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Need #2
Chosen
Vampire Bast and his lover Trick are still alive, or not, and kicking in this sequel to Need! Still very human Trick is dealing with the difficulty of having a lover who can't go out in the sun, Bast is trying to accept the changes the world throws at him, and they're both working on understanding the bond between them. Trick has asked Bast to feed on him alone, and while that's easy enough for Bast because of his deep love for Trick, it causes all sorts of complications. Their friends don't really understand what happens when Bast feeds on Trick, worried that Bast will somehow do his lover harm. Trick figures they're just jealous because he has Bast and they don't, but it could cause serious problems for the pair when their old crowd starts threatening to take Trick away. To make matters worse, Trick knows he's not getting any younger, and he's starting to worry that he won't be able to keep Bast happy, or fed, for the rest of his life. Can Trick and Bast settle the problems that seem to follow them? Or will they fold under the pressure of being a vampire and his Chosen?
142 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2007
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Sean Michael
652 books1,209 followersOften referred to as "Space Cowboy" and "Gangsta of Love" while still striving for the moniker of "Maurice," Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and persuing the kama sutra by channeling the long lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to "Chicago."
A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.
Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.
Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
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October 30, 2010
Call the FBI…. the Cops… Superman!!!
We must do something! Two impostors take Trick and Bast place in this erotic novel!! Quickly! Let’s search them!
Yeah, maybe I should be more delicate and avoid this lame joke, but I can’t:
This book sucks… and not in the erotic good way.
5 reason to my 1 star:
1)We are certain that was the same writer that wrote the second book of the Need serie? If so Sean Michael was in a reeeeeeeeeally bad mood writing the second book. The chapters are short and there is no connection between them! Do you know when you are bored to death and take the TV remote, changing in 4 minutes 10 channels? Same felling here! The chapters, obviously, has always Trick and Bast, but there are absolutely no continuum of the story. Different actions starting and ending so abruptly that was like the author was bored to death writing and to stay alive (survival instincts are hard to avoid) he constantly change subject! At the end he start to skip years!!! YEARS! Whyyyyyyy? I hate it! I don’t want to read “after 10 years Bast understand…” or a similar lame phrase to justify the lack of the writer imagination.
2)Ok, this second motive maybe is very personal. Trick or Bast talking/thinking about scars are not pretty, but creepy!
HOLY COW, read about all the scars on Trick body is sooooo gross… should I get excited? Sorry, but I DON’T THINK SO. I’m not judging who think something like that is hot, I’m just saying that to me was not a “happy” or “funny” talk.
My real question is why Bast (the wonderful guy of the first book) would do this to the men the love? Bast is a vampire so, obviously, he must bite to get blood. But he could be careful! No??? Nope… Bast was soooooo glad leaving scars on the men he love… to mark him always… and he was really proud of the scars! Both of them are!
2 words: Sick Bastard.
(no, sorry, isn’t “get therapy” the 2 words)
3)107 times. Yeah… I count it… reading a ebook you can easily count how many times a word is said. So, it was easy and quick to found out that “sweet” is repeated 107 times. 107 “sweet” in a pdf file of 200 pages MAYBE is a little to much, no? We are talking about one page “yes” and another “no”, them “yes” and them “no” to the presence of the word “sweet”… exaggerated, and unnecessary in my modest opinion. IMPORTANT, I’m talking about 107 times Bast call Trick his “sweet” or you find the word “sweet” in phrases like “they hug each other in a sweet demonstration of love…”. Yeah… annoying.
After 20 pages I start to substitute “sweet” by “delightful” or another synonymous. Was a funny and educational game called “let’s find synonymous to “sweet”!!!!”. Soooooo pleeeeeeease read this book to have fun like me! (I must admit that I cheat and at some point I was searching synonymous in Portuguese and Italian too… 107 times was a lot and I don’t think there are 107 synonymous to the word “sweet” in the English language)
4)It’s a erotic book, and I was not disappointed with the erotic scenes (hallelujah, at least that I like in this book), but some times I get distracted and if you ask me now I don’t remember many of them.
What do I mean?
Please, imagine this: you are in a coffee shop reading a sex scene of this book and someone shout “what a wonderful kitty”. Your eyes start to follow a kitty passing by the street. You keep looking the kitty, them take a long look of the cars, them the flowers… decide to get up and go out to take that cat to your home. You never find the cat, but you meet a men/woman distributing a “missing cat” paper with a picture of that cat. You get excited and try to help saying that you saw the cat and can take him/her to show where. You two never find the cat, but fall in love, and start a beautiful relationship. You travel to distant lands, do exciting thinks, and finally, after many many many happy years, you die in peace with your beloved next to you.
THAT’s what I mean by getting distracted and forgetting about the hot scene you was reading/read. (PS: do you like my romantic story? Maybe I should develop it more! Possible title: “The lucky bored”)
Anyway, is possible to get distracted reading an erotic book??? Well, some times I was.
5)Last reason of my 1 star… the end is terrible. I’m not addicted to HEA (“Happily Ever After”), and most of the times a HFN (“Happy For Now”) is a stimulus to imagine more about the characters. The HFN of Choosen don’t let me wanting more. Something is missing… it’s even a HFN in my view!
Seems that the writer was writing and someone shout “look a kitty” (and the story go on like before explained)…. or while he was writing he get sleepy… or he was drunk… or he was drunk and get distracted watching a sleepy kitty... or… ok, I’m done… you get my point.
1 stars.
The first book of this serie I strongly recommend (true, I loved it), Chosen unfortunately no.
We must do something! Two impostors take Trick and Bast place in this erotic novel!! Quickly! Let’s search them!
Yeah, maybe I should be more delicate and avoid this lame joke, but I can’t:
This book sucks… and not in the erotic good way.
5 reason to my 1 star:
1)We are certain that was the same writer that wrote the second book of the Need serie? If so Sean Michael was in a reeeeeeeeeally bad mood writing the second book. The chapters are short and there is no connection between them! Do you know when you are bored to death and take the TV remote, changing in 4 minutes 10 channels? Same felling here! The chapters, obviously, has always Trick and Bast, but there are absolutely no continuum of the story. Different actions starting and ending so abruptly that was like the author was bored to death writing and to stay alive (survival instincts are hard to avoid) he constantly change subject! At the end he start to skip years!!! YEARS! Whyyyyyyy? I hate it! I don’t want to read “after 10 years Bast understand…” or a similar lame phrase to justify the lack of the writer imagination.
2)Ok, this second motive maybe is very personal. Trick or Bast talking/thinking about scars are not pretty, but creepy!
HOLY COW, read about all the scars on Trick body is sooooo gross… should I get excited? Sorry, but I DON’T THINK SO. I’m not judging who think something like that is hot, I’m just saying that to me was not a “happy” or “funny” talk.
My real question is why Bast (the wonderful guy of the first book) would do this to the men the love? Bast is a vampire so, obviously, he must bite to get blood. But he could be careful! No??? Nope… Bast was soooooo glad leaving scars on the men he love… to mark him always… and he was really proud of the scars! Both of them are!
2 words: Sick Bastard.
(no, sorry, isn’t “get therapy” the 2 words)
3)107 times. Yeah… I count it… reading a ebook you can easily count how many times a word is said. So, it was easy and quick to found out that “sweet” is repeated 107 times. 107 “sweet” in a pdf file of 200 pages MAYBE is a little to much, no? We are talking about one page “yes” and another “no”, them “yes” and them “no” to the presence of the word “sweet”… exaggerated, and unnecessary in my modest opinion. IMPORTANT, I’m talking about 107 times Bast call Trick his “sweet” or you find the word “sweet” in phrases like “they hug each other in a sweet demonstration of love…”. Yeah… annoying.
After 20 pages I start to substitute “sweet” by “delightful” or another synonymous. Was a funny and educational game called “let’s find synonymous to “sweet”!!!!”. Soooooo pleeeeeeease read this book to have fun like me! (I must admit that I cheat and at some point I was searching synonymous in Portuguese and Italian too… 107 times was a lot and I don’t think there are 107 synonymous to the word “sweet” in the English language)
4)It’s a erotic book, and I was not disappointed with the erotic scenes (hallelujah, at least that I like in this book), but some times I get distracted and if you ask me now I don’t remember many of them.
What do I mean?
Please, imagine this: you are in a coffee shop reading a sex scene of this book and someone shout “what a wonderful kitty”. Your eyes start to follow a kitty passing by the street. You keep looking the kitty, them take a long look of the cars, them the flowers… decide to get up and go out to take that cat to your home. You never find the cat, but you meet a men/woman distributing a “missing cat” paper with a picture of that cat. You get excited and try to help saying that you saw the cat and can take him/her to show where. You two never find the cat, but fall in love, and start a beautiful relationship. You travel to distant lands, do exciting thinks, and finally, after many many many happy years, you die in peace with your beloved next to you.
THAT’s what I mean by getting distracted and forgetting about the hot scene you was reading/read. (PS: do you like my romantic story? Maybe I should develop it more! Possible title: “The lucky bored”)
Anyway, is possible to get distracted reading an erotic book??? Well, some times I was.
5)Last reason of my 1 star… the end is terrible. I’m not addicted to HEA (“Happily Ever After”), and most of the times a HFN (“Happy For Now”) is a stimulus to imagine more about the characters. The HFN of Choosen don’t let me wanting more. Something is missing… it’s even a HFN in my view!
Seems that the writer was writing and someone shout “look a kitty” (and the story go on like before explained)…. or while he was writing he get sleepy… or he was drunk… or he was drunk and get distracted watching a sleepy kitty... or… ok, I’m done… you get my point.
1 stars.
The first book of this serie I strongly recommend (true, I loved it), Chosen unfortunately no.
July 24, 2009
I added a comment on another book about this novel. I said that “I still choke up when I think about the end of this book”...
I thought I would take a second to explain that sentiment because it is valid, but it is also misleading. Once you have read Need, you will have come to know Bast and Trick. Chosen picks up several years into their very intense relationship.
In 99.9% of paranormal, the HEA is solved with some version of both MC’s being or becoming paranormal and immortal with unnaturally long lives (centuries) ahead of them. That fulfills some of our basic romantic thoughts…the couple will be together always, long after, us the reader are gone and forgotten.
With Chosen, that isn’t the way it ends. I don’t want to give anything away. Nobody dies and they do have a Happily Ever After before them but it is not the typical paranormal ending you would expect. Yes, this is Sean Michael, there is a lot of sex and even more of the favorite paranormal growling “mine”, “yours” but beyond that, it is a love that is an addiction. And the question is, “is there such a thing as a good addiction?”
In the end Trick has some very insightful and mature realizations about the nature of his relationship with an ever-young looking vampire and the mortal aging process that was very touching.
Because of that self-realization, I choke up when I think about the end of this book.
It’s been a while since I read Chosen. It might be able to be read as a stand alone, but I don’t know why you would do that. Read Need and then read Chosen and come back and let me know if I am ridiculously sentimental or if it choked you up too.
PS, don't use Bite or Bitten as a measure of how good Sean Michael is at paranorma erotica. I liked these two books much more than those. I think he thought about Bast and Trick a lot longer and really knew them.
I thought I would take a second to explain that sentiment because it is valid, but it is also misleading. Once you have read Need, you will have come to know Bast and Trick. Chosen picks up several years into their very intense relationship.
In 99.9% of paranormal, the HEA is solved with some version of both MC’s being or becoming paranormal and immortal with unnaturally long lives (centuries) ahead of them. That fulfills some of our basic romantic thoughts…the couple will be together always, long after, us the reader are gone and forgotten.
With Chosen, that isn’t the way it ends. I don’t want to give anything away. Nobody dies and they do have a Happily Ever After before them but it is not the typical paranormal ending you would expect. Yes, this is Sean Michael, there is a lot of sex and even more of the favorite paranormal growling “mine”, “yours” but beyond that, it is a love that is an addiction. And the question is, “is there such a thing as a good addiction?”
In the end Trick has some very insightful and mature realizations about the nature of his relationship with an ever-young looking vampire and the mortal aging process that was very touching.
Because of that self-realization, I choke up when I think about the end of this book.
It’s been a while since I read Chosen. It might be able to be read as a stand alone, but I don’t know why you would do that. Read Need and then read Chosen and come back and let me know if I am ridiculously sentimental or if it choked you up too.
PS, don't use Bite or Bitten as a measure of how good Sean Michael is at paranorma erotica. I liked these two books much more than those. I think he thought about Bast and Trick a lot longer and really knew them.
January 22, 2011
I hate to say it but I was so disappointed in this book, the second in a series. I gave the first one 5 stars - a high rating for a book with a lot of sex, but I loved it because the story was emotional and very heartwarming for a vamp book. And I wanted to like this one, I really did and I really tried, but in the end I think I skipped over almost as much as I read - mostly an overabundance of redundant sex scenes that turned the book into one big porn read.
The chapters were really short and not synced to each in any way - one chapter Trick left Bast to come back to the couch and some furniture were missing, he wondered about that but then it wasn't mentioned again. Same with Bast suddenly wanting to redecorate the apartment, he had the paint and moved the furniture and they talked about it, but then the chapter ended. A few chapters later they talked about redecorating because Bast was tired of the goth look. It was just confusing and hard to find the real meat of the story under all the sex. I didn't find the characters as engaging as before mainly because everything was Sweets and baby-boy and sex.
I'm giving it a 2.5 upped to a 3 mainly because I still loved Bast and Trick, and think they had the potential to actually talk and be lovers instead of just sex fiends. Plus, I still have some of their emotional love left in my head from the first book.
The chapters were really short and not synced to each in any way - one chapter Trick left Bast to come back to the couch and some furniture were missing, he wondered about that but then it wasn't mentioned again. Same with Bast suddenly wanting to redecorate the apartment, he had the paint and moved the furniture and they talked about it, but then the chapter ended. A few chapters later they talked about redecorating because Bast was tired of the goth look. It was just confusing and hard to find the real meat of the story under all the sex. I didn't find the characters as engaging as before mainly because everything was Sweets and baby-boy and sex.
I'm giving it a 2.5 upped to a 3 mainly because I still loved Bast and Trick, and think they had the potential to actually talk and be lovers instead of just sex fiends. Plus, I still have some of their emotional love left in my head from the first book.
July 8, 2010
Taking the second book and read it without even glimpsing at the first might be problem, but no with gay romance written by Sean Michael. It is about relationship, intense one and very sexual one, where men doing it with ability of Viagra stuffed rabbits.
When everything else fails, write about vampires and it will work nicely and it is actually working in this book. Bast, vampire, had his human Trick to love and to feed from (feeding aka sexual thing to do very sexual one). Both are settling aka fucking aka securing their relationship vampire with mortal and trying to beat odds. Nicely written and enjoyable to read even if the plot was like ten sentences in the ocean of sexual activity.
When everything else fails, write about vampires and it will work nicely and it is actually working in this book. Bast, vampire, had his human Trick to love and to feed from (feeding aka sexual thing to do very sexual one). Both are settling aka fucking aka securing their relationship vampire with mortal and trying to beat odds. Nicely written and enjoyable to read even if the plot was like ten sentences in the ocean of sexual activity.
July 26, 2012
This wasnt as good as the first one which I gave the whole 5 stars. There wasnt much of a story but if you like lots and I mean lots of good hot sex then its a sure read! I would from purely selfish reasons though like to see a third book in which Trick is turned......I love a HEA!
October 29, 2015
I couldn't bring myself to finish this one. Too much sex, and nothing else going on *bleh*.
September 7, 2017
I really, really liked this series. Well, i really like all of this writer books - all this " MINE!" and "YOURS!" and so much sex just makes my days. Or nights, whatever. Sean Michael is my comfort-book-reading writer. I always return to read one of his (myriads!) books when I'm feeling restless. Or just because.
The reason this fifth star is missing from my rating is probably common for us Michael's readers : not the ending I'd wish. HEA of course but not...really, you know? And yes, I'd love, REALLY love for this series to have a third book for the HEA alone.
All in all a great book, as always expected.
The reason this fifth star is missing from my rating is probably common for us Michael's readers : not the ending I'd wish. HEA of course but not...really, you know? And yes, I'd love, REALLY love for this series to have a third book for the HEA alone.
All in all a great book, as always expected.
July 13, 2015
Enjoyed this as I do any and all vampire stories. However, p/b copy I have is full of editing errors and it was distracting. Definitely more sex than plot, as w/the first book, Needing. But because of the characters, it worked for me. Both characters, as in Book One, were needy, full of angst, with hard exteriors that sheathed a vulnerability; that always appeals to my nurturing nature. The ending made me sad. With one immortal, and one mortal, how long can an HEA truly endure?
October 16, 2013
More porn, just like the first one. Not an HEA, which was kind of a bummer. The series spans about 10 years in the relationship between Trick and Bast, leaving you wondering how things will go when Trick gets older. Still, great porn.
November 16, 2010
I really can't believe how this book descended into a diary of porn. This book was a jumble of thoughts and sexual situations. I wish I never read it. It ruined the HEA for me~
February 7, 2012
More adventures of Trick and Bast with everything I loved about the first book.
April 9, 2013
This is a lot of sex.. As many as one book cam possibly contain..
And left me a bit sad. I wish there'd be the next, somehow make this until the end of time thing work..
And left me a bit sad. I wish there'd be the next, somehow make this until the end of time thing work..
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