reviews_and_ramblings | The Landlord by Jeff Erno

Jeff Erno has his style and even if he changes publisher, he doesn’t change it; on the contrary, publishing a story with eXtasy Books, that is a notorious erotica epub, I was expecting for this novel to be even more daring than the previous, and instead it’s probably the more tamed. More, it’s probably even the more “romantic” in a conventional meaning, probably for the first time reading a book by this author, I didn’t feel like one of the two characters was treated like a toy by his partner, right, a precious toy, but still, not someone at the same level.

Mark is a soon to be graduate college student in Journalism who tries to make the ends meet with pocket money jobs, like cleaning other guys’ apartments. When he is asked to clean Aaron’s apartment, he is also struck by a revelation: he is gay and he likes to submit to other guys; Aaron is the epitome of All-American boy, blond hair, blue eyes, toned body… doesn’t matter if he didn’t go to college, if he is doing money with real estate, where his mind is less important than his smile, to Mark’s eyes he is a god and Mark wants to worship him. Scrubbing his toilet is the less to prove his devotion.

Things are not exactly good for Mark if he was the one to decide; Mark has so much self-esteem issues that he would do only bad for himself. Lucky him Aaron is indeed a good guy, and when also him realizes that he is feeling something special for little and cute Mark, he is the first to decide that it’s time to change both their life, to accommodate this new development. Aaron also tries to teach Mark to have a better self-esteem of himself, but that is really an impossible task: Mark is really someone who is happy only taking care of his beloved one, he is the perfect househusband, and he has not inferiority feelings; if Aaron wanted to ask him to renounce to his career as journalist to servicing him full time, Mark would jump to the chance. For this reason I said that Aaron is good for him, since Aaron understands that Mark has to have a life other than worshipping him, and Aaron also knows that Mark is a special guy, very clever and generous.

Mark has probably some issues deriving from his bad relationship with his parents, in particular his father; even if they are not bad people, they seem to not considering much their own son. As a consequence, Mark reflects this “refusal” in other people, he is not able to “hear” or believe when other people are making him compliments.

As I said, there is less sex than expected, and truth be told, what sex you find, is pretty tamed in comparison to other production from the same publisher, and even author. I probably prefer think like that, as I for sure prefer Aaron’s character to other dominants in Jeff Erno’s story: Aaron is maybe less perfect and wonderful than other golden boys, but he is for sure more gentle and caring.

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