Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Drama Queens and Adult Scenes
AUTHOR: Kevin Klehr
PUBLISHER: Wilde City Press
LENGTH: 220 Pages
BLURB:
Adam’s about to discover how much drama a mid-life crisis can be. He’s obsessed with Mannix, the nude model in his art class. But Adam has been married to Wade for nearly two decades, and they don’t have an open relationship.
Little do they know that Fabien, a warlock from the Afterlife, has secretly cast a spell of lust on Adam and his potential toy-boy.
As things begin to heat up, Adam’s guardian angel, Guy, steps in. But what’s the best way to save the relationship? Should Guy subdue Adam’s wandering passions or instigate a steamy threesome?
REVIEW:
Ok, I’ll admit it, for a lot of this book I was scrambling to figure out who everyone was. The characters from the author’s previous book, Drama Queens with Love Scenes, are back, but they aren’t all exactly who they used to be. I’m not going to say anything further on that front, because it would do some spoilers, for both books.
Adam is in his 40’s, and is an actor/director for a local community theater group. His husband Wade and he have been together for 18 years, totally monogamous and utterly, thrillingly happy with each other.
Now Adam is in an art class with a drop dead gorgeous nude male model in front of the class. There begins the tale of Adam, Wade and Mannix. Mannix is the model, and they don’t know that Fabien, a warlock in the afterlife world we were introduced to in the previous book, has cast a spell on both Adam and Mannix to stir things up in what he sees as a boring relationship between Adam and Wade. A witch friend, Farah, has cast a spell on Wade to bring them all to an even playing field.
So now everyone is fixated on each other, but none of them are willing to make the first move. Drama. Add in the angel, Guy from book one; a demon, Guy’s long lost boyfriend; the familiar afterlife bar and environs from the first story; and you have a convoluted tale that spans the rest of the book.
I have to say that I enjoyed book one more. This book jumps back and forth between the real world and the afterlife a lot. I really did get confused as to what was going and on and who was who. I would highly recommend reading book one first and reading this one shortly thereafter for continuity and background. Both books are quite over the top in surrealism.
If you are into a brainy, surreal tale, with lots of cultural references and a cast from both sides of the life/afterlife barrier, this book would work for you. There isn’t a lot of sex, and what sex there is involves more surrealism and fantasies. This book was well written, well edited, I liked it and it was above average. I did, as I mentioned, enjoy book one more, but that is only my opinion!
RATING: 
(More like 3.75)
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