Chiaroscuro by Jenna Jones

This is a choral book. It's a very long and full of characters book, so take a good handful of patience, get comfort and start reading. And be aware to have plenty of time ahead of you, cause I think you will not want to drop it off until you finish it.

Jamie is a good guy. Englishman in San Francisco and gay. Perfect. He has plenty of choice when he needs to get laid. Dune, for example, the ever present and "naked" friend he can always rely when needs a date. Dune is a "modern" son: he has two fathers, Leo, the biological one, and his partner Adam, and two mothers, Frances, the biological one, and her partner Ocean. And Leo lives in a quite and happy building, with nice neighboorhood like Ben, a cake decorator, who works in the one hundred and fifty years old family's bakery. Jamie and Ben even meet during a wedding and almost make out in the kitchen during the party.

But Jamie has a crush for Micah, a nineteen years old colleague, little engineering genius, who is like a bud starting to blossom, and Jamie wants to be the sun for him. And everyone around him tries to convince him that Micah is too young, that Micah is not out with his family and his friends and he, Jamie, deserves better, he deserves someone like Ben. And the reader knows well and he knows that Micah will fail and then Ben will be there for Jamie and you will have an happily ever after... but what happens if Ben doesn't want to love again? what happens if he, maybe, will be a lot more pain for Jamie than Micah?

Chiaroscuro is a novel who flows like a river: sometime peaceful, sometime with rapids. Jamie is the center of love for all the men around, Dune, Micah e Ben, and he loves them all. He is the sunshine of the story. Ben instead is a bit of shadows and rain. I like the rain: when you lie in bed and listen to the rain outside it could be peaceful, but rain could be also a storm; rain waters the gardens but can also destroy the buds. And so Ben can take care of Jamie but can also choke the fragile love he has inspired.

Chiaroscuro decipts a community and a way of life that maybe only in San Francisco you can find. Every page I turn I will find a new "maybe" couple: Dune-Jamie, Jamie-Micah, Micah-Ryan, Dune-Daniel, Daniel-Jamie, Jamie-Ben, Ben-Ian, Ian-Micah, Jamie-Stuart.... It's like a domino play, what will be the latest piece to be play?

Amazon: Chiaroscuro
Amazon Kindle: Chiaroscuro
Paperback: 356 pages
Publisher: Torquere Press (June 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603704132
ISBN-13: 978-1603704137

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Chiaroscuro by Jenna Jones

This is a choral book. It's a very long and full of characters book, so take a good handful of patience, get comfort and start reading. And be aware to have plenty of time ahead of you, cause I think you will not want to drop it off until you finish it.

Jamie is a good guy. Englishman in San Francisco and gay. Perfect. He has plenty of choice when he needs to get laid. Dune, for example, the ever present and "naked" friend he can always rely when needs a date. Dune is a "modern" son: he has two fathers, Leo, the biological one, and his partner Adam, and two mothers, Frances, the biological one, and her partner Ocean. And Leo lives in a quite and happy building, with nice neighboorhood like Ben, a cake decorator, who works in the one hundred and fifty years old family's bakery. Jamie and Ben even meet during a wedding and almost make out in the kitchen during the party.

But Jamie has a crush for Micah, a nineteen years old colleague, little engineering genius, who is like a bud starting to blossom, and Jamie wants to be the sun for him. And everyone around him tries to convince him that Micah is too young, that Micah is not out with his family and his friends and he, Jamie, deserves better, he deserves someone like Ben. And the reader knows well and he knows that Micah will fail and then Ben will be there for Jamie and you will have an happily ever after... but what happens if Ben doesn't want to love again? what happens if he, maybe, will be a lot more pain for Jamie than Micah?

Chiaroscuro is a novel who flows like a river: sometime peaceful, sometime with rapids. Jamie is the center of love for all the men around, Dune, Micah e Ben, and he loves them all. He is the sunshine of the story. Ben instead is a bit of shadows and rain. I like the rain: when you lie in bed and listen to the rain outside it could be peaceful, but rain could be also a storm; rain waters the gardens but can also destroy the buds. And so Ben can take care of Jamie but can also choke the fragile love he has inspired.

Chiaroscuro decipts a community and a way of life that maybe only in San Francisco you can find. Every page I turn I will find a new "maybe" couple: Dune-Jamie, Jamie-Micah, Micah-Ryan, Dune-Daniel, Daniel-Jamie, Jamie-Ben, Ben-Ian, Ian-Micah, Jamie-Stuart.... It's like a domino play, what will be the latest piece to be play?

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Amazon: Chiaroscuro

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Fall From Grace (Fallen Angels) by Auburnimp

Since three years Samael, the Angel of Death, has found a new mortal lover, Daniel, and Raphael, the Archangel of Air, empath and former lover of Samael, can feel it and it's slowly destroying him.

He has since a long time (ten thousand of years) regretted his decision to not follow Lucifer and Samael on earth and instead to remain in Heaven with his brothers Michael, Gabriel and Uriel. But now the sorrow is too strong and he tries to forget all in the drunkness. He lives on earth and this is not allow for Angels and maybe he will be banished from Heaven.

Lucifer, the Son of the Morining, has his own reason to hate Raphael. Him, like Nathaniel, the Lord of Creation and his former lover, has had no courage to follow their beloved on earth. But now, if Raphael will move on earth, and will live in the same dimension with Samael, everyone is at risk: two opposite forces one against the other could lead to destruction. So he makes a pact with Raphael: one night with him and he will allow to Raphael to live on earth and maybe Samael, feeling the ultimate betrayal of his former lover, will forget forever of him.

This is a very short story and you will finish it with the desire to read more. I have the strong feeling that Fallen Angels 1 was a complete story, and this one is only a connection to a subsequent one. I only hope that Dark Eden Press will release soon the next enstallment.

http://shadowfirestore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=13_39&products_id=11

Series: Fallen Angels
1) On Death’s Wings: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/155556.html
2) Fall From Grace

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting+reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

Fall From Grace (Fallen Angels) by Auburnimp

Since three years Samael, the Angel of Death, has found a new mortal lover, Daniel, and Raphael, the Archangel of Air, empath and former lover of Samael, can feel it and it's slowly destroying him.

He has since a long time (ten thousand of years) regretted his decision to not follow Lucifer and Samael on earth and instead to remain in Heaven with his brothers Michael, Gabriel and Uriel. But now the sorrow is too strong and he tries to forget all in the drunkness. He lives on earth and this is not allow for Angels and maybe he will be banished from Heaven.

Lucifer, the Son of the Morining, has his own reason to hate Raphael. Him, like Nathaniel, the Lord of Creation and his former lover, has had no courage to follow their beloved on earth. But now, if Raphael will move on earth, and will live in the same dimension with Samael, everyone is at risk: two opposite forces one against the other could lead to destruction. So he makes a pact with Raphael: one night with him and he will allow to Raphael to live on earth and maybe Samael, feeling the ultimate betrayal of his former lover, will forget forever of him.

This is a very short story and you will finish it with the desire to read more. I have the strong feeling that Fallen Angels 1 was a complete story, and this one is only a connection to a subsequent one. I only hope that Dark Eden Press will release soon the next enstallment.

http://shadowfirestore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=13_39&products_id=11

Series: Fallen Angels
1) On Death’s Wings: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/155556.html
2) Fall From Grace

Waiting Reading List:

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He Scores by D.J. Manly

Terry lived in a little town in Canada. Even if Canada could be a little more open than other country, being gay in a little town is the same all over the world. And so Terry is the object of all the bad jockes in high school. He is only waiting to be eighteen years old and to leave for Toronto and the anonymity he will find and a big city.

And then Adrian, a twenty years old hockey player, young but just a champion, comes in town. He has inherited an old house just outside the town and wants to renovate it. And Adrian is a good guy, gentle and friendly, and gay... And so the last summer for Terry in his hometown could be also his first summer as "man" while he discovers love in the arms of Adrian.

But Adrian is not out and he cannot be out to the risk of losing his professional carreer and he has also a destructive relationship with a teammate that he claims to love. Adrian is very clear and open with Terry, for him it could be only friendship between them and sex, yes, but not love. Between the two, even if Adrien is more sexually experienced, it is Terry who is the more mature in understanding his feelings. It's Terry who accepts what he can have from Adrian, and it's Terry who asks forgiveness to Adrian when his feeling becomes too strong (!!!) and it's Terry who sees clearly how Pierre, Adrian's lover, really is.

D.J. Manly is very "male" in his stories. When I read one of his novel I always feel that the characters are driving first by their bodies and then by their heart. Love without sex is not taken in consideration and the way he describes his "men" is always very physical. And as always his novel flows smoothly and in a bit, and in the end you will want more.

http://www.extasybooks.net/ebjmsite/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=ebook_flypage&product_id=2744&category_id=8&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=44

Amazon Kindle: He Scores
Publisher: eXtasy Books (July 1, 2010)

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He Scores by D.J. Manly

Terry lived in a little town in Canada. Even if Canada could be a little more open than other country, being gay in a little town is the same all over the world. And so Terry is the object of all the bad jockes in high school. He is only waiting to be eighteen years old and to leave for Toronto and the anonymity he will find and a big city.

And then Adrian, a twenty years old hockey player, young but just a champion, comes in town. He has inherited an old house just outside the town and wants to renovate it. And Adrian is a good guy, gentle and friendly, and gay... And so the last summer for Terry in his hometown could be also his first summer as "man" while he discovers love in the arms of Adrian.

But Adrian is not out and he cannot be out to the risk of losing his professional carreer and he has also a destructive relationship with a teammate that he claims to love. Adrian is very clear and open with Terry, for him it could be only friendship between them and sex, yes, but not love. Between the two, even if Adrien is more sexually experienced, it is Terry who is the more mature in understanding his feelings. It's Terry who accepts what he can have from Adrian, and it's Terry who asks forgiveness to Adrian when his feeling becomes too strong (!!!) and it's Terry who sees clearly how Pierre, Adrian's lover, really is.

D.J. Manly is very "male" in his stories. When I read one of his novel I always feel that the characters are driving first by their bodies and then by their heart. Love without sex is not taken in consideration and the way he describes his "men" is always very physical. And as always his novel flows smoothly and in a bit, and in the end you will want more.

http://www.extasybooks.net/ebjmsite/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=ebook_flypage&product_id=2744&category_id=8&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=44

Amazon Kindle: He Scores

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle