Riot Boy. Willoughby Spit. F**k me, Etienne. Rimbaud. Murmured dialogue in french. 3 page intoxicatingly, achingly visceral, seduction scenes. Lost souls found. Love unwrapped, discovered, enjoyed. Katey Hawthorne, author, budding genius.Brady has a secret. He can frost his own drink glass. He can cause a cold shiver to cascade down your spine simply by touching you. He is on the run...an ex thief...a haunted and hunted young man...he is searching for a home. Etienne, has been used by a former lover. He never quite measured up. He is quickly becoming used to being alone...it is safer that way. The two meet...on a dance floor. And sparks ignite!In her novel, Riot Boy, Katey Hawthorne unlocks the door to a world crafted by her own deviously brilliant imagination and gives us a love story that is not only remarkably sweet but also heats up the page unlike so many others in this genre. She does it with a precise hand, detailing for us every move these men make, slowing down the action of the scene until we are there, in the corner of their lives, watching, aching, needing...totally in lust, want, and yes, love as we read page after page.I wanted more...so much more. I wanted to know more about Etienne's ex, Paul. I wanted to know more about Brady and his life before Etienne. I wanted to see the next chapter unfold in their lives. I want a sequel...do you hear me Katey???Katey's "voice" is decidedly different. Refreshingly young but yet so "old"--beyond her years. The things that come out of her characters mouths were meant to be there--you feel like you can hear them speaking--right there in the same room with you. Her characters become your friends, you want to comfort them, slap them when they are frustrating and care for them when they are wounded. And the sex...the buildup to the sex...the description of the foreplay and then the sex--oh my...oh my...it leaves me breathless. It is never gratuitous..rather it is seamlessly woven into the storyline...right, and true, and oh so very hot. Seriously, it is simply a damn good story.While this is book 2 in a series, the books can stand alone independently of one another. Needless to say, I am heading out now to buy book one.Go, check out this author...you will not regret it--truly! Review at somewhere around 55% I am so bored I put this down the other day and not sure when I’ll pick it back up. The sex scenes are so long and so uninteresting, they just go on and on. I think there were only two so far but they were never ending so seems like more. Then it is not really a rocker story. He goes to see him play once only stuff that’s mentioned is already popular songs they are covering. They haven’t really talked much except finally had one brief conversation about the powers which seem to be added as an afterthought. It is pretty much all boring Et’s thoughts between the super long sex scenes and of course every time they are together all they do besides sex is smoke and drink. Some reason Et didn’t smoke but Brady offered him one and now he is always chain smoking and drinking. Or at least that’s the details we get. I struggled but made myself finish. Won't even waste time reviewing second half. They just kept drinking and having the most excessively long sex scenes, and for me they were quite boring.
