Title: Demolished
Author: Astrid Amara
Genre: LGBT Mystery/ Suspense
Length: Novella (165 pages)
Publisher: Loose Id Publishing (July 16 2013)
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥4Hearts
Heat Level: explicit
Blurb: Calvin Quarry thinks Felix Bracks is a fantastic lover. He fulfills all of Cal’s deepest fantasies, allowing him to fully embrace the wanton side of his sexuality. But Cal’s fantasy shatters when he realizes Felix was the driver in a fatal accident that killed Cal’s best friend back in high school.
Forgiving Felix his past transgressions is hard, but when Cal’s young cousin Robby becomes entangled in a dark and dangerous affair, Cal realizes there’s more to both their stories than what meets the eye. As a journalism major, Cal has a duty to not only shed light on the sinister world young Robby has stumbled into, but also to uncover the truth about Felix’s accident so many years before.
But those they fight have power, and ways of making them and their families suffer. Cal and Felix have to be willing to sacrifice everything to stop these horrors from happening again. But this wasn’t what either signed up for. This was supposed to be a casual sex hookup anonymously scheduled online. Can they truly trust each other enough to bring the crimes of the past to light, or will their budding relationship be demolished in the process?
Product Link: http://www.loose-id.com/demolished.html
Reviewer: Cat
Review: Cal is a gay man in a small community in his last year of college. He gets his sexual fixes from a male hookup site. He likes the kinkiness and has some wild fantasies but he is also a cautious man so he had been chatting with Bikenut for a month before actually going through with the well-planned fantasy. All goes well until he catches a glimpse of the man’s face and realizes it’s someone he knew in school and someone he wanted to forget that had caused him pain. Then his young nephew shows up with some problems and Cal finds out soon how serious Robbie’s troubles are and that there is also a connection between Robbie’s troubles and Felix’s past. Studying to be an investigative reporter this could be his big break or could it be life threatening for him, Robbie and/or Felix if he peruses this?
Felix knew when he was young he was gay he was a loner in school and considered a troublemaker. A terrible decision when he was 17 cost the lives of 4 teenagers and almost his. He now tries to forget his past and make a new life but meeting Cal dredges up the ghosts form the past. Can he just forget Cal and go back to forgetting that bad time? Can he ignore what’s happening to Robbie when it’s so much like his past? I suggest you read this one and see!
I really loved this story. There is lots of mystery and intrigue, a lesson to learn for young men, some hot sex, a sweet love story, and it’s quite the page-turner. I wasn’t able to stop once I got started. I am not sure what pushed me on the most the romance building between cal and Felix, the need to know what happened to Felix and why, what was going on with Robbie or how this whole thing would end. I wasn’t disappointed!!
Recommendation: If you love a sweet romance with mystery and intrigue, investigative reporting, college men, and pretty hot mansex this is a must!