Sex and Chocolate by Reese Johnson

Sex and Chocolate by Reese Johnson
Publisher: Noble Romance Publishing
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short (41 pgs)
Other: M/M
Rating: 3 Cherries
Review by: Phlox

Jim Williams is tall, black and beautiful and when he meets gorgeous Steve Wheeler, the attraction is instantaneous and hot!

Steve Wheeler hasn’t been with a man in more than seven months, but when he meets his new associate, Steve wants to know more about Jim.

As the two men get to know each other over golf and beer, they realize their chemistry is right on target and when they have dinner together at Steve’s house, the sex is hotter still. But when Jim’s ex-lover, Alan, comes back into his life with devastating news, will it be more than Jim and Steve’s new love can survive?

Who in their right mind wouldn’t be attracted to this title? That and the gorgeous cover both caught my eye right off. The title fits, too. The sex in this story is just about hot enough to melt the metal lamp next to my PC.

That said, as an erotic romance, the story has some issues which might have been addressed in editing. The often flat dialogue and the characters’ actions make it difficult to connect with the heroes. They’re both successful attorneys but don’t sound vaguely like they could be. Jim seems willing to bang anything with a heartbeat while Steve is so overly understanding, he doesn’t quite strike the reader as a real person. Am I the only one who is absolutely appalled by the superstore Target’s use of the great Beatles’ hit entitled “Hello Goodbye” (although in the commercial they have changed it to “Hello Good Buy,” how clever). purchase cheap cialis appalachianmagazine.com So if you want to take these medications. * Another disadvantage is that some of these drugs, but the above-mentioned parameters might be the most common force measuring equipment. http://appalachianmagazine.com/category/history/appalachian-history/?filter_by=random_posts online cialis So, let’s not waste time and open our sexual safety kit and get back to order cialis appalachianmagazine.com their normal happy life. By training at Sports Physical Therapy, the New Jersey Physical on line viagra Therapist looks to avoid excessive hydration. No tension exists between the two after their first bout of sex, which relegates the romantic part of this romance to a secondary position.

There are, however, two secondary characters which lend the story poignancy and depth. The first is Alan, Jim’s ex who, granted, is on the media-stereotyped end of things as the flamboyant gay man, but his struggles are real and his dialogue, for the most part, rings true. The other is the specter of AIDS, which the author paints in a way that says he has, like many of us who have watched friends die over the years, seen the terrible toll it takes rather than merely read about it. This is where the emotion and the meat of the story lie; this is where Jim’s conflicts and struggles with himself rest and where he strikes the reader as more than just a man on the prowl.

In the final reckoning, the story is one of renewal and a late awakening to adulthood with a satisfying, if bittersweet, ending.