reviews_and_ramblings | Survival by Jade Falconer

I think this one is the best book by Jade Falconer I read till now.

Gabriel is a very good boy. A successful lawyer with a perfect life and a perfect fiancee, soon to be married with the Major's daughter. But Gabriel is also a very lonely man: orphaned in young age he has never had someone near him to feel safe and when he started to realize he was interested in men, he felt guilty and remorse; and when he was sexual harrassed by an older man when he was still a student, he thought to be even more guilty, that he deserved what was happening to him, and he shut up in his shell even more.

When his sexual desires are too much to be repressed he sees only a chance ahead of him, to hire a male prostitute. Nicky is a nineteen years old guy who ran away from home two years before. He sells his body and thinks he doesn't deserve nothing better in life. And when he realizes that the man who hired him for two nights of sex is also a very public man, he thinks to blackmailed him.

But Gabriel is a good man, and he falls in love for Nicky. And Nicky who really is only a young guy who has never had a chance in his life, thinks better than ruin Gabriel's life, and tries to send out Gabriel from his dirty life.

The book is very erotic. Sex is one of the main event of the story, but since it's also the main reason why Gabriel and Nicky met, I think it's not overdone. The scope of this book is not to decipt the real life of a street hustler, but to tell a love story, nevertheless Nicky's life is not hidden, and even if there is a Cinderella / Cinderfella's perspective, this doesn't mean that, when Gabriel enters Nicky's life like a knight in shining armour, all things change, and Nicky could come out from his inferno clean as a newborn baby.

I will not hide the fact that there is also a bit of kinky pleasure in the fact that Nicky is an hustler and that he does and we read all he does, things that are not "pure" and "chaste"; but still, all the book is more romantic than realistic. Gabriel is a very tender character, maybe a little too good to be true, and Nicky so beautiful and maybe a little too older for his age, unfortunately I don't think that a real teen hustler could be so lucky in his life.

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Amazon: Survival
Amazon Kindle: Survival
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Phaze Books (November 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606590804
ISBN-13: 978-1606590805

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