Stray

by Morgan Mason

How can the one person he wants most be the one person he shared a womb with?

Ryder knows he shouldn’t be thinking about his brother. His...twin.
He has lots of men to keep him distracted.
So why can’t he get off unless he’s thinking about Rowan?
Staying away is the only thing that makes sense anymore.

Until Rowan makes the first move.

Summer vacation has never been this torturous before, longing for something neither can have and shouldn’t want.

Stray is a standalone M/M twincest romance with a shared dorm room, opposites attract, forbidden feelings, a V-card on the line, and plenty of summer heat.

Genres: M M Romance, College, LGBT, New Adult

ebook

Published September 28, 2021

Reviews

[Iman (hiatus)]

dnf @ 30%
it’s too early to review LOL i don’t even finished but i’m not rating it soo whatever.

this is just another typical twincest romance i’ve read. this genre is actually getting bored. same old plot, same old storyline. same old angst, same old—*yawns*

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again, spoilers!

their feelings weren’t mutual at first. Rowan was the one that was attracted to his brother and of course, tries to runaway from his feelings, he started to plan on having hookups which was not something he’s used to. Ryder, the other twin, was the badboy who fuck everyone that he can. so we can see here that obviously the romance and attraction was going to take some time. but nope. afterwards, Ryder so suddenly becomes protective over the idea of Rowan dating someone else and how sudden he got turned on when he caught Rowan masturbated. there wasn’t any backstory why Ryder was like that. why Ryder was so mad or jealous and how close they were. it wasn’t giving and it wasn’t enough. i get it, shocking, like what the fuck was i thinking jerking off to the thoughts of my brother, what was i doing, but the actual question is HOW AM I LIKING THIS? you don’t know, i don’t know either. LOL. there wasn’t any root to the story. i mean, attraction is one thing, i get that, but how he handles the attraction is another. yeah, this book does not have that. i mean, they’re twin brothers, give me something to work out here, don’t jump on it.

i need pining, tension, confusion, more confusion, and then confusion some more, and if you want to make it easy, maybe give me reasons how close they are together, or maybe more depth? idk man. sorry for the spoilers though, but seriously it doesn’t matter, i felt like i’ve read this book before. nothing new.

and you know what? not just the twins were cliche, but the plot, having other friend to help his attraction from his brother by planning to have sex with him, then the vacation to their dad’s house. i swear i’ve read this storyline like a million times. i feel sorry for this book because i know maybe storylines like this are cliche and actually good, but i just can’t. maybe if i haven’t read any taboo, then i’ll love this :’)

maybe there’ll be something good happen or the relationship will develop, bcs i’m not even halfway there, but yeah i just had to or else i’ll end up torturing myself :/

[Megan [At The Cottage] · Rating 2 out of 5]

MM Taboo Erotica
Twins
2 Stars ⭐️


If it’s not obvious I’m in a bit of a taboo erotica rabbit hole and can’t seem to find my way out of it at the moment 🤣 I refuse to review every taboo book I’ve been reading but this one deserves one just to remind myself to stay away from this author. My friend was reading a book by this author that’s in the multi author tarot card series and it reminded me I got this free during the summer Smashwords sale so why not just add another one to my pile of trash reads? Because it sucked and not in a fun way. To be fair, my friend who was reading the other book by this author said the writing style didn’t work for them either but it’s kind of hard to mess this kind of book up so I figured it wouldn’t matter much. I was wrong.

There’s nothing wrong with this book exactly but it’s just so boring and I was cringing hard at some of the author’s dialogue choices. Normally if I’m cringing it’s some weird dirty talk but this was cringy due to how flowery it was. These are two college sophomores and their inner thoughts were so mushy and just didn’t fit the characters at all. One of them was fucking everything that walked at the start and the other was a shy virgin yet there was nothing that happened between them that made sense for their relationship to turn into more. And while I get the author was trying to show it was true love and not just fucking around, having to read the words “lover”, “darling”, and “sweetheart” constantly while they are trying to hump each other’s legs was a bit off putting. I guess everything just felt super forced and I didn’t feel the connection? and the virgin kept talking about dildos and stretching his hole which I would have loved to read about instead of the same recycled rutting scenes. The whole book they talk about going bareback after getting tested but we never see that scene 😭

I also didn’t understand why the dad was such a prick? It added nothing and just made this book drag. It wasn’t as boring as Our Gentle Sin by Lyra Evans but I really should have DNF’d at around 40% because it just never improved much.

[Jesslan Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Stray
By Morgan Mason

Ryder and Rowan are fraternal twins at college and share a dorm room. Whereas Ryder sleeps around A LOT Rowan is still a virgin. When they both begin to discover they have feelings for each other it causes serious issues between them. Ryder has a tendency to run away rather than dealing with how he feels about his brother. Rowan in response to that tends to shut down completely going into a severe depression.

While I've read a few taboo books about twins this is the first one that was serious all the way through. Unlike the others there's very little warmth and laughter. It's all taken very seriously between them.

It was a good book overall. I just felt it needed some laughter and happy romantic parts. There was to little of it.

[RestlessPages]

Two fraternal brothers, sharing a room in a dorm. They're total opposites; Ryder is big, muscled and a playboy, while Rowan is smaller, awkward and still a virgin. Rowan keeps catching Ryder having sex with other people, and starts fantasizing about him, but tries to deal with it by finding some guy to finally lose his V-card. Then Ryder catches Rowan masturbating, which sparks things between them...

I'm honestly not sure how to rate this.

-For the lack of better explanation, it felt like the story changed into a different one three times. I personally liked the premise at the beginning, of the twins, one popular and one a loner, being in close proximity when feelings spark between them. But the story quickly switches to "back home at the farm during summer" (with their own rooms) and Rowan planning to meet up with this one guy, Keith, to lose his virginity. Then the Keith thing was dropped suddenly, which I didn't particularly mind, as I liked that part that followed, where we see Rowan being unable to function without his brother Ryder... But then the story shifted into family issues, career paths, and their future plans for living in Italy.
I think I'm just disappointed because I really liked the idea from the start, popular twin x loner twin figuring out their feelings at college, sharing a room, jealousy when seeing each other with other people, the difference in popularity between them etc, but didn't get any of that.

-While I liked premise at the start, I didn't like the way Ryder treated his hookups at the beginning. That was really shitty and I almost dropped the book.

- The smut was hot.

-Them constantlly doing lovey-dovey/smutty things when their family was near gave me so much anxiety.

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*General Notes*
-tabooo, fraternal twins, opposites, size difference
-they start at 20 years old, then turn 21 throughout the story.

*Intimacy Notes*
-Top/bottom/verse: strict, Ryder tops and Rowan bottoms, but they mention the possibility of Ryder bottoming in the future (doesn't happen on-page)
-Kinks/sex notes: drying humping, first times/virgin MC, frotting, BJs, rimming, penetration, some praise and very mild spanking (near the end), and maybe hint of a breeding kink?
-Other:
・nicknames: cutie, baby, babe, sweetheart...
・lil handtimacy

[Jennifer Reilley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stray by morgan mason

This is a taboo book, hence smash words

Ryder and Rowan are twins living together at college. Ryder is extremely free with his sexual side where Rowan is total opposite.

This is a sweet brothers and best friends to lovers story of realizing who you are in love with and finding a way to make it work.

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cheesy with too many terms of endearment, but still hot.

[Lilibet Bombshell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too long, too sentimental, a little too corn-fed and starry-eyed for me... but still hot.

[Anita · Rating 3 out of 5]

Started out strong but then derailed with pages and pages of smexy time between Ryder and Rowan. Yes, this is twincest so the whole sex thing is a given but dayyuuum. I wanted more story about them. Just went on and on. Liked the writing and the twins' backstory. Did like how it ended. That was unique. Will check out this author's other works as with the endless pages of sex aside, the writing, particularly the beginning, was good.

[Kathy Seabrease · Rating 4 out of 5]

First time reading a full length taboo book. My heart kept going out to the brothers. Having needs and wants that were deep and forbidden. How often in life do you really find your love and soulmate? And have those feelings reciprocated, only to be from the one person it's not supposed to be?

Resist as they tried, it was bigger than the both of them. I love that they stood together against their parents when one twin was thrown under the bus.

Good read

[Claire Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the m/m twincest books I’ve read. Absolutely loved Ryder & Rowan and couldn’t put it down.
It’s got all the feels. Steamy as hell but a great storyline too.
I could read so much more and highly recommend.
Can’t wait to see what else this author has in store.
A top read for sure 😍

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this story! The internal struggles and journey were well thought out. Sweet and sexy!!

[Denise GremoryKohta · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is chock full of heat and has some angst. But it sure had me thinking secrets were going to be found out at every turn.