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Wanted Dead or Alive: Dan Radisson has been released from Corcoran State Prison and never intends to go back. He's working his twelve steps, minding his own business, and trying to resume some degree of normalcy living in the home of his sister and her family. Trey Wallace knows what he likes and isn't afraid to go after it. When he meets Dan at an AA meeting he sees exactly what he wants, but questions whether the newly freed man is ready to dive into the type of sexual relationship Trey has in mind. Dan's ready for the sex, but not so sure about life on the outside. When he stumbles upon a homicide and runs from the scene in the same way he did in the past, suddenly he's a wanted man. Dan must either solve the crime or risk returning to the place he dreads the most--the prison that changed his life. This is a reissue of an earlier edition.
Never Say Goodbye: Damien Hall has never done an honest day's work in his life. On his own from a young age, his street wiles got him by until he ended up in Corcoran State Prison for theft. Five years later, he's moved in with a man who only wants him for one thing, nightly hot sex. But he's off the streets, and Damien thinks the trade-off is worth it. Travis Slater wrangles horses for a living, and wants to wrangle Damien in his off hours. He sees potential in the man who suffers from extremely low self esteem, and quickly falls in love with him. He hopes to take Damien and leave, knowing they can make their own way in the world. Damien isn't so sure, and is terrified at the thought of being homeless again. When his employer admits the real reason Damien was hired, it's decision time. Do what's easy or do what's right? Only Damien can decide.
Livin' on a Prayer: Logan White is released from prison after serving eight years in Corcoran for his part in a B & E where a man was killed. Enter Reverend Shane Grayson, a gay man of the cloth who helps find Logan a job, but that turns into a horror story. Can the two lovers find a way to be together or will the underbelly of society win this battle?
I'd Die for You: Snake Thompson is out of Corcoran and looking for revenge. He meets and falls for Abel, a lusty blond guy who winds up quitting his job and tagging along. Can the two of them find the truth and clear Snake's name, or will drugs and money send them both to the grave?
Never Say Goodbye: Damien Hall has never done an honest day's work in his life. On his own from a young age, his street wiles got him by until he ended up in Corcoran State Prison for theft. Five years later, he's moved in with a man who only wants him for one thing, nightly hot sex. But he's off the streets, and Damien thinks the trade-off is worth it. Travis Slater wrangles horses for a living, and wants to wrangle Damien in his off hours. He sees potential in the man who suffers from extremely low self esteem, and quickly falls in love with him. He hopes to take Damien and leave, knowing they can make their own way in the world. Damien isn't so sure, and is terrified at the thought of being homeless again. When his employer admits the real reason Damien was hired, it's decision time. Do what's easy or do what's right? Only Damien can decide.
Livin' on a Prayer: Logan White is released from prison after serving eight years in Corcoran for his part in a B & E where a man was killed. Enter Reverend Shane Grayson, a gay man of the cloth who helps find Logan a job, but that turns into a horror story. Can the two lovers find a way to be together or will the underbelly of society win this battle?
I'd Die for You: Snake Thompson is out of Corcoran and looking for revenge. He meets and falls for Abel, a lusty blond guy who winds up quitting his job and tagging along. Can the two of them find the truth and clear Snake's name, or will drugs and money send them both to the grave?
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216 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2010
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Jude Mason
142 books68 followersJude’s imagination frequently leads her astray, and she eagerly follows while trying to keep out of trouble, or at least not get caught. For those of you who know her, you’ll know that’s not always easy. A picture, a smell, an unexpected glimpse of flesh, or a load of soil in the back of a pick-up, are all fodder for her writing. Her male characters run the gamut from the dominant male ruling his women with an iron fist, to a simpering purple-clad boy-toy, whose only desire is to please. As diverse and as richly depicted, her women find themselves in a myriad of exotic and erotic situations.
At the present time, Jude is extremely proud to be one of the Total E-Bound authors and has several books them and more are scheduled for the future. She's joined up with eXtasy Books very recently and is looking forward to working with them. You'll find smatterings of Jude Mason's work on a number of websites as well as in anthologies. Google her name and you'll find her. And if you see a short gray hair woman studying you, it just might be her.
At the present time, Jude is extremely proud to be one of the Total E-Bound authors and has several books them and more are scheduled for the future. She's joined up with eXtasy Books very recently and is looking forward to working with them. You'll find smatterings of Jude Mason's work on a number of websites as well as in anthologies. Google her name and you'll find her. And if you see a short gray hair woman studying you, it just might be her.
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April 24, 2011
3 and 3 ½ stars for four erotic gay male romance short stories. Main characters are law-abiding ex-cons.
In two of the stories I was a little depressed with a helpless victim feel for the ex-cons. Unscrupulous (bad guy) employers take advantage of them. The bad guy says he will tell the cops the ex-con is stealing if the ex-con doesn’t do what he wants. The bad guy says the cops won’t believe an ex-con. I can handle bad guys doing bad things, but for some reason I didn’t like thinking about this. It was unsettling.
Prison stories can be pretty depressing, but that is NOT what is going on here. All four stories take place AFTER prison which is more appealing to me.
A little more character and relationship development would have been nice, but that’s hard to do in short stories. There is a lot of gay male sex with rear door activity. The sex didn’t turn me on as much as some authors have, but it was ok.
3 ½ stars for WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE by Jenna Byrnes.
Dan was the driver for a robbery and spent 9 years in prison. He was recently released and is staying with his sister and her husband while looking for a job. Dan meets Trey and they quickly fall in lust. Someone commits murder and frames Dan. The police are after him, but he doesn’t turn himself in because he wants to figure out who the killer is. I thought this might be a depressing subject, but I was surprised that it wasn’t. It was a good story. I might have given it 4 stars if it were longer and things were developed a little more, especially at the end.
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3 stars for LIVIN ON A PRAYER by Jude Mason.
Logan spent 8 years in prison for robbery. His motive was to pay for schooling for his autistic brother. (This motive had a false feeling – like the author was trying too hard to justify his crime.) Logan was recently released and is trying to find a job. No one will hire him because he’s an ex con. He’s almost out of money so he doesn’t eat. Shane is a reverend who runs a homeless shelter. Shane offers food to Logan and gets a job for him as a dishwasher at a restaurant. They soon discover the other is gay, and they have a lustful relationship. Logan’s boss at the restaurant is a bad guy who threatens to tell the cops that Logan is stealing from him if Logan doesn’t work for half the pay. How this was resolved was ok, but it could have used more details and development. The rest of the story is pretty good, and there is a happy ending.
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3 stars for NEVER SAY GOODBYE by Jenna Byrnes.
Damien was recently released from prison. He and Charles were lovers before Damien went to prison. Now Charles hires Damien to be his second pool boy. The first pool boy does all the work. Damien lives a life of relaxation with his own cottage on the property, gets free meals, and provides sex for Charles. Charles recently hired Travis as a horse wrangler (caring for the horses). After Damien learns that Charles is having sex with others, Damien feels free to explore a relationship with Travis. They have a lot of sex.
I was a little depressed about someone blackmailing Damien. That person claimed he would tell the cops Damien was stealing, and the cops would not believe Damien because he was an ex-con. There was a helpless feeling to that. The rest of the story was good.
I liked one line. Since Charles already had one pool boy who did all the pool work, Travis referred to Damien as a “sit-by-the-pool-boy.”
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3 stars for I’D DIE FOR YOU by Jude Mason.
Johnny planted drugs on Snake and called the cops. Snake went to prison for 8 years. He was just released and wants revenge on Johnny. He stops at a gas station/diner. Abel is a waiter there. Snake and Abel begin a hot ‘n heavy relationship. Abel wants to help Snake get revenge.
The way the guys got revenge against Johnny wasn’t well developed. It wasn’t very smart. They both could have ended up in jail if they weren’t exceedingly lucky. The rest of the story was ok. The relationship between Abel and Snake was nice.
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DATA: TOTALS FOR ALL FOUR STORIES:
Story length: 200 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 18. Approximate number of sex scene pages: 34. Setting: current day California. Copyright: 2009. Genre: erotic gay male romantic suspense.
In two of the stories I was a little depressed with a helpless victim feel for the ex-cons. Unscrupulous (bad guy) employers take advantage of them. The bad guy says he will tell the cops the ex-con is stealing if the ex-con doesn’t do what he wants. The bad guy says the cops won’t believe an ex-con. I can handle bad guys doing bad things, but for some reason I didn’t like thinking about this. It was unsettling.
Prison stories can be pretty depressing, but that is NOT what is going on here. All four stories take place AFTER prison which is more appealing to me.
A little more character and relationship development would have been nice, but that’s hard to do in short stories. There is a lot of gay male sex with rear door activity. The sex didn’t turn me on as much as some authors have, but it was ok.
3 ½ stars for WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE by Jenna Byrnes.
Dan was the driver for a robbery and spent 9 years in prison. He was recently released and is staying with his sister and her husband while looking for a job. Dan meets Trey and they quickly fall in lust. Someone commits murder and frames Dan. The police are after him, but he doesn’t turn himself in because he wants to figure out who the killer is. I thought this might be a depressing subject, but I was surprised that it wasn’t. It was a good story. I might have given it 4 stars if it were longer and things were developed a little more, especially at the end.
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3 stars for LIVIN ON A PRAYER by Jude Mason.
Logan spent 8 years in prison for robbery. His motive was to pay for schooling for his autistic brother. (This motive had a false feeling – like the author was trying too hard to justify his crime.) Logan was recently released and is trying to find a job. No one will hire him because he’s an ex con. He’s almost out of money so he doesn’t eat. Shane is a reverend who runs a homeless shelter. Shane offers food to Logan and gets a job for him as a dishwasher at a restaurant. They soon discover the other is gay, and they have a lustful relationship. Logan’s boss at the restaurant is a bad guy who threatens to tell the cops that Logan is stealing from him if Logan doesn’t work for half the pay. How this was resolved was ok, but it could have used more details and development. The rest of the story is pretty good, and there is a happy ending.
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3 stars for NEVER SAY GOODBYE by Jenna Byrnes.
Damien was recently released from prison. He and Charles were lovers before Damien went to prison. Now Charles hires Damien to be his second pool boy. The first pool boy does all the work. Damien lives a life of relaxation with his own cottage on the property, gets free meals, and provides sex for Charles. Charles recently hired Travis as a horse wrangler (caring for the horses). After Damien learns that Charles is having sex with others, Damien feels free to explore a relationship with Travis. They have a lot of sex.
I was a little depressed about someone blackmailing Damien. That person claimed he would tell the cops Damien was stealing, and the cops would not believe Damien because he was an ex-con. There was a helpless feeling to that. The rest of the story was good.
I liked one line. Since Charles already had one pool boy who did all the pool work, Travis referred to Damien as a “sit-by-the-pool-boy.”
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3 stars for I’D DIE FOR YOU by Jude Mason.
Johnny planted drugs on Snake and called the cops. Snake went to prison for 8 years. He was just released and wants revenge on Johnny. He stops at a gas station/diner. Abel is a waiter there. Snake and Abel begin a hot ‘n heavy relationship. Abel wants to help Snake get revenge.
The way the guys got revenge against Johnny wasn’t well developed. It wasn’t very smart. They both could have ended up in jail if they weren’t exceedingly lucky. The rest of the story was ok. The relationship between Abel and Snake was nice.
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DATA: TOTALS FOR ALL FOUR STORIES:
Story length: 200 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 18. Approximate number of sex scene pages: 34. Setting: current day California. Copyright: 2009. Genre: erotic gay male romantic suspense.
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April 21, 2010Wanted Dead or Alive (Slippery When Wet 1) by Jenna Byrnes
Wanted Dead or Alive is the first in the Slippery When Wet series. I actually read first the second book, didn't realize it was a series and when I read the third I made the connection. The series follows the lives of four former con mate, Dan, Logan, Damien and Snake; when they were in prison, they helped another man, Joe, and this put them on the wrong side of another prisoner, Felix, who has the right connection to make their life very difficult when they will finally go out. Another thing that links them is that they are all petty criminal (at least I believe, I haven't yet read Snake's story) and that they are all gay... and they were gay even before going into jail.
Of all the three life stories, that of Dan is probably the more easy and also sad. He was in the wrong place at the wrong moment with the wrong friend. His friend almost killed a man, and Dan was young and stupid enough to try to run away instead of facing the law. And he did 8 years of jail for that. During the time he even befriended the man who almost was killed, and when he went out, he still had a sister who was willing to help him. And after only two days he even finds a boyfriend, Trey... life seems good, isn't it? But his old enemy doesn't forget, and Dan is framed for a crime he hasn't committed. And again he runs away, but this time realizes soon enough that running away is not the solution to his problem.
I have the feeling that Dan is real young, I don't know exactly how many years he has, he did 8 years in prison, so he has to be at least 26 years old if not more, but probably he still thinks like a scared teenager. And even if Trey is really a wonderful man, caring and gentle, I think he is not an imposing figure. In a way it's better like that, Dan has always proved to not be keen of the male role figure, and in fact, with Trey, it's Dan who takes the lead, even if the first move was made by Trey. All in all I think that this time Dan was lucky, he met a man who is average enough, and faulty enough, to be at his same level, and so Dan is willing to listen and take in account his advice. It's interesting, Trey is the perfect man for Dan since he is not a perfect man.
Oh, I almost forgot: I found another point in common with all the stories... all the men have a quite steamy shower alone but fantasizing of the man they have just met... a coincidence or that Slippery When Wet in the title of the series means something more than the title of the LP collecting all the songs from with the books borrow the titles?
Livin' on a Prayer (Slippery When Wet 2) by Jude Mason
When Logan entered prison he was an 18 years old boy, maybe even a bit too naive for his age. He was the classical example of a boy born in the wrong side of the town, his father long gone, his mother with not enough money to sustain the family, a younger brother ill and again, not enough money to pay the bills... Logan did probably what it seemed the only obvious solution, a robbery, and it went wrong.
8 years later he is out on parole and he wants to start a new life, but for an ex-con is not simple: he is living in a cheap and dirty motel that soon he will have no money to pay, he can't find a job since people don't want to hire an ex-con, he has no hope in tomorrow... and then he sees an angel. All right, it's maybe a cracked angel, but for Logan is beautiful. Shane is a methodist reverend sent in an hell of a place since he is gay. He runs a homeless shelter, and probably it wouldn't be a bad life if not that, for a gay reverend is not easy to find a lover. I don't know if Logan is more eager to find a place to stay than Shane to find a lover... anyway they seem to fill the mutual void in their life, and Shane helps Logan to find a job, nothing fancy but enough to pay the bill. But Logan's past is not reaty to let him go.
I find quite strange that is not Shane and Logan's relationship to arise the trouble in the story, but I'm true, I don't know enough of the Methodist church; all right, Shane was "punished" and assigned to a job that is not exactly a dream, but all in all Shane seems to be not repentant, and people around them seem to have not problem with them having a relationship. Shane never once seems to be worried to give shelter to a gay man whom is obviously having a relationship with.
This is a novella, and it's most sex, from Logan in assolo when he is just out of prison, to when he is having monkey sex with Shane practically from moment one, and Shane is also quite naughty under the sheet (actually the worries of his bosses that he could pervert someone is not so without basis...). But even if the lion share is taken by sex, there is also a plot, a bit fast in the development, but, well, there is not so much space left once Shane and Logan has spent most of the time in bed! And if Shane and Logan weren't so nice as a characters, that could have been a problem, but instead, sincerely, I didn't mind to spend more time with them between the sheets than outside. So, yes, if you are searching for an hot romp with a naughty core (Shane being a reverend gives that spicy more I believe), this one is a nice choice.
Never Say Goodbye (Slippery When Wet 3) by Jenna Byrnes
Reading this book I realize that this is a co-authored series by Jenna Byrnes and Jude Mason about 4 young men just out of Corcoran State Prison and probably the man they helped inside there. This is the time of Damien, an ex-hustler and thief who went inside for small theft. He is out on parole and the only job he found was as pool-boy for a former customer. It's quite obvious that his job is not to clean the pool, and if we had some doubts, they are soon cleared from the first scene, where Damien is having sex with Charles. That scene made me wonder if I hadn't misunderstand the story, since actually Charles doesn't come out like a bad character and Damien seems to not have an hard life with his new job.
But then Charles goes out of the scene, on a business trip, and Damien is left alone with the new stable man, Travis. Travis is handsome and sincere, and after the first not so good encounter with Damien, he actually comes out like a nice and very next door good boy type of man. At first Damien is reticent to have an affair with Travis, even if more or less a business agreement, he has a relationship with Charles and he doesn't want to betray their contract. But then something happens and Damien changes his mind. Here probably is the most interesting aspect of the novella, the proof that Damien is really young and with a very unsteady upbringing; it's true that Charles didn't tell everything to Damien, but Damien needs very little to surrender to temptation with Travis. On the other hand, it's quite clear that Charles is not a good man and instead Travis is exactly the good boy that Damien needs to redeem himself. So, is Damien a positive character? I believe not. Is he a character with possibility? Probably yes.
For sure the author manages to write a novella that is basically a nice erotic piece but that has also a basic plot, not so expected. The fact that Damien is not the usual mistreated and misunderstood teenager that, even if he went through hell, managed to remain a "fallen" angel; basically Damien is more a demon with possibility to arise to an upper level.
I'd Die For You (Slippery When Wet 4) by Jude Mason
I don't know if I'd Die For You is the last in the Slippery When Wet series, there is still to tell Joe Magee's story, but this one is the last about the man who helped him. This is the story of Snake, apparently the only one among them who was really innocent and framed for a crime he didn't commit. And for coherence Snake's story is also the one quite different from all the others.
All of them, just out of Corcoran, have no problem to find a new lover, and all in all, their life outside the prison is not so bad. But all the previous men had no real reason to do something better from their life, I don't, they were like "empty", almost if spending time in prison deprived them not only of time but also of will. Snake instead is angry and he wants to have his vengeance against the man who framed him. Snake, on the contrary of all his previous prison mate, is fed by his angry, and when the story starts he is heading toward a place and a mission, he has a purpose. But he is distracted by it from a nice smile and wide shoulders; he stops at a grill among the nothing that is the highway and stumbles upon Abel, a gay man alone in the middle of a bigot town who is more than eager to join Snake in his mission... obviously not before having spent some leisurely time together, and starred in the required shower sex scene.
Maybe Snake sudden willingness to be involved with someone so soon, and Abel eagerness to drop everything and hop on the bike with Snake, maybe it's all a bit rushed, but, well, this is a novella, and then the author makes it quite believable: Snake all in all is not a bad boy and he deserves a bit of lucky, and Abel... well, maybe he is in dear need of something.
Probably this is the best of all the series, it's less angst and more sexy. I wouldn't mind to read also Joe Magee's story, even if I have the idea that it wouldn't be so light.
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Wanted Dead or Alive is the first in the Slippery When Wet series. I actually read first the second book, didn't realize it was a series and when I read the third I made the connection. The series follows the lives of four former con mate, Dan, Logan, Damien and Snake; when they were in prison, they helped another man, Joe, and this put them on the wrong side of another prisoner, Felix, who has the right connection to make their life very difficult when they will finally go out. Another thing that links them is that they are all petty criminal (at least I believe, I haven't yet read Snake's story) and that they are all gay... and they were gay even before going into jail.
Of all the three life stories, that of Dan is probably the more easy and also sad. He was in the wrong place at the wrong moment with the wrong friend. His friend almost killed a man, and Dan was young and stupid enough to try to run away instead of facing the law. And he did 8 years of jail for that. During the time he even befriended the man who almost was killed, and when he went out, he still had a sister who was willing to help him. And after only two days he even finds a boyfriend, Trey... life seems good, isn't it? But his old enemy doesn't forget, and Dan is framed for a crime he hasn't committed. And again he runs away, but this time realizes soon enough that running away is not the solution to his problem.
I have the feeling that Dan is real young, I don't know exactly how many years he has, he did 8 years in prison, so he has to be at least 26 years old if not more, but probably he still thinks like a scared teenager. And even if Trey is really a wonderful man, caring and gentle, I think he is not an imposing figure. In a way it's better like that, Dan has always proved to not be keen of the male role figure, and in fact, with Trey, it's Dan who takes the lead, even if the first move was made by Trey. All in all I think that this time Dan was lucky, he met a man who is average enough, and faulty enough, to be at his same level, and so Dan is willing to listen and take in account his advice. It's interesting, Trey is the perfect man for Dan since he is not a perfect man.
Oh, I almost forgot: I found another point in common with all the stories... all the men have a quite steamy shower alone but fantasizing of the man they have just met... a coincidence or that Slippery When Wet in the title of the series means something more than the title of the LP collecting all the songs from with the books borrow the titles?
Livin' on a Prayer (Slippery When Wet 2) by Jude Mason
When Logan entered prison he was an 18 years old boy, maybe even a bit too naive for his age. He was the classical example of a boy born in the wrong side of the town, his father long gone, his mother with not enough money to sustain the family, a younger brother ill and again, not enough money to pay the bills... Logan did probably what it seemed the only obvious solution, a robbery, and it went wrong.
8 years later he is out on parole and he wants to start a new life, but for an ex-con is not simple: he is living in a cheap and dirty motel that soon he will have no money to pay, he can't find a job since people don't want to hire an ex-con, he has no hope in tomorrow... and then he sees an angel. All right, it's maybe a cracked angel, but for Logan is beautiful. Shane is a methodist reverend sent in an hell of a place since he is gay. He runs a homeless shelter, and probably it wouldn't be a bad life if not that, for a gay reverend is not easy to find a lover. I don't know if Logan is more eager to find a place to stay than Shane to find a lover... anyway they seem to fill the mutual void in their life, and Shane helps Logan to find a job, nothing fancy but enough to pay the bill. But Logan's past is not reaty to let him go.
I find quite strange that is not Shane and Logan's relationship to arise the trouble in the story, but I'm true, I don't know enough of the Methodist church; all right, Shane was "punished" and assigned to a job that is not exactly a dream, but all in all Shane seems to be not repentant, and people around them seem to have not problem with them having a relationship. Shane never once seems to be worried to give shelter to a gay man whom is obviously having a relationship with.
This is a novella, and it's most sex, from Logan in assolo when he is just out of prison, to when he is having monkey sex with Shane practically from moment one, and Shane is also quite naughty under the sheet (actually the worries of his bosses that he could pervert someone is not so without basis...). But even if the lion share is taken by sex, there is also a plot, a bit fast in the development, but, well, there is not so much space left once Shane and Logan has spent most of the time in bed! And if Shane and Logan weren't so nice as a characters, that could have been a problem, but instead, sincerely, I didn't mind to spend more time with them between the sheets than outside. So, yes, if you are searching for an hot romp with a naughty core (Shane being a reverend gives that spicy more I believe), this one is a nice choice.
Never Say Goodbye (Slippery When Wet 3) by Jenna Byrnes
Reading this book I realize that this is a co-authored series by Jenna Byrnes and Jude Mason about 4 young men just out of Corcoran State Prison and probably the man they helped inside there. This is the time of Damien, an ex-hustler and thief who went inside for small theft. He is out on parole and the only job he found was as pool-boy for a former customer. It's quite obvious that his job is not to clean the pool, and if we had some doubts, they are soon cleared from the first scene, where Damien is having sex with Charles. That scene made me wonder if I hadn't misunderstand the story, since actually Charles doesn't come out like a bad character and Damien seems to not have an hard life with his new job.
But then Charles goes out of the scene, on a business trip, and Damien is left alone with the new stable man, Travis. Travis is handsome and sincere, and after the first not so good encounter with Damien, he actually comes out like a nice and very next door good boy type of man. At first Damien is reticent to have an affair with Travis, even if more or less a business agreement, he has a relationship with Charles and he doesn't want to betray their contract. But then something happens and Damien changes his mind. Here probably is the most interesting aspect of the novella, the proof that Damien is really young and with a very unsteady upbringing; it's true that Charles didn't tell everything to Damien, but Damien needs very little to surrender to temptation with Travis. On the other hand, it's quite clear that Charles is not a good man and instead Travis is exactly the good boy that Damien needs to redeem himself. So, is Damien a positive character? I believe not. Is he a character with possibility? Probably yes.
For sure the author manages to write a novella that is basically a nice erotic piece but that has also a basic plot, not so expected. The fact that Damien is not the usual mistreated and misunderstood teenager that, even if he went through hell, managed to remain a "fallen" angel; basically Damien is more a demon with possibility to arise to an upper level.
I'd Die For You (Slippery When Wet 4) by Jude Mason
I don't know if I'd Die For You is the last in the Slippery When Wet series, there is still to tell Joe Magee's story, but this one is the last about the man who helped him. This is the story of Snake, apparently the only one among them who was really innocent and framed for a crime he didn't commit. And for coherence Snake's story is also the one quite different from all the others.
All of them, just out of Corcoran, have no problem to find a new lover, and all in all, their life outside the prison is not so bad. But all the previous men had no real reason to do something better from their life, I don't, they were like "empty", almost if spending time in prison deprived them not only of time but also of will. Snake instead is angry and he wants to have his vengeance against the man who framed him. Snake, on the contrary of all his previous prison mate, is fed by his angry, and when the story starts he is heading toward a place and a mission, he has a purpose. But he is distracted by it from a nice smile and wide shoulders; he stops at a grill among the nothing that is the highway and stumbles upon Abel, a gay man alone in the middle of a bigot town who is more than eager to join Snake in his mission... obviously not before having spent some leisurely time together, and starred in the required shower sex scene.
Maybe Snake sudden willingness to be involved with someone so soon, and Abel eagerness to drop everything and hop on the bike with Snake, maybe it's all a bit rushed, but, well, this is a novella, and then the author makes it quite believable: Snake all in all is not a bad boy and he deserves a bit of lucky, and Abel... well, maybe he is in dear need of something.
Probably this is the best of all the series, it's less angst and more sexy. I wouldn't mind to read also Joe Magee's story, even if I have the idea that it wouldn't be so light.
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January 30, 2015
I've really enjoyed all these books.
They all had good storylines and great chemistry between the MCs.
The main problem was the insta love between the couple's. This aS the problem of the shortness of the stories. There was so much more that could have been done with each book but the lengths tied the writers down I think.
I still really enjoyed the bad boys going straight and the cops tiling their side in the end.
They all had good storylines and great chemistry between the MCs.
The main problem was the insta love between the couple's. This aS the problem of the shortness of the stories. There was so much more that could have been done with each book but the lengths tied the writers down I think.
I still really enjoyed the bad boys going straight and the cops tiling their side in the end.
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