Ménage à Trois In Review
January 13, 2008
Ah the Ménage à Trois. What a great reason to start off with Samantha Kane. Don’t you think? I was reading through some new sites I was adding to the blog roll today and I noticed several had reviewed certain Ménage series I had read and I was fascinated by their reactions since they tended to reflect mine. Which of course started me thinking on what makes a good Ménage à Trois story.
Well first off let me define the types I will talk about here, M/M/F only. I will not go into M/M/M Gay Ménage à Trois Romance stories, not that there are that many out there, none of any really good quality at least. Plus, let’s all admit to the fact that if I have been involved in these things as a Gay man then there are tons of Gay men doing this stuff for real. I have had all sorts of awkward, painful, hopefully soon to be forgotten, sexual experiences in this area and let’s say the only way it actually worked for me was in a very strict BDSM relationship where things like communication and respect provided enough boundaries that things did not go haywire. But… That slice of reality is a whole other subject.
Let’s move on to Ménage à Trois Romance we all like reading.
First I break them down into four major food groups I have identified according to the M/M players that we meet. Now, first dump number one there off the board.
1. The Gay Ménage à Trois
2. The Straight Ménage à Trois
3. The Gay/Bi Ménage à Trois
4. The Straight/Gay/Bi Transitional Ménage à Trois
2. The Straight Ménage à Trois
N.J. Walters’ Tapestries series, I think, defines this type of Ménage à Trois story very well. It has a great device of this tapestry (Like a certain well known wardrobe.) that takes a woman into this swords and castles infested planet where there are limited supplies of the womens so the guys are taught to share with their brother. Oh yeah, talk about riding the ragged edge of twincest. So, the device is cool and the writing is not that bad even if the world building is limited because these stories are rather short and N.J. loves a long sex scene.
Now I should stop here and say this type of theme is explored in other series too Lora Leigh’s Men Of August could easily fall into this pile but there is more than just two brothers involved there.
The real problem is I have never really appreciated this setup. Being as the men have to be touching each other all rolling around naked like with the heroine of their choice but it is ignored. There is not even the slightest admission in these stories that anything remotely sexual passed between the male characters naked and horny in bed together. So all eyes must remain firmly on the woman at all times and keep your hands to yourself buddy.
Basically the only way I get through this type of read is if there is a ton of other stuff going on, like with The Men Of August, that makes the fact the sex and the relationship as a whole between all the participants is unbalanced, and well, limited and sorta BORING.
3. The Gay/Bi Ménage à Trois
Anne Douglas is one of the new breed of authors out there writing in this style. Her Gay couples are very romantic and her characters have depth. The big thing in this setup here is you have this core stable Gay relationship where one of the members is obviously Bi-sexual. Then for some reason they decide to bring a woman into the relationship.
The only problems though in my mind is if you have sold me on how stable their existing relationship is… Why suddenly now is another necessary to complete the Bi-sexual’s needs? Why would they not have had some sort of agreement and outside participation from the beginning? *Edited this section to bring in M/F couples adding an M*
Then again we have an unbalanced situation where the woman is the new girl on the block and here are two men who have a stable Gay relationship going. Not fun in my book. Especially if something selfish like the Bi guy wanting kids comes out as the reason for this whole setup. I don’t know, that reasoning bugs me.
4. The Straight/Gay/Bi Transitional Ménage à Trois
This my friends has got to be my favorite style of Ménage à Trois Romance and Samantha Kane Brothers In Arms series rules this roost. It is just so full of win. The setup is of course two Straight guys decide to share a woman and then find themselves attracted to each other. The character evolution abounds in this type of story and sexual exploration is a must. Angst is in full force and the sex always seems to be the hottest.
Especially if there is no history to create baggage so all the characters are in the process of balancing the new relationship and there is no single point of focus. You can have M/M angst mixed with your M/F angst and everybody wins.
This, I believe, is what draws me to Tri Mates in Lauren Dane’s Cascadia Wolves series. She starts it out doing the typical Straight Ménage à Trois but right at the end she throws in a quick glimpse that indicates more might be happening between the two Alpha Wolf type guys. Making it all so much fun to read again and again. I hope she does another story like this because between her ability to write great family scenes and a hot Ménage I would love to see her explore it more. How about a new small town, blue collar, Werewolf series Lauren with this being the typical setup so you can world build it all into place? Maybe on Samhain?
Addendum: The Straight/Gay/Bi Transitional Ménage à Trois (What Not To Do!)
A word of warning though. Absolutely nothing can make me more uncomfortable than reading the typical Straight Ménage à Trois all the way till close to the end of the book and suddenly see a Transitional Gay theme thrown in and then having it and the suddenly Bi guy get treated as if asking so much of the other participants. This happened here in Tielle St. Clare’s New Years Kiss, where I liked the story and all, but that final part, it just left a bad taste in my mouth. The way the Gay Sex thing was handled like some huge favor to bestow upon someone in a Ménage. It’s sorta hard to recommend that type of story when this is all about supposedly exploring sexuality, which should not be a grave task for the Straight guy to have to shoulder, and should be done out of love. Just my two cents.
Anyway, have fun and enjoy but be careful out there.
Tags: Anne Douglas, Bisexual, Gay, Lauren Dane, Lora Leigh, Ménage à Trois, N.J. Walters, Samantha Kane, Straight, Tielle St. Clare
Interesting points, and I’d agree with you in the most part. I say in the most part because I’m me and you’re you (insert anyone’s name here) so the ‘fantasies’ we’d like to see fulfilled in erotic romance reading are likely to differ in some way.
Though, I’m going to throw a spanner in the works of ‘what I write’ with my upcoming releases over the next two months. Red Skirt, Cool Fountain comes out Tues and is definitely a 4 not a 3. Being a fan of Samantha Kane myself (what’s not to like with my three favourite things: historical, erotic/a, ménage) I only hope to treat the situation as well - you have no idea how I’ve angsted over that men-touching-each-other-for-the-first-time-ever thing!
Something I want to know, kinda off topic, why are the twincest storylines only m/m, why not m/f ? I can hazard some guesses, but I’ve been wondering this for a while now as the brothers sharing thing pops up now and then, but never brother and sister sharing a partner? (This is just curiosity factor, I read very few of this setup, NJ Walters Tapestry series being the main one, and I don’t think I’ll ever write one)
Now remember, any of these styles can work in the hands of a good writer. I am just summarizing out the problems and what is currently available I have read and what worked for me and what did not work for me and trying to think it all through and ascertain why. From an experienced Gay man’s viewpoint that has it’s own biases.
I have also noticed what seems to really work for the Ménage à Trois is the Fantasy/Paranormal setting. I call Samantha Kane Regency Fantasy and all the rest that really rocked on this list were Paranormal Werewolf.
Eyes Like A Wolf by Evangeline Anderson is not Ménage but it is the closest I have read to what would be an acceptable related M/F Paranormal Romance… adopted brother/sister storyline. But… some readers reported it was still too close so be careful there.
It had tons of hot sex but a bitch of a heroine. Give that a shot for ideas with what might work in forming that type of Ménage and the use of Paranormal Werewolf dynamics would really go a long way in the selling of the story.
No Number 1? Shall *sulk* now…
What about m/m/f where both boys are explicitly bi from the start? If I ever get past the writer’s block and write the third part of the Buildup series, it’s likely to be along those lines.
Jules,
M/M/M is so typical that it ain’t funny. I could show you a ton of books relating real life relationships and how they work. For the most part the only long standing ones I have seen are BDSM ones where the roles create a boundary if you know what I mean.
BDSM Top/bottom or Master/slave roles provide an excellent guide for communication issues that occur handling it in a strictly functional way. Emotion wise that is still something that is worked out between the players since BDSM is about roles not emotional relationships.
Go Google Book Search up “3SM” or “Don Bastian” sometime. Don’s book Chainmale is probably one of the best diaries of a BDSM Top I have ever read and he has provided interviews about his relationship with two other guys.
Anyway, that to me is real life and for a lot of typical Romance readers not very in tune with, as Anne said… “the ‘fantasies’ we’d like to see fulfilled”
I have zero intelligent things to add, but I have to say the transitional menage of Kane/Brothers in Arms looks awfully interesting. Thanks for the recommendation and the thoughtful analysis here!
PS: that Woven Dreams cover is an eye-popper!
Oh and Jules, two Bi guys still falls into my The Gay/Bi Ménage à Trois category since they might be Bi but the core relationship is expressed as Gay.
So out of curiosity, where does a menage fall where the core is a het couple who introduce a male into the relationship? Pepper and I wrote a novella for AQ in December where a once-wild couple - both bi - settle down, and a bi man wanders into their settled lives years later. I would have said shoehorn it into 3, but based on your criteria, I’m not sure, and now I’m all curious.
I’m with you on #2 as boring most of the time, though. It just seems like such a waste, though I do understand how it’s wish fulfillment for a lot of women who read it. I mean, two guys ready to service you and only you, where their only goal is to get you off? I can think of quite a few women who’d die for that kind of attention, lol.
I’m almost afraid to comment. heh. It’s apparent that I need to branch out some more. (Is that really possible?)
The Evangeline Anderson book didn’t skeeve me because of the m/f relationship. It’s made clear, constantly I might add, that they aren’t related “by blood”. It’s practically sung in three part harmony. It was the dad in that story who flipped my switch to off. Just a bit of a nasty pediphile vibe. Gross.
Anyway, I just finished Treva Harte’s Stay (2am, you bastard) . What made it work was that Gay/Bi/Menage why would this gay man get involved with a woman question was solved neatly. And, er, handled with aplomb. My favorite of the three.
Hey Vivien,
I think that falls into The Straight/Gay/Bi Transitional Ménage à Trois only you have added the old The Gay/Bi Ménage à Trois problem of the established core M/F relationship existing before the added M.
So the problem comes back to Why now? and For what reasons? if you sold me on a stable established relationship existing.
On second thought yep… It’s The Gay/Bi Ménage à Trois.
Lisabea, Good morning! So late night reading the Treva Harte?
Would you believe I put her Alpha series on another level in some respects?
Treva approached so many things in a “masculine form” in that series using the Paranormal Werewolf dynamics to smooth the messy relationships. There is a very masculine distinction between Sex and Love. It just so worked and it worked in a way I wish more writers would follow. It handled the whole thing in a dirty, sorta impromptu, raw, but not callous, way.
You could tell they loved each other and all but at the same time were at the mercy of other parts of their sexuality as Werewolves. So you came away feeling that what happened was maybe not the emotionally cleanest or even the emotionally healthiest but it was the best they could do in that situation.
The Alpha series does tend to run into the HFN instead of HEA.
The only m/m/m romance I’ve written is D/s (if mild), and I did find that it helped in structuring the relationship. Still bloody awkward managing the pronouns, though. :-)
The m/m/f I have in mind to write doesn’t really quite fit into 3 (though I’m not going to talk about it in more detail than that, because it’ll probably curl up and die if I do). I can see other variations as well. But I think 2 and 3 are well-represented because they really do hit very common women’s fantasies. Either way, you get two hot guys lusting after a woman, and that’s a *very* hot fantasy for a lot of us. 2 caters for the women who don’t wanna read about the icky gay stuff, and 3 adds in the “they’re gay, but they *still* want me” plus, you know, some of us just like watching two guys at it.
I still like The Straight/Gay/Bi Transitional Ménage à Trois best.
There is just so much meat there, um yeah an extra helping you might say.
Anyway, the exploration without the restraint, lack of previous baggage and the discovery process is just rich and tasty.
I think what works best for me in any story is the author not stressing so much having worked out a bullet proof, no foul story that lets things happen without requiring too much explanation (The Fantasy/Paranormal thing helps here.) and then just going to town having fun with it.
I find Contemporary fraught with peril and the hardest to suspend my disbelief on. With the exception of BDSM which can work in this case like you already know. So maybe that could provide a clue on my bias here.
I’m not the best person to talk about contemporary, because I write and read very little of it. And what I read tends to the BDSM. I think some of this is my sf geek bias showing — what I’m looking for is the world-building, and a love story by itself isn’t usually enough to hold my interest. You can get world-building in contemporary, but it’s not an inherent part of the sub-genre in the way that it is for some other romance sub-genres. I think good BDSM can often be a way to put some of that world-building into contemporary, at least when it’s written by someone who wants to show that world well, while making it accessible for vanilla readers.
“Anyway, the exploration without the restraint, lack of previous baggage and the discovery process is just rich and tasty.”
I’ve been having some fun lately with this, especially the “discovery process” bit :).
I wanted to say something earlier about the core reasons as to why I choose to read and write poly stories, and part of my ‘agreeing in the most part’ thing, but I haven’t been quite able to put my words down on paper and have them make sense enough to explain my point, and it’s rather frustrating me, lol.
But at the core of it is that I can’t quite convince myself that humans are really supposed to be monogamous animals dedicated only to one person for decades, and that our sexuality is not so cut and dry as gay or straight, but rather quite a few shades of grey in between.
Jules, did you read My Fair Captain yet? You are mentioning fantasy/sci fi M/M and BDSM. This one falls more into the D/s category, I guess, but holy smokes is that one fine book.
*snort Vanilla reader.snort* I wish they’d stop by my site on Man Love Monday and taste something new.
Teddypig: My complaint (cuz that’s what I do) with the Treva Harte stuff is the shifted sex. I have dogs…not sexy. Ew. But I get what you’re saying about handling the relationship from the were Beta/Omega/Alpha dynamic. It did indeed make for some raw (perfect word choice) scenes. At least to me.
“But at the core of it is that I can’t quite convince myself that humans are really supposed to be monogamous animals dedicated only to one person for decades, and that our sexuality is not so cut and dry as gay or straight, but rather quite a few shades of grey in between.”
I am fine with this, since I have lived my life not being afraid of trying something different with the right person. BUT… I really think a writer goes way way up in my esteem if they not only explore but also relate it to the fact that even adventurous people, like myself, are raised with all these internal blocks and obstructions. I hate the too perfect character who always accepts everything without questioning the slightest bit, without difficulty or analysis. Hell, there are certain underground classics out there (Mr. Benson) that are in essence in part an internal dialog of sexual discovery and only fall apart when the writer tries to add in an external plot device.
Part of what I like to see is not only something different but also people having to learn to work in that difference with the emotional tools that sometimes do not fit.
Which is why I love structured traditional old school (I do not use the term Old Guard) Gay BDSM which when learned provides some of those tools you are missing and makes you analyze based on power dynamics, levels of trust and what you want or need from that role or new different thing being added. It also is about not judging if it does not fit.
Lisabea: not read My Fair Captain yet, because I’ve got a TBR stack dating back to the road trip on the way to the Boston Worldcon in 2004 (probably earlier, but I’ve got an entire box of books from then that I haven’t started on yet).
But it’s on my List For Later, because it looks very much like my kind of thing.
Jules,
Read it now you are missing pure gold.
Put it on the top of the stack.
[points at bookcase full of unread books]
Also, it not be on UK Amazon yet, and I’m not paying postage from the US when it looks as if it will show up in the UK later this year.
Oh my God, yes! I come from the opposite side of the fence–I was once in a disastrous poly relationship in real life, which colors my perception of the whole genre in reading. And having just read an N. J. Walters tapestry book, I have to say for this female reader, I didn’t really buy the fantasy either, especially since in the book I read the menage was totally just a plot device to introduce the various and sundry sexual positions, and the end left me feeling unsatisfied because the author set the characters up for a traditional romance, two-person ending, and I was left wondering what the poor other guy in the menage was supposed to do. (Did I just totally ruin everything? I’m sorry!)
I’m intrigued by Samantha Kane’s books and intend to read them, and will try out Lauren Dane’s Tri Mates books. I started something by her recently and while I know the menage is coming, I am afraid it’s going to feel a bit tacked on since I’m halfway through the book and there’ve only been hints… which isn’t going to satisfy me.
Also, I agree that for me as a reader, I find paranormal settings using menage themes are far preferable to contemporary. Mostly this is because I love me some paranormal, sci-fi and fantasy books, but again, because I’ve lurked on poly communities for a while, and have my own experiences, and I keep hoping for issues to be addressed that are not. Of course, as I said on my blog, the worst menage book I read was a straight-up contemporary thing, so maybe if I’d started with an excellent story without the woo-woo stuff involved, I wouldn’t have that prejudice.
Aaaand thus ends my novel. *LOL*
“The only problems though in my mind is if you have sold me on how stable their Gay relationship is… Why suddenly now is a woman necessary to complete the Bi-sexual dude?”
You’ve hit the nail on the head for me with this sentence and why menage is not a pull for me as a reader. This is my problem with any romance (pick your sexual proclivity combination) that goes from a committed couple to menage. it doesn’t work for me because it destabilizes the relationship and is rarely motivated. I can buy it in erotica because the focus in erotica is not romance, but in a romance (genre) novel, it hasn’t worked for me to date. Haven’t found an author that motivates the situation believably. Conveniently, yes. Believably for me as a reader? No.
“the author set the characters up for a traditional romance, two-person ending, and I was left wondering what the poor other guy in the menage was supposed to do.”
THIS!
That is also my underlying feeling when I wind up with some of The Straight Ménage à Trois storylines. Like with Lora Leigh’s Men Of August series the final short story totally breaks up the whole Ménage dynamics between the group and mysteriously cures all that personal trauma that lead them to do this horrible sharing of their women folk because… LOL there’s kids coming and ya don’t want the kids to have to live with that now right? None of the women protest because they secretly hated it and want only the type of sex their men folk want them to have.
There’s this built in shame about the whole deal and the men not wanting to touch each other during sex because teh ghey is icky underpins an adolescent message that one of the guys will finally get the girl to himself because you know they only wanted to watch this stuff happen a couple of times but they’ll wise up and be normal manly men soon.
I mean, why bother?!?
OK, I get to be an author this time! Yippee. I think the challenge for any author is to make readers believe three people would want to stay together (at least if it’s a romance.) I never got the twincest –especially an identical twinscest –thing because if you are doing this, why wouldn’t you want variety? But I suppose that scenario does make you feel less like you are really having a naughty threesome — it’s more like one guy with an extra cock and mouth and few additional hands.
I am a bit nervous that everyone who has bothered to say anything about this aspect has mentioned how masculine my POV is on the subject. Here I innocently thought all my life I was about as female as anyone raised in a matriarchal family could be. But the only way I could make this relationship real to me was to use pack dynamics. I suppose any relationship with rules that require a minimum of a threesome would work. I don’t see how guys would tolerate it or a female would survive otherwise. Oh. And I’d love to see a menage with a female dominatrix and two male subs, but most romance readers aren’t into that fantasy. I only got to play with that a little –well, and a few other ideas — in Alpha.
Home is actually the most romantic of those stories, mostly because I needed an extra helping of romance for a more permanent menage. So happy you read it and liked it!
Treva,
I found that Lowell’s need to submit while maintaining his Alpha status was the hook that kept me reading Stay. That pack dynamic worked against his need to sexually submit and it was compelling.
But Home? Gray. Hands down period the end. I was waiting for that fall. And it when it happened, it worked. Best part of the book (IMHO) and hot. I’m such a smooshie girly girl.
I’m pretty sure the scene in Home that you’re talking about was the central scene in my mind when I first wrote it. I was about ready to write the end after that. Sent it to a gay friend for a reality check (yeah, he wasn’t were but what can you do?) who said he loved the scene but didn’t believe it would happen. I sighed. Wrote more. Sent the whole thing to him. He said NOW he believed it because all the characters needed each other to be whole.
But really, this who sereies evolves from world-building logic. Once I knew the rules of the were world I had to keep going with the internal logic of the world and being me, I had to see how you could play with the rules without violating them. Maybe the characters all got to violate each other, but that’s a different thing.
Well, I like how each book in the Alpha series is a different aspect of those rules. You kept each one fresh but part of the whole. Honestly, it is one of the few series out there that does not come across like big domesticated dogs but real wolves so I guess that is part of the masculine feel it has besides the sexual views.
Great post Teddy pig, and I couldn’t agree more. When it comes to menage, the major thing that has put me off in the past is the sense of one of the three being an interloper or a latecomer. The most satisfying way to structure this is - as you’ve said - with three parties coming together and all desiring each other (rather than desiring one party but putting up with the other one and doing them the occasional favour *ew*).
Aww, such great company I’m in above, I’m truly flattered (I’m such a huge Anne Douglas fangirl it isn’t funny).
I’m playing around with an idea for one of the wolves in my Cascadia series involving a menage that would be much more explicitly MMF from the start. It’s something I’ve had in mind for him since he came into my head but I want to write it right. And I LOVE the whole small town blue collar werewolf thing so I may steal it as you suggest but I promise to cite you in the acknowledgments.
Okay so essentially for me, I have to say I prefer menages where all parties are into each other. I started out with one that flirted around the edges but once I went into it in depth in the following books it felt like what would happen for these characters. I like it when people are able to get beyond what they may have thought about themselves to have that, “oh, well, now I never expected that but yum!” moment. It’s hard to make that moment real and genuine though without it feeling tossed in for kicks, which is why I don’t write only menages, or only werewolves or whatever.
I want it to be that the three complete each other, not that the requisite pink parts are a recipe that has to be made. But that’s just me and what I happen to like to read and write. Preferences are like um, snowflakes, yeah, that’s it.
Well I like your Cascadia series rules and the rare occasion of the Tri Mates the way they are. That series is so much fun from beginning to end I could care less.
But… Now a nice blue collar small town Werewolf series that explores the shocking events of Ménage à Trois Mates and maybe a few unexpected Gay Mates in a nice family environment to go all out on all the fun you showed in Tri Mates now that sounds lot a fun to write and read.
[…] reading: Three of my favorite bloggers have squeed endlessly about this series, and after I read Teddy Pig’s excellent review of menage a trois in romantic erotica, I was compelled to actually move Samantha Kane farther up on my TBR list. Synopsis: Kate Collier […]
This wouldn’t be a tri-mate bond because of how I set up the original rarity storyline. Which is why I want to be careful when I write it. But I think Jack is the right wolf for this particular story.
In my other wolf series, I don’t have the mate bond sealing the same way so there are gay mates - again, something on my to do list to go into later in the year hopefully.
Don’t mind me, I’m just having an ‘OMG, she’s talking about ME!’ moment.
I have whole heartily jumped on the menage bandwagon. But I must admit I am a 2 guy and one gal fan. But I do have the latest story by Carol Lynne where it is 3 guys together, my first all male threesome so it should be an interesting dangly all over the place read.
And I concur that Samantha Kane is a great place to start for wonderful menage action.
That N.J. Water cover is very… well.. oh boy!
Teddy, you have really got to…never stop talking about me! Thanks so much for the nice things you had to say. I feel a little intimidated by the excellent company.
I’m curious in which category you’ve placed At Love’s Command. Through flashbacks we see our heroes initially attracted to one another, and their first sexual experience with one another, but the majority of the novel takes place after they’ve been together for a while and then bring in a third, a woman. Does that make it a 3, or a 4? Although the relationship isn’t so stable, so maybe not a 3. I’m confused, this is too much like math.
I will say that twincest is the reason I wrote The Courage to Love. I was new to reading erotic romance and read a few books from a well known series and thought, “Ew, brothers. There is no way they are not touching each other while having monkey sex.” So then I read a few books from another straight menage series, and thought, “Holy moly, these guys must be really limber to avoid touching each other at all, God forbid we have some bisexual tension here.”
The sex was too unrealistic to be believable. In my opinion, and this is just an opinion, if two men are going to climb into bed together naked, I don’t care if there’s a woman between them, they are open to the idea of some kind of sexual contact with a man. So I took that philosophy and ran with it. I was happily surprised by the positive reaction to the series.
I’m going to throw this out there~I also believe that in almost every friendship there is an element of sexual attraction that the individuals can choose to ignore or not. That was one of the basic tenets I used to create the m/m relationships in the series. I think that is why the relationships work so well, there is a solid foundation of friendship to build upon. With the women involved in the menages, I also try to create that friendship with the men, so the building relationship(s) are believable.
Again, thanks for your kind words, and the nice things everyone else had to say too. Oh, btw, I’m reading My Fair Captain. Dang, what an awesome concept. Wish I’d thought of it. Thanks for letting me know about this book, you and Lisabea.
Sam
Dang well Samantha I stayed away from that one because to be honest I have read about 2/3 at the moment and am considering just starting over because I keep getting distracted by work and projects.
At Love’s Command falls into The Gay/Bi Ménage à Trois in my opinion.
It is not a solid Gay relationship though, so you framed it well.
Plus! You have the Regency Fantasy which calls for social acceptability at all costs so you win with the ability to pretty much relax and explore the various emotional layers you created without having to make sure it lines up with people’s more modern sensibilities.
I will not stop talking about this series and I do not think anyone else has either.
Teddypig~ It’s good. Very good. :) How about Bi/Bi/Straight relationship? I think that’s where this one falls…maybe. Hey, know what I bought? Broken H. Know where I found it? On the shelf in the regular ole romance section at my Beloved Borders right there in Rivercity USofA. Hot Damn.
Samantha~ Dang I love that MFC! Do you think anyone knows that? I’ve been, you know, holding back. I hope you enjoy it. So far it’s been universally adored by blogging buddies.
Halfway through MFC. Holy smokes, Batman, that Nate Hawkins is, as you say, HAWT. And I am just giggling my ass off at the brilliance of how JLL turned Regency social customs on their head. Truly ingenious. I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe it. Traditional Gay Regency Space Opera Erotic Romance?
Sam
Samantha~
Gay Regency. In Space!! (I believe the exclamation points say the rest)
I’m so glad you’re enjoying this. Personally I thought Teddypig was off his rocker…. I read With Caution…(Jake, also HAWT-ness) and the next thing you know, I’m downloading everything in one fell swoop.
Nate. Mmmm.