about rough cowboys who were having trouble accepting their sexual orientation.
This item took you through the entire life of the book to the screenplay to the movie. It was great reading what the writers said about the project and how it was a labor of love for everyone involved. It was wonderful reading how devoted everyone was to the project. Much how the two main characters were devoted to each other.
In an effort to check out my approach to writing a book adaption to screenplay, I thought it would be a good exercise to experience how others have done it. After reading the Brokeback Mountain short story, then reading the shooting script, then watching the film, I knew I was right on target. It is invigorating to experience and understand the progression from story to screenplay to film. The book also includes backround information from the short story writer, Annie Proulx and the two screenwriters, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, which tops off the value of this book. Reading it is a great process, and once you've read the book, you'll appreciate the film even more.
-Catherine Busch-Johnston-

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers,Brokeback Mountainis her masterpiece.

Brokeback Mountainwas originally published inThe New Yorker.It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.

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(SkEet meets sit down)

(I'm Hungry...)

(I Love it! (from Chicago))

(Awesome read)

(Awesome)

i really enjoyed this book. it took almost 2 yrs for it be published. the charaters were from a previous book Ms Fiona wrote. 1 charater was a st8t up hoochie but she kept it real and truthful w/ her playmates. it seems to me she only played becuase she felt who she really wanted was unavailable. after so much experience throughout her "play" years. she learned how to read women. those skills, beauty and confidence allowed her to see that ultimate lover might be approachable...maybe not. have fun and enjoy this is a good one.
This book was wonderful. I love the way Ms. Zedde writes. Anyone who reads my reviews know that I'm usually disappointed by black lesbian books but Fiona Zedde delivers. I recommend to anyone, this book was wonderful.

"Hungry For It", left me full and satisfied. The story of a love affair no one saw coming.
Fiona Zedde is one of the only lesbian authors that consistently write good books. I really enjoyed the book. However, I still wish that Zedde wrote more interactions between Dez and Remi so the tensions could be more elevated because of the relationship between her and Claudia.
Fiona Zedde has a way with her books, and the followup to a taste of sin is simply awesome.
Seduce Me...

Rémi Bouchard has enjoyed more than her share of delicious trysts amidst the seductive sounds and glittering lights of South Beach. With good looks, limitless sex appeal, and the wealth and popularity that comes from owning the city's hottest jazz bar and restaurant, Rémi can seduce just about anyone she wants. But lately, the allure of wild one-night stands and no-strings flings is starting to wear thin. Rémi craves something more--and what Rémi wants, Rémi gets...

At her best friend's wedding, Rémi looks across the crowd and finds exactly what she's been searching for--an intense, soul-searing connection. Now, on a journey of sensual exploration that will take her from decadent after-hours clubs to South Beach's most elegant nightspots, Rémi engages in a tantalizing dance of seduction. But passion this deep has its dangers--especially when it means falling in love with the one person who should be off limits...
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Out with the old love, in with the new...In TWISTED REALITY, Jodi is trapped in a ten-year loveless marriage with an abusive husband. Jodi's only friend, Christine, becomes her rock, refuge and salvation. After a horrible car crash, Jodi ends up in the hospital. She wakes to find herself in a new life she's Christine's lesbian life partner, and the owner of a successful business. How can she find her way in this new reality? And what happens if she has to go back?

DEEP BREATHING brings us a tale of romance lost and fantasies found. Distance has dampened Sheila's love life for too long. In the hopes of rekindling their romance, she suprises her life partner Diane with plans for a romantic getaway. But, Diane has plans of her own she's moving out.

Taking a friend's advice, Sheila follows through with the vacation plans and comes face-to-face with a waking dream: Abbie, one of the resort's scuba instructors. Abbie's got a technique to help Sheila overcome mor

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