Reviewed by Sadonna
TITLE: The Gargoyle and the Stripper
SERIES: A Paranormal’s Love
AUTHOR: Charlie Richards
PUBLISHER: eXtasy Books Inc.
LENGTH: 110pages
RELEASE DATE: June 24, 2022
BLURB:
Into the Paranormal World: When a gargoyle sneaks into a strip club, he scents the other half of his soul in a distrustful stripper.
When Tasker overhears a few bonded gargoyles and their mates planning a night out at a strip club, he convinces them to sneak him in through the back. Once there, to Tasker’s shock, he scents his mate somewhere in the seedy joint. With a little help from friends, Tasker discovers that a sexy black stripper with the stage name Mongo is his mate. The human’s medium-brown skin and bleached-blond hair calls to him, but as much as Tasker would love to whisk the human from the place, he knows that wouldn’t be a good move… so he once again relies on friends.
Camry Palcha never thought he would end up a stripper, but after getting cut off when he came out, desperate times calls for desperate measures. The pay is good, even though he refuses the side offers of backroom hook-ups with clients. While he’ll never admit it to anyone at the seedy place, he’s a virgin. No way does he want his first time to be with someone paying him.
When a guy named Mitch approaches Camry about hiring him for a private gig, he nearly refuses. Except, the money will set him up for months, and that’s after covering his upcoming college tuition. When Camry arrives at the address, he’s shocked to find himself at a mansion. After girding up his courage and entering, Camry learns that paranormals are real. When one comes onto him, Camry has no experience to fall back on. Could Tasker’s interest truly be real? Or was the gargoyle’s desire simply a novelty, just like the rich jerks at the strip club who’ve been pestering Camry for weeks?
REVIEW:
Camry is a young guy whose family has rejected him after he’s come out as gay. He’s been paying his way through college living on the bad side of town and working as a stripper. He’s not happy about it, but what choice does he have? He’s still a virgin and he’s not ever going to make more money on the side going to the backroom with customers.
Tasker is a 400+ year old gargoyle who wants some fun so he asks to go along with some of his clutch’s human mates and bonded gargoyles to a strip club. Once there he scents his mate. Turns out is a stripper called “Mongo” who is really Camry. One of the other guys convinces Camry to come to the estate for a private gig – no sex involved and he accepts. Besides, he needs to get away from the creepy customer who keeps trying to go too far with him.
After getting to the estate, Camry is introduced to a bunch of the clutch and meets the leader, Maelgwn. He shares the paranormal world and mates with Camry. Camry is not prepared for this 😉 But he more or less takes it in stride and gets more comfortable. Tasker is so happy to have his mate and he can’t wait to bond with him, but Camry being a virgin makes it a bit different to the usual. Tasker is prepared to wait. But Camry is inventive 😉
This was a pretty cute addition to this series. Camry is a bit shy at first with Tasker, but he feels the mate pull. Their way of getting around the normal mating process is kind of adorable given Camry’s inexperience and Tasker’s vast experience. There are some twists I didn’t expect and some badass gargoyle activity that keeps me loving this series. I hope we get some scenes with the younglings in the next one though 😉 If you enjoy this series, I think you’ll like this latest installment 😀
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