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Island Bois is a spin off book of the main series by A.J. Llewellyn, Phantom Lover, and as always Kimo and Lopaka are making their usual cameo roles. But this time they are somehow behind the scene, and for more or less half the book we don't meet them.Lovemore (yes I know, strange name, but this is a strange story...) is flying from San Diego to Hawaii to meet with Makaio, a man he only knows online. Lovemore, maybe due to his name, is a mix of kinky boy and hopelessly romantic: he spent months having online sex with this guy and so he jumps to the chance to meet him for real, I believe also with the hidden hope to meet his forever love. But even if he is travelling to meet his future soul mate, Lovemore is not blind and when he meets Byron on the plane, he can see that he is a true fine specimen. Byron is funny, gentle and he is a real good advertisement for Hawaiian man.
Till now quite a normal story, the reader probably is expecting for Lovemore to find Makaio of not much appeal and realize that the right man is Byron, but things are not so simple. First Byron appears to be in a committed relationship with another man he has at home, and second, when Lovemore arrives to his meeting point with Makaio, he is all alone. His online lover dumped him, and to Lovemore start to happen strange things that more and more leave him depressed; the only light in the darkness is Byron, that appears and disappears from his life (whoa, that man lives in an airplane). But Lovemore, as said before, is a man who believes in true love, and he can't consider to have a relationship with Byron while the man has a partner waiting for him at home.
As always A.J. Llewellyn mixes legends, sex and Hawaii in a very strange cocktail, that this time has almost a gothic undertone: the first part of the book, with Lovemore who wanders around the island alone, almost looking for an anchor in the storm, is quite a dark and creepy part; even his encounter with a Portuguese guy is really strange, even if maybe it serves to Lovemore to take his head away from Makaio and opens up to Byron: the Portuguese guy is the rebounding love, and in this way Lovemore can walk toward Byron cleansed from any bad influence he had from Makaio.
There is a good craftsman work in this book for every little details; nothing is simple and all has a meaning, even the supporting characters, the old guy at the coffee shop with his lost dreams of glory, the Japanese guy with his lush garden, even the dog who wants to bite but hasn't teeth... as I said a very strange books, probably more haunting than all the previous I read by the same author, this one is darker, and there is also less sex, that probably in the previous book helped to lighten the atmosphere.
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Amazon Kindle: Island Bois
Series:
1) Phantom Lover: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/20452
1.5) Fly Me to the Moon: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/20452
2) The Forbidden Island: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/30024
3) Summer Love: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/30024
3.5) Rent Boy: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/339594.html
4) Island Bois
Reading List:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bott
