TITLE:
CHARLIE, RENTBOY
AUTHOR:
J.P. BARNABY
Pages:
65
Date:
02/04/2014
Grade:
5
Details:
No. 1 Working Boys
Received from author
Own
/ Kindle
The blurb:
“Got
two hundred and fifty dollars for an hour of fun? Then say hello to Charlie, a
hot little rentboy working his way through an engineering degree on his back.
He’s got shaggy blond hair that’s great to hang on to while you fuck him from
behind, and sweet innocent blue eyes that look very enticing when he gazes up
at you with your cock in his mouth. That is, until he’s hired by innocent rich
boy John Middleton, head of Middleton Communication. John is so far in the
closet he could find Narnia. But when John and Charlie get together for an
explosive weekend of sex, everything goes to hell.”
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My thoughts:
I
thought I knew what to expect when I started this book. I recently read Andy,
Go-Go Boy, the second book in the ‘Working Boys’ series by JP Barnaby and
thought I’d be getting more of the same in this novella.
Up
to a point that was indeed the case. This too is a story about a man who makes
his money in the sex industry and finds an unexpected connection when he least
suspects it. But that is where the comparison ends.
While
Andy’s story was mostly dark, Charlie’s is funny. Andy’s character was very
hard to like until the story was well on the way. Charlie on the other hand had
charmed me before I’d finished the first two pages of his book.
This
story is told in the first person by Charlie and it doesn’t take long before
the reader knows they are dealing with a funny, sweet, cocky, at times cynical
and self-deprecating character.
“...
I’ve been blessed with an amazing ass. Besides my brain it’s by far my best
asset.”
Charlie
works as a rentboy to earn his way through college. After all it makes him a
lot more money in far less time and he enjoys sex.
When
Charlie gets a booking for a weekend with a man named John he is fairly sure he
knows what to expect. He’s sure John won’t be the man’s real name, but that’s
okay, he’s not really called Charlie either.
John
however turns out to be nothing like Charlie’s usual customers. For starters he
is actually called John and doesn’t make a secret of who he is and his
background. He wants Charlie to pretend to be his boyfriend for the weekend and
Charlie agrees. It won’t be his first time and after all, he who pays decides.
It
isn’t long before Charlie has to admit that his feelings about and for John are
very different from the lack of feelings he usually has for clients. But when
shit hits the fan and it looks like both Charlie and John may be outed in a way
neither of their reputations will survive, the ball game changes completely.
I
adored this story. Charlie’s transformation from cynical but funny to sensitive
and vulnerable was beautiful and John has to be one of the sweetest characters
I’ve come across in my books recently.
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