Reviewed by Louisa
TITLE: Autumn Fire 
AUTHOR: Cameron D. James
PUBLISHER: Deep Desires Press
LENGTH: 154 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 16th 2018
BLURB:
True gay love is a fairy tale. No matter what everyone says, that’s what Dustin firmly believes. As he starts his first year of university, Dustin is happy in the closet, where he can meet his gay needs secretly through anonymous hookups.
But when Dustin has his first hookup of the university term, with a muscular dark-eyed jock in the library men’s room, he can’t help notice the deep and immediate connection he feels, one that seems almost like love. It’s over as quickly as it begins and, as all anonymous hookups go, Dustin never expects to see him again.
The term gets difficult, especially when his math class begins. Dustin destresses with more hookups, but they don’t sate him the way they used to, and he finds he cannot stop thinking about his start-of-term encounter. Soon, his academic needs outweigh the sexual, and Dustin caves in and gets a tutor.
Attractive, well-built, dark-eyed…and a jock, his new tutor, Kyle, is none other than his anonymous hookup from the men’s room. Fate seems to have connected him to the man of his dreams.
Or maybe not, since Kyle is even more in the closet than Dustin is.
REVIEW:
Autumn Fire tells us Dustin’s story as he moves from anonymous hook-ups to long term love. Dustin starts out this story as your average closeted gay collage student. He uses an online app to find jock types to have sex with.
The most frustrating thing about this story is the sex scenes. For most of the book I just wanted to skip over the sex. It was emotionally void and after the first hook up it was just (for me) dull. A couple of things about the hook-ups – one, everyone who Dustin has sex with has a big penis, until he sleeps with an Asian guy, who was lacking. Whilst there is some statistics floating around that suggests Asian men on average have smaller equipment, I am fairly sure that there is no study to suggest that all collage jocks have a big dick. This annoyed me. Two, what Dustin says he doesn’t like and yet does anyway. When he first hooks up with Kyle he says he doesn’t like swallowing or bottoming yet he would do both. Another hook up a guy engages in water sports and despite the fact he hated it, he just held still until it was over. Whilst I understand that the point is that Dustin wasn’t enjoying his hook ups any more, it was also unenjoyable for me to read.
Kyle is a basketball jock. He is so far in the closet that he isn’t even looking for the door. He hooks up with Dustin in a bathroom and then deletes his online profile. Then predictably, he ends up being Dustin’s math tutor. I really liked what we see of Kyle, he is uncertain and tries to protect his heart. I was irritated that Dustin kept outing Kyle. He tells his roommate and his girlfriend about Kyle in detail and then he tells the woman he went on a date with about Kyle. I really feel like this was really uncool and it put me off the story.
Overall, I liked how Dustin came out. I liked the writing style. It is a well written book. But I didn’t enjoy the story. But that doesn’t mean you won’t love it.
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