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Reckless
Amanda Young, best-selling author of gay fiction, brings you two sizzling tales of seduction. Previously available only in electronic format, these erotic novellas have now been combined for a paperback edition! Included are the stories... Reckless Seduction When nineteen year old Cody Bradbury gets his hands on an invitation to the hottest party of the year at The Casbah, an exclusive gay men's club owned by his uncle, he doesn't plan to let anything stand in his way of attending. With a stolen invitation, fake identification, and a hastily thrown together costume, Cody sneaks into the club during its annual Halloween party with the intention of checking out the action and losing his long-despised cherry. He can't believe his good luck when Dante Santiago comes on to him. Cody knows the older man wants his body, but is there any chance Dante might want more than an orgasm? There's only one way to find out, and Cody plans to make it a night neither of them will ever forget. Reckless Behavior After six months with his lover, Cody yearns for monogamy. The threesomes he and Dante engage in are fun, but he needs more from the man he has grown to care about. Although Cody longs to tell Dante how he feels, he fears love and fidelity are two words missing from his older lover's vocabulary.
- GenresM M Romance
182 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2010
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About the author
Amanda Young
129 books400 followersA bestselling author of erotic romance, Amanda Young penned her first romance at eighteen. That novel was promptly deleted before it could traumatize innocent readers. After several years of honing her craft, Amanda went on to receive her first publishing contract in 2006.
A vivid imagination and a passion for all the things that go bump in the night has led Amanda to create provocative stories that push boundaries and dare readers to expand their comfort zones. Since she tends to write whatever strikes her fancy, her novels fall into many different subgenres. Among her available titles you’ll find contemporary and paranormal settings, gay and straight themes alike.
Amanda Young lives in Virginia with her husband, daughter, and two pampered pooches. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found chasing after a mischievous toddler or daydreaming about the characters in her next book. She loves to hear from her readers, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter. Her website, www.amandayoung.org, is where you can find up-to-date information on all of Amanda’s current and upcoming releases.
A vivid imagination and a passion for all the things that go bump in the night has led Amanda to create provocative stories that push boundaries and dare readers to expand their comfort zones. Since she tends to write whatever strikes her fancy, her novels fall into many different subgenres. Among her available titles you’ll find contemporary and paranormal settings, gay and straight themes alike.
Amanda Young lives in Virginia with her husband, daughter, and two pampered pooches. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found chasing after a mischievous toddler or daydreaming about the characters in her next book. She loves to hear from her readers, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter. Her website, www.amandayoung.org, is where you can find up-to-date information on all of Amanda’s current and upcoming releases.
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September 11, 2010
^^THE YOUNG AND RECKLESS!^^
*3.5*
This book contains Amanda Young’s Novellas, Reckless Seduction and Reckless Behavior, both stories now offered together in paperback. This is my first book by Amanda and it will not be my last. I like her characters and the overall voice of her book. There were some mild editing problems, but nothing to make a big deal about, and it offered my favourite theme, young virgin boy falls in love with older experienced man.
Reckless Seduction- We meet young Cody Bradbury a college student who was orphaned and was brought up by his gay uncle. Cody already knows he is gay and is looking for a little experience. His uncle runs an exclusive gay gentleman’s club and Cody is just dying to walk through its door. Well at his uncles insistence and strict ways seems he will never make it pass the doors. When an invitation to the highly anticipated costume party at the club falls into his hands, he takes it as sign. With his fake Id Cody is off to party and hopefully land a fantastic hook-up, but not just any hook-up he wants the manager of the club and his uncle’s best-friend Dante Santiago. All that is left is to convince Dante that he is good for him.
Now Cody goes into seduction overdrive, after realizing the extent of Dante’s want. With and impromptu plan Cody makes his move and it leads to a night of some very hot sex and to a relationship he has been wanting. Things might not last, if his uncle has some thing to say about it, but Cody is willing to fight because he is sure he just found his happiness.
Reckless Behavior- The second part follows Dante and Cody’s relationship and let me tell you there are some very hot times. Both men want more from the relationship but are unable to voice what they want. Cody feels if he makes his feelings clear he would be stifling Dante, he is notorious for his flings and his loner attitude and Cody is afraid of ruining what they currently have by making demands.
The second half begins with Dante and Cody picking out a man for their threesome, this seems to be the epitome of their relationship for the past couple months. Dante has spent his time to educate Cody about all things sexual and erotic. Well it seems all the playing around is getting old, and both men just cannot find the right words to convey their feelings. It then becomes a story about communication, because these two are very lacking in this skill.
I really liked Cody; he is very ambitious and goes after what he wants. He took down Dante like a lion to his prey. He is exactly as how he should be, a young man finding love with an experienced man, and facing all his doubts about whether he is able to satisfy him. Dante is the older but none the wiser he makes mistakes and I really like that about him.
The plot is fairly simple and nothing new, the book is purely character driven with predictable obstacles. I found myself doing the occasional *eye roll*, but it’s for that very reason why I like this book. It remains true in its simplicity and does not venture away from what the story is ultimately about, two people finding love and discovering the truths about themselves. I can tell you that Ms Young knows how to write a sex scene, these two together are molten lava, very, very sexy.
Overall, an enjoyable simple and fun read with likable characters and very hot sex and chemistry. I would say give this one a look see.
*3.5*
This book contains Amanda Young’s Novellas, Reckless Seduction and Reckless Behavior, both stories now offered together in paperback. This is my first book by Amanda and it will not be my last. I like her characters and the overall voice of her book. There were some mild editing problems, but nothing to make a big deal about, and it offered my favourite theme, young virgin boy falls in love with older experienced man.
Reckless Seduction- We meet young Cody Bradbury a college student who was orphaned and was brought up by his gay uncle. Cody already knows he is gay and is looking for a little experience. His uncle runs an exclusive gay gentleman’s club and Cody is just dying to walk through its door. Well at his uncles insistence and strict ways seems he will never make it pass the doors. When an invitation to the highly anticipated costume party at the club falls into his hands, he takes it as sign. With his fake Id Cody is off to party and hopefully land a fantastic hook-up, but not just any hook-up he wants the manager of the club and his uncle’s best-friend Dante Santiago. All that is left is to convince Dante that he is good for him.
Now Cody goes into seduction overdrive, after realizing the extent of Dante’s want. With and impromptu plan Cody makes his move and it leads to a night of some very hot sex and to a relationship he has been wanting. Things might not last, if his uncle has some thing to say about it, but Cody is willing to fight because he is sure he just found his happiness.
Reckless Behavior- The second part follows Dante and Cody’s relationship and let me tell you there are some very hot times. Both men want more from the relationship but are unable to voice what they want. Cody feels if he makes his feelings clear he would be stifling Dante, he is notorious for his flings and his loner attitude and Cody is afraid of ruining what they currently have by making demands.
The second half begins with Dante and Cody picking out a man for their threesome, this seems to be the epitome of their relationship for the past couple months. Dante has spent his time to educate Cody about all things sexual and erotic. Well it seems all the playing around is getting old, and both men just cannot find the right words to convey their feelings. It then becomes a story about communication, because these two are very lacking in this skill.
I really liked Cody; he is very ambitious and goes after what he wants. He took down Dante like a lion to his prey. He is exactly as how he should be, a young man finding love with an experienced man, and facing all his doubts about whether he is able to satisfy him. Dante is the older but none the wiser he makes mistakes and I really like that about him.
The plot is fairly simple and nothing new, the book is purely character driven with predictable obstacles. I found myself doing the occasional *eye roll*, but it’s for that very reason why I like this book. It remains true in its simplicity and does not venture away from what the story is ultimately about, two people finding love and discovering the truths about themselves. I can tell you that Ms Young knows how to write a sex scene, these two together are molten lava, very, very sexy.
Overall, an enjoyable simple and fun read with likable characters and very hot sex and chemistry. I would say give this one a look see.
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October 29, 2010Reckless Seduction by Amanda Young
When I read a story like this, I always feel a bit guilty, since I was enjoying an erotic story where one of the character is a 19 years old, so he is still a teen, and teen means very very young. But then I think that it would be sweet if every young man (or woman) could have the chance to be initiate to love in a so wonderful way, and if there is the possibility that the first love is also the one and true, even better. So put aside the guilty and enjoy the story.
Cody is a 19 years old pretty friendly and open boy. Raised by an uncle after the death of his parents, he has soon had the chance to "know" what sex is, since his uncle owns one of the most hot gay club in the city. Know but not see, because his uncle is worst than a mother hen, and treats Cody like a victorian virgin maid: no one is good enough for his nephew and there is no way that he will allow to Cody to enter his club, no matter that now Cody is legal.
But Cody knows what he wants, and in a way he is also responsible: even if he has long ago realized that he prefers men, he never got serious with someone, since he wants that his first time is special. He sets his eyes on Dante, friend and employer of his uncle, and he would do anything to have him... and if that is not the case, well, he will find a good substitute. And here comes out the "young" and spoiled Cody: true he believes to be in love with Dante, but he is also an horny teenager who wants to have a taste of forbidden. He is really not old enough to take a cool decision, and he is really lucky to have around people who care for him.
Dante is not a perfect man. True, he avoids Cody since he is the nephew of his best friend, and a virgin too, but he has no qualms to enjoy the company of guys of the same age, but more experienced. He is not a bad man, but it's not a moral matter that take him far from Cody, is more a question of the too much heavy baggage that arrives with him: explain to his best friend that he had sex with his nephew, deal with a first time experience of an impressionable young guy, admit that maybe he is aging and Cody is too young for him...
The story is not very long, less than 80 pages, and pretty erotic. There are four scene, and in two you have sex, so you can imagine how much there is in the book; but it's enjoyable and more sweet than anything else, very fresh and young like one of the man involved.
Reckless Behavior by Amanda Young
All right, this book was quite a challenge; I will not give up the story saying that Cody and Dante, the main characters in Reckless Seduction, are now having a good relationship, six months after the end of the previous book, but promiscuous. Here is where the author pushes one of my sorrowful button, I don't like promiscuous relationships... even more since Cody, in the previous book, even if a bit slutty in behavior, it was not so in the reality, he was on the contrary a virgin that practically seduced the much older Dante, a family friend, and at the end of that book I was expecting for them to walk toward the sunset in blissful harmony. And instead here they are, having threesomes like eating candy... and as almost to add weight to my "pink glasses" perspective on love, they are not happy. Since both of them seem to be unable to voice their discomfort, they continue in that path, but Dante is weary and he is begun to "feel" the age he has, and Cody is tired, at the beginning the novelty was nice, but now he would be content enough with only Dante in his bed.
The novella starts with a live threesome, to continue with the memory of the first time Dante proposed to his young lover Cody to "experiment"; probably this serves to the author to prove that Cody had the chance to "taste" everything and so he is now able to consciously decide that he wants only a lover and a monogamous relationship. Deep down I know that this is right, thinking that young and virgin Cody was in a monogamous relationship with Dante since the beginning, and never ever in his life would taste something different, was really a too much "pink glasses" perspective; a relationship like that was fated to fail, since probably Cody, sooner or later, would have questioned if what he had was really what he wanted, and if not maybe outside there was something different and better.
So yes, my gut says that I don't like how the book starts, but my brain says that it's right and I like how it ends. Other than all my speculation on the almost "educational" behavior of Dante in regard of Cody's good, the book is also a way for Amanda Young to write a really naughty book, full of detailed sex scenes (3 long sex scenes in a novella lenght), so, if you like your sex hot, down and dirty, and a bit kinky, you have a reason more to read this one. Plus there is always the factor that this is a sequel, so if you read the first one, and liked it, probably you should read also this one. Be warned the readers with pink glasses like me, and take in account that, in the end, this is not a bad turn in a romantic story, only a temporary derailment ;-)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451588860/?...
When I read a story like this, I always feel a bit guilty, since I was enjoying an erotic story where one of the character is a 19 years old, so he is still a teen, and teen means very very young. But then I think that it would be sweet if every young man (or woman) could have the chance to be initiate to love in a so wonderful way, and if there is the possibility that the first love is also the one and true, even better. So put aside the guilty and enjoy the story.
Cody is a 19 years old pretty friendly and open boy. Raised by an uncle after the death of his parents, he has soon had the chance to "know" what sex is, since his uncle owns one of the most hot gay club in the city. Know but not see, because his uncle is worst than a mother hen, and treats Cody like a victorian virgin maid: no one is good enough for his nephew and there is no way that he will allow to Cody to enter his club, no matter that now Cody is legal.
But Cody knows what he wants, and in a way he is also responsible: even if he has long ago realized that he prefers men, he never got serious with someone, since he wants that his first time is special. He sets his eyes on Dante, friend and employer of his uncle, and he would do anything to have him... and if that is not the case, well, he will find a good substitute. And here comes out the "young" and spoiled Cody: true he believes to be in love with Dante, but he is also an horny teenager who wants to have a taste of forbidden. He is really not old enough to take a cool decision, and he is really lucky to have around people who care for him.
Dante is not a perfect man. True, he avoids Cody since he is the nephew of his best friend, and a virgin too, but he has no qualms to enjoy the company of guys of the same age, but more experienced. He is not a bad man, but it's not a moral matter that take him far from Cody, is more a question of the too much heavy baggage that arrives with him: explain to his best friend that he had sex with his nephew, deal with a first time experience of an impressionable young guy, admit that maybe he is aging and Cody is too young for him...
The story is not very long, less than 80 pages, and pretty erotic. There are four scene, and in two you have sex, so you can imagine how much there is in the book; but it's enjoyable and more sweet than anything else, very fresh and young like one of the man involved.
Reckless Behavior by Amanda Young
All right, this book was quite a challenge; I will not give up the story saying that Cody and Dante, the main characters in Reckless Seduction, are now having a good relationship, six months after the end of the previous book, but promiscuous. Here is where the author pushes one of my sorrowful button, I don't like promiscuous relationships... even more since Cody, in the previous book, even if a bit slutty in behavior, it was not so in the reality, he was on the contrary a virgin that practically seduced the much older Dante, a family friend, and at the end of that book I was expecting for them to walk toward the sunset in blissful harmony. And instead here they are, having threesomes like eating candy... and as almost to add weight to my "pink glasses" perspective on love, they are not happy. Since both of them seem to be unable to voice their discomfort, they continue in that path, but Dante is weary and he is begun to "feel" the age he has, and Cody is tired, at the beginning the novelty was nice, but now he would be content enough with only Dante in his bed.
The novella starts with a live threesome, to continue with the memory of the first time Dante proposed to his young lover Cody to "experiment"; probably this serves to the author to prove that Cody had the chance to "taste" everything and so he is now able to consciously decide that he wants only a lover and a monogamous relationship. Deep down I know that this is right, thinking that young and virgin Cody was in a monogamous relationship with Dante since the beginning, and never ever in his life would taste something different, was really a too much "pink glasses" perspective; a relationship like that was fated to fail, since probably Cody, sooner or later, would have questioned if what he had was really what he wanted, and if not maybe outside there was something different and better.
So yes, my gut says that I don't like how the book starts, but my brain says that it's right and I like how it ends. Other than all my speculation on the almost "educational" behavior of Dante in regard of Cody's good, the book is also a way for Amanda Young to write a really naughty book, full of detailed sex scenes (3 long sex scenes in a novella lenght), so, if you like your sex hot, down and dirty, and a bit kinky, you have a reason more to read this one. Plus there is always the factor that this is a sequel, so if you read the first one, and liked it, probably you should read also this one. Be warned the readers with pink glasses like me, and take in account that, in the end, this is not a bad turn in a romantic story, only a temporary derailment ;-)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451588860/?...
August 25, 2010
It was like smexy szechuan... hot, spicy, and at times, unexpectedly sweet:-)
November 18, 2014
Reckless Seduction-This is a story of a young man/older man romance. I did not like this story when I first read it many years ago. There is a consent issue: Cody sneaks in Dante's bed and initiates sex with Dante while the man is still asleep, knowing Dante might not be agreeable to having sex with him. I also disliked the abrupt HFN ending. I did not know there was to be a sequel when I first read this.
Reckless Behavior- I liked this story better than the first. It is mostly hot sex including threesomes and double penetration. It has a hopeful HEA. Hopeful in that the two need to learn to communicate more, but the ending shows a start of that. It could have used an epilogue or another story showing them communicating better. These two stories are also listed separately, and I would suggest reading the other reviews under the separate title of this book before buying it.
Reckless Behavior- I liked this story better than the first. It is mostly hot sex including threesomes and double penetration. It has a hopeful HEA. Hopeful in that the two need to learn to communicate more, but the ending shows a start of that. It could have used an epilogue or another story showing them communicating better. These two stories are also listed separately, and I would suggest reading the other reviews under the separate title of this book before buying it.
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