3.5 stars

Yet another sex-worker book, this one a male escort!

Hmm...This started amazingly well, and I felt the initial connection between them, though on further thought later on in the book it could have just been Austin being good at what he does. But nevertheless I was pulled into the book at the beginning and I loved how it progressed into more.

The thing I wasn't so keen on was how he carried on doing it with other people. It just didn't seem right to me. I understood why but no.

The epilogue perked my rating up a half star.

DNF @ 30%.

I have a thing for escorts/sexworkers and I honestly expected to like this more, with it being a male porn star, but I couldn't get into it at all. I've read a few books where the characters were in porn and I liked all the others more. It just didn't grab me emotionally or physically. I felt no connection to the characters in that first third of the book and I don't see much point in finishing a book when I feel like that, hence my DNF.

/BLUSH-DC. Volume 1 - Miyazaki Maya

This was really rather dark, which I wasn't expecting. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect, actually, I just wanted something a little different to my usual reads of yaoi and shojo. And this certainly was.

It was erotica with sex scenes in every chapter but one chapter was really dark with one of the characters abused bother physically and sexually.

On the other hand there is an almost silver lining with a budding relationship blossoming between our abused character and a young guy who's become fixated with her.

I may have to read the next volume to see what happens next.

These Market Garden books are rather short but they have a lot of heat to them.

I look forward to reading more of this series.

*Review was originally posted last night*

Hmmm

Okay, so I've literally just finished this and I'm crying those silent-but-painful tears because your emotions have just gone through the wringer. That last 10% or so was rough.

But from a way before that--somewhere before the 40% mark--i got bored, lost all interest in this completely. I normally love my escort/sexworker stories. Yeah, I know I'm strange, but I do tend to really like those kind of stories. But with this... I don't know if it was their past together or it just bored me but I struggled for a long time.

I must have felt something for the characters though or I wouldn't, even now, be crying over that unhappy ending to this part of their story. I'm also not sure if I want to read the next part. Will think about it in my dreams.