Calor del Amor by K.B. Forrest

[reviews_and_ramblings]

This is a strange novel I have some problem to identify: I don't understand if the chaos is volutary of it is the fervid mind of the author that needs to settle down.

Gabriel is an abused child. His father is a cop so he doesn't think he could have an help to resolve his problems. When he is 18 years old, after the last beating, he thinks to killing himself but a gentle neighboor convinces him to fly away.

He goes to New York, thinking to became a yaoi writer: he is gay and he loves to read yaoi novels, he loves the romance he finds in it cause he has no experience by himself. When he arrives in the city everything seems too simple: the taxi driver from the station finds him a suitable apartment, the first day he finds a good job and he has some money. But then everything crash down: he is suspected to be involved in a children trade and Alejandro Cardoza, the detective in hold of the case, is sure of his guilty. But he is also very attracted by this young man and seems helpless to stay far from him. Everytime he can he beds the boy and the soon after he try to find some clue of his guilty.

Gabriel is a naive character. He seems ignorant of everything happens around him, he is convinced that all depensd on his fly from home. He is not able to lie, everytime he tries soon after he bursts in tears. Alejandro most of the time seems to be drive by his desires and not by his brain, but maybe he needs to listen to his desires, cause if he listens to his brain he only come out with unbelievable plot with Gabriel as villain.

The supporting characters are intriguing: don't miss the old armenian or the italian landlady.

The sex scenes between the two are very yaoi style, with Gabriel in the role of the shrinking violet and Alejandro in that of the dark lover: one of the main reason I bought this novel is the gourgeous cover by Eiris Key, that give you a perfect idea.

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Amazon Kindle: Calor del Amor
Publisher: eXtasy Books (July 1, 2010)


Cover Art by Eiris Key