Title: The Carpenter And The Fairy
Autor: Cassandra Gold
Publisher: Amber Allure
Cover Art: Trace Edward Zaber
Buy Links: Publisher, Amazon n/a
Length: Short Story (8k words)
Genre: contemporary m/m romance
Rating: 4 out of 5 Rating Stars
A Guest Review by Feliz
Summary Review: A sweet little sip about the reward of being open to the unfamiliar.
***review contains what might be considered as spoilers***
The Blurb: Former military man Mason Larue is into one-night-stands and big, burly guys. So while attending a crowded and noisy costume party, he is not happy to find himself unnaturally attracted to a sweet, slim young man wearing eyeliner and dressed in a fairy costume.
After a spectacular night spent with Avery, however, Mason begins to change his mind about what he wants. Can he somehow get past his fears and stereotypes in time to obtain what he never knew he desired?
The Review: The answer to the question the blurb asks is pretty obvious, but how Mason got there was really delicious to read.
Reluctantly dragged to a masked ball by a friend, Mason has resigned himself to be bored all evening. However, when he catches sight of a lithe guy in a spectacularly flamboyant fairy costume, the evening turns interesting all of a sudden. Mason, who usually goes for men like himself–big, burly, butch–finds himself intrigued by the lithe guy, Avery.
So, okay, they spend the night together, and in addition to great sex, Mason gets insight into Avery’s personality that really makes him doubt his former preferences, both when it comes to his sex partners and his hookup habits.
Of course he’s too macho to realize that at first, and bails. After all, everybody knows that Mason doesn’t do flamboyant–what are his friends going to think? But Mason can’t stop thinking about Avery. Having behaved like an ass, Mason needs to get creative to get Avery to forgive him.
Avery may be into dramatics when it comes to eye make-up and costumes, and he may be quite flamboyantly gay, but he’s essentially really the sweet, self-confident person as who Mason got to know him, and no drama queen. And so it all turns out to the best, due to a big carpenter realizing the error of his too-narrowminded ways and a lithe “fairy” showing maturity and forgiveness.
A sweet, beautifully written and very enjoyable story, just right if you feel like something uplifting and positive for in-between.