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Something Different

de S.A. Reid

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An Unhappily Married ManMichael Maguire's love life has always lacked ... something. His wife is cold, his children are distant, and he's desperate for one night of self-indulgence. One night of real pleasure. So he heads to notorious Brixton Park seeking a prostitute, so divorced from his own needs, he isn't even sure of his type. A Rent BoyJames Campbell is one trick away from life on the street. Trapped in the world's oldest profession, he long ago gave up on breaking free. When he sees Michael on a bench in Brixton Park, he doesn't take no for an answer. James knows he can provide all the pleasure an unhappy, repressed man needs.Something DifferentThat first night leads to an affair so deep, so honest and challenging, neither Michael nor James can predict its end. Each tryst brings them a little closer, sampling every kind of pleasure until nothing is off the table. Not even love...Warning: this is an erotic m/m romance. The book contains frank language, adult situations and graphic sex.… (més)
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T. Baggins is a magician with her characters. She has the uncanny ability to create an average diamond in the rough and make the reader fall in love with a hero. Michael Maguire was no one special. He worked as a textbook writer always dreaming that he'd write the great American novel, didn't love his nasty wife and wasn't sure that he ever had and just wanted to feel something again. A friend drops Michael off at Brixton Park to get a little action. He is approached by the young, handsome James Campbell, a rent boy who is living trick to trick and carrying more baggage than a freight train and Michael's life is never the same again. This was a story of two desperate men needing much more than a night of fast sex. They needed whole new lives and somehow like the phoenix rising from the ashes, they found that new life in each other and never let go. Yes Michael was an adulterer with no excuses but Ms Baggins turns him into a tragic hero who saved himself by escaping. The story is told primarily from Michael's POV but I can't imagine that his life was any better before James. James provided an anchor and gave Michael a reason to begin living again even though their relationship was just sex at first. I enjoyed that this was a very slow burn love story and that James was insecure with feelings enough to question it every step of the way. He really didn't realize how good he had it with Michael until his friend Kevin stepped on his heart once again. I truly cannot blame Frannie for all of the marriage problems but she sure was easy to hate. The surprising plot twist at the end at Frannie's wedding blew me away and kind of validated Michael's and James's relationship socially. There wasn't much said about Michael's children but I liked how his son finally came around. I was sorry to see this well written and very smooth reading story end. The HEA was an extra because the way that Michael and James saved each other made the story happy enough. This touching story is a must read story for everyone. ( )
  Connorz | Jan 4, 2023 |
I couldn't get past the virgin who's never had anyone play with his ass have no issues with a prostitute f*cking him and loving it, and the whole pushing into intestines, feces, and pulling out a brown, condom-covered penis?! ICK! This one definitely isn't for me.
  DreZ | Jan 15, 2015 |
I couldn't get past the virgin who's never had anyone play with his ass have no issues with a prostitute f*cking him and loving it, and the whole pushing into intestines, feces, and pulling out a brown, condom-covered penis?! ICK! This one definitely isn't for me.
  DreZ | Jan 15, 2015 |
There was something in this book that was "unappealing" and yet somehow "addictive", it was like my mind was saying "hey, do you really like it?" and an inner voice was replying, "yes, I like it, and so what?" and it pushed me to continue reading it.

The theme, prim and proper business man meets rent boy, fall in love and rescue him from the hell is basic and common, something I like indeed, but not something that would cause my addiction to this book; it was more the character of Michael, the business man who isn't actually a business man but a content editor, averagely wealthy, from a trust fund more than from his chosen profession, with a wife and kids at home, maybe the wife isn't really warm to him, but she isn't neither a monster, just probably they aren't in love anymore, if they were ever. Michael searches for that comfort he isn't finding at home in the arms of James, a rent boy who isn't really the good-hearted whore of so many movies and books, but just an average boy from the ghetto, with some trouble and no chance to go out his private hell if someone doesn't help him. At one point, Michael rightly tells James they will never be equal from a social status point of view, not cause James is stupid or not worthy, but simply cause Michael had a born advantage that James didn't have.

Anyway the story is sometime passionate, sometime gritty, sometime even too explic, dark and brooding, and, truth be told, never once light. This wan't a fluffy romance at all, but, as I said, it was somehow addictive.

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  elisa.rolle | Sep 26, 2014 |
It's a sweet story even though it's cliched and predictable. My biggest problem was the giant wtf moment I hit at about 75% ish. It kinda killed the rest of the book for me. I'm sorry, but I had a hard time accepting Michael knowingly, willingly even, subjecting himself to an incurable STD just because he was "Oh so in love." It just irritated the hell out of me. Especially since it could be managed and treated. It was irresponsible and stupid, and then hand waved away later. It pissed me off. But clearly I'm a minority in that aspect. Which is a wtf in and of itself. After that, I couldn't get back into it and ended up skimming some til I reached the end. Not something I would recommend. It had other issues, but that was the worst one. The writing itself was decent. The wtfuckery killed it for me. ( )
  .riley. | Sep 21, 2013 |
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An Unhappily Married ManMichael Maguire's love life has always lacked ... something. His wife is cold, his children are distant, and he's desperate for one night of self-indulgence. One night of real pleasure. So he heads to notorious Brixton Park seeking a prostitute, so divorced from his own needs, he isn't even sure of his type. A Rent BoyJames Campbell is one trick away from life on the street. Trapped in the world's oldest profession, he long ago gave up on breaking free. When he sees Michael on a bench in Brixton Park, he doesn't take no for an answer. James knows he can provide all the pleasure an unhappy, repressed man needs.Something DifferentThat first night leads to an affair so deep, so honest and challenging, neither Michael nor James can predict its end. Each tryst brings them a little closer, sampling every kind of pleasure until nothing is off the table. Not even love...Warning: this is an erotic m/m romance. The book contains frank language, adult situations and graphic sex.

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