Campus Cravings 1: On the Field by Carol Lynne

Coach (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

An All Amercan Boys story. Justin is the young coach of the high school football team. He is a good coach and he is gay. And these two things can't work in the little town where he lives, so he has decided to live in the closet and since five years he has not never had a lover. But his heart throbs for Luc, the father of one of his student. And now Luc has a stunning news for Justin: he is gay and he wants Justin in his life. But the town is not ready to have a gay coach near its sons...

Justin and Luc are very plain and simple characters. They fall in love, they make love, they decide to live together, everything in a smooth way without drama or trouble. Drama and trouble are outside their home and could be a difficult situation. But Carol Lynne has decided to manage the situation with sharp edges and all ends fine, like in a very american dream.

A short story from the new erotic publisher Total E-Bound. A good beginning, not extraordinaire, but satisfying.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=122

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Coach
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 23, 2007)

Side-Lined (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

I said this in my last review: Carol Lynne goes better every book I read. The first enstalment on the Campus Cravings series was enjoyable but not impressive. A good story, fast and simple, no much drama.

In this second enstalment, Max, Luc's son (Luc and Justin were the main characters of the first enstalment), is still grieving for the loss of Nick, his first and only lover till now. Nick is dead in a car accident and Max was behind the wheel. Doesn't matter that was not his fault. And doesn't matter that his relationship with Nick was not the same after two years. When he lose his lover, Max lose also the wish of life.

But something is changing in his life, he is dreaming of a commanding man, a man who has a clear face: his Greek history professor, Alec. And Alec is observing Max and he is only waiting for Max to stop mourning his lost lover. But Alec his not a common man, he likes to be a real Dom in his private life, he likes to be calling Babas (father) and to call his lover little man. He likes to take care and protect his man, he has also tattoed "protector" above his... penis! And he is jelaous like hell. But really his dominant behaviour only result in being a lot possessive and commanding during love and to take decision on Max's life, and Max discovers he like to be commanded by Alec. So everything all right, apart Justin, Max's adoptive father, and the slight age's difference betwen Max and Alec... Alec has more or less the same age of Max's father, Luc.

In this novel I read a little more character's investigation than the other novels and also the story seems to me better planned and developed. And it gives also a good anticipation for the next coming soon enstalment.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=123

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Side-Lined
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 16, 2007)

Sacking the Quarterback (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Third in the Campus Cravings series is the story about Koby, the new freshman college quarterback, and Julian, the conditioning coach. Koby is 18 years old but very mature for his age and Julian instead is 24 years old but an abusive past that prevents him from having a love relationship.

Koby is a good boy, with a strong attitude that allows him to face any adversity. He starts college with the knowledge that he has to do everything by himself, no help will arrive from his parents. When Julian hols out a friendly hand, Koby falls immediately in love for this gentle guy. But Julian has to overcome his past to be able to build something real with Koby.

Carol Lynne decides not to put too emphasis and angst in the story: you can imagine all but the tone of the novel remains light.

The story is enjoyable and the series begins to be a little funny: in this undefined american small town, every gay man manages to find his true love and gathers together with his friends... at the end of the series gay men will overtake on straight men!!! But it's not a complaint, on the contrary: I really want to read Demitri's story, but above all Rocco... from what Carol Lynne lets us now, this black/blue hair man promises to be a very interesting character!

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=142

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Sacking the Quarterback
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 23, 2007)

Amazon: On the Field (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590281
ISBN-13: 978-1906590284

Series: Campus Cravings
1-2-3) Campus Cravings 1: On the Field

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

Campus Cravings 2: Off the Field by Carol Lynne

Off-Season (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

This is the story of Demitri, one of the two brothers of Alec, the main characters of Side-Lined. Demitri is still mourning on the loss of good friend, but he has set his eyes on Aaron, the soccer coach. Demitri is strong and big, but has fragile feelings, he doesn't want to risk again to loose someone he loves, and so he takes Aaron at arm lenght. But phisycal desires are also strong and in the end Demitri has to take his chance to love and suffer again to gain a always forever type of relationship.

The story is romantic and not too much troubled. It flows smooth and fast. It's enjoyable. And book per book the series is becoming ever more a "gay happy community": all the coaches are gay, all the new student are also gay, all the characters you meet... I'm wondering what would they think Alec's parent, old fashion greeks, that two of their three strong sons are gay, or a new freshman when both the football coach than the soccer coach are gay...

But in the unrealistic setting Carol Lynne has built, she has also managed to make me wonder how the next story will be (the next is Rocco and I'm expecting this one, and then I have noticed also Liam and Bear...), so I will sure buy the next books in the series... I think Carol Lynne succeeded in her goal... entrapped me and other readers in her "gay happy community"!

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=166

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Off-Season
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (September 24, 2007)

Forbidden Freshman (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

In the end of Off-Season we have known about Joe, the 35 years old psichiatric who cares about all the guys in the Campus Cravings series, and Rocco, the 18 years old son of old coach Williams.

Rocco is a very beautiful man, who has always cared for himself, so at 18 years old he his very mature and knows exactly what he wants, and what he wants is Joe, his father's friend. Joe can't deny the attraction, but he will do nothing to ruin his friendship with Coach Williams, above all cause he can't believe a beautiful boy like Rocco could be really interesting in him.

But when Rocco finds himself alone one more time, Joe finally accepts that he now is Rocco's family and eventually lover.

I expect more drama from this story and instead it's is smooth and enjoyable. The love between Rocco and Joe is sudden and forever, their life together also. The big gap in years between them is not still a problem, maybe in the future it could be, but in this book you will read only of the good moments of the couple.

As always in the end Carol Lynne introduces us to her next characters: Toby and Michael, probably Charlie, but I'm still waiting for Liam and Bear's story!

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=171

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Forbidden Freshman
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (October 8, 2007)

Amazon: Off the Field (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 190659029X
ISBN-13: 978-1906590291

Series: Campus Cravings
1-2-3) Campus Cravings 1: On the Field: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/133792.html
4-5) Campus Cravings 2: Off the Field

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

Campus Cravings 3: Back on Campus by Carol Lynne

Broken Pottery (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

This one is maybe the more angst in the Campus Cravings series.

Daniel is a thirty something art professor in the local college. He is a submissive by nature, cause he is only used to associate pain with love. He has has a tragic experience when he was a child and now he needs someone in his life that can give him a safe place to stay and stability. After being beaten almost to death by a man he refuses to accuse, Daniel agrees to stay with Tony, a wealthy businessman. Tony is a top by nature, but he couldn't bring himself to be a dominant like Daniel seems to need. He will try to convince this man that love can be alsto sweetness and comfort.

Daniel is not a weak character. He is instead very strong and he has managed to razionalize what is happened in his childhood and rebuilt a life that apparently seems normal. But he needs a man beside that help him to overcome his issues with intimate relationship. And Tony is the right man. He is very emotive, but not impressionable; he is gentle, and probably deeply in love, but he knows that he can't bertray himself to "play" the role of the man Daniel seems to need .

This last in the Campus Cravings series is slightly different from the former ones: we only see the appearance of three of the multiple gay characters that seem to have conquered this little province town. But I have just seen that in the next enstalment I will have the chance to read of Nate, a character I'm waiting.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=201

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Broken Pottery
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (January 7, 2008)

In Bear’s Bed (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Campus Cravings series is now a sure appointment for me. It's like a soap-opera, every books I read of a new couple but also have some hints of the past ones and glimpses to the future one.

I was waiting for this one: Bear is a big Afro American Football player and Liam is a cute soccer player. In the past books Bear has helped Liam with some homophobic teammates, and since Bear is a very big man, no one has dared to bother Liam from that moment on. Liam is out with his family and friend, instead Bear passes for a straight man. But at the beginning of this book, Bear confesses to Liam that he felt in love with him months before and now wants to share a room in the new all gay dorm and also his life.

The relationship between Bear and Liam is smooth and nice since the beginning. There aren't much problems for the multicultural matter and even the same sex issue seems to go smooth, fellow teammates of Bear fear him to much to make trouble.

The book is really enjoyable, the characters are young and cute (even the big Bear), but maybe I was expecting a bit more angst from this enstallment. Things seem to go too good for Liam and Bear, it is like hearing a bomb clock to tic toc and in the end not having the explosion. But well, we have nevertheless two new wanna-be-couple, Sam, Aaron's brother, and Jace, Tony's colleague, and Charlie, the blind dorm director, and Jack, the new dorm cook and former marine. And also a new gay friend, Michael, that maybe will give us some surprises,

All in all, if you have read all the other in the series, and want to read the future ones, you can't miss this one.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=210

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: In Bear's Bed
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (February 4, 2008)

Amazon: Back on Campus (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590303
ISBN-13: 978-1906590307

Series: Campus Cravings
1-2-3) Campus Cravings 1: On the Field: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/133792.html
4-5) Campus Cravings 2: Off the Field: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/165064.html
6-7) Campus Cravings 3: Back on Campus

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

Cattle Valley 2 by Carol Lynne

Sweet Topping (Cattle Valley) by Carol Lynne

Sometimes when Carol Lynne decides to talk about a delicate matter, she does it with so much details that, if not be for her ability to write romance, it could be almost like read a clinical papers. And instead reading this book, I was involved by the characters and not distracted by the details.

Kyle is the young baker of Cattle Valley. He is from a wealthy family but he has left his comfort life after a bad accident which has left him tetraplegic. Even if Gill has proved in every way his interest in Kyle, he is still reluctant to start a relationship with the man, cause he seems not to be able to have a normal sexual life and his day-to-day needs are so embarassing for him, he has no desire to share them with another man.

But Gill is very stubborn and he will not let go until he has not conviced Kyle to give him a chance.

Even if Kyle should be the protagonist of the story, and usually I have a soft spot for the bottom, I think that Gill steals a bit the scene this time. Gill is a big Afro American man, with a big heart, and he is very tender and caring. He is almost too good to be true.

Only one question remains in my mind... why the title, Sweet Topping? Maybe cause Gill is a sweet man?

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=222

Amazon Kindle: Cattle Valley: Sweet Topping
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (February 18, 2008)

Rough Ride (Cattle Valley 4) by Carol Lynne

Fourth episode in the Cattle Valley gay soap opera. Cattle Valley is the gay fantasyland for all the men searching a soul mate of the same sex (techinically also for women, but Carol voted herself to the manlove romance).

Since the first episode we meet Wyn, the high-maintenance store owner who is just out of an abusive relationship with the former minister of Cattle Valley. Wyn is a little skittish, being a small man; and he is not a young stud, he borders to forty or even a little more. And since the first episode we know that something is going on with Ezra, the big ranch owner. Ezra is almost a giant, 6 feet and 11 inches tall with a unkept bears that makes him the best next thing to a real bear. No one would think that Wyn and Ezra could be a couple, but the two of them seem unable to stay far from the other and when they are near to each other, they seem unable to not argue.

But when Wyn needs to go back home, in his omophobic home town, and the welcome home kid party is not a good one, Ezra like a knight in shining armour, comes to rescue. From this moment on, Wyn and Ezra are a steady couple, but back in Cattle Valley not all the townfolks are happy of this new development.

This episode is a nice one. Not too much drama, two nice characters and a little sexy story. You know from the start that Ezra and Wyn will be a couple, we were waiting three books for this to happen, and so we are ready to be plunged into the real story without much notice.

As always we have also the chance to know the future characters in the series: Matt and the doctors, Richard, also an Olynpic Gold Medal and probably Smokey and Neil. In the past we met also the chef of the only restaurant of Cattle Valley, but in this episode he doesn't make an appereance. So who will be the next? the soap opera continues...

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=250

Amazon Kindle: Cattle Valley: Rough Ride
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (April 28, 2008)

Amazon: Cattle Valley, Vol. 2: Sweet Topping / Rough Ride
Paperback: 185 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590346
ISBN-13: 978-1906590345

Series: Cattle Valley
1-2) Cattle Valley 1: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/211609.html
3-4) Cattle Valley 2

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




Cover Art by Anne Cain

Campus Cravings 2: Off the Field by Carol Lynne

Off-Season (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

This is the story of Demitri, one of the two brothers of Alec, the main characters of Side-Lined. Demitri is still mourning on the loss of good friend, but he has set his eyes on Aaron, the soccer coach. Demitri is strong and big, but has fragile feelings, he doesn't want to risk again to loose someone he loves, and so he takes Aaron at arm lenght. But phisycal desires are also strong and in the end Demitri has to take his chance to love and suffer again to gain a always forever type of relationship.

The story is romantic and not too much troubled. It flows smooth and fast. It's enjoyable. And book per book the series is becoming ever more a "gay happy community": all the coaches are gay, all the new student are also gay, all the characters you meet... I'm wondering what would they think Alec's parent, old fashion greeks, that two of their three strong sons are gay, or a new freshman when both the football coach than the soccer coach are gay...

But in the unrealistic setting Carol Lynne has built, she has also managed to make me wonder how the next story will be (the next is Rocco and I'm expecting this one, and then I have noticed also Liam and Bear...), so I will sure buy the next books in the series... I think Carol Lynne succeeded in her goal... entrapped me and other readers in her "gay happy community"!

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=166

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Off-Season

Forbidden Freshman (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

In the end of Off-Season we have known about Joe, the 35 years old psichiatric who cares about all the guys in the Campus Cravings series, and Rocco, the 18 years old son of old coach Williams.

Rocco is a very beautiful man, who has always cared for himself, so at 18 years old he his very mature and knows exactly what he wants, and what he wants is Joe, his father's friend. Joe can't deny the attraction, but he will do nothing to ruin his friendship with Coach Williams, above all cause he can't believe a beautiful boy like Rocco could be really interesting in him.

But when Rocco finds himself alone one more time, Joe finally accepts that he now is Rocco's family and eventually lover.

I expect more drama from this story and instead it's is smooth and enjoyable. The love between Rocco and Joe is sudden and forever, their life together also. The big gap in years between them is not still a problem, maybe in the future it could be, but in this book you will read only of the good moments of the couple.

As always in the end Carol Lynne introduces us to her next characters: Toby and Michael, probably Charlie, but I'm still waiting for Liam and Bear's story!

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=171

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Forbidden Freshman

Amazon: Off the Field (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 190659029X
ISBN-13: 978-1906590291

Series: Campus Cravings
1-2-3) Campus Cravings 1: On the Field: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/133792.html
4-5) Campus Cravings 2: Off the Field

Reading List:

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

Campus Cravings 3: Back on Campus by Carol Lynne

Broken Pottery (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

This one is maybe the more angst in the Campus Cravings series.

Daniel is a thirty something art professor in the local college. He is a submissive by nature, cause he is only used to associate pain with love. He has has a tragic experience when he was a child and now he needs someone in his life that can give him a safe place to stay and stability. After being beaten almost to death by a man he refuses to accuse, Daniel agrees to stay with Tony, a wealthy businessman. Tony is a top by nature, but he couldn't bring himself to be a dominant like Daniel seems to need. He will try to convince this man that love can be alsto sweetness and comfort.

Daniel is not a weak character. He is instead very strong and he has managed to razionalize what is happened in his childhood and rebuilt a life that apparently seems normal. But he needs a man beside that help him to overcome his issues with intimate relationship. And Tony is the right man. He is very emotive, but not impressionable; he is gentle, and probably deeply in love, but he knows that he can't bertray himself to "play" the role of the man Daniel seems to need .

This last in the Campus Cravings series is slightly different from the former ones: we only see the appearance of three of the multiple gay characters that seem to have conquered this little province town. But I have just seen that in the next enstalment I will have the chance to read of Nate, a character I'm waiting.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=201

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Broken Pottery

In Bear’s Bed (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Campus Cravings series is now a sure appointment for me. It's like a soap-opera, every books I read of a new couple but also have some hints of the past ones and glimpses to the future one.

I was waiting for this one: Bear is a big Afro American Football player and Liam is a cute soccer player. In the past books Bear has helped Liam with some homophobic teammates, and since Bear is a very big man, no one has dared to bother Liam from that moment on. Liam is out with his family and friend, instead Bear passes for a straight man. But at the beginning of this book, Bear confesses to Liam that he felt in love with him months before and now wants to share a room in the new all gay dorm and also his life.

The relationship between Bear and Liam is smooth and nice since the beginning. There aren't much problems for the multicultural matter and even the same sex issue seems to go smooth, fellow teammates of Bear fear him to much to make trouble.

The book is really enjoyable, the characters are young and cute (even the big Bear), but maybe I was expecting a bit more angst from this enstallment. Things seem to go too good for Liam and Bear, it is like hearing a bomb clock to tic toc and in the end not having the explosion. But well, we have nevertheless two new wanna-be-couple, Sam, Aaron's brother, and Jace, Tony's colleague, and Charlie, the blind dorm director, and Jack, the new dorm cook and former marine. And also a new gay friend, Michael, that maybe will give us some surprises,

All in all, if you have read all the other in the series, and want to read the future ones, you can't miss this one.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=210

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: In Bear's Bed

Amazon: Back on Campus (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590303
ISBN-13: 978-1906590307

Series: Campus Cravings
1-2-3) Campus Cravings 1: On the Field: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/133792.html
4-5) Campus Cravings 2: Off the Field: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/165064.html
6-7) Campus Cravings 3: Back on Campus

Reading List:

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

Campus Cravings 1: On the Field by Carol Lynne

Coach (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

An All Amercan Boys story. Justin is the young coach of the high school football team. He is a good coach and he is gay. And these two things can't work in the little town where he lives, so he has decided to live in the closet and since five years he has not never had a lover. But his heart throbs for Luc, the father of one of his student. And now Luc has a stunning news for Justin: he is gay and he wants Justin in his life. But the town is not ready to have a gay coach near its sons...

Justin and Luc are very plain and simple characters. They fall in love, they make love, they decide to live together, everything in a smooth way without drama or trouble. Drama and trouble are outside their home and could be a difficult situation. But Carol Lynne has decided to manage the situation with sharp edges and all ends fine, like in a very american dream.

A short story from the new erotic publisher Total E-Bound. A good beginning, not extraordinaire, but satisfying.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=122

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Coach

Side-Lined (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

I said this in my last review: Carol Lynne goes better every book I read. The first enstalment on the Campus Cravings series was enjoyable but not impressive. A good story, fast and simple, no much drama.

In this second enstalment, Max, Luc's son (Luc and Justin were the main characters of the first enstalment), is still grieving for the loss of Nick, his first and only lover till now. Nick is dead in a car accident and Max was behind the wheel. Doesn't matter that was not his fault. And doesn't matter that his relationship with Nick was not the same after two years. When he lose his lover, Max lose also the wish of life.

But something is changing in his life, he is dreaming of a commanding man, a man who has a clear face: his Greek history professor, Alec. And Alec is observing Max and he is only waiting for Max to stop mourning his lost lover. But Alec his not a common man, he likes to be a real Dom in his private life, he likes to be calling Babas (father) and to call his lover little man. He likes to take care and protect his man, he has also tattoed "protector" above his... penis! And he is jelaous like hell. But really his dominant behaviour only result in being a lot possessive and commanding during love and to take decision on Max's life, and Max discovers he like to be commanded by Alec. So everything all right, apart Justin, Max's adoptive father, and the slight age's difference betwen Max and Alec... Alec has more or less the same age of Max's father, Luc.

In this novel I read a little more character's investigation than the other novels and also the story seems to me better planned and developed. And it gives also a good anticipation for the next coming soon enstalment.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=123

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Side-Lined

Sacking the Quarterback (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Third in the Campus Cravings series is the story about Koby, the new freshman college quarterback, and Julian, the conditioning coach. Koby is 18 years old but very mature for his age and Julian instead is 24 years old but an abusive past that prevents him from having a love relationship.

Koby is a good boy, with a strong attitude that allows him to face any adversity. He starts college with the knowledge that he has to do everything by himself, no help will arrive from his parents. When Julian hols out a friendly hand, Koby falls immediately in love for this gentle guy. But Julian has to overcome his past to be able to build something real with Koby.

Carol Lynne decides not to put too emphasis and angst in the story: you can imagine all but the tone of the novel remains light.

The story is enjoyable and the series begins to be a little funny: in this undefined american small town, every gay man manages to find his true love and gathers together with his friends... at the end of the series gay men will overtake on straight men!!! But it's not a complaint, on the contrary: I really want to read Demitri's story, but above all Rocco... from what Carol Lynne lets us now, this black/blue hair man promises to be a very interesting character!

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=142

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Sacking the Quarterback

Amazon: On the Field (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590281
ISBN-13: 978-1906590284

Series: Campus Cravings
1-2-3) Campus Cravings 1: On the Field

Reading List:

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

Cattle Valley 2 by Carol Lynne

Sweet Topping (Cattle Valley) by Carol Lynne

Sometimes when Carol Lynne decides to talk about a delicate matter, she does it with so much details that, if not be for her ability to write romance, it could be almost like read a clinical papers. And instead reading this book, I was involved by the characters and not distracted by the details.

Kyle is the young baker of Cattle Valley. He is from a wealthy family but he has left his comfort life after a bad accident which has left him tetraplegic. Even if Gill has proved in every way his interest in Kyle, he is still reluctant to start a relationship with the man, cause he seems not to be able to have a normal sexual life and his day-to-day needs are so embarassing for him, he has no desire to share them with another man.

But Gill is very stubborn and he will not let go until he has not conviced Kyle to give him a chance.

Even if Kyle should be the protagonist of the story, and usually I have a soft spot for the bottom, I think that Gill steals a bit the scene this time. Gill is a big Afro American man, with a big heart, and he is very tender and caring. He is almost too good to be true.

Only one question remains in my mind... why the title, Sweet Topping? Maybe cause Gill is a sweet man?

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=azmzqw564695&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=222

Amazon Kindle: Cattle Valley: Sweet Topping

Rough Ride (Cattle Valley 4) by Carol Lynne

Fourth episode in the Cattle Valley gay soap opera. Cattle Valley is the gay fantasyland for all the men searching a soul mate of the same sex (techinically also for women, but Carol voted herself to the manlove romance).

Since the first episode we meet Wyn, the high-maintenance store owner who is just out of an abusive relationship with the former minister of Cattle Valley. Wyn is a little skittish, being a small man; and he is not a young stud, he borders to forty or even a little more. And since the first episode we know that something is going on with Ezra, the big ranch owner. Ezra is almost a giant, 6 feet and 11 inches tall with a unkept bears that makes him the best next thing to a real bear. No one would think that Wyn and Ezra could be a couple, but the two of them seem unable to stay far from the other and when they are near to each other, they seem unable to not argue.

But when Wyn needs to go back home, in his omophobic home town, and the welcome home kid party is not a good one, Ezra like a knight in shining armour, comes to rescue. From this moment on, Wyn and Ezra are a steady couple, but back in Cattle Valley not all the townfolks are happy of this new development.

This episode is a nice one. Not too much drama, two nice characters and a little sexy story. You know from the start that Ezra and Wyn will be a couple, we were waiting three books for this to happen, and so we are ready to be plunged into the real story without much notice.

As always we have also the chance to know the future characters in the series: Matt and the doctors, Richard, also an Olynpic Gold Medal and probably Smokey and Neil. In the past we met also the chef of the only restaurant of Cattle Valley, but in this episode he doesn't make an appereance. So who will be the next? the soap opera continues...

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Amazon Kindle: Cattle Valley: Rough Ride

Amazon: Cattle Valley, Vol. 2: Sweet Topping / Rough Ride
Paperback: 185 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590346
ISBN-13: 978-1906590345

Series: Cattle Valley
1-2) Cattle Valley 1: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/211609.html
3-4) Cattle Valley 2

Reading List:

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Cover Art by Anne Cain

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Elisa!

gacked from envyious 

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Elisa!

1. Red Elisa at night, shepherd's delight. Red Elisa at morning, shepherd's warning.
2. Elisa is born white; her pink feathers are caused by pigments in her typical diet of shrimp!
3. The air around Elisa is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun.
4. If you kiss Elisa for one minute you will burn six or seven calories.
5. The liquid inside Elisa can be used as a substitute for blood plasma!
6. Elisa is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives.
7. Women shoplift four times more frequently than Elisa.
8. Baby swans are called Elisa.
9. If you break Elisa, you will get seven years of bad luck!
10. Elisa was first grown in America by the grandmother Maria Ann Smith, from whom her name comes.

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

1) Usually I link to me the sun, never the moon
2) I remember someone (Max!) who told me that I should dress in pink. Today I wear a pink shirt!
3) Warning, I'm burning!
4) So I should kiss myself a lot! Someone wants to share with me this very useful skill?
5) Mmm, I don't like this, I don't like needles, and how else you can have my "liquid"?
6) Always knew that... please worship me!
7) ??? so it means that I shoplift or that I'm not?
8) Cute! but I'd prefer baby cats
9) True! So be careful...
10) ??? well actually my names came from Elios, the sun god.
 

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Elisa!

gacked from envyious 

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Elisa!

1. Red Elisa at night, shepherd's delight. Red Elisa at morning, shepherd's warning.
2. Elisa is born white; her pink feathers are caused by pigments in her typical diet of shrimp!
3. The air around Elisa is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun.
4. If you kiss Elisa for one minute you will burn six or seven calories.
5. The liquid inside Elisa can be used as a substitute for blood plasma!
6. Elisa is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives.
7. Women shoplift four times more frequently than Elisa.
8. Baby swans are called Elisa.
9. If you break Elisa, you will get seven years of bad luck!
10. Elisa was first grown in America by the grandmother Maria Ann Smith, from whom her name comes.

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

1) Usually I link to me the sun, never the moon
2) I remember someone (Max!) who told me that I should dress in pink. Today I wear a pink shirt!
3) Warning, I'm burning!
4) So I should kiss myself a lot! Someone wants to share with me this very useful skill?
5) Mmm, I don't like this, I don't like needles, and how else you can have my "liquid"?
6) Always knew that... please worship me!
7) ??? so it means that I shoplift or that I'm not?
8) Cute! but I'd prefer baby cats
9) True! So be careful...
10) ??? well actually my names came from Elios, the sun god.
 

The Invaders by Gregory L. Norris

Phillip is an All-American boy. Strong, muscular, football quarterback and school star. He has all he wants, even the most beautiful girl, a cheerleader. But what he really wants is the freedom to be gay. In the small town where he lives, it's impossibile for him not to hide; family, friends, all people around him are against who is not like them: strangers, homosexual, who is different is wrong. And so when a strange family move on the old house on the hill, townspeople are ready to judge them as freaks. But Phillip sees different, he sees Julian, the boy who lives there and he is suddenly in love. Julian is a lithe blond guy with wonderful sapphire eyes; he is all the dreams of Phillis come true. But Julian's guardian takes him far from the boy. Fortunately Phillip has the chance to meet Julia, Julian's sister at school, and asks her to be his ambassador with the boy. Julia is an awkard girl, everyone at school treats her bad and only Phillip stands up for her; he even dumps his perfect girlfriend when she deliberately offends Julia.

What Phillip doesn't know is that Julian is not a normal guy, and in this case being not "normal" doesn't mean being gay, as all the homophobic people around him think. Julian is special, and he is a key figure in the world's destiny.

Less than 50 pages, this one is a parody of what means being different and of the power of love. The futuristic element are only a means to underline the apparently difference between Phillip and Julia, a difference you find in an high school, but that it's in greater scale, something you will find also in the real world. And the message is that, with only the power of love, if love is directed to the right person, you can overcome all the odds of life.

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=The+Invaders/exact_match=exact

Amazon Kindle: The Invaders
Publisher: Phaze Books (July 1, 2010)

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

The Invaders by Gregory L. Norris

Phillip is an All-American boy. Strong, muscular, football quarterback and school star. He has all he wants, even the most beautiful girl, a cheerleader. But what he really wants is the freedom to be gay. In the small town where he lives, it's impossibile for him not to hide; family, friends, all people around him are against who is not like them: strangers, homosexual, who is different is wrong. And so when a strange family move on the old house on the hill, townspeople are ready to judge them as freaks. But Phillip sees different, he sees Julian, the boy who lives there and he is suddenly in love. Julian is a lithe blond guy with wonderful sapphire eyes; he is all the dreams of Phillis come true. But Julian's guardian takes him far from the boy. Fortunately Phillip has the chance to meet Julia, Julian's sister at school, and asks her to be his ambassador with the boy. Julia is an awkard girl, everyone at school treats her bad and only Phillip stands up for her; he even dumps his perfect girlfriend when she deliberately offends Julia.

What Phillip doesn't know is that Julian is not a normal guy, and in this case being not "normal" doesn't mean being gay, as all the homophobic people around him think. Julian is special, and he is a key figure in the world's destiny.

Less than 50 pages, this one is a parody of what means being different and of the power of love. The futuristic element are only a means to underline the apparently difference between Phillip and Julia, a difference you find in an high school, but that it's in greater scale, something you will find also in the real world. And the message is that, with only the power of love, if love is directed to the right person, you can overcome all the odds of life.

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=The+Invaders/exact_match=exact

Amazon Kindle: The Invaders

Reading List:

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Manlove Gang at Yaoi Con 2008

I can't wait for my travel in California next September and to have the chance to be at Yaoi Con at San Francisco.

I have the fly, the car, the hotels... I'm ready!

And I have also a special section on my side menu bar: Manlove Gang at Yaoi Con 2008. I list all the authors and friends that told me that probably will be there. If you someone else want to be there, please let me know and I will add your name. Also if you don't want to be listed, let me know and I will delete your name :-((( (hope not!)

This is also a way to know how many books I should bring with me to be signed: what a nut I'm, I'm buying books just know, shipping them from USA to then bring them back in my suitcase!

P.S. As always I have shamelessly stole a pic from Anne Cain, the Goddess artist!
 

Manlove Gang at Yaoi Con 2008

I can't wait for my travel in California next September and to have the chance to be at Yaoi Con at San Francisco.

I have the fly, the car, the hotels... I'm ready!

And I have also a special section on my side menu bar: Manlove Gang at Yaoi Con 2008. I list all the authors and friends that told me that probably will be there. If you someone else want to be there, please let me know and I will add your name. Also if you don't want to be listed, let me know and I will delete your name :-((( (hope not!)

This is also a way to know how many books I should bring with me to be signed: what a nut I'm, I'm buying books just know, shipping them from USA to then bring them back in my suitcase!

P.S. As always I have shamelessly stole a pic from Anne Cain, the Goddess artist!
 

State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry

Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.

In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the "fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship." The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when the decision takes effect in 30 days.

To read more

State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry

Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.

In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the "fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship." The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when the decision takes effect in 30 days.

To read more

Take Me As I Am by Angeleque Ford

Well, it's always difficult to say if I really like a novel or not when it's less than 60 pages and a lot of the things I don't understand could be explained with a longer novel.

Jay Black is an Afro American disk-jockey; he has a night show with his best friend Pandora and one night he says online that he is still grieving from an heartbreak three years old. A caller proposes him a one night stand, only sex, not string attached. But when he meets the man, behind insistence of his friend Pandora, he discovers that the man is his ex lover Darrius (actually I didn't understand if also Darrius is an Afro American man, he is decipted with honey skin... not that matters, but a gay couple plus an interracial relationship I think have more trouble than not). Darrius is ready to admit that he misses Jay and he wants to give another chance to their relationship. But even if Jay has forgiven Darrius, he can't forget: Darrius cheated on him with a woman, and this, according to me, has opened the mythical Pandora's vase... Jay is not more sure that he is the right man for Darrius, cause maybe he thinks that Darrius doesn't want a man at all. Plus is it true that Jay threw Darrius out of their home, but probably he thought that the man was willing to fight for them, and instead Darrius moved on another city, and now, three years later, he wants to mend the things between them? Oh no, dear Darrius, you are a bit late according to Jay

So, in the end, I didn't know on what side I was; it was like a tennis match and I was the ball. Once I was by Jay's side, and I thought, "Oh that Darrius, grrr, what a CHEATING man", and then I was by Darrius' side and thought, "Oh Jay, how can you not be a bit less stubborn, don't you see I love you?".

Unfortunately the book ends quite abruptly and I still haven't decided who had the match point...

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Take+Me+As+I+Am+by+Angeleque+Ford

Amazon Kindle: Take Me As I Am
Publisher: Phaze Books (July 1, 2010)

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

Take Me As I Am by Angeleque Ford

Well, it's always difficult to say if I really like a novel or not when it's less than 60 pages and a lot of the things I don't understand could be explained with a longer novel.

Jay Black is an Afro American disk-jockey; he has a night show with his best friend Pandora and one night he says online that he is still grieving from an heartbreak three years old. A caller proposes him a one night stand, only sex, not string attached. But when he meets the man, behind insistence of his friend Pandora, he discovers that the man is his ex lover Darrius (actually I didn't understand if also Darrius is an Afro American man, he is decipted with honey skin... not that matters, but a gay couple plus an interracial relationship I think have more trouble than not). Darrius is ready to admit that he misses Jay and he wants to give another chance to their relationship. But even if Jay has forgiven Darrius, he can't forget: Darrius cheated on him with a woman, and this, according to me, has opened the mythical Pandora's vase... Jay is not more sure that he is the right man for Darrius, cause maybe he thinks that Darrius doesn't want a man at all. Plus is it true that Jay threw Darrius out of their home, but probably he thought that the man was willing to fight for them, and instead Darrius moved on another city, and now, three years later, he wants to mend the things between them? Oh no, dear Darrius, you are a bit late according to Jay

So, in the end, I didn't know on what side I was; it was like a tennis match and I was the ball. Once I was by Jay's side, and I thought, "Oh that Darrius, grrr, what a CHEATING man", and then I was by Darrius' side and thought, "Oh Jay, how can you not be a bit less stubborn, don't you see I love you?".

Unfortunately the book ends quite abruptly and I still haven't decided who had the match point...

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Take+Me+As+I+Am+by+Angeleque+Ford

Amazon Kindle: Take Me As I Am

Reading List:

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

Since a friend ask me...

for ackatt 

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
No.

2) What was your dream growing up?
Being beautiful. Really, when I was young I thought that it was the easier way

3) What talent do you wish you had?
Something artistic I think, like painting or writing (real writing, not what I done)

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Coke I suppose. If you want to make me drunk, Coke and Rum

5) Did you have issues with your father or mother?
I love my father, and when he was alive, we had arguments, but I knew he was proud of me. Instead my mother doesn't think good of me, I'm not the daughter she wished.

6) What was the last book you read?
Take Me As I Am by Angeleque Ford. It's a short novel. Long novel: Kingsley and I by Gary Martine.

7) What zodiac sign are you?
Leo and proud to be.

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
No and No. I don't like needles near me.

9) Worst Habit?
I'm lazy.

10) Would you pick up a hurt domestic pet from the road and take it to the nearest vet?
Yes and I did that to. And the cat hurt me, but nevertheless I bring him to the vet.

11) What is your favorite movie?
Someone Like it Hot.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
Unfortunately negative.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
Probably make joke to distract you from the real me.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
My father's death.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
I don't like proximity, to seat near you, you should be a very dear friend of mine.

16) Do you have any pets?
In this moment no, but I'm a cat owner.

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
I offer you a coffe.

18) What was your first impression of me?
A very sweet lady.

19) Do you like summer or winter sports better?
Mmm, not a very sport lover. Winter.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
My weight.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Crime partner, I don't like to listen to my coscience.

22) What color eyes do you have?
Brown.

23) Ever been arrested?
No.

24) Bottle or can soda?
Can.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A travel.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
Coffe shop.

28) Do you believe in pshic powers?
Mmm, I think no.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Read!

30) Do you swear a lot?
A bit.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
??? Someone told me what it means but I forgot. BTW I just did this meme some months ago... and hope the answers are the same!

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Loud!

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
Absolutely yes!

35) Do you believe in God?
Unfortunately no, I think people who believe are more happy.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
Just did.

Since a friend ask me...

for ackatt 

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
No.

2) What was your dream growing up?
Being beautiful. Really, when I was young I thought that it was the easier way

3) What talent do you wish you had?
Something artistic I think, like painting or writing (real writing, not what I done)

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Coke I suppose. If you want to make me drunk, Coke and Rum

5) Did you have issues with your father or mother?
I love my father, and when he was alive, we had arguments, but I knew he was proud of me. Instead my mother doesn't think good of me, I'm not the daughter she wished.

6) What was the last book you read?
Take Me As I Am by Angeleque Ford. It's a short novel. Long novel: Kingsley and I by Gary Martine.

7) What zodiac sign are you?
Leo and proud to be.

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
No and No. I don't like needles near me.

9) Worst Habit?
I'm lazy.

10) Would you pick up a hurt domestic pet from the road and take it to the nearest vet?
Yes and I did that to. And the cat hurt me, but nevertheless I bring him to the vet.

11) What is your favorite movie?
Someone Like it Hot.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
Unfortunately negative.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
Probably make joke to distract you from the real me.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
My father's death.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
I don't like proximity, to seat near you, you should be a very dear friend of mine.

16) Do you have any pets?
In this moment no, but I'm a cat owner.

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
I offer you a coffe.

18) What was your first impression of me?
A very sweet lady.

19) Do you like summer or winter sports better?
Mmm, not a very sport lover. Winter.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
My weight.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Crime partner, I don't like to listen to my coscience.

22) What color eyes do you have?
Brown.

23) Ever been arrested?
No.

24) Bottle or can soda?
Can.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A travel.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
Coffe shop.

28) Do you believe in pshic powers?
Mmm, I think no.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Read!

30) Do you swear a lot?
A bit.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
??? Someone told me what it means but I forgot. BTW I just did this meme some months ago... and hope the answers are the same!

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Loud!

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
Absolutely yes!

35) Do you believe in God?
Unfortunately no, I think people who believe are more happy.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
Just did.

Man Candy Day: Michael Biserta

Since he is Italian (origin) and a very stud, and also a fireman (listen Tory? he is a FIREMAN!!!), ladies and gentlemen, here for you:


( more pics - no work safe )

Don't comment on the Tattoo... it means Grandma!!!

When Michael Biserta took off a bit more then just his shirt in a small video back in 2004, he probably had no idea it would make him one of the most popular guys on the net only three years after. Michael Biserta appeared in a short episode of Guys Gone Wild, a video that enjoys immense popularity. But most people would probably not even have heard about this clip – let alone seen it – if it hadn’t been for the fact the New York Fire Department decided to pull the plug on their annual charity NYFP calendar project (featuring Mike on the cover) when they learned about his earlier camera experience.

He is Italian by way of Staten Island New York. Born and raised. He is 23 and a New York City fireman. He lives home with his mother and father (how Italian is he!!!). He has a girlfriend named Danielle, the best woman he have ever met (how cute!!!)

His physical appearance has turned him in a gay icon, but this doesn’t bother him, he likes what he likes, and that’s women. He doesn’t get disgusted or weirded out by the fact that 20 gay guys a day ‘friend’ or ‘message’ him on MySpace. He accepts everyone (make a thought to go there a friend him?).

( video )

@MySpace
@BeautifulMag

Man Candy Day: Michael Biserta

Since he is Italian (origin) and a very stud, and also a fireman (listen Tory? he is a FIREMAN!!!), ladies and gentlemen, here for you:


( more pics - no work safe )

Don't comment on the Tattoo... it means Grandma!!!

When Michael Biserta took off a bit more then just his shirt in a small video back in 2004, he probably had no idea it would make him one of the most popular guys on the net only three years after. Michael Biserta appeared in a short episode of Guys Gone Wild, a video that enjoys immense popularity. But most people would probably not even have heard about this clip – let alone seen it – if it hadn’t been for the fact the New York Fire Department decided to pull the plug on their annual charity NYFP calendar project (featuring Mike on the cover) when they learned about his earlier camera experience.

He is Italian by way of Staten Island New York. Born and raised. He is 23 and a New York City fireman. He lives home with his mother and father (how Italian is he!!!). He has a girlfriend named Danielle, the best woman he have ever met (how cute!!!)

His physical appearance has turned him in a gay icon, but this doesn’t bother him, he likes what he likes, and that’s women. He doesn’t get disgusted or weirded out by the fact that 20 gay guys a day ‘friend’ or ‘message’ him on MySpace. He accepts everyone (make a thought to go there a friend him?).

( video )

@MySpace
@BeautifulMag