Product Description

It is said that in a lifetime, a person may be lucky enough to experience true love, greater than the physical body, that eventually evolves into lifelong companionship. This is the an electrifying erotic love story between two men, one gay, the other hesitantly bisexual, that would irrevocably dominate the rest of their lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #886506 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781934531396
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Customer Reviews

Intense
There are lots of good, erotic romance stories, but his one's different in many ways: It's a story of two lovers, one gay, the other "hesitantly bisexual" and their relationship over about eight months time. The former is looking for a lifetime partner. The latter finds true first-love. The question is, can and will it last? While in every respect a richly rewarding love story, it is replete with romance and filled with graphic sex. Written in the first person as if one were reading a personal diary, it felt so real, it was like actually being the latter, and I felt like I was personally experiencing his awakening sexuality, desire, joy, love, ecstasy and struggles. The first person account also made it feel like a mystery story. Once I started reading, I read it cover to cover, and I was pleased to not be disappointed. I don't want to reveal the story, but if you're looking for an erotic romance that's compelling, intense and reads like a "can't-put-it-down" mystery story with lots of feeling and sex, I recommend this book. It's Mr. Martine's first gay erotic romance, and I look forward to his next one that he promises will take up where this one ends!

Too much sex isn't sexy
I gave this book three stars, but three and a half more like it. I simply couldn't give it four stars when I think of other books that I enjoyed much more and gave four stars to. I won't spend much time on the storyline; Ms. Rolle has already gone into great detail on the plot. The guys are interesting and the story could have been outstanding, but it spent too much time on too graphic sex that was not entirely "real." No one comes as often or "spends" as prolifically as these two guys. And the description of the semen and what happened afterward was imaginative rather than realistic (hopefully intended to be taken as analogy and not as real). I would much have preferred seeing the author develop the romance and emotions between the two guys rather than spend so much time on exhaustive and not entirely credible sex scenes. The storyline even had some lines of conflict in it that could've made for an intense book in the emotional development of the guys, but the sex scenes became too frequent, too incredible and too much the focus of the story. Not bad, but many flaws.

Kingsley & I by Gary Martine
I should start this post with a big label WARNING! Kingsley & I is not a novel simple to read and understand. It's pretty hard both in style than in argument.

First of all is written in first point of view by the main character, "I" (without name, probably the author himself...) and in simple present. It has not chapters, but days, the days that beat the time of his relationship with Kingsley.

Probably "I" before meeting Kingsley was a straight man, meaning that he had past relationship with women and he was quite satisfied by them. But when he meet Kingsley he knows that something is different. Kingsley is gay and he wants a sexual relationship with "I". And "I", who likes Kingsley as a person, accepts to have a sex relationship with him to not lose this newfound companionship. He probably doesn't expect to find sexual release or joy in gay sex but he will be surprise. "I" begins to crave sex with Kingsley in a way he almost doesn't understand: the sexual release he experiments is given by the joy to be the receptive partner of Kingsley's sex loving; he doesn't reach a "male" climax, he doesn't have an apex, instead his sexual release are warm waves that spread on his body every time he receives Kingsley's sex.

"I" is almost frightened by the turning happening in his body, but more days pass and more he needs Kingsley by his side. The relationship with the man never cause him trouble, it's the relationship with the outside world that worries him; and not much his family or friends, but more with strangers and what he imagines to read in their eyes. "I" is scared to admit even with himself that he is gay; and maybe he is not even gay, cause he doesn't need other men than Kingsley. Truly sometime I felt his reactions and behavior a bit obsessive.

All we know about Kingsley is from "I"'s point of view. At the end of the book I even didn't know what is Kingsley's work or "I", for that matter, cause "I" didn't feel the necessity to "think" about it and so he didn't say it to us. Kingsley enters and exits "I"'s life with an easiness and still he is a constant presence. I even thought he could have a second life, a second home and maybe even a wife... Instead we know that Kingsley is jealous of "I", he fears that the man sooner or later will need a woman in his life and will leave Kingsley. And Kingsley is also tender and caring but also a bit commanding: he is very sex driven and when he wants sex, he is ready to "impose" it to "I", always asking true, but it's obvious that "I" will not deny it to him.

And finally the main reason why I should warn you on this book: in the past I read erotic novel, sometime explicit, sometime light, sometime with graphic details... Kingsley & I is all these and more. It's almost clinical in its description of sex; and the description is not only limited to the act, but also to the preparation for it and to the afterward; so clinical and detailed to be almost embarrassing. And always from the "I" point of view, making the description also personal and too easily to impersonate: I don't want to give up in details, but some attitudes of "I" are almost like those of women when they are in those periods...

And so, all in all, I like this book? Well it's not an easy answer but I should say yes; most of all since I started and finished this one in only two session, and it's not a short book; and more I read it more I wanted to know what "I" would do, what Kingsley would do. There are a lot of thing I didn't understand, you are thrown in the mid of "I"'s life without background: it's like you switch on a television and there is a movie on and you start to watch it without have seen the first hour, but still the movie is so compelling that you don't manage to take off your eyes from the screen.