Getting It in the End (Action! 3) by G.A. Hauser

Mark Antonious Richfield is the summa of all the faulty characters by G.A. Hauser; he is weak, flirty, fickle and so damned beautiful and innocent that all his faults are nothing compared to his look, or maybe they only add something to it. But his look is also his damnation, Mark is almost trapped inside it, he has all the men around (and a good handful of women too) in love with him, but it's never enough, he always has the feeling that he is not good looking enough, not submissive enough, not "available" enough. Mark has a strong complex with his late father, a man who always criticized him for being to feminine, not a real man. For a good part of his life Mark tried to play the role of the straight man, arriving even to almost marry. Now that he is in love with Steve and his father is long dead, you would think that he should be happy, but years of mind conditioning took their toll, and truth be told, I don't believe that Mark will ever be a "stable" and "safe" man to love. He is almost like a nympho, he has the urge to seduce every men he meets, and above all, he has the need for every men to love him, not only in a physical way, also the real L word, the unconditionally love. Mark has to provide to the loss of love from his father with the love from his lovers, and don't let me start on the freudian implication of this.

Anyway, if I'm to be true, I didn't like the evolution in the previous book, with Mark and Steve in a foursome with Keith and Carl, not since I didn't like Mark, but since I didn't believe Keith and Carl were the right "men" for Mark. Those two are young and hot, but they are still on the beginning of their life, they take all like a big game. Mark instead needs strong and reassuring men, sorry to continue with the example, but probably he needs a fatherly figure. Steve in a way understands that, and he also understands that, if he wants to take Mark for him, or better with him, he needs to allow him to sometime sidetrack from their relationship. And he adopts the philosophy that it's better to be there to see than eat his liver wondering what it's happening. The other man who Mark needs it's obviously his best friend, and long time chaste lover Jack. Already in the past, when we read about Jack and Adam's story, someone probably wondered about the strange relationship between Mark and Jack, with Mark being almost jealous of his best friend Jack, almost wanting for him to not finding a real love for his own since it would have meant for him to loose his exclusivity. Now in this book, Mark seems to get what he wants, what remains to understand is what role will play Adam in all of this.

There is no doubt that this is a book that not all the most conservative gay romance readers will like. But try to read it from Mark's point of view: he is not a normal man, he will never been a normal man; he learned years ago that, to survive, he had to lean on the people near him, and he clings to them like a safe anchor. One man is not enough, two probably will be, but more are better, since more  people around are telling him he is beautiful and unique, more it's probable that he finally will believe it. And if you understand that, you will enter in the fan club of Mark Antonious Richfield, made up of people who decided to judge Mark with a parameter all for him.

Amazon: Getting It in the End

Amazon Kindle: Getting It in the End

Series:
1) The Physician and the Actor: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/154682.html
2) For Love and Money: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/101976.html
3) A Question of Sex
4) Miller's Tale
5) Secrets and Misdemeanors: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/180102.html
6) Capital Games: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/210160.html
7) Love You, Loveday: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/288895.html
8) When Adam met Jack: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/300519.html
9) Acting Naughty (Action! 1): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/493312.html
10) Playing Dirty (Action! 2): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/520179.html
11) Getting It in the End (Action! 3)

Reading List:

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Getting It in the End (Action! 3) by G.A. Hauser

Mark Antonious Richfield is the summa of all the faulty characters by G.A. Hauser; he is weak, flirty, fickle and so damned beautiful and innocent that all his faults are nothing compared to his look, or maybe they only add something to it. But his look is also his damnation, Mark is almost trapped inside it, he has all the men around (and a good handful of women too) in love with him, but it's never enough, he always has the feeling that he is not good looking enough, not submissive enough, not "available" enough. Mark has a strong complex with his late father, a man who always criticized him for being to feminine, not a real man. For a good part of his life Mark tried to play the role of the straight man, arriving even to almost marry. Now that he is in love with Steve and his father is long dead, you would think that he should be happy, but years of mind conditioning took their toll, and truth be told, I don't believe that Mark will ever be a "stable" and "safe" man to love. He is almost like a nympho, he has the urge to seduce every men he meets, and above all, he has the need for every men to love him, not only in a physical way, also the real L word, the unconditionally love. Mark has to provide to the loss of love from his father with the love from his lovers, and don't let me start on the freudian implication of this.

Anyway, if I'm to be true, I didn't like the evolution in the previous book, with Mark and Steve in a foursome with Keith and Carl, not since I didn't like Mark, but since I didn't believe Keith and Carl were the right "men" for Mark. Those two are young and hot, but they are still on the beginning of their life, they take all like a big game. Mark instead needs strong and reassuring men, sorry to continue with the example, but probably he needs a fatherly figure. Steve in a way understands that, and he also understands that, if he wants to take Mark for him, or better with him, he needs to allow him to sometime sidetrack from their relationship. And he adopts the philosophy that it's better to be there to see than eat his liver wondering what it's happening. The other man who Mark needs it's obviously his best friend, and long time chaste lover Jack. Already in the past, when we read about Jack and Adam's story, someone probably wondered about the strange relationship between Mark and Jack, with Mark being almost jealous of his best friend Jack, almost wanting for him to not finding a real love for his own since it would have meant for him to loose his exclusivity. Now in this book, Mark seems to get what he wants, what remains to understand is what role will play Adam in all of this.

There is no doubt that this is a book that not all the most conservative gay romance readers will like. But try to read it from Mark's point of view: he is not a normal man, he will never been a normal man; he learned years ago that, to survive, he had to lean on the people near him, and he clings to them like a safe anchor. One man is not enough, two probably will be, but more are better, since more  people around are telling him he is beautiful and unique, more it's probable that he finally will believe it. And if you understand that, you will enter in the fan club of Mark Antonious Richfield, made up of people who decided to judge Mark with a parameter all for him.

Amazon: Getting It in the End

Amazon Kindle: Getting It in the End

Series:
1) The Physician and the Actor: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/154682.html
2) For Love and Money: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/101976.html
3) A Question of Sex
4) Miller's Tale
5) Secrets and Misdemeanors: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/180102.html
6) Capital Games: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/210160.html
7) Love You, Loveday: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/288895.html
8) When Adam met Jack: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/300519.html
9) Acting Naughty (Action! 1): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/493312.html
10) Playing Dirty (Action! 2): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/520179.html
11) Getting It in the End (Action! 3)

Reading List:

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

Missing: Joan Smith

Joan Smith is a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the Ontario College of Education. She has taught French and English in high school and English in college. When she began writing, her interest in Jane Austen and Lord Byron led to her first choice of genre, the Regency, which she especially liked for its wit and humor.

She is the author of over a hundred books, including Regencies, many with a background of mystery, for Fawcett and Walker, contemporary mysteries for Berkley, historical mysteries for Fawcett and St. Martin's, romances for Silhouette, along with a few historicals and gothics. She has had books in the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, been on Walden's Bestseller list, had two Regencies selected for the Romantic Times ten best ever Regencies, and had one book condensed in a magazine.

Her favorite travel destination is England, where she researches her books. Her hobbies are gardening, painting, sculpture and reading. She is married and has three children. A prolific writer, she is currently working on Regencies and various mysteries at her home in Georgetown, Ontario.

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/20615256/

Missing: Joan Smith

Joan Smith is a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the Ontario College of Education. She has taught French and English in high school and English in college. When she began writing, her interest in Jane Austen and Lord Byron led to her first choice of genre, the Regency, which she especially liked for its wit and humor.

She is the author of over a hundred books, including Regencies, many with a background of mystery, for Fawcett and Walker, contemporary mysteries for Berkley, historical mysteries for Fawcett and St. Martin's, romances for Silhouette, along with a few historicals and gothics. She has had books in the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, been on Walden's Bestseller list, had two Regencies selected for the Romantic Times ten best ever Regencies, and had one book condensed in a magazine.

Her favorite travel destination is England, where she researches her books. Her hobbies are gardening, painting, sculpture and reading. She is married and has three children. A prolific writer, she is currently working on Regencies and various mysteries at her home in Georgetown, Ontario.

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/20615256/

Pure Folly by Madelynne Ellis

Pure Fully is an historical romance with a bit of gothic and eroticism thrown in the middle to spice the things. Alastair is the second son of a noble and wealthy family and even if it's not exactly said in the book, I have the feeling that he both regrets than enjoys the freedom he has from being a second son; no one is expecting something from him, his mother is not pressuring him to marry, his father is not insisting he does something worthy in his life, he probably has an allowance that let him live in a comfortable way, he can do whatever he likes inside the boundaries of good society, and he doesn't know what to do! Better something he knows, he is in love with Jude, the soon-to-be fiance of his cousin Charlotte, but loving Jude is not something he is allowed to do, neither if he is a second son and so it's not asked from him to produce an heir.

Truth be told, Alastair doesn't exactly know what loving a man means; he has sexual fantasies on Jude, but for him it's a first experience, and he is deeply convinced that it's a sin, and so he tries to shun the idea from his mind and body. Probably due to his tentative denial, Alastair doesn't realize that the attraction is mutual and that Jude is not at all the unaware object of his desire. Jude knows and actually he is waiting for Alastair to loose his battle with his conscience. But when that battle lasts too long, Jude looses his patience and forces a bit the hand; when a bet with Charlotte and Viola (Alastair's sister) dare both men to spend a night in a gothic temple in the garden (a pure folly of the time, both the temple than the bet), Jude plans to seduce Alastair if the man will not willingly surrender to his inner desires.

Most of the story is a pure historical romance, without any paranormal event; but almost to the end, a secret in the closet of Alastair's family comes out in the most unexpected way, a ghost who claims his toll after years of denial, and Alastair is the man who has to fulfill that request. I like that the paranormal event arrives so late in the story, since this novel is a very good historical novel and I prefer for it to be defined more from the historical genre than the paranormal one. Alastair's struggle with his inner demons, the fear for something unknown that prevents him to see that the interest his mutual, is dealt with a good hand for a novella; probably Alastair would never allow to his desire to become clear, not realizing that what he felt was not some sinful deviation of his mind, but something that could be common among his peers: Alastair has never had the chance to be in contact with that reality.

On the other hand, Jude had time to digest and analyze the matter; when he was still young he was "molested" by an older man, but even if he didn't particularly like the man, he liked the act. He had then another chance to "taste", and this only reinforce his belief that he actually prefers men over women. But unlike Alistair, Jude has to marry and produce an heir, and so he is planning to do it as soon as possible to then spend the rest of his life as he prefers. Here probably is the big difference between Alastair and Jude, in the way they "feel", Alastair so strong and impulsive, Jude more daring but at the same time more calculator; they are both probably an example of how a man in that period would face the matter, someone like Alastair would flight abroad or live in denial for all his life, someone like Jude would build a safe nest around him, far from society, but maintaining the privileges from being a member of it. The author chooses to not tell us who is wrong or who is right, probably since there is nor wrong or right, and so both men, Alastair and Jude, come out as likable characters (even if, if I'm to be true, I prefer the impulsive Alastair, who, in a way, would have preferred to not compromise for their love) and the final solution is a real and possible one.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=474

Amazon Kindle: Pure Folly
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 25, 2009)

Reading List:

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Forever Yours by Lexie Davis

The reader is plunged in the middle of a strange relationship between Brock and Dakota. Brock is a vampire slayer, but he has a secret, he is an half blood vampire; Dakota is a full bloodied vampire that after spending a one night stand with Brock, found out the truth the morning after, when is attempt to kill the man went wrong. After that night, Brock and Dakota have an agreement: they make favors to each other in exchange of sex... it's a strange relationship, as I said, I think that they are at the point that they find fake reasons to go to the other and ask for sex as payment.

But this time no, Brock is really in trouble, he received the order as vampire slayer to kill his own mother. To not bring on the deed, he has to pay off her debts, and Dakota offers the money, but not freely. Dakota is tired of their on / off relationship, he wants Brock all for his own, he wants a life together. It's strange that the one who should be the cool bloodied killer, the vampire, is the one who wants romance and sweet words. But even if Brock fakes reticence, he is till too much ready to accept the last barter.

The relationship between Dakota and Brock is easy, probably due to their past together. The sex is hot but "simple", it's already something steady between them, it doesn't need more; what it's still to be built is the intimacy, the aftermath to the main event. And so the plot is focused more on this.

Forever Yours is only a short story, but it has some interesting turn of events, a thing that I find always a plus. Nor Dakota or Brock are stereotype, the author manages to reverse the situation, making Dakota, the vampire, the hero in search of love and Brock, the human, the disenchanted hero who will find his match.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=493

Amazon Kindle: Forever Yours
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 25, 2009)

Reading List:

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

Pure Folly by Madelynne Ellis

Pure Fully is an historical romance with a bit of gothic and eroticism thrown in the middle to spice the things. Alastair is the second son of a noble and wealthy family and even if it's not exactly said in the book, I have the feeling that he both regrets than enjoys the freedom he has from being a second son; no one is expecting something from him, his mother is not pressuring him to marry, his father is not insisting he does something worthy in his life, he probably has an allowance that let him live in a comfortable way, he can do whatever he likes inside the boundaries of good society, and he doesn't know what to do! Better something he knows, he is in love with Jude, the soon-to-be fiance of his cousin Charlotte, but loving Jude is not something he is allowed to do, neither if he is a second son and so it's not asked from him to produce an heir.

Truth be told, Alastair doesn't exactly know what loving a man means; he has sexual fantasies on Jude, but for him it's a first experience, and he is deeply convinced that it's a sin, and so he tries to shun the idea from his mind and body. Probably due to his tentative denial, Alastair doesn't realize that the attraction is mutual and that Jude is not at all the unaware object of his desire. Jude knows and actually he is waiting for Alastair to loose his battle with his conscience. But when that battle lasts too long, Jude looses his patience and forces a bit the hand; when a bet with Charlotte and Viola (Alastair's sister) dare both men to spend a night in a gothic temple in the garden (a pure folly of the time, both the temple than the bet), Jude plans to seduce Alastair if the man will not willingly surrender to his inner desires.

Most of the story is a pure historical romance, without any paranormal event; but almost to the end, a secret in the closet of Alastair's family comes out in the most unexpected way, a ghost who claims his toll after years of denial, and Alastair is the man who has to fulfill that request. I like that the paranormal event arrives so late in the story, since this novel is a very good historical novel and I prefer for it to be defined more from the historical genre than the paranormal one. Alastair's struggle with his inner demons, the fear for something unknown that prevents him to see that the interest his mutual, is dealt with a good hand for a novella; probably Alastair would never allow to his desire to become clear, not realizing that what he felt was not some sinful deviation of his mind, but something that could be common among his peers: Alastair has never had the chance to be in contact with that reality.

On the other hand, Jude had time to digest and analyze the matter; when he was still young he was "molested" by an older man, but even if he didn't particularly like the man, he liked the act. He had then another chance to "taste", and this only reinforce his belief that he actually prefers men over women. But unlike Alistair, Jude has to marry and produce an heir, and so he is planning to do it as soon as possible to then spend the rest of his life as he prefers. Here probably is the big difference between Alastair and Jude, in the way they "feel", Alastair so strong and impulsive, Jude more daring but at the same time more calculator; they are both probably an example of how a man in that period would face the matter, someone like Alastair would flight abroad or live in denial for all his life, someone like Jude would build a safe nest around him, far from society, but maintaining the privileges from being a member of it. The author chooses to not tell us who is wrong or who is right, probably since there is nor wrong or right, and so both men, Alastair and Jude, come out as likable characters (even if, if I'm to be true, I prefer the impulsive Alastair, who, in a way, would have preferred to not compromise for their love) and the final solution is a real and possible one.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=474

Amazon Kindle: Pure Folly
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 25, 2009)

Reading List:

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Forever Yours by Lexie Davis

The reader is plunged in the middle of a strange relationship between Brock and Dakota. Brock is a vampire slayer, but he has a secret, he is an half blood vampire; Dakota is a full bloodied vampire that after spending a one night stand with Brock, found out the truth the morning after, when is attempt to kill the man went wrong. After that night, Brock and Dakota have an agreement: they make favors to each other in exchange of sex... it's a strange relationship, as I said, I think that they are at the point that they find fake reasons to go to the other and ask for sex as payment.

But this time no, Brock is really in trouble, he received the order as vampire slayer to kill his own mother. To not bring on the deed, he has to pay off her debts, and Dakota offers the money, but not freely. Dakota is tired of their on / off relationship, he wants Brock all for his own, he wants a life together. It's strange that the one who should be the cool bloodied killer, the vampire, is the one who wants romance and sweet words. But even if Brock fakes reticence, he is till too much ready to accept the last barter.

The relationship between Dakota and Brock is easy, probably due to their past together. The sex is hot but "simple", it's already something steady between them, it doesn't need more; what it's still to be built is the intimacy, the aftermath to the main event. And so the plot is focused more on this.

Forever Yours is only a short story, but it has some interesting turn of events, a thing that I find always a plus. Nor Dakota or Brock are stereotype, the author manages to reverse the situation, making Dakota, the vampire, the hero in search of love and Brock, the human, the disenchanted hero who will find his match.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=493

Amazon Kindle: Forever Yours
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (May 25, 2009)

Reading List:

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Kid Christmas Meets Snow Globes by Eric Arvin

This is a funny little romp, less than 20 pages and all a show of the skill of the author in puns intended. The Old Santa Claus is passed away, bless him, and a new Santa Claus is needed; since the time has changed and the grandpa look is no more fashion, the Committee chooses a 23 years old hunk who likes to be called Kid Christmas... he loves all the Old Western things, and he has a very interesting six "shooter"...

But there is also a villain that doesn't like Christmas, Snow Globes (and yes he has very big globes) and kidnaps the Kid. Only that, even if full of initiatives, our Kid is easily distracted by big... globes, and so he has no easy way with Snow Globes and his army of icy willie...

All right, how can I be serious in a tale like that? You can only read and enjoy and play with the author with the all too obvious puns and dreaming that, if wars would be fight in that way, it would be a more interesting world!

I like Eric Arvin's work; he is desecrating and funny, sometime also creepy (but not in this tale); I believe that he loves the old classic (movie and similar) and he enjoys to give them a new "twist".

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/advent.htm#Kid_Christmas_Meets_Snow_Globes_

Reading List:

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Cover Art by AbsolutBlue

Kid Christmas Meets Snow Globes by Eric Arvin

This is a funny little romp, less than 20 pages and all a show of the skill of the author in puns intended. The Old Santa Claus is passed away, bless him, and a new Santa Claus is needed; since the time has changed and the grandpa look is no more fashion, the Committee chooses a 23 years old hunk who likes to be called Kid Christmas... he loves all the Old Western things, and he has a very interesting six "shooter"...

But there is also a villain that doesn't like Christmas, Snow Globes (and yes he has very big globes) and kidnaps the Kid. Only that, even if full of initiatives, our Kid is easily distracted by big... globes, and so he has no easy way with Snow Globes and his army of icy willie...

All right, how can I be serious in a tale like that? You can only read and enjoy and play with the author with the all too obvious puns and dreaming that, if wars would be fight in that way, it would be a more interesting world!

I like Eric Arvin's work; he is desecrating and funny, sometime also creepy (but not in this tale); I believe that he loves the old classic (movie and similar) and he enjoys to give them a new "twist".

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/advent.htm#Kid_Christmas_Meets_Snow_Globes_

Reading List:

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Cover Art by AbsolutBlue

Swordbrothers (Dragon & Fenyx 2) by Auburnimp & Michael Barnette

Sincerely I don't remember if the first book in Dragon & Fenyx series had the same strong yaoi influence, but in Swordbrothers it's quite clear; Flame and Storm left together to build their own life as outcast and the first step is to tighten their bond with a sexual encounter, and here is where I felt the yaoi influence, since Flame is a virgin, and a bit the blushing and big eyes virgin type. Another thing that I noticed is that this second book is a bit more light and happy, maybe since the sex scene is the beginning scene and the sex helps to lighten the mood of the story.

The book is divided in two part, the first one serves to build the basis of Flame and Storm's relationship, to help them to know each other in the most intimate possible way, and the second one to build the basis of their future clan, including in their little circle two new member, Water and Heart who will bring with them other people, in a pyramidal chain. Plus Flame and Storm befriend an all female clan (a nice add to the story, with some interesting characters, even if they have only small roles).

Usually I'm not very fond of the futuristic setting, above all when it's an Apocalypse Now theme, since they are almost all "cold" story, sad and tragic. Swordbrothers is a bit different, maybe since the sex is good and so it gives another side to the story, more joyous; the introduction of new characters allows to see a future; the sad and tragic aspect is not all forgotten, in particular in the ending, but I believe there is not to worry, this is a continuous series on the same main characters, and so probably we will see more of them in the future books, don't forget that Flame is a Fenyx, and the phoenix re-births from its ashes.

http://shadowfirestore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=13_14&products_id=20

Series: Dragon & Fenyx
1) Called by Power: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/251731.html
2) Swordbrothers

Reading List:

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

Swordbrothers (Dragon & Fenyx 2) by Auburnimp & Michael Barnette

Sincerely I don't remember if the first book in Dragon & Fenyx series had the same strong yaoi influence, but in Swordbrothers it's quite clear; Flame and Storm left together to build their own life as outcast and the first step is to tighten their bond with a sexual encounter, and here is where I felt the yaoi influence, since Flame is a virgin, and a bit the blushing and big eyes virgin type. Another thing that I noticed is that this second book is a bit more light and happy, maybe since the sex scene is the beginning scene and the sex helps to lighten the mood of the story.

The book is divided in two part, the first one serves to build the basis of Flame and Storm's relationship, to help them to know each other in the most intimate possible way, and the second one to build the basis of their future clan, including in their little circle two new member, Water and Heart who will bring with them other people, in a pyramidal chain. Plus Flame and Storm befriend an all female clan (a nice add to the story, with some interesting characters, even if they have only small roles).

Usually I'm not very fond of the futuristic setting, above all when it's an Apocalypse Now theme, since they are almost all "cold" story, sad and tragic. Swordbrothers is a bit different, maybe since the sex is good and so it gives another side to the story, more joyous; the introduction of new characters allows to see a future; the sad and tragic aspect is not all forgotten, in particular in the ending, but I believe there is not to worry, this is a continuous series on the same main characters, and so probably we will see more of them in the future books, don't forget that Flame is a Fenyx, and the phoenix re-births from its ashes.

http://shadowfirestore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=13_14&products_id=20

Series: Dragon & Fenyx
1) Called by Power: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/251731.html
2) Swordbrothers

Reading List:

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

Man Candy Day: Marlon Teixeira & Nils Butler

Some weeks ago I posted two pictures of Sean O'Pry from L'officiel Hommes #13 by Milan Vukmirovic that were greatly appreciated by my friends. The Editorial was called Fur'ious, and all the models in it, Sean O'Pry, Nils Butler, Niels Rabbe, David Fair, Mihaly Sepreny Martins and Marlon Teixeira are languidly lying in beds of furs. Two of the model I already featured in the past, Sean O'Pry (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/637024.html) and David Fair (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/502266.html), today I would like to present you Nils Butler and Marlon Teixeira. But first, enjoy all the luscious models in the editorial:



( Fur'ious by Milan Vukmirovic )

Nils Butler: It's almost a cliche to call Nils Butler a sculpted beauty. With cheekbones that could cut glass, Nils' stock is certainly assured with the blue chip clients. Nils Butler signed with Ford Models Europe and is the new image of Trussardi, F/W 08, substituing Sean O'Pry who was the image of the past season (shot by Milan Vukmirovic). He has also appeared in: FHM Collections (Germany) (Nils in FHM Deutschland by Emilio Tini), Love Magazine (A-Z, portraits by Karim Sadli), Fantasticsmag (Hey Dude by Anthony Chambert) and V Man (True to Form by Willy Vanderperre). His agencies are DNA Models (New York), Ford Models Europe (Paris) and Why Not Model Management (Milan). He is ranked 47 among the best male models.


Nils Butler by Willy Vanderperre

( Nils Butler )

Marlon Teixeira: Newcomer in the Modeling World, Marlon Teixeira, 16 years old, has been confirmed as the new face of Dior Homme. The campaign was shot by Karl Lagerfeld. Marlon Teixeira, born in Balneario Camboriu/Santa Catarina, Brazil, has Half Portuguese, 1/4 Indian, 1/4 Japanese origins. His grandmother introduced him to Anderson, Way Model´s owner, who is a great friend of his family. His favorite things are learning new things, traveling, surfing, going to the beach, movies, kiwi juice. His favorite song is "Faz Parte Do Meu Show" by Cazuza, but he admit to be very ecletic. He prefers to wear jeans, flip-flops and a basic t-shirt and would love to visit Indonesia, Maldives, Hawaii and Australia. Currently he is obsessed with growing up professionally and learning as much as he can from this business. Marlon Teixeira brands such as Giorgio Armani F/W 08 by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. He has also appeared in: Hercules Magazine (You Better Work by Giampaolo Sgura, with models Andres Velencoso, Tyson Ballou, Terron Wood and Marcus Schenkenberg) and W Magazine, June 2009 (with Ginnifer Goodwin and Michele Graglia by Steven Klein). He was also on the cover of: L'Officiel Hommes Singapore F/W 08 by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello and Hercules Magazine F/W 08 Giampaolo Sgura. His agencies are Way Model Management (Sao Paulo), Wilhelmina New York (New York), Premier Model Management (London), Marilyn Agency (Paris), Fashion (Milan). Marlon is ranked 21 among the best male models.


Marlon Teixeira by Giampaolo Sgura

( Marlon Teixeira )

 

@Way Model Management - Marlon
@Ford Models Europe - Nils

Man Candy Day: Marlon Teixeira & Nils Butler

Some weeks ago I posted two pictures of Sean O'Pry from L'officiel Hommes #13 by Milan Vukmirovic that were greatly appreciated by my friends. The Editorial was called Fur'ious, and all the models in it, Sean O'Pry, Nils Butler, Niels Rabbe, David Fair, Mihaly Sepreny Martins and Marlon Teixeira are languidly lying in beds of furs. Two of the model I already featured in the past, Sean O'Pry (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/637024.html) and David Fair (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/502266.html), today I would like to present you Nils Butler and Marlon Teixeira. But first, enjoy all the luscious models in the editorial:



( Fur'ious by Milan Vukmirovic )

Nils Butler: It's almost a cliche to call Nils Butler a sculpted beauty. With cheekbones that could cut glass, Nils' stock is certainly assured with the blue chip clients. Nils Butler signed with Ford Models Europe and is the new image of Trussardi, F/W 08, substituing Sean O'Pry who was the image of the past season (shot by Milan Vukmirovic). He has also appeared in: FHM Collections (Germany) (Nils in FHM Deutschland by Emilio Tini), Love Magazine (A-Z, portraits by Karim Sadli), Fantasticsmag (Hey Dude by Anthony Chambert) and V Man (True to Form by Willy Vanderperre). His agencies are DNA Models (New York), Ford Models Europe (Paris) and Why Not Model Management (Milan). He is ranked 47 among the best male models.


Nils Butler by Willy Vanderperre

( Nils Butler )

Marlon Teixeira: Newcomer in the Modeling World, Marlon Teixeira, 16 years old, has been confirmed as the new face of Dior Homme. The campaign was shot by Karl Lagerfeld. Marlon Teixeira, born in Balneario Camboriu/Santa Catarina, Brazil, has Half Portuguese, 1/4 Indian, 1/4 Japanese origins. His grandmother introduced him to Anderson, Way Model´s owner, who is a great friend of his family. His favorite things are learning new things, traveling, surfing, going to the beach, movies, kiwi juice. His favorite song is "Faz Parte Do Meu Show" by Cazuza, but he admit to be very ecletic. He prefers to wear jeans, flip-flops and a basic t-shirt and would love to visit Indonesia, Maldives, Hawaii and Australia. Currently he is obsessed with growing up professionally and learning as much as he can from this business. Marlon Teixeira brands such as Giorgio Armani F/W 08 by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. He has also appeared in: Hercules Magazine (You Better Work by Giampaolo Sgura, with models Andres Velencoso, Tyson Ballou, Terron Wood and Marcus Schenkenberg) and W Magazine, June 2009 (with Ginnifer Goodwin and Michele Graglia by Steven Klein). He was also on the cover of: L'Officiel Hommes Singapore F/W 08 by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello and Hercules Magazine F/W 08 Giampaolo Sgura. His agencies are Way Model Management (Sao Paulo), Wilhelmina New York (New York), Premier Model Management (London), Marilyn Agency (Paris), Fashion (Milan). Marlon is ranked 21 among the best male models.


Marlon Teixeira by Giampaolo Sgura

( Marlon Teixeira )

 

@Way Model Management - Marlon
@Ford Models Europe - Nils

Smart Ass: Close Quarters by Amber Green & L.B. Gregg

Turner and Turner: One Good Turn by Amber Green

This is the second book I read by Amber Green and for the second time I have the feeling that I'm plunged in the middle of the story, with all a past behind me that I have to rebuild collecting clue here and there and a bigger future ahead of me that I'm reaching at a fast pace and I haven't the brakes.

Kendall Turner (KT) is the spoiled son of a very wealthy family; I haven't really understood if his family his old wealth or mafia style, in a way or the other, KT is the black sheep, the gay boy who tried to loose himself in alcohol and the only thing he gained was a bad experience in jail, an experience that his rich father didn't save him from since he had to learn his lesson. After that big demonstration of fatherly love, KT decided that he would be better alone and took his separate way. He is now a quite complicated young college professor, with a strange circle of friends, not exactly a perfect life, but at least it's his own life. Only that someone decides to blackmailing his family using a video in which KT plays the unaware role of porn star, and the family decide to let the matter in the hand of Turner Kendall (Turn) Scott (yes same name, reverse order), the poor cousin who entered the family when KT was still a child and became not only his father's favorite, but also the protagonist in all KT's teen wet dreams. Turn disappeared for a long period when KT was still a teenager, but now it's again inside the family, and once again the perfect son for his father, something nor KT or his brother Dean manage to be.

I believe that the instability that permeates the book is a mirror of the instability that is KT's life. KT seems unable to stay put, he is always in an hurry, probably he is running away both from his family than from himself. Neither Turn, who is maybe the only constant in KT's life, is able to stop him, and KT has the uncanny ability to always end in some trouble or dangerous situation. KT is not exactly a weak man, he is quite clever and able to collect all the clues he needs, but his inner unsteadiness causes him to put himself and the people around him in danger. Turn seems to be a nice character, but actually I have the feeling that he is not fully developed, we learn something of important about him practically at the end, and we have not enough space to fully understand it and its implication: is Turn gay? is he in love with KT?

This is only a first part of a series and due to the open ending, I believe that also the second book will focus on KT and Turn, and so probably we will have time to better understand Turn.

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The Men of Smithfield: Gobsmacked by L.B. Gregg

Mark and Jamie are in-live lover in a small town where everyone knows everyone. Problem is that no one had the courage to tell Mark that perfect boyfriend Jamie was cheating around and Mark finds out in the worst way, unexpected coming back home and finding Jamie screwing someone on their bed. At first Mark doesn't react but then, as in a perfect play setting in a small town, he attacks Jamie during mass in the main church ot the town... telling about washing your dirty laundry in public...

But the cheating is not the only thing that Jamie was doing to Mark, he finds out that his bank accounts are cleaned out and that they didn't pay the last months rent, and this means that Mark is also without an home thanks to dear Jamie. Among all this disaster the only rock for Mark is old friend Tony, the local cop and his first crush. Actually this is a point I didn't understand so well: apparently Mark had a crush on Tony when he was 14 years old and Tony 17. Tony obviously didn't act upon that crush since they were too young, but then, when they were both adults, and Tony was available, Mark wasn't. Worst, when Tony was in need of a friend due to some family issue, Mark instead started a relationship with cheating Jamie, a man that no one in their circle of friends seem to like. I can only think that Mark is a bit selfish, not too much mind you, but he is the type that first of all think on himself and what he wants and likes, and then, if what he wants and likes is in common with his possible partner, only then he is willing and ready for a relationship. Mark is the classical man who needs a caretaker, he is not at all the strong side of a relationship, he is not able to take reasoned decision, he tends to have emotional reactions. Tony is perfect for him, since he was young, he always takes his decision considering all the consequences, and he always puts Mark's interests in front of his own. Maybe I would like for him to be a bit more selfish (on the contrary of Mark ;-) ), and for example, interferes when Mark started a relationship with a man that was obviously wrong for him.

Anyway, as first attempt from a new author, the book is nice and easy to read. Maybe Tony should have more space to develop, but you have to consider that the book is only 140 pages long.

http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/more-hot-reads/gobsmacked/prod_215.html

Buy Here

Amazon Kindle: Gobsmacked (Men of Smithfield)

http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=SMARTCQ1 (print book)

Amazon: Smart Ass: Close Quarters

Reading List:

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

Smart Ass: Close Quarters by Amber Green & L.B. Gregg

Turner and Turner: One Good Turn by Amber Green

This is the second book I read by Amber Green and for the second time I have the feeling that I'm plunged in the middle of the story, with all a past behind me that I have to rebuild collecting clue here and there and a bigger future ahead of me that I'm reaching at a fast pace and I haven't the brakes.

Kendall Turner (KT) is the spoiled son of a very wealthy family; I haven't really understood if his family his old wealth or mafia style, in a way or the other, KT is the black sheep, the gay boy who tried to loose himself in alcohol and the only thing he gained was a bad experience in jail, an experience that his rich father didn't save him from since he had to learn his lesson. After that big demonstration of fatherly love, KT decided that he would be better alone and took his separate way. He is now a quite complicated young college professor, with a strange circle of friends, not exactly a perfect life, but at least it's his own life. Only that someone decides to blackmailing his family using a video in which KT plays the unaware role of porn star, and the family decide to let the matter in the hand of Turner Kendall (Turn) Scott (yes same name, reverse order), the poor cousin who entered the family when KT was still a child and became not only his father's favorite, but also the protagonist in all KT's teen wet dreams. Turn disappeared for a long period when KT was still a teenager, but now it's again inside the family, and once again the perfect son for his father, something nor KT or his brother Dean manage to be.

I believe that the instability that permeates the book is a mirror of the instability that is KT's life. KT seems unable to stay put, he is always in an hurry, probably he is running away both from his family than from himself. Neither Turn, who is maybe the only constant in KT's life, is able to stop him, and KT has the uncanny ability to always end in some trouble or dangerous situation. KT is not exactly a weak man, he is quite clever and able to collect all the clues he needs, but his inner unsteadiness causes him to put himself and the people around him in danger. Turn seems to be a nice character, but actually I have the feeling that he is not fully developed, we learn something of important about him practically at the end, and we have not enough space to fully understand it and its implication: is Turn gay? is he in love with KT?

This is only a first part of a series and due to the open ending, I believe that also the second book will focus on KT and Turn, and so probably we will have time to better understand Turn.

Buy Here

The Men of Smithfield: Gobsmacked by L.B. Gregg

Mark and Jamie are in-live lover in a small town where everyone knows everyone. Problem is that no one had the courage to tell Mark that perfect boyfriend Jamie was cheating around and Mark finds out in the worst way, unexpected coming back home and finding Jamie screwing someone on their bed. At first Mark doesn't react but then, as in a perfect play setting in a small town, he attacks Jamie during mass in the main church ot the town... telling about washing your dirty laundry in public...

But the cheating is not the only thing that Jamie was doing to Mark, he finds out that his bank accounts are cleaned out and that they didn't pay the last months rent, and this means that Mark is also without an home thanks to dear Jamie. Among all this disaster the only rock for Mark is old friend Tony, the local cop and his first crush. Actually this is a point I didn't understand so well: apparently Mark had a crush on Tony when he was 14 years old and Tony 17. Tony obviously didn't act upon that crush since they were too young, but then, when they were both adults, and Tony was available, Mark wasn't. Worst, when Tony was in need of a friend due to some family issue, Mark instead started a relationship with cheating Jamie, a man that no one in their circle of friends seem to like. I can only think that Mark is a bit selfish, not too much mind you, but he is the type that first of all think on himself and what he wants and likes, and then, if what he wants and likes is in common with his possible partner, only then he is willing and ready for a relationship. Mark is the classical man who needs a caretaker, he is not at all the strong side of a relationship, he is not able to take reasoned decision, he tends to have emotional reactions. Tony is perfect for him, since he was young, he always takes his decision considering all the consequences, and he always puts Mark's interests in front of his own. Maybe I would like for him to be a bit more selfish (on the contrary of Mark ;-) ), and for example, interferes when Mark started a relationship with a man that was obviously wrong for him.

Anyway, as first attempt from a new author, the book is nice and easy to read. Maybe Tony should have more space to develop, but you have to consider that the book is only 140 pages long.

http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/more-hot-reads/gobsmacked/prod_215.html

Buy Here

Amazon Kindle: Gobsmacked (Men of Smithfield)

http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=SMARTCQ1 (print book)

Amazon: Smart Ass: Close Quarters

Reading List:

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