Review: I Just Wanted to Save Baby Boy
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2011
I have enjoyed many M/M erotic stories in the past, but I find some of them (like this story) disturbing, especially for erotica.  The setting and situation is often bleak and the sex often quite desperate or violent... perhaps I'm the wrong audience for these stories, but I just don't find those factors to be a turn on.  As a woman, perhaps I just need more tenderness and lust... or maybe less aggression and manipulation.  Either way, this story wasn't for me, but I must say that author is quite skilled.  As I read the story, I could see everything that happened to Justin in my mind... the layout of the apartments, the club, the emotions he felt.Justin, deemed 'Baby Boy' by his male prostitute neighbor Rex, was so nave that it saddened and frustrated me - emotions that are opposite of arousing.  And to see the manipulative, codependent, almost D/s relationship between the two develop was even more saddening.  There was more that made me even more melancholy, but I'll leave that out so I don't spoil the story for other readers.  There is a 'tragic love story' undertone to the book, and, while I might find that appealing in a love story, I didn't like it in my erotica.