Smoky

by Connie Bailey

Jaramie loves good music in all its forms, and that’s the lure Tommy uses to tempt his shy roommate to the city’s hottest new dance club. Tommy just conveniently forgets to mention the club rule that everyone has to dance during their first visit, and it can’t be with whoever brought them. Jaramie’s ready to cut and run until the club’s equally hot doorman, Smoky, convinces him to take a chance and follow his lead—on and off the dance floor.

Genres: M M Romance, LGBT

29 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 4, 2011

About the author

Connie Bailey is a Luddite who can’t live without her computer. She’s an acrophobic who loves to fly, a fault-finding pessimist who, nonetheless, is always surprised when something bad happens, and an antisocialite who loves her friends like family. She’s held a number of jobs in many disparate arenas to put food on the table, but writing is the occupation that feeds her soul.

Connie lives with her ultralight designer husband at a small grass-strip airfield halfway between Disney World and Busch Gardens. Logic and reality have had little to do with her life, and she likes it that way.

Reviews

[Serena Yates · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, fun read about somewhat shy Jaramie who is dragged to a club by his roommate and best friend. I liked how Jaramie slowly starts behaving differently when he meets Smoky. True to his hesitant personality, he inches into a very hot encounter with the stranger, after which Smoky is a stranger no longer and all previous restraints become unimportant.

[Adara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I generally really like Connie's work, including her short stories, but this one just didn't do it for me. I much prefer Initiation to this. I, like Jaramie, thought it was too fast to be real, and I didn't have a good feel for the characters before they started acting 'out of character'. I dunno, it just didn't work for me.

[ManOhMan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reviewed by Max: The blurb pretty much tells the little bit of story that makes up this short. It didn't hold my interest. I found the whole bar thing to be a bit silly, set-up, and the rules. This wasn't a good read for me.

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[Tam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked Jaramie, I just wasn't sure that Smoky would feel "true love" after a fuck on a roof as Jaramie noted. Still, on the whole it was sexy even if Jaramie went from freaked out introvert to innuendo flinging sexpot in an hour.

[blub · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought Smoky/Samuel came on a little strong when he was first introduced. After that I just made up mind that he seemed like the controlling type which kind of turned me off the book. It was an okay read but I didn't feel a real connection to the characters.

[Lea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and sweet... but mostly HOT!

[Meggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it. It was to short, to fast but definitely hot!

[qx · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5