Rainbow Reviews

BOOK BLURB:
Long, dark hair. Dewy, khol-rimmed eyes. Ripe young lips just made for kissing ... Guys like that are dime a dozen. Wild Bill likes a little edge on his playmates, and Michael's got the whole package going on, plus a loaded gun in his leather jacket, and an unquenchable obsession with vampires. Michael's back, and he's got a few new tricks up his sleeve. Hopefully the latest addition to his arsenal doesn't include a wooden stake with Wild Bill's name on it. But anything can happen in the dark ...

BOOK REVIEW:
Jordan Castillo Price has penned one of the longest sex scenes I've ever read, and it's utterly delicious. "Vertigo" is the follow-up story to "Payback," the first book in the Channeling Morpheus series. Wild Bill is a cynical vampire fighting his attraction to Michael, a sexy, Goth vampire slayer. They met in "Payback," fooled around a bit, then apparently Wild Bill abandoned Michael when he couldn't handle the heat between them.

This time around, Wild Bill spots Michael in a crowd of human sycophants and rushes in to claim him when a fellow vampire shows interest. Fully intending to give Michael a piece of his mind, Wild Bill drags him away but awakes hours later to discover that "it was real sweet, except that he’d drugged me and ridden me to within an inch of my life, and I was still so high I was paralyzed and mute. But other than that, I guess it was pretty romantic."

What begins as a quick and dirty seduction by Wild Bill morphs into a mind-blowing devouring by Michael, with a little help from several mind-altering substances. Wild Bill remains unsure of Michael's intentions ~ is he there to have sex with him or stake him? In any event, Wild Bill cannot deny him, and this undercurrent of sexual unease gives the story yet another welcome edge and dimension.

Wild Bill and Michael writhe together for pages and pages of delightful, carnal excess. Wild Bill acknowledges how good it is with Michael, and concedes "if I hadn’t seen his ID and been fucked silly by him, I would have pegged him as about fourteen. Oh, and then the way he outsmarted me. And trapped me. Couldn’t forget that, either." Michael is clearly a man who can take care of himself.

I liked both men immensely. Wild Bill is cynical and has a hilariously snarky voice that will make you laugh out loud. He's a deeply tortured figure but it's not clear why this is so (perhaps this is revealed in "Payback?"). We're not privy to Michael's thoughts but his actions are revealed through Wild Bill's narrative and they are fairly easy to understand. He really likes Wild Bill and just won't take no for an answer. He doesn't whine or yell or threaten; he simply and quietly goes about the business of getting exactly what he wants. Wild Bill never knew what hit him!

These guys are two of the most irreverent and fascinating new characters to hit the e-book scene. It was a lot of fun watching them shunt and spar, duck and weave and finally give in to their powerful attraction. I didn't read "Payback" and was able to follow the story fairly well, but I'm thinking it would have been a lot more fun to read it first. "Vertigo" is short at only 40 pages, but I enjoyed every minute spent with Wild Bill and Michael and I eagerly await the next story in the series.

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