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The Tourist [Kindle Edition]

Clare London (Author)

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Visiting isn't a science, at least not for me. It's just what I do. Not that I mind, though. It's not a bad thing, you understand, to find yourself in someone else's body, stepping into a hot shower stark-naked and sporting a decent-sized morning wood.

Ace is a tourist. A spirit who spends his time visiting the lives of others for entertainment and sexual satisfaction. He can't make anyone do anything they aren't willing to do—but he is able to push them to their personal limits.

He's currently visiting Dan and his lover, Ricky—a couple struggling with jealousy and words left unsaid. Emboldened by Ace, Dan becomes more sexually aggressive, a pleasant surprise for Ricky. But when an abusive ex threatens their newfound happiness, how far will Ace want to get involved? Will his fascination with the couple's sexual games tempt him to protect them from a very real physical danger?

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 241 KB
Print Length: 84 pages
Publisher: Carina Press (28 Feb 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004K1F7US
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #280,281 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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Facile writing, delightfully fluid point of view 7 Mar 2011

By Jordan Castillo Price

Format:Kindle Edition

This book takes point-of-view and turns it on its head! The story is narrated by the tourist, Ace--a spirit who can vacation inside the minds and bodies of living people, and who uses this ability to treat himself to man on man sex. He ends up lingering with a couple a lot longer than he normally does, and touching on each of their minds...and then finding himself embroiled in the rockier aspects of their relationship, which turn out to be a lot more serious than Ace originally suspected.

I love the concept, and I'm particularly drawn to Dan, the burlier, blue collar half of the couple Ace inhabits. The sex scenes were crazy-hot, needy, and delicious with tension. The bar setting where Ricky works was well done; it felt like a real business to me and not the fantasy bar trope of so many m/m fictions. But what took this book to an entirely new level for me was the facile writing in the fluidity of the point-of-view.

"I" could mean Ace, it could mean whoever Ace was inhabiting, but in varying proportions it was some of each, because Ace's presence ebbed and flowed almost like lucidity in a dream might ebb and flow for a dreamer. I absolutely loved this aspect, and I loved that the author was bold enough to do this and not overexplain what she was doing and who was speaking and what percentage was Ace and what percentage was the host...because I always had a gut feeling of who "I" was at any point.

I highly recommend this story for its bold use of point-of-view and overall hotness!

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Deft writing, delightfully fluid point of view 7 Mar 2011

By Jordan Castillo Price - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Kindle Edition

This book takes point-of-view and turns it on its head! The story is narrated by the tourist, Ace--a spirit who can vacation inside the minds and bodies of living people, and who uses this ability to treat himself to man on man sex. He ends up lingering with a couple a lot longer than he normally does, and touching on each of their minds...and then finding himself embroiled in the rockier aspects of their relationship, which turn out to be a lot more serious than Ace originally suspected.

I love the concept, and I'm particularly drawn to Dan, the burlier, blue collar half of the couple Ace inhabits. The sex scenes were crazy-hot, needy, and delicious with tension. The bar setting where Ricky works was well done; it felt like a real business to me and not the fantasy bar trope of so many m/m fictions. But what took this book to an entirely new level for me was the deft writing in the fluidity of the point-of-view.

"I" could mean Ace, it could mean whoever Ace was inhabiting, but in varying proportions it was some of each, because Ace's presence ebbed and flowed almost like lucidity in a dream might ebb and flow for a dreamer. I absolutely loved this aspect, and I loved that the author was bold enough to do this and not overexplain what she was doing and who was speaking and what percentage was Ace and what percentage was the host...because I always had a gut feeling of who "I" was at any point.

I highly recommend this story for its bold use of point-of-view and overall hotness!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

A unique narrator 19 Mar 2011

By Emanuela - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Kindle Edition

I can't believe a short story like this could be so packed with feelings and events.

Ace is a spirit who's been traveling from person to person since when he was killed. He possesses bodies for fun and sex, until he gets tired of the person he's possessing and he jumps to another one. When he enters Dan's body, he's enthralled by the feelings he experiments especially toward Ricky, Dan's lover. Their relationship makes him curious and instead of going away as usual after the satisfying sex, he stays with Dan awhile, fascinated by Ricky, until he decides to jump into Ricky to understand more about his history and personality.

Ace is always more conscious than his hosts, it's like he's floating and his host's life is the water that makes him float. Sometimes he lets himself be carried away by his hosts, sometimes he makes himself go slowly under, sometimes he dives in them abruptly and he dissolves in them. The writing is really amazing, because the transition between Ace and his host is always seamless. I was fascinated by the way Ace melted with his hosts and how the jumping between two people that love each other affected him, making him lose the borders of his own self.

This is also the reason why the story was so rich even if it was short. Everything that happens is essential to the plot, we can see all the point of views, sometimes two at the same time, we can really participate in the life of the protagonists, because Ace sees everything, neither Dan nor Ricky can hide something from him and he becomes the means by which they take a hold of their life.

The personality of the characters are very interesting but I think in the end it's Ace that remains behind our reach, a true spirit, impossible to grab and define and probably to understand.

Galley received via NetGalley, courtesy of the publisher.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Unique Story, Luscious Writing... Lovely. 24 May 2011

By Lacey Savage - Published on Amazon.com

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What a unique story! I admit, I've had fantasies about being a tourist like Ace. As a kid, I used to wonder what it would be like to 'project' myself inside another person's skin, fell what they feel, think what they think. Learn them from the inside out. (I guess maybe that's why I became a writer.) I loved seeing this concept developed by a talented author.

Clare London does a fabulous job of making Ace likeable, but more importantly, she does a phenomenal job introducing us to both Dan and Ricky. Despite the fact that Ace bounces between both of them, it's always easy to tell whose skin he's in and I never got confused about which character was thinking, or feeling, or speaking. I liked all the main characters quite a bit, and I loved watching Ace prod Dan and Ricky so they'd finally say all those things they hadn't dared confess to each other without his presence.

Very hot, with luscious writing and a brilliant twist on first-person point of view, THE TOURIST is a must read.

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