Wanderlust

by T. Spoon, Ais, Ania .

Whether it's stepping around a corner, crossing an ocean or travelling to another dimension, we're always looking for that next horizon to conquer, which is what inspired T.Spoon to write Wanderlust. Behind this cover lies a collection of short, long and epically long stories that explore what it means to step outside your comfort zone, to leave behind everything you know to explore the unknown, or to find that one place where you belong. In this anthology you'll meet time travellers and illegal aliens, covert operatives and magic knights, inadvertent superheroes and intrepid porn actors.
Length: ~100k overall

Genres: M M Romance, Contemporary, Fantasy, Anthologies

300 pages, ebook

First published August 31, 2012

About the author

T. Spoon is made up of a bucket load of talented authors and artists. Such as: BlueGhostGhost, Berthablue, Ais, Ania, Jaolynn, Voidmancer, G, Zeffy, ManicDak, Parker, Medeni, Coz, Dusk Peterson, Plumblossom, and more.

Reviews

[Ami]

Free stories and beautiful (free) illustrations in this awesome collection -- I am sure it will make every slash fans happy. There is something for everybody.

I only read the short story from Blue GhostGhost, the other doesn't interest me at all. So I will not rate this as a whole anthology.

Charlie’s Angel and the Borderland Blues by Blue GhostGhost: 3.65 stars

I was worried with the tag 'alien' but it turned out that it is not about extraterrestrial alien, but rather about an immigrant alien, who is the main narrator. It's very short, only 2,000+ words. It's a morning after scene of a guy who has been having an affair with a married politician ... but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Better than the last couple M/M stories I read lately.

I love this author's writing :)

[Irina Elena · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started this when I was in one of those moods where you're bored of life and nothing seems to be able to capture your attention, so you feel like you just can't commit to a full-length novel. That is exactly why I didn't expect to be sucked in by this anthology so quickly and read all of the stories in two sittings - which was helped by the fact that a good portion of them are essentially slices of life and snapshots that leave you wanting more.
And damn, I liked them. I even liked the threesome and the porn filming scenes, because everything was narrated so playfully and matter-of-factly that I couldn't do anything but let myself be swept along.

Sometimes there is punctuation missing from entire sentences - it's fanfiction, I know, and I don't expect editing miracles, but that's basic grammar, for fuck's sake - and in some cases the writing is not perfect (and a couple stories were downright badly written, but this is supposed to be a predominantly positive review so I'm going to refrain from bitching about those), but the stories are all creative, gripping and generally fun.
Not all of them are romance stories, although all of them have gay characters and sexual or romantic undertones. There is action, fantasy, snark, suspense - a bit of everything, to be honest.

Unlike most anthologies, this one was very varied, because the fil rouge that ties them together leaves space for the authors' creativity; as a result, I didn't get bored or lose interest like I usually do.
There are stories by writers I already knew (and loved), stories by writers I'd been wanting to try out for a while and stories by completely new to me authors.

Bottom line: there's something for everyone. Literally.

[Nova]

Charlie’s Angel and the Borderland Blues by Blue GhostGhost – 3.75 stars
Nifty Shades of Grey by Ania – 2.75 stars
Hitchhiker by Berthablue – 2.5 stars
What Remains by Jaolynn -

[A.R. Jarvis · Rating 2 out of 5]

A few of the stories were really good, but most of them were just...less than great.