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Phantom Lover, Volume 2
The Forbidden Island Johnny Kaimana is a young Honolulu tour guide, enjoying a fun, carefree existence and a no-strings sexual relationship with his roommate, Alex "Aloha" Granger. Just as things turn serious between them Johnny finds himself drawn to Mahini, a mysterious stranger, an imperious tattoo artist from The Forbidden Island of Ni'ihau. Their hot romp turns almost deadly when an obsessed Mahini secretly burdens Johnny with an ancient, evil curse called he malama pu'olo, or Bundle of Death. With the aid of the powerful kahuna Kimo Wilder now married to Johnny's former boyfriend Lopaka, he must retrieve the very personal object Mahini has stolen from him. This means making a rare and dangerous trip to Ni'ihau an island forbidden to outsiders. Can Johnny break the hold of the curse? He must, for his sanity, his life and the life of the man he realizes he truly loves... Summer Love Kimo and Lopaka are expecting twins! Their joy at pending parenthood is shadowed however by Kimo's fears that somebody will try and stop these children from being born. Already, other kahuna know that these twins will be the most powerful healers the islands have ever seen. Lopaka's twin sister Maluhia, who is the surrogate for the couple, must be protected at all costs. Kimo takes his burgeoning family on a vacation to secret, power vortexes all over the islands, enlisting the aid of the ancient gods and goddesses. Maluhia also has just one request. She wants Kimo to conjure up a Summer Love for her and her romantic choice is unusual to say the least...
366 pages, Paperback
First published November 3, 2008
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About the author
A.J. Llewellyn
288 books452 followersA.J. Llewellyn lives in California, but dreams of living in Hawaii. Frequent trips to all the islands, bags of Kona coffee in the fridge and a healthy collection of Hawaiian records keep this writer refueled.
A.J’s passion for the islands led to writing a play about the last ruling monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani as well as a non-erotic novel about the overthrow of her kingdom written in diary form from her maid’s point of view.
A.J. never lacks inspiritation for male/male erotic romances and on the rare occasion this happens, pursues other passions such as collecting books on Hawaiiana, surfing and spending time with friends and animal companions.
A.J. Llewellyn believes that love is a song best sung out loud.
A.J’s passion for the islands led to writing a play about the last ruling monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani as well as a non-erotic novel about the overthrow of her kingdom written in diary form from her maid’s point of view.
A.J. never lacks inspiritation for male/male erotic romances and on the rare occasion this happens, pursues other passions such as collecting books on Hawaiiana, surfing and spending time with friends and animal companions.
A.J. Llewellyn believes that love is a song best sung out loud.
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April 24, 2009The Forbidden Island by A.J. Llewellyn
An A.J. Llewellyn's book has a style of its own. They are like haunting books, something that lures you into the story despite your better intention. I don't like menage; I don't like cheating men. But even if this book has both of them, I like the book. Can you explain it to me, please?
Johnny is the former lover of Lopaka, one of the main characters of the previous book, Phantom Lover. In Phantom Lover Johnny is not a very positive character, he is the cheating lover of Lopaka and he is also the man who stirred problems between Lopaka and Kimo. So hardly a man you would choose as hero. And when The Forbidden Island starts, Johnny is slightly better, but not much. He now lives with Alex, an English man who spent most of his life in Hawaii and so earned the nickname of Aloha. They are roommates and occasionally lovers. They play a lot, and threesomes seem a Friday constant routine. But recently both Johnny and Aloha start to realize that they are very good together and that maybe they can have something more than a friends with benefit relationship. Then they meet Lopaka and Kimo again and a strange chain of events begins to happen. A strange man named Mahini enters Johnny's life and he seems obsessed by the man. Actually Johnny, who has just started to realize his feelings for Aloha, at first is not against the idea to have something with Mahini, but he hasn't realized that the man is not someone who he can have sex with one moment and dump soon after. Johnny and Aloha will have to test their love and their strenght before starting a real life together.
As I said the story is almost haunting. As the previous one, it's very filled of Hawaiian legends and customs. Actually sometime it's almost like reading a travel guide on the island, due to the detailed description of the author. One time I read that Betty Neels' fans used her books to visiting Holland... The Forbidden Island is like that, you could take foothand notes on all the places in the book, to visit if you have the fortune to make a travel there.
Lopaka and Kimo are very present supporting characters and a very important event takes place in this book that will be the starting point for their second own story, Summer Love. Truth be told, I was very happy reading the interactions between the two and sometime they steal the scene to Johnny and Aloha, but they are also, somewhat, the vehicle that brings the two toward their life together.
Summer Love by A.J. Llewellyn
In the real sequel of Phantom Lover (since the previous one was centered on a couple of friends...), Kimo and Lopaka are a married couple now, and they also are "expecting" twin: Lopaka's sister agreed to be their surrogate mother, and she is now pregnant. Like all pregnant woman, she is behaving strange and Kimo and Lopaka decide to bring all the family in vacation in a near island.
Both grandparents from Kimo and Lopaka side and also Baby Kimo, the child Kimo has fathered for Lopaka's friend, Nicky, join the group. Actually Baby Kimo is starting to be more Kimo and Lopaka's first son than of Nicky. In this strange family, Lopaka is the "wife" and he is becoming to assume all the protective skills of a real mother. With all there people around, Kimo and Lopaka have to develop new way to be together, their bed seems more a public plaza than a private bedroom.
Summer Love is a fun escapade. The strange and mystical events that were only hinted in Phantom Lover, here have a main role, and Kimo is more relaxed and funny than before. All the book is from Lopaka's point of view, and like it should be for a good mother, he is more quite and steady, steadier and strong. It seems that Kimo is now allow to be more free and relaxed and Lopaka instead is growing in a mature man, with more responsibility: there is an exchange of power between the two men that make the pair more balanced.
As in the previous books, the beautiful Hawaiian islands are picturing in details, with some interesting tips that make them something more than a beautiful postcard.
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An A.J. Llewellyn's book has a style of its own. They are like haunting books, something that lures you into the story despite your better intention. I don't like menage; I don't like cheating men. But even if this book has both of them, I like the book. Can you explain it to me, please?
Johnny is the former lover of Lopaka, one of the main characters of the previous book, Phantom Lover. In Phantom Lover Johnny is not a very positive character, he is the cheating lover of Lopaka and he is also the man who stirred problems between Lopaka and Kimo. So hardly a man you would choose as hero. And when The Forbidden Island starts, Johnny is slightly better, but not much. He now lives with Alex, an English man who spent most of his life in Hawaii and so earned the nickname of Aloha. They are roommates and occasionally lovers. They play a lot, and threesomes seem a Friday constant routine. But recently both Johnny and Aloha start to realize that they are very good together and that maybe they can have something more than a friends with benefit relationship. Then they meet Lopaka and Kimo again and a strange chain of events begins to happen. A strange man named Mahini enters Johnny's life and he seems obsessed by the man. Actually Johnny, who has just started to realize his feelings for Aloha, at first is not against the idea to have something with Mahini, but he hasn't realized that the man is not someone who he can have sex with one moment and dump soon after. Johnny and Aloha will have to test their love and their strenght before starting a real life together.
As I said the story is almost haunting. As the previous one, it's very filled of Hawaiian legends and customs. Actually sometime it's almost like reading a travel guide on the island, due to the detailed description of the author. One time I read that Betty Neels' fans used her books to visiting Holland... The Forbidden Island is like that, you could take foothand notes on all the places in the book, to visit if you have the fortune to make a travel there.
Lopaka and Kimo are very present supporting characters and a very important event takes place in this book that will be the starting point for their second own story, Summer Love. Truth be told, I was very happy reading the interactions between the two and sometime they steal the scene to Johnny and Aloha, but they are also, somewhat, the vehicle that brings the two toward their life together.
Summer Love by A.J. Llewellyn
In the real sequel of Phantom Lover (since the previous one was centered on a couple of friends...), Kimo and Lopaka are a married couple now, and they also are "expecting" twin: Lopaka's sister agreed to be their surrogate mother, and she is now pregnant. Like all pregnant woman, she is behaving strange and Kimo and Lopaka decide to bring all the family in vacation in a near island.
Both grandparents from Kimo and Lopaka side and also Baby Kimo, the child Kimo has fathered for Lopaka's friend, Nicky, join the group. Actually Baby Kimo is starting to be more Kimo and Lopaka's first son than of Nicky. In this strange family, Lopaka is the "wife" and he is becoming to assume all the protective skills of a real mother. With all there people around, Kimo and Lopaka have to develop new way to be together, their bed seems more a public plaza than a private bedroom.
Summer Love is a fun escapade. The strange and mystical events that were only hinted in Phantom Lover, here have a main role, and Kimo is more relaxed and funny than before. All the book is from Lopaka's point of view, and like it should be for a good mother, he is more quite and steady, steadier and strong. It seems that Kimo is now allow to be more free and relaxed and Lopaka instead is growing in a mature man, with more responsibility: there is an exchange of power between the two men that make the pair more balanced.
As in the previous books, the beautiful Hawaiian islands are picturing in details, with some interesting tips that make them something more than a beautiful postcard.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1554871468/?...
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