The Curtis Reincarnation

Well. I loved this book. Alec is almost, almost over the top, but he's just so bubbly it's infectious. This book made me laugh out loud, choke up and cry, and even made me literally gasp (a first for any book) out loud when one piece of information is revealed. I absolutely fell in love with the characters and the story.

Re-read June 6, 2015:
Even though I liked the book the first two times I've read it, this time I couldn't stand it. The writing is all telling and no showing, the characters are hardly believable - and all that isn't a problem when you're swept away by the story and the drama and the sweetness... which I wasn't this time. I just felt like I was reading the equivalent of a soap opera, with the cheesy lines, bad acting and incredible plotlines.

I kept seeing this book on the top of M/M lists, but whenever I looked to purchase a book by Zathyn Priest on Amazon, they seemed to not be there. Then I found this one and I was hooked.

The tone of the novel is different, and I rather liked it. It is a simple story of boy meets rock-star, boy finds out rock-star is not what he expects, boy falls in love, world goes crazy.

I have to agree that I found the fact that Tyler was a virgin. rather unlikely, but what the heck, I went with it.

I will be checking out what else Zathyn Priest has out there. Entertaining book!

When I read the blurb of this book I had to buy it: young devilish rock star in love? shy computer geek who is mesmerized by the lure of the show business? hot sex from night one? yes, it seemed another of that 'show business' novel I like so much, full of scandal and spoiled naughty young artist in love... and I was wrong! No, not since I didn't like it, I'm up at 2 at night since I can't give up the book till I reached the last page... I was wrong since this is not a glittering story on a love story for paparazzi.

Right, Jordan is a bit of a geek, he is a 28 years old software gay engineering and his target in life his to build a comfy nest for another lovebird... there is the little problem that Jordan's expectation in a partner are show more quite high and till now no one has measured up to them. But Jordan is willing to wait, he is in no hurry. Have you started to realize that Jordan is not a man easily impressionable? And so he is less than happy when his sister forces him to be her chaperon on the hottest rock concert of the season, a live performance of Tyler Curtis; from what Jordan knows, Tyler is a spoiled badmouthed rock star with a rotten attitude and the habit to sleep with a different groupie every night.

On the scene Tyler is good, but all the circus around him is so tiring that on the following party, Jordan is only searching a way to escape. And far from the crowd he meets Tyler... actually no, he meets Alec, the real 'Curtis'. Alec is a barely 20 years old man with the behavior of a teen and the innocence of a baby. Due to an health problem, Alec was abandoned by his mother and sheltered by his father; when the father suddenly passed away, Alec felt almost captive of a selfish manager who treats him like a puppet. The real talented Alec was hidden to allow the birth of Tyler, a man Alec himself despise.

Alec is all Jordan's dreamed off: sincere and trustful, naivee till embarrassment, all blushing and sweetness... he is so innocent that 'virgin' is not quite enough to describe him. Suddenly Jordan is fiercely protective for the man who seems to be the lovebird missing to his nest. The author manages to turn the tables in all I was expecting: it's not Jordan who is swept away in a world that he didn't know and let him helpless, it's Alec who is the 'damsel in distress'; it's not an erotic and naught love story, on the contrary, the sex is almost chaste and always behind closed doors if not for only once time; it's not a funny romp, sometime it's almost a drama.

I was well aware in some part of the story that the author was pushing on the moving button, while reading some scene, I was really thinking, here she is, now she push the right button and she is sure to have the reader in tears... and I was in tears! I couldn't help myself. All right, it was only a moment, and after all the story is more sweet and tender than dramatic, but nevertheless I poured one tear or two.

So if you want to read a very unusual gay romance, with a very fresh and young style, The Curtis Reincarnation by Zathyn Priest is on my recommendation list; I don't know how old Zathyn Priest is, but I would bet that she is young, since her novel as a very young feeling.

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I should start by mentioning that I really love this author, more and more with every book if that's even possible. This book has everything a good book needs for me~
Disability (Epilepsy is so my favorite character twist), good humor, a virginal saint bottom, a caring top, and plenty of plot twists. I find it hard to go in more detail because I really don't want to spoil or give anything away. It's too enjoyable to discover everything as you read it. All I can say is, I'm really looking forward to the other novels this author will write.

The instant-love relationship between a computer geek and a rock star is cute, but the rock star's background is very Cinderella-over-the-top. Of course, all of it has to be dealt with and come out into the open before the couple can live happily ever after. The writing is engaging enough, if you can suspend your disbelief of the rock star's painful naievty and the book's 'love conquers all' mentality.

Fun. Snark. Cute. Humour. Emotion. Success. Retribution. HEA.

Can't really ask for much more :) It's a new favourite!