SLOW DANCE: CRISPIN AND WILLS

(SOUTHERN SEDUCTION 3) 

Novella

by Julia McBryant

 

Genre: M/M erotic romance

Word Count: 23,900

Release date: July 26, 2019

 

 

Blurb:

 

Crispin has moved in with Wills for the summer, four hours away from their parents in Savannah. Without rules, or even Wills' nosy twin to police them, neither can wait for their three months of freedom. But Wills gets stuck memorizing tree biology, and Crispin's boss works him to exhaustion. In fact, everything about their lives seems incompatible. Crispin keeps a bizarre sleep schedule that messes up Wills' circadian rhythms. Wills wakes up as queen bitch while Crispin channels Tigger. Stuck scarfing frozen food, unable to work the washing machine, Wills and Crispin both feel miserable. They've been together since eleventh grade. But can their teenage love transition into the real world?

 

 

 

Platform: KU, Amazon (1.99)

 

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T2SZ8CZ 

 

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46039119-like-sunshine

 

Sequel to “It’s Enough” (Crispin and Wills 1) Southern Seduction Book 1 https://www.amazon.com/Its-Enough-Southern-Seduction-Short-ebook/dp/B07S3KR3LR/

 

Sequel to “Like Sunshine” (Crispin and Wills 2) Southern Seduction Book 2

https://www.amazon.com/Like-Sunshine-Crispin-Southern-Seduction-ebook/dp/B07SD5V7XL/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excerpt:

 

“Maybe it’s just too different,” Wills says, and this terrifies him. Tell me no, tell me I’m wrong. He feels like he’s falling and Crispin’s supposed to catch him, but instead there’s only empty air. 

 

But Crispin doesn’t say anything. He just looks at Wills with wide, hurt eyes.  

 

“It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just this isn’t working, Crispin, you know it’s not working, we’re both unhappy and nothing matches up. It’s like real life doesn’t work for us.” Wills feels like crying and starts reciting times tables in his head: an old trick he learned when they were small that still works, sometimes. He’s getting more and more frantic. Crispin’s silence means he agrees. 

 

Crispin just blinks at him with those big sad eyes. Oh god. Wills can’t believe he’s even saying any of this out loud and he can’t believe he’s subjecting Crispin to this, dear god, he can’t believe he’s the one making Crispin look like that. Crispin is so good. Crispin is too good to be with someone like him, someone who can’t even manage to say thank you when his boyfriend hands him a cup of fucking coffee. 

 

“You don’t deserve this,” Wills manages. He can keep everything out of his voice, can sound reasonable, but not for much longer. He means, I don’t deserve you. Wills needs Crispin to hear that and tell him Wills, no, I love you. 

 

“Okay,” Crispin says quietly. 

 

“You don’t deserve to live like this,” Wills says. He’s getting desperate. Say no, Crispin. Say that you don’t know what I’m talking about. Fight with me. Yell at me. Tell me I’m fucking wrong. 

 

“I get it,” Crispin tells him. “I get it, Wills.” 

 

Wills feels like all the air has been replaced with something else, something unbreathable and thick. 

 

“This was always just — you never —” Crispin’s shaking his head. “It never meant as much to you, did it? It never meant the same. Ever. I was a fucking idiot.” 

 

Wills realizes with a hard shock what Crispin means. “No!” he says. “No, Crispin, no, it’s not like that, it’s  —” 

 

Crispin just looks at him. He leans down and starts to unlace his boots. “Then fight for it,” he says quietly. “If you care about me, fight for it.” He walks off. 

Author Bio:

 

 

Julia McBryant is, as the saying goes, Southern born, Southern bred, and when she dies, she’ll be Southern dead. When she’s not riding her horse or writing, Julia likes to play with her German Shepherds and rescued greyhounds, make all the crafts (especially those involving glitter), and hike, especially in the North Carolina mountains. A proud resident of the prettiest city in the whole world, Julia recognized her bisexuality later in life, and has been incredibly grateful for the support she’s received in the LBGTQIA community.  

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A Sad, Sweet & Sassy YA Ghost Story

 

 

 

BOOK DETAILS:

Slow Dance in Purgatory by Amy Harmon, read by Emily Woo Zeller, published by Tantor Audio (2014) / Length: 7 hrs 27 min

 

SERIES INFO:

This is Book #1 of 2 in the "Purgatory" duology. Both books are available on audio.

 

SUMMARY:

She isn't actually a Ghost Whisper, since the ghosts she sees are mostly just echoes that don't interact with her. But she has been able to see them since she was young.

 

I like most everything about this one, and only wish we had gotten more of the wonderful interactions between Johnny & Maggie.

This is my second "write Bloody Book" from Write Bloody Publishing.

Jeremy Radin is an actor as well as a poet. Staring in such shows as; The Office and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. To name a few. And spends most of his time eating expensive hamburgers and maybe looking for a job. (from author bio)

This book is off the wall laughter with impressive metaphors and strange to understand, but you really don't have to.

His poem about a little boy who is afraid of monsters under his bed shows his story telling. Then his love poems such as "Rena" shows his clarity and metaphors. My favorites are below.

-A Pyramid of Bison
-All the Girls in Hollywood Are Having The Same Dream
-The Inn of the Purple Bison
-Perhaps a Thousand Years *GREAT*
-Off Switch
-Career Path of a 9 yr old
-Donut Muffin
-My Heart Attack Arrives
-Rena

Slow Dance in Purgatory (Purgatory, #1) ... This was a refreshingly straightforward young adult love story with just the slightest twist. 17 year old Maggie O'Bannon seems to have fallen for 19 year old Johnny Kinross. The thing is Johnny's a ghost. He was shot 50 years ago and has been haunting the high school where he is apparently in limbo between life and death. His body disappeared at the time of his accidental shooting.

It's a really nice love story, with the characters' feelings for one another slowly evolving into love. Only then do they realize the futility of the relationship. Johnny will forever stay a nineteen year old trapped in one place and Maggie will age and move on to college and the great big world.

It was fun to wonder just how the author planned to resolve this problem. The reader has already suspended disbelief. After all, Maggie is in love with a ghost, whose body she can not only see but feel. So the resolution is just a fun continuation of previously mentioned disbelief. It's just good clean fun. Enjoy.

Lets start with the reason why I gave the book a 4 star instead of a 5 star.
One simple reason actually, Margot. She started off quite nice, just your average girl wanting to be popular, wants to have a boyfriend and all that. But who never got all that. But as soon as the whole school (ok almost all of them) went to zombie berzerk mode, and she and her friend were the only ones alive (for now), she started to become cocky. Taking on everything that would make one popular, snorting when her best friend wants a non-cool thing. I really hated how she treated Dirk, naming him Snookie and treating him like a dog. Sorry, but no one, be it Zomb or human, deserves that treatment. She even ditched her best friend. In the end she sees what she did wrong and tries to correct stuff, but it really ruined it for me that she became such a bitch.

Though the rest of the book was quite good. I liked how the zombies stayed within their cliques, and when they bit someone that person became one of the clique (including clothes and make-up). Really nice zombie idea.