Review: The Sex Worker and His Prior Lover
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
Garrett is a young gay man who is trying to raise his younger brother during the recession we have all just experienced.  When the construction work he had been relying on to feed his brother and himself dried up, a friend introduces him to the Chicken Ranch, a male brothel. This is the second story from Amanda Young's Chicken Ranch series and comes to us many years after the first, Hunger. Hopefully we will not have to wait as long for a third installment. Garrett finds the conditions of his employment to be better than he expected, but really hates both the fact that he is selling his body and breaking the law by doing so.  After several weeks go by, Garrett runs into Miller, someone whom he loved and who loved him, but who abandoned him several years ago to pursue his college education and his employment at a high end financial firm.  At first Garrett's resentment overcomes his real feelings toward Miller, but as they get to know each other better again, his feelings of love for Garrett overcome his resentment.  Because Garrett will not let either his brother or Miller know what his "weekend" job is, Miller follows him when he goes to work on a Friday evening and discovers that he is selling his body out of desparation.  Rather than be repulsed by this discovery, Miller becomes determined to regain his prior relationship with Garrett and to get him away from the Chicken Ranch.  What follows is a wonderful love story with some extremely hot sex scenes between Garrett and Miller.  My only complaint is that Amanda did not take much advantage of the Chicken Ranch setting to do any explicit sex scenes with either Garrett or his fellow prostitutes. I believe she wanted to save the heavy duty sex for the two main characters in a loving setting rather than in the taudry brothel. So, my minor complaint aside, I found this book to be a wonderful and sexy love story that will linger with me for some time to come.  Don't miss it.