KC Kendricks

���Well... I found a new author whose books I'll be keeping an eye out for. I love when that happens! The writing was smooth and engaging, the characters well developed and interesting. I was impressed by Kendricks' style. She didn't fall prey to cliches, and her 1st person POV insights were spot on.

This is a little discovery: little since it's really short, less than 60 pages, and a discovery since I didn't expect to be so enthralled by the story.

Dalton and Reed are dancing around each other since six weeks. Both in the same business field, construction enterprises, they meet every Friday at the same pub. Some beers together, sometime a dinner, a lot of teasing but not touching. Both are aware that it's not friendship that link them together, but Reed is uncertain on what he wants. He show more is 33 years old and he is still in the denying phase: he has had his string of girlfriends, to prove that he is the son his father wants, but his relationships always ended in a bad way. Now he moved in a new city, far from his father, and maybe he is ready to admit what HE wants, and to do something to make it happens. Dalton seems the right man.

43 years old and divorced, Dalton has long ago admitted that he prefers men. He is not openly out, but he is willing to a bit of flirting and teasing, and maybe, if Reed is willing too, to some playful time together.

What Reed not Dalton are expecting is that in the end, their night together is more involving and not so easy to forget and move on.

Almost all the story is the slight mounting of their excitement the fatal night: from the light teasing in the pub, to the full bloom of their expectations when they are at Dalton's house. It's a game of reach and fly away. Reed wants and fears, but he takes that final step that brings him in Dalton's embrace, and to an experience he cannot deny for long. But when he makes his mind clear, and reach for what he wants, he is ready to dive into it with all himself. Maybe Dalton instead is ready for a casual relationship, but a full commitment is not what he is expecting; but he finds it and he needs to deal with the new turn of events.

Sexy, deeply erotic, very graphic in details but not vulgar, this story is a very good reading, fast and enjoyable.

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Shine a Light by K.C. Kendricks

Sincerely this story surprised me since it’s not at all the light romance I was expecting, it has some deep layers that is a joy to discover.

Van is a former big star of Hollywood, former for two reasons: first he is no more in the prime of his age, over 40 years old is no more a hit for Hollywood blockbuster, and second he was outed by a jealous ex-boyfriend, and big name star and gay in Hollywood seem not to well match. So, as many before, he accepts to show more play an Off-Off and again Off Broadway play for a Summer festival, so off that it’s not even in New York, but in a quiet little town, St. Charles, two hundred miles west of Manhattan.

But since the first night he goes to visit St. Charles and the Globe theatre, Van understands that he is not embarking in an amateur enterprise, and both director than set designer are really professional, and above all Shane, the set designer is also a very handsome young man, and also very gay. Perspective for a nice summer is on the horizon, but Van soon realizes that he doesn’t want only a summer fling: despite Shane’s young age, and Van’s involvement in a world that is miles away from St. Charles, Van starts to desire for something real and lasting.

Other than a nice romance and some good sex scene, the author fits in the story also some committed matter like the challenging of May / December relationship, the trust in love and in your lover, and the importance of safe sex. When Van was young he had a relationship with an older man, a man who also helped him in his rising career as an actor; it was not a bad relationship, but it’s now clear to Van that it was not love: both men involved obtained what they wanted and in the end nothing left. But despite this experience, Van has not preconceptions against a May / December relationship, and not only since he is now the December side of it: I have never felt like Van gave much importance to the age difference, maybe also helped in it by the fact that Shane is not a man with self-conscious issue and he has no real need of Van to improve in his career.

More attention I think the author gave to the trust between lovers, a notion that works in two different situations. First when it’s time to talk about safe sex and past relationships, and there is a moment that a luck of trust, or better an imprudence of one of them put in danger all their future chance of a long lasting relationship. Second when Van admits his discomfort in being the submissive partner during sex, not really for a preference in sexual position, but more for the lack of trust in his previous partners, trust them to be sensitive enough to care also for their partner pleasure.

So yes, this extended novella was really a nice surprise, once that I recommend more people to give it a try.

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Sincerely this story surprised me since it’s not at all the light romance I was expecting, it has some deep layers that is a joy to discover.

Van is a former big star of Hollywood, former for two reasons: first he is no more in the prime of his age, over 40 years old is no more a hit for Hollywood blockbuster, and second he was outed by a jealous ex-boyfriend, and big name star and gay in Hollywood seem not to well match. So, as many before, he accepts to play an Off-Off and again Off show more Broadway play for a Summer festival, so off that it’s not even in New York, but in a quiet little town, St. Charles, two hundred miles west of Manhattan.

But since the first night he goes to visit St. Charles and the Globe theatre, Van understands that he is not embarking in an amateur enterprise, and both director than set designer are really professional, and above all Shane, the set designer is also a very handsome young man, and also very gay. Perspective for a nice summer is on the horizon, but Van soon realizes that he doesn’t want only a summer fling: despite Shane’s young age, and Van’s involvement in a world that is miles away from St. Charles, Van starts to desire for something real and lasting.

Other than a nice romance and some good sex scene, the author fits in the story also some committed matter like the challenging of May / December relationship, the trust in love and in your lover, and the importance of safe sex. When Van was young he had a relationship with an older man, a man who also helped him in his rising career as an actor; it was not a bad relationship, but it’s now clear to Van that it was not love: both men involved obtained what they wanted and in the end nothing left. But despite this experience, Van has not preconceptions against a May / December relationship, and not only since he is now the December side of it: I have never felt like Van gave much importance to the age difference, maybe also helped in it by the fact that Shane is not a man with self-conscious issue and he has no real need of Van to improve in his career.

More attention I think the author gave to the trust between lovers, a notion that works in two different situations. First when it’s time to talk about safe sex and past relationships, and there is a moment that a luck of trust, or better an imprudence of one of them put in danger all their future chance of a long lasting relationship. Second when Van admits his discomfort in being the submissive partner during sex, not really for a preference in sexual position, but more for the lack of trust in his previous partners, trust them to be sensitive enough to care also for their partner pleasure.

So yes, this extended novella was really a nice surprise, once that I recommend more people to give it a try.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1602728046/?tag=elimyrevandra-20 show less