The First Real Thing (Icon Men, #1) in Q&A with Cat Grant

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The First Real Thing (Icon Men, #1)

Cat Grant

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Sep 13, 2010 Erotic Horizon added it

It鈥檚 the wee hours of the morning and for some odd reason I decide to put my thoughts down about this book before I sleep on it. Why, because rocks and I did not want to lose this euphoric feeling that I have with something as mundane as sleep, before I put my thoughts down.

Once again it was no hardship to drop everything to read this book when it hit my inbox and read it in one go I did. Literally from the first page I was drawn into the story, into the blog th ...more

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Sep 18, 2010 Feliz rated it it was amazing

Shelves: contemporary, m-m, rentboys, prism

Mistakes happen to the best of us. That's how Cameron, professional male escort, happens to pick up Trevor instead of his intended client. When he discovers the mix-up, it's already too late. Cameron has done waht he's vowed to never let happen: he's fallen for another man. But how will Trevor react when he learns what Cam does for a living? Drawn deeper and deeper intp the torrent of lies and misunderstandings, Cam tumbles headlong into desaster.

This book is written in form of Cam's blog, so C ...more

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Nov 18, 2010 Elisa Rolle added it

This book was a little surprise since I鈥檓 not used to find pretty much classical romance in the Ellora鈥檚 Cave offer, erotica plenty, don鈥檛 get me wrong, but erotica not always equal to romance.

Moreover The First Real Thing is also a classical theme, the hustler who fall in love of his/her customer. What probably gave me the nicer contrast it was the cold and detached description of Cameron鈥檚 life as whore and instead the sweet romance of his relationship with Trevor. And in a way it鈥檚 better th This book was a little surprise since I鈥檓 not used to find pretty much classical romance in the Ellora鈥檚 Cave offer, erotica plenty, don鈥檛 get me wrong, but erotica not always equal to romance.

Moreover The First Real Thing is also a classical theme, the hustler who fall in love of his/her customer. What probably gave me the nicer contrast it was the cold and detached description of Cameron鈥檚 life as whore and instead the sweet romance of his relationship with Trevor. And in a way it鈥檚 better that the description of Cameron鈥檚 life as a whore is cold and detached, than dirty and down, otherwise there would be too much distance between the two side of Cameron, the whore and the lover, and it would be impossible for him to concile them.

The first encounter between Cameron and Trevor was a mistake, and so Trevor doesn鈥檛 know that Cameron is a whore; by the way, as Cameron himself will say, he doesn鈥檛 look as a whore, he is average handsome, very much elegant and discreet; he gathers to an expensive clientele, and he is proud of it. Cameron鈥檚 life as a high paied rent boy is not that bad, but for sure it鈥檚 a bit cold; when he, accidentally, has the chance to experiment what it means having a boyfriend and a steady relationship, he re-evaluate all his life.

When Cameron was young he liked sex, as probably many other guys that age; he was not interested in a long-term relationship, he was only interested in getting off and having fun; when money got short, becoming a rent boy was an easy and fast solution. Cameron is not dumb, and he was enough clever to understand the do and don鈥檛 of the profession. But at almost 30 years old, Cameron is also clever enough to understand that his career is reaching to final point. Now I鈥檓 not sure that Cameron falling in love with a nice man is strictly related to the fact that he, in any case, couldn鈥檛 continue for all his life with his chosen career, but for sure it was a good coincidence that those events matched.

Even if older, Trevor is not more experienced, on the contrary he is pretty na茂ve; he has no idea that Cameron is a rent boy, and when he wonders on Cameron鈥檚 lifestyle, he is smitten enough to believe to the tale of a wealthy family. Probably Trevor, who was in the closet for 16 years, married and with a son, is still astonished by the fact that an handsome man like Cameron picked him up in a bar, and not only that, Cameron also agreed to meet again; Trevor is enjoying the ride until it lasts, and when things get serious, he is too blinded by happiness. Trevor basically is a nice man, as they don鈥檛 exist today, and probably in his naivite he is the only man who can really accept Cameron and his past.

As I said the story is a really good romance, made of nice dinners, sweet kisses, and yes, also some hot sex scenes, but they are not so much, or too much, to ruin the overall feeling of romanticism.

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