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Phantom Lover by A.J. Llewellyn

Bobby is a blood mix hawaiian guy who has a deep crush on Kimo, a big hula dancer. Kimo lives along the old tradition and he is like a priest of the old religion. He has psychic powers and half his body is covered in tatoo. He is also a direct descendent of the old hawaiian kings and he is a legend in the hula dance show business. And he is married and straight. No one has never heard of him having a tryst with a male. So Bobby thinks his crush will never bring him somewhere. But then he has the opportunity to work with Kimo and to share a room with him for some weeks. Bobby sees the chance he was waiting to test Kimo and his willingness to have an affair with him, cause Bobby thinks that only a brief relationship could born between them. But what it is starting is a lot more complicated of what they have expected...

The book is very strange. It mixes ancient myth and modern problems: complicated relationships, same sex pairing, cheating men, free sex... It's a melting pot like the volcanos that are disseminating all around the Hawaii, but it's somewhat alluring like all the ancient legends.

Bobby is not a strong character. He is independent, yes, but he is also a man who is driven by his physical desires. He lusts for Kimo and with full consciusness he starts a relationship that will bring problems to him and Kimo, and also Kimo's wife (who happens to be a very hateful woman, so the women who read the book can't feel pain for her...): and for some decisions he will take during the course of the book, the reader would gladly hit him on the head, everyone who read the book knows well that there will be troubles around the corner.

And Kimo? He is a strong character? I don't think so. He is like a overgrown child who wants his toy and wants him now and soon. He has strange behaviour, acceptance and negation one soon after the other, and the reader can't foresee what will be his next action. He is hot and sexy one time, and cold and nasty soon after. But he always pleases forgiveness and claims possession.

There are some point in the book that I have cordially hated, and after all I think that I don't fully like neither Bobby nor Kimo. But this book is like a porn: you claim aloud to hate it and blame its naughtiness, but at night you see it in trance. So it's this book: I read it in rapture to know what it will happen next and to be true, sometimes, I was not able to anticipate the events.

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Fly Me to the Moon by A.J. Llewellyn

In this sequel of Phantom Lover, we read all the twelve surprise Lopaka, now Kimo's husband, has prepared for his lover.

They will spent the Christmas season with Lopaka's grandmother, and they will mix Hawaiian legends with the Cristmas tradition.

The book is a continuing love sex scenes, and there is not more twist in the story I have read in Phantom Lover: this sequel doesn't put in question the love between Lopaka and Kimo, but only make it strongly.

In this second enstallment, Kimo and Lopaka are a bit nicer and I haven't find any part of the book I didn't like, but I have a doubt: there are a lot of hints about Lopaka and Kimo and possible children (I will not go further to not spoil the book), so I think the author is planning another enstallment... I hope so, and I hope he will enough brave to follow the paranormal way...

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Amazon Kindle: Fly Me To The Moon - Phantom Lover book 2

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Series:
1) Phantom Lover
1.5) Fly Me to the Moon

Reading List:

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Read this book awhile ago and just finish reading 'Fly to the Moon' which is about 'twelve days of Christmas'^^

I've to agree with you that Bobby is not a strong character... but he's a nice person and very forgiving person specially toward Kimo.

I'm reading Fly to the moon just now. I will let you know what I think of it! Elisa

I always think that 1) I have to stopped to buy books until my waiting reading list is shorter (impossible...) or 2) taken off some titles even if I haven't yet read them (unfortunately sometimes I do that...).

As for the book... give it a try. For me it's a controversal book, but I finish it, and it's difficult for me to end something that it's not interesting.

Elisa

I've read Phantom Lover more than once. The interpersonal relationship between Bobby and Kimo is one that is quite volatile. Kimo's struggles with who he is, as well as his personal problems with his wife, only serve to make him a more human, believable character.

Now, as far as Bobby being weak? Are you people HIGH? Bobby is a young man who desires something he doesn't think he can ever have: the love of Kimo.

Their on again/off again affair, as well as the ultimate conclusion, only serves to provide a deeper look into the intimacies involved when a man realizes he prefers men to women.

Why should any readers have sympathy for Kimo's wife when she's been having blatant affairs with another woman in Kimo's home?

Quite frankly, judging by the tone of the comments posted so far, as well as the reivew itself, you all need to learn how to write proper English!

Elisa, what a very strange review of a book that actually moved me a great deal. I found the characters memorable and original and quite endearing. I bought both Phantom Lover and the sequel, Fly Me to the Moon - the first in a series of several books on this happy couple according to the author's website. The sequel is very good too. With your poor sentence construction and bad spelling is English not your first language? I do find it amusing you admit the book haunted you and even more amusing that the sequel is at the top of your reading list!

Maybe my english is not very good (I'm Italian and who is used to this journal knows it). But it's so bad that you can't understand that I like this book? I have also bought and read the sequel! It's not necessary to "like" all of the characters, to like the book. According to you, why an author as always to write perfect characters? I like when my characters are complicated, and not perfect dolls to play with.

And for the "english" of the other comments, a lot of people who read and comment my LJ is not english, so, sorry, but do you speak other language than english? if so, you are good, if not, I think you haven't the right to judge a person who tries to exprime himself using another language than his mother tongue.

Elisa

> The sequel is very good too. With your poor sentence construction and bad spelling is English not your first language?

Yes! I'm Italian, and I learned English only reading, I have never had the chance to live abroad. So yes, my English is not very good, but I always say so to people who read my LJ.

I quite like much your comment than the previous one, but another time I have to ask: even if written in bad english, my review is a positive one, I like the book, I wrote so (...you claim aloud to hate it and blame its naughtiness, but at night you see it in trance. So it's this book: I read it in rapture...) and I read soon after the sequel, and also wrote, in the other review, that I want to read another sequel in the story... What I have to say to make clear that I like this book? I'm puzzled...

Elisa

Hi Elisa,
Glad I misunderstood your review! A few of us AJ fans misunderstood. I liked this book very much. The volcano sequence still haunts me. I too look forward to the upcoming sequels. I do admire that you actually buy these books. Very few reviewers do.

> I do admire that you actually buy these books.

I buy the 90% of the book I read. 10% are sent to me by kind people (I will not say who...). I'm a reader. Lately a lot of people called me reviewer: still I'm not confortable with that, cause I don't judge my post as "review", as I always said they are braimstorming, free things I put down soon after I finished a book. But if people use them to decide if buy or not a book, it's ok for me, but I prefer when people comment and let me know their opinion.

And another thing you can add to the fact that I liked this book is that I post only on books I like. I buy and read a lot of books I don't write on: if I don't like a book, usually I don't finish it and so I don't write of it in my LJ.

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