Campus Cravings 4: Dorm Life by Carol Lynne

Office Advances (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Sam, Aaron's brother (Aaron was the main character of Off-Season) is a 21 years old college student. He is one of the gay students who chose to live on the KB dorm, the all gay college dormitory founded by Demitri, Aaron's lover. Sam is pretty out of money and so he accepts a part time work from Tony (Tony was the main character of Broken Pottery). But doing so he has to deal with Jace, Tony's vice president and the man who previously refused him a date. Jace is a mid-thirty handsome man, and he said he didn't date "kids".

But Jace's behaviour is all but that of a not interested man, he is possessive and they finish in bed in less time. Only that Jace is living with a former and very handsome boyfriend and everything Sam does seems wrong. In the end they will find a common path, and also some kinky common fetish in bed that will help them to build a steady relationship.

Jace is a man with trust issues, Sam is a young man, point (he has still to learn how to behave in a exclusive relationship). This is all the matter of the story, pretty simple and enjoyable.

The Campus Cravings series is like a soap opera. Every story is of the right lenght to entertain you, but also to not be too binding. And every book give you the chance to get acquinted with all the previous characters and to have a glimpse in the future ones: it's just two or three books that we know of a future couple, the blind Charlie and the ex marine Jack, and in this book we meet also the son flowers Lark and the tattoed biker Kade. I can't wait to read the story of this last couple.

And like in the old and good soap opera, don't try to find reality in it, there isn't... you can't ask yourself how is possible that every handsome men in this series is gay and how is possible that, in a rather small city, there is an average percentage of gay population that it is greater than San Francisco, and how is possible that every gay man has a brother, gay himself... This is Campus Cravings Fantasyland and I like it in this way!

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Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Office Advances
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (March 31, 2008)

A Biker’s Vow (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Another chapter in the Campus Cravings soap opera, the adventures of a small town college that, book after book, is more and more full of same sex couple and less and less homophobic about it. This time is the time of Kane, former lover of Jace, main character in Office Advances, and of Lark, roommate of Sam, now Jace's lover. Kane and Lark met in the previous book and they are apparently at opposite: Kane is a biker, all tattoo and strong body, 6.4 and moody. Lark is 5.3 and nerdy, always with his nose in a book. But something in the past draw them together: Kane is HIV positive and he has decided to give up sex to make penance of his past careless behavior; Lark instead was raised in a community, a new-flower type, where free love and acceptance is a normal way to live. And Lark first love was also HIV positive, so Lark knows what he will face having a relationship with Kane.

The story is pretty strong, the author is not light in giving all the detail of the consequences to live with the AIDS treat near you. And Kane and Lark don't walk toward the sunset free and happy only cause they are in love. But this is a romance, and obviously there must be a light at the end of the tunnel. Plus this is a continuing series, almost a soap opera as I affectionately call it, and so it ends with hope. More, in the end, the two soap operas by Carol Lynn, Campus Cravings and Cattle Valley merge, with the hypothesis that Kane and Lark will live in the future in the Montana LGBT small town (another utopian world by Carol Lynne) and probably Bo, Lark's former lover and now Kane's friend, will have a story of his own in the new city with a shy cowboy...

Carol Lynne is not new in bring into romance serious matter. Multicultural relationship, disable person, pedophilia, may december relationship... small or big problems, all of them not easily to face. And Carol Lynne faces them with a light hand, not being too angst but still not minimizing them. As always there is a lot of sex, a trademark of this author, and it's a joyous sex, down and dirty. 

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Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: A Biker's Vow
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 26, 2008)

Amazon: Dorm Life (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590311
ISBN-13: 978-1906590314

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: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/232559.html
8-9) Campus Cravings 4: Dorm Life

Reading List:

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

Campus Cravings 4: Dorm Life by Carol Lynne

Office Advances (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Sam, Aaron's brother (Aaron was the main character of Off-Season) is a 21 years old college student. He is one of the gay students who chose to live on the KB dorm, the all gay college dormitory founded by Demitri, Aaron's lover. Sam is pretty out of money and so he accepts a part time work from Tony (Tony was the main character of Broken Pottery). But doing so he has to deal with Jace, Tony's vice president and the man who previously refused him a date. Jace is a mid-thirty handsome man, and he said he didn't date "kids".

But Jace's behaviour is all but that of a not interested man, he is possessive and they finish in bed in less time. Only that Jace is living with a former and very handsome boyfriend and everything Sam does seems wrong. In the end they will find a common path, and also some kinky common fetish in bed that will help them to build a steady relationship.

Jace is a man with trust issues, Sam is a young man, point (he has still to learn how to behave in a exclusive relationship). This is all the matter of the story, pretty simple and enjoyable.

The Campus Cravings series is like a soap opera. Every story is of the right lenght to entertain you, but also to not be too binding. And every book give you the chance to get acquinted with all the previous characters and to have a glimpse in the future ones: it's just two or three books that we know of a future couple, the blind Charlie and the ex marine Jack, and in this book we meet also the son flowers Lark and the tattoed biker Kade. I can't wait to read the story of this last couple.

And like in the old and good soap opera, don't try to find reality in it, there isn't... you can't ask yourself how is possible that every handsome men in this series is gay and how is possible that, in a rather small city, there is an average percentage of gay population that it is greater than San Francisco, and how is possible that every gay man has a brother, gay himself... This is Campus Cravings Fantasyland and I like it in this way!

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=scxs4d172795&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=236

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: Office Advances

A Biker’s Vow (Campus Cravings) by Carol Lynne

Another chapter in the Campus Cravings soap opera, the adventures of a small town college that, book after book, is more and more full of same sex couple and less and less homophobic about it. This time is the time of Kane, former lover of Jace, main character in Office Advances, and of Lark, roommate of Sam, now Jace's lover. Kane and Lark met in the previous book and they are apparently at opposite: Kane is a biker, all tattoo and strong body, 6.4 and moody. Lark is 5.3 and nerdy, always with his nose in a book. But something in the past draw them together: Kane is HIV positive and he has decided to give up sex to make penance of his past careless behavior; Lark instead was raised in a community, a new-flower type, where free love and acceptance is a normal way to live. And Lark first love was also HIV positive, so Lark knows what he will face having a relationship with Kane.

The story is pretty strong, the author is not light in giving all the detail of the consequences to live with the AIDS treat near you. And Kane and Lark don't walk toward the sunset free and happy only cause they are in love. But this is a romance, and obviously there must be a light at the end of the tunnel. Plus this is a continuing series, almost a soap opera as I affectionately call it, and so it ends with hope. More, in the end, the two soap operas by Carol Lynn, Campus Cravings and Cattle Valley merge, with the hypothesis that Kane and Lark will live in the future in the Montana LGBT small town (another utopian world by Carol Lynne) and probably Bo, Lark's former lover and now Kane's friend, will have a story of his own in the new city with a shy cowboy...

Carol Lynne is not new in bring into romance serious matter. Multicultural relationship, disable person, pedophilia, may december relationship... small or big problems, all of them not easily to face. And Carol Lynne faces them with a light hand, not being too angst but still not minimizing them. As always there is a lot of sex, a trademark of this author, and it's a joyous sex, down and dirty. 

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=gz8dxb269362&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=260

Amazon Kindle: Campus Cravings: A Biker's Vow

Amazon: Dorm Life (Campus Cravings)
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590311
ISBN-13: 978-1906590314

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: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/232559.html
8-9) Campus Cravings 4: Dorm Life

Reading List:

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

Caged Slave by Yuiko Takamura & An Kanae

Tsukasa is a "cold beauty" (I think this should be a typical Japanese stereotype, since it's the second time I found it in an yaoi novel...). He is so beautiful that people around him think that he doesn't need to be properly loved but only admired, and when someone dares to reach for him, he finds a totally different guy, a guy who is not so selfish and selfcontrolled as he seems, and also a guy who needs to be cherished and protected, and above all romantically loved. Yes since Tsukasa dreams of the perfect lover and the perfect life they could have together. And instead, he is just dumped by his last lover who wants to marry a rich girl to have an advancement in career.

Tsukasa is mourning in the bar of a posh hotel when he is cruised by an handsome, and apparently, wealthy business man. He is so sad and lonely that, even if he is not is usual behavior, he accepts to follow the man in his room and they spend a night of sex. Another surprise for Tsukas, who, in his previous relationships, has never really appreciated the sexual part of the relationship, always suffered it as a duty to please his partner. And instead this handsome stranger takes care of Tsukasa, and of his body, and brings him to high sexual level he has never reached before.

The morning after Tsukasa is surprised, but pleased, when the man asks him a repeat performance the next week. They start a long relationship, meeting every week at the same hotel and in the same room. Tsukasa is addicted to this man, a man he even doesn't know for name.

The story is pretty simple and there is a twist in the middle that turns it in a classical of the romance genre, the boss and secretary's relationship. It's pretty clear that for Tsukasa is love, since for the first time he has found a not selfish partner, who not only see his beauty exterior, but also sees the man, and his needs. The story obviously is pretty erotic, but not so graphic details of other in the same genre. There is a lot of sex, but I think Tsukasa's character has a right development. Maybe the "handsome stranger" could be a bit more explained, his reasons, his feelings, above all in the second part, when he is also given a real role. 

Amazon: Caged Slave (Yaoi Novel)
Amazon Kindle: Caged Slave (Yaoi Novel)
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing (May 20, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1569707359
ISBN-13: 978-1569707357

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

Caged Slave by Yuiko Takamura & An Kanae

Tsukasa is a "cold beauty" (I think this should be a typical Japanese stereotype, since it's the second time I found it in an yaoi novel...). He is so beautiful that people around him think that he doesn't need to be properly loved but only admired, and when someone dares to reach for him, he finds a totally different guy, a guy who is not so selfish and selfcontrolled as he seems, and also a guy who needs to be cherished and protected, and above all romantically loved. Yes since Tsukasa dreams of the perfect lover and the perfect life they could have together. And instead, he is just dumped by his last lover who wants to marry a rich girl to have an advancement in career.

Tsukasa is mourning in the bar of a posh hotel when he is cruised by an handsome, and apparently, wealthy business man. He is so sad and lonely that, even if he is not is usual behavior, he accepts to follow the man in his room and they spend a night of sex. Another surprise for Tsukas, who, in his previous relationships, has never really appreciated the sexual part of the relationship, always suffered it as a duty to please his partner. And instead this handsome stranger takes care of Tsukasa, and of his body, and brings him to high sexual level he has never reached before.

The morning after Tsukasa is surprised, but pleased, when the man asks him a repeat performance the next week. They start a long relationship, meeting every week at the same hotel and in the same room. Tsukasa is addicted to this man, a man he even doesn't know for name.

The story is pretty simple and there is a twist in the middle that turns it in a classical of the romance genre, the boss and secretary's relationship. It's pretty clear that for Tsukasa is love, since for the first time he has found a not selfish partner, who not only see his beauty exterior, but also sees the man, and his needs. The story obviously is pretty erotic, but not so graphic details of other in the same genre. There is a lot of sex, but I think Tsukasa's character has a right development. Maybe the "handsome stranger" could be a bit more explained, his reasons, his feelings, above all in the second part, when he is also given a real role. 

Amazon: Caged Slave (Yaoi Novel)

Reading List:

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

Missing: Barbara Erskine

"My interest in history began with my own family. My mother’s parents had lived out in India – my grandfather’s family having been there for some 200 years serving with the East India Company and in the Indian Army.

My grandmother’s family came from the wilds of south west Ireland but she met and married my grandfather in India and there my mother and my aunt were born. By the time I was born they were all back in England, but I still remember the exotic cedar- lined trunks in my grandparents’ attic, the silk saris, the delicate gold and silver stitched slippers which were sent as gifts to their grandchildren from Indian friends and colleagues, the wonderful exotic smells of spices and incense arising from those treasure chests, big enough for a small child to dive into.

My father, romantically, met my mother on the squash court in Sussex where he was stationed as a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot. His family combined two wonderfully contrasted heritages. Two hundred years of clergymen (mostly – though some were ‘yeomen’ and presumably yeowomen and some ‘gentlemen’ and gentlewomen ) living on the borders of Essex and Suffolk in what must have been a Jane Austen-type lifestyle of utter respectability, with a wild and aristocratic castle-dwelling bloodline from the mountains and moors of northeast Scotland." (Barbara Erskine)

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/17665752/

Missing: Barbara Erskine

"My interest in history began with my own family. My mother’s parents had lived out in India – my grandfather’s family having been there for some 200 years serving with the East India Company and in the Indian Army.

My grandmother’s family came from the wilds of south west Ireland but she met and married my grandfather in India and there my mother and my aunt were born. By the time I was born they were all back in England, but I still remember the exotic cedar- lined trunks in my grandparents’ attic, the silk saris, the delicate gold and silver stitched slippers which were sent as gifts to their grandchildren from Indian friends and colleagues, the wonderful exotic smells of spices and incense arising from those treasure chests, big enough for a small child to dive into.

My father, romantically, met my mother on the squash court in Sussex where he was stationed as a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot. His family combined two wonderfully contrasted heritages. Two hundred years of clergymen (mostly – though some were ‘yeomen’ and presumably yeowomen and some ‘gentlemen’ and gentlewomen ) living on the borders of Essex and Suffolk in what must have been a Jane Austen-type lifestyle of utter respectability, with a wild and aristocratic castle-dwelling bloodline from the mountains and moors of northeast Scotland." (Barbara Erskine)

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/17665752/