My Reading Week
I'm hanging my head in shame again this week because I've hardly had time to read anything.
Tam did a post a few weeks ago about menage m/m books featuring more than three guys and this book came up as an example. I'm always up for trying a m/m/m/m menge so I thought I'd read it an see whether it works. Well, as to be expected from this author it was pretty much a sex fest with some BDSM thrown in the mix. Rook, a typical SM bouncy bottom, Bishop, a typical SM stern Dom, and Knight, a tortured artist who needs tying up to release his pent up emotions/anger issues, all live together in m/m/m harmony. However, they want a fourth to play with and so they approach Jason who is not gay and not interested in sex (yeah, right). A short time spent with Rook and Jason is converted and agree to sign a contract to live with the other three and be their sexual plaything. From then on there's pretty much lots of sex, although not as much in a four as I was expecting. Jason seems to be there to be a companion for Rook who feels a little left out of the intense relationship shared by Bishop and Knight, so although they all want Jason, he mostly spends time having sex with Rook. There was lots of interesting themes going on such as Knight's former drug habit, Rook's rich boy lifestyle and Jason's insecurities but unfortunately everything was overwhelmed by all the sex. Set aside your skepticism about how many a times a man can really ejaculate in one day, and any notions that this is related to true life and have fun with it. That's what I did in the end. The book skipped along nicely and passed the time in a pleasurable fashion. The book ends with very little resolved which suggests it's going to be a series, and I'll happily read the next book. Grade: Good.
I also reviewed the Very Good Graceland by Ally Blue and the Excellent Changing Worlds by Cari Z. Plus for those who missed it I did a post on blog tours from an author's perspective with the help of five authors who kindly sent me their views.
Over at BER we are just in the process of wrapping up our Canada fortnight. Tam's done a fantastic job of organising this, and I loved all the different responses from our Canadian authors. Do pop over and have a read.
Next week
There's a bit of a change around next week because I've got Aleks Voinov coming to the blog to do a guest post called Enter the Polymorph on Friday. This means I shall do the round up post on Saturday instead. In the meantime I'll have two reviews: Sight Unseen by Hunter Raines and The Long Con by Lori Toland.
Have a great weekend everyone. Yesterday with had a month's rain in 24 hours here in the UK so it's nice to see the sun today.
Hopefully the red wine fuzziness has passed and you've been able to enjoy your Saturday. :)
ReplyDeleteI think the sequel for that book is out, or coming soon - I can't remember which part of TEB's newsletter it was in.
I'd just about come round by 2pm, which is a good job really since I was meeting my Mum for a shopping trip :).
DeleteIt's coming soon. I'm currently hemming and hawing. Should I? Is it really worth it? I'm not sure -- I felt pretty much the same as you Jen.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're doing well, fuzziness included ;)
I'm in two minds, Cole. If the series is just going to more of the same I can see myself getting very quickly bored. But I think I will try the next book and see where it goes.
DeleteYou have sun? Gosh indeedy! Glad the wedding was fun, tee hee! :)
ReplyDeleteWe did have some sun, yes. Unfortunately we also had a 20 minute downpour at about 3.30pm, just as I was out shopping with my Mum :(. It just meant that we had to dash into M&S - such a shame ;).
DeleteI agree with your assessment. It ended up with rather two pairs that play together. I could see that eventually the three split apart into two couples as Rook and Jason bond more. They seemed to want him to have his own special someone rather than be a full-on foursome or even a threesome who plays with a fourth. And as noted, not much foursome sex, which is the point when I read SM. Oh well, I was going to do a review yet, and I probably will. Will i read more? I'm not sure because something in my heart says they can't survive as a foursome so why bother reading about a break-up.
ReplyDeleteGlad you had fun at the wedding.
I feel a bit like you, Tam, that they will eventually just split up into two pairs who like to play together.
DeleteI've just finished reading a fabulous book which has five men in a domestic discipline relationship together and it works! I shall review later :).
You would be surprised how many times a bloke can come in one weekend when he's one half of a pair of science students conducting an experiment.
ReplyDeleteOr there was the complaint from a friend at sports practice one Sunday morning after a good night the night before -- after the fifth time, it's not a lot of fun, because it hurts to come with empty balls.
I generally file these and other incidents from university under "real life doesn't have to be believable, fiction does" when it comes to the plot bunny file.
You're comment made me laugh Jules. Of course someone has done experiments :). Yes, I have that file in my head too - I use it pretty often when reading Sean Michael books :D.
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