Reviewed by Susan65
Title: Artist’s Touch
Author: Kerry Adrienne
Heroes: Kenon Alavi and Wally Harte
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 147 Pages
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Available at: Ellora’s Cave, Amazon, All Romance eBooks & Barnes and Noble
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Blurb: Every starlet wants master painter Kenon Alavi to do her portrait…and more. But Kenon prefers firm to soft and sates his desires with the boyfriends of the women he paints, enjoying the diversity of many lovers but shunning any attachments.
Wallace Harte’s English degree isn’t helping him and working at a bar is the closest he’s gotten to being the Second Coming of Faulkner. Something’s gotta give soon, or he’ll be out on the street.
Kenon zeroes in on the bartender at an art exhibition, intending to add him to his long list of conquests, but Wally bolts, initiating a heated game of cat and mouse. Kenon delights in the game until he discovers what Wally is writing. Feeling betrayed, Kenon swears off all entanglements until he reads Wally’s story and discovers true love is sometimes between the pages and not the sheets.
Inside Scoop: This book contains hot, sexy scenes of M/M interaction of an artistic nature. Who knew having your portrait painted could be so hot?
Review:
What we have with Artist’s Touch is a cat and mouse game between Kenon and Wally. Kenon is the pursuer while Wally is open to being pursued, but he doesn’t trust that it’s more than just a game. And at first, he’s right; it’s not anything more than a game. Kenon is convinced that once he has Wally his infatuation will go away. Wally knows he hasn’t a chance in hell of being more to someone like Kenon than a temporary distraction, and so he lives out his fantasy in the novel he’s writing.
Kenon Alavi is a famous artist who has been betrayed and hurt so badly that he won’t trust his heart to a relationship ever again. He is loved and adored by all, but to him it’s all fake and phony. If it wasn’t for the money he would tell them all to shove it. But he has plans for his Guild and those plans require a lot of money.
Wally Harte is a recent college graduate, who is struggling to support himself by bartending while he is writing that one novel that will catapult him into fame, and out of his slummy apartment. Wally has the fortune (or maybe misfortune) to meet Kenon while bartending at one of his unveilings. There is an instant attraction but Wally considers himself a nobody and doesn’t believe that Kenon could possibly want him for anything more than a temporary plaything.
While I enjoyed the premise of the story I found I needed a little more background on Kenon to completely like him. He came off very selfish and a user, just as his best friend told him. I enjoyed reading the erotic love story between the two that was part of Wally’s fantasy, but I would have preferred more real time togetherness. I didn’t feel a great connection between the guys and felt that was because it was mostly in Wally’s book and not yet real. However, what I loved was Kenon’s apology to Wally; that was a great way to end the story.
Overall Impression: I liked it
*I received a copy of this book from the author in return for a fair and honest review.*
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