Reviewed by Vicki
TITLE: Touch Me: An Erotic Romance
AUTHOR: Chris Scully
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 67 pages
BLURB:
Massage therapist Erik Morgan offers a very special after-hours service to a handful of select clients. From a young man anxious to explore his sexuality, to a stroke patient who fears he’ll never be a man again, Erik touches them all. But no one touches him. Not anymore.
Faced with a personal tragedy, Erik loses himself in helping others. Until one brave client turns the tables and gets under his skin, and Erik finds himself touched in unexpected ways.
Warning! This gay erotic romance novella is intended for an adult audience. It contains explicit scenes of erotic massage, edging, rimming, m/m sex and a vibrator or two.
REVIEW:
Oh my…. what an amazing story. This was a short story and will probably be a short review, because I really don’t want to talk about the plot much and give it away. You just have to read it to see what happens.
Erik Morgan is a massage therapist that does a little extra work on the side. Not paid work, he is NOT a prostitute, he does not sell his services. But he takes on one client a month, that he helps sexually. No intercourse occurs, it really is more therapy than sex. He has something going on in his life that sets him on this path of help and healing, which really does help and heal not only him but his clients as well.
We see him interact with two clients, a younger man exploring his sexuality for the first time, and an older man who has had a stroke and is having issues being sexual with his wife. Both of these experiences are beautiful to watch, but for very different reasons. The younger man gave me a nice little thrill, he’s so innocent and new to this all, it was fun and sweet. Then the session with the older man made me cry. Also sweet but in a different way.
This is not your typical romance story, there isn’t any “romance” to it. It is sad and sweet, and affected me deeply for a couple of reasons that are too personal to talk about here. It was not what I expected at all, I thought this would be a little fluffy, sexy story, with no plot, just some sex. That is NOT what this story is. It is short and perfect. Deep and meaningful. It was painful at times, and I giggled at times. But damn, it was so good. I am usually ambivalent about short stories, they tend to be either all sex and no plot, or insta-love, or too much plot crammed in to a short story. This was just right. I don’t want to know what happens next. I can imagine how it goes in the future just fine, I don’t want to have my fantasy changed by reality. The writing was great, the delicate scenes were beautifully written with a light hand. The characters were deep, even the ones that spent very little time on page had a nice feeling to them. The sexual situations were perfect. I’m not familiar with Chris Scully, but I will go hunt down more of her books!
I have read two amazing short stories in two days. I am a very happy girl.
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