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Welcome to the start of a new feature here at Love Bytes: Anthology Week!

The reviewers of Love Bytes pick an anthology to read during the week, dividing the stories of the anthology and review a story each.

The reviews will be posted Monday to Saturday and the week will end with a guest post or interview on Sunday

(There might even be a chance of a giveaway there)

To start this new feature of we have chosen Campus Cravings

General Blurb:

Welcome to Cathia University, where school is in session! Nine of today’s hottest gay romance authors have crafted brand-new interrelated novellas celebrating everything wonderful about college, including sophisticated professors, sexy teaching assistants, ambitious grad students, and spirited undergraduates, all looking for the same thing: an A+ in true love.

Book 5 :

Reviewed by Carissa

TITLE:  Did Somebody Order a Pizza?

SERIES:  Campus Cravings: Higher Learning M/M Bundle

AUTHOR:  L.A. Witt

PUBLISHER:  C-Squared Publishing

LENGTH:  40 pages

BLURB:  

Paul Switzer has been miserable ever since his childhood love, Cory Bowman, chose a fraternity over him. When a pizza delivery to the frat house lands the exes face to face for the first time in eighteen months, the wound is reopened… and so are Paul’s feelings for the only man he’s ever loved.

REVIEW:  

Damn it.

The worst part about delivering pizzas to a university wasn’t getting stiffed on tips. It wasn’t dealing with drunken students who thought they were the first ones to ever play the “oh, we didn’t order that, but we’ll take it for free!” prank. It wasn’t delivering pizzas to my own classmates.

It was the goddamned frats. Specifically Delta Sig.

And guess where tonight’s order was going.

Wow, this was really good…mostly because the sex was really bad.

Not the writing, but the actual sex itself.  Usually when you get the whole ‘losing your virginity’ scene in mm, it a little rose-colored. Yeah there a are bumps in the road, but then everything turns perfect and they guys bounce off into happy orgasims together.  Not here. It is awkward, and it hurts, and the guys don’t really know what they are doing or why it isn’t working…and they are fine with that. I loved it. It helped show the connection that these guys have, and helps us keep cheering for them even as you kind of want to hit Cory over the head with a frying pan.

This was a great short story, and it really flew by. I would have happily read another hundred pages with Cory and Paul.  There was a nice balance between past and present, and I liked how the past kept us in a place where we could see why Paul wanted to try and have something with Cory, again, but we could also see just why what Cory did hurt so damn much.

And the fact that the past (both the good parts and the bad) couldn’t just be swept under the rug and forgotten, meant that I believed everything all the more. I loved their first attempt at getting back together, how they thought that maybe the sex would just fix everything, but in fact just makes everything worse.

Loved the story, loved the guys, and really loved all the sex going on here…especially when they finally get it right.

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