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Angel Lust : An Erotic Novel of Time Travel
A thousand years ago: the turn of the First Millennium. Thomas Jebson, a bright farm boy, found himself attracted to a wandering knight. The knight has returned Thomas's shy smile, causing Jebson to go on foot to seek him. Local barons maintain "law" by murder, but Thomas is sure this knight will teach him to read, a forbidden activity in Dark Age Europe, whose forests hide "faery men, " worshippers of the old gods and practictioners of forbidden sexual rituals, who have already inducted Thomas into their rites.
Evening drops. Thomas finds Bertrand, the handsome knight, in a grove of trees. Thomas kneels, asking to be allowed to follow him. Bertrand agrees and requests Thomas's help removing his heavy armor. They are soon both naked, and spend the night making love. At dawn, thugs come after Bertrand. He will not leave Thomas, and after engaging in hand-to-hand combat is killed. Thomas is lashed to the body of his beloved knight. Bound to a tree in the grove, both are burned.
Before succumbing, Thomas hears dead Bertrand's voice, they will never be separated, but will return to help others, no matter how impossible. A thousand years later, handsome Tommy Angelo finds himself still looking for men at the edge, giving them sexual satisfaction and strength, hoping that he will gain the "favor" necessary to be reunited with Bert, his lover from another life. In 21st century gay Manhattan, with its own "barons," Tommy comes across powerful Allan Hubris. Tommy fights Hubris's schemes, while giving himself to an array of adventurous men, who are also looking for that ultimate union and release.
Angel Lust combines the mystical atmosphere we see in Ann Rice's classics of dark eroticism with Brass's more open, full-throttle gay sexuality. It will be a grabbed-off-the-shelves read from a master of gay literary erotica and story telling.
224 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 15, 2000
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About the author
Perry Brass
35 books43 followersPerry Brass has published 23 books, including poetry, novels, short fiction, science fiction, and advice books (How to Survive Your Own Gay Life; The Manly Art of Seduction; The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love). A member of the New York Gay Liberation Front, he has been involved with lgbtq rights since 1969, shortly after the Stonewall Uprising, co-editing Come Out!, GLF’s groundbreaking newspaper. In 1972, with two friends, he co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic, the first clinic specifically for gay men on the East Coast, still thriving as the Callen-Lorde Community Health Service. His sexually frank novels are visionary: they include Albert or the Book of Man, 1995, which prefigured the rise of a White Christian Party that would control America, curbing reproductive, gay, and women’s rights; The Harvest, 1997, about the wholesale use of “harvested” human organs; The Substance of God, a Spiritual Thriller, 2004, about the rise of a powerful religious fundamentalist network of business interests; and Carnal Sacraments, 2007, about a mega-corporation (Amazon?) that would rule the world. His latest book is A Real Life, “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens,/b>,” a memoir. He can be reached through his website, http://www.perrybrass.com or on Facebook.
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October 14, 2010
Very distasteful and shocking! The one star goes for the HOT COVER! I don't even want to rate the story because it totally turned me off just within the 1st chapter and thats all it took for me to stop reading this book.
Reason #1 - note the bold highlight:
"He got up slightly and I squeezed in under his funky bare ass and started to suck at his balls, getting his own savage, distinct, young working man's asshole smell in my nostrils - it shot straight down into my lungs, until there was nothing left of me but that smell and his balls, soft and furry with black hairs slick from his sweat and the salt left over from early morning piss stains."
Sorry but the smell of shit and piss would totally turn me off.
Reason #2 - This part totally ruined the whole book - Personally I have to say that this is a totally sick author to write something like this - I don't care what country you are from or what color you are, sex with children is wrong.
""Look," Niko whispered. "Lemme show you how Greek papas sometimes kiss their little boys." Caught up in the quiet, I looked on as Niko carefully picked up the little boy and held him to him. "See," he said. Then slowly he retracted Paul's tiny white undershorts and briefly kissed the swelling tip of the boy's penis.
He kissed it again, then handed Paul, still in the distant land of tiny circuses, to me. "You want t' kiss?"
"Just kiss. Don't suck, just kiss it. It's like a ritual; it's secret."
I put my lips to the little dick. I could feel it getting harder, as Paul's sleeping hand went down to it. I knew children did that; they're always masturbating, till they hear that it's wrong.
Niko whispered. "I let him play with himself all he wants. Jesus, I do"."
I smiled dumbly, then briefly licked the shining tip of the child's penis, allowing its pink sweet saltiness to scurry up my tongue.
then with Niko nodding knowingly at me, I took the whole, sleepy little thing lusciously into my mouth, to feel it getting very hard there.
"You gonna suck my little boy;s dick?" He smiled benignly. "Why not?, It's the same, right? Sex, kids; it begins there."
I took the boys thing from my mouth, then kissed Niko on the cheek. He laughed quietly, and I began to suck the child again, until I, too, became of the same young flesh as the flower's heart;....., as Niko watched, a hard-on obviously growing in his pants.
Reason #1 - note the bold highlight:
"He got up slightly and I squeezed in under his funky bare ass and started to suck at his balls, getting his own savage, distinct, young working man's asshole smell in my nostrils - it shot straight down into my lungs, until there was nothing left of me but that smell and his balls, soft and furry with black hairs slick from his sweat and the salt left over from early morning piss stains."
Sorry but the smell of shit and piss would totally turn me off.
Reason #2 - This part totally ruined the whole book - Personally I have to say that this is a totally sick author to write something like this - I don't care what country you are from or what color you are, sex with children is wrong.
""Look," Niko whispered. "Lemme show you how Greek papas sometimes kiss their little boys." Caught up in the quiet, I looked on as Niko carefully picked up the little boy and held him to him. "See," he said. Then slowly he retracted Paul's tiny white undershorts and briefly kissed the swelling tip of the boy's penis.
He kissed it again, then handed Paul, still in the distant land of tiny circuses, to me. "You want t' kiss?"
"Just kiss. Don't suck, just kiss it. It's like a ritual; it's secret."
I put my lips to the little dick. I could feel it getting harder, as Paul's sleeping hand went down to it. I knew children did that; they're always masturbating, till they hear that it's wrong.
Niko whispered. "I let him play with himself all he wants. Jesus, I do"."
I smiled dumbly, then briefly licked the shining tip of the child's penis, allowing its pink sweet saltiness to scurry up my tongue.
then with Niko nodding knowingly at me, I took the whole, sleepy little thing lusciously into my mouth, to feel it getting very hard there.
"You gonna suck my little boy;s dick?" He smiled benignly. "Why not?, It's the same, right? Sex, kids; it begins there."
I took the boys thing from my mouth, then kissed Niko on the cheek. He laughed quietly, and I began to suck the child again, until I, too, became of the same young flesh as the flower's heart;....., as Niko watched, a hard-on obviously growing in his pants.
December 24, 2008
I was intrigued by the seemingly-unique premise of a time-traveling gay angel. Within seconds of opening the book, I was less intrigued than annoyed by the tiny type face. Within minutes of starting to read, I was disgusted by the angel's Brooklynite-one night stand kissing the penis of his sleeping 3 year old son, justifying it as a quaint Greek custom that makes men strong and smart. Skimming ahead, I was horrified by a scene straight out of a NAMBLA manual on justifying pedophilia in which the angel's pick up turns into a three year old boy himself. I did something with this book I seldom do -- I threw it out into the trash where it belongs.
January 6, 2023
One star is far too much for this book. I honestly didn't make it through the first chapter, I just don't have interest in pedophilia thrown into an erotic novel for titillation. Will not pick this back up again.
September 20, 2016
You will either like it or hate it.
Trigger warning: gratuitous pedophilia in the first few pages.
The beginning is nasty filth with pedophilia, worse yet it was unneeded as it didn't help the story line other than to show depravity. I admit I set the book aside never intending to finish it. A couple months later, I was bored and started reading it again. I think the author intended to shock with the beginning, but eventually it became more of a steamy romance between the two main characters, a romance that goes back a millennia or so.
A problem is that if you get "burned" like that in the beginning, while reading the book you are always wary of another stunt that the author might pull. My recommendation is that if you must read the book, skip the first chapter.
I really liked how the story unfolded slowly, it's set in modern times but the characters history goes back thousand(s) of years. It's engaging, but getting burned by the author right off the bat is unpleasant.
I’m not going to recommend it
Trigger warning: gratuitous pedophilia in the first few pages.
The beginning is nasty filth with pedophilia, worse yet it was unneeded as it didn't help the story line other than to show depravity. I admit I set the book aside never intending to finish it. A couple months later, I was bored and started reading it again. I think the author intended to shock with the beginning, but eventually it became more of a steamy romance between the two main characters, a romance that goes back a millennia or so.
A problem is that if you get "burned" like that in the beginning, while reading the book you are always wary of another stunt that the author might pull. My recommendation is that if you must read the book, skip the first chapter.
I really liked how the story unfolded slowly, it's set in modern times but the characters history goes back thousand(s) of years. It's engaging, but getting burned by the author right off the bat is unpleasant.
I’m not going to recommend it
October 18, 2011
An amazing story of two angels who have travelled down through the ages together. I loved that they were so kind, understanding and gentle with each other. Never harsh words. Only love and making love.
Tommy Angelo is so innocent and pure even in his work as a [...]. People see and love Tommy. I loved this character. He gave his service and love unconditionally to Bertrand in the 11th Century,having never met him - and in return Bertrand promised that he would always protect Tommy. I loved that even though Tommy's innocence & purity of character got him into trouble, Bertrand (now Bert) was always there for him. Tommy's eternal protector. I loved that Niko came down through the ages and Tommy found him.
The flashback scenes to the 11th Century were never boring and added flavour and substance to this erotic story. Very authentic. This was one of the most captivating and touching love stories that still combined a lot of eroticsm and graphic scenes. So beautiful, so erotic.
Tommy Angelo is so innocent and pure even in his work as a [...]. People see and love Tommy. I loved this character. He gave his service and love unconditionally to Bertrand in the 11th Century,having never met him - and in return Bertrand promised that he would always protect Tommy. I loved that even though Tommy's innocence & purity of character got him into trouble, Bertrand (now Bert) was always there for him. Tommy's eternal protector. I loved that Niko came down through the ages and Tommy found him.
The flashback scenes to the 11th Century were never boring and added flavour and substance to this erotic story. Very authentic. This was one of the most captivating and touching love stories that still combined a lot of eroticsm and graphic scenes. So beautiful, so erotic.
June 20, 2011
I actually did not finish this book, because there were some things that I found extremely offensive in it. It is very difficult to offend me, but I do have a few issues that are hot buttons for me. Unfortunately, within the first 15 pages of this book, one of the biggest, most potent hot buttons was hit. I tried to continue reading the book, but I couldn't.
That hot button is pedophilia/child molestation/child rape. (In my view, they are all more or less equivalent, and all morally reprehensible).
I cannot recommend this book to anyone based on that early scene, because I could not get past it. If you can get past it, the rest of the book might be okay, possibly even great. But it's definitely not for me, and not for others who are sensitive to this issue.
That hot button is pedophilia/child molestation/child rape. (In my view, they are all more or less equivalent, and all morally reprehensible).
I cannot recommend this book to anyone based on that early scene, because I could not get past it. If you can get past it, the rest of the book might be okay, possibly even great. But it's definitely not for me, and not for others who are sensitive to this issue.
April 25, 2010
I loved this book; it was quite a surprise. I knew it would be smut, duh, but it was gay erotic fiction. Very well done, beautiful descriptions, the bridges between time were wonderful. I'm just going to have to pass this on to others
December 30, 2011
Read this a while ago, will have to go back and re-read to actually review. Still haunt re read it, but the synopsis is accurate. Lots of drug/gang violence in the second part.
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