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Tootsies

by Sarah Black (Goodreads Author)

3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 · rating details · 121 ratings · 21 reviews

David Miller, a passionate and clueless young poet, flees modern life, intending to spend the winter holed up in a rustic cabin like a mountain man. He runs into a friend from the past. Quanah Parker Running Bear is a difficult man full of inappropriate longings, with much to teach a young poet about life and the lust for warm toes.

ebook, 91 pages

Published June 2nd 2010 by Loose Id, LLC

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Jul 19, 2010 Daisiemae rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2010, e-book, books-reviewed-in-2010, erotica, male-male-romance-erotica, night-owl-reviews, opposites-attract

How can anyone resist reading a book called Tootsies? I admit the name intrigued me and tickled me enough to give this book a shot. I’m glad I did. This is the first book I’ve read that is written by Sarah Black and it won’t be my last.

It’s funny how just a few hours can change your life forever. David Miller works as an English professor by day, but he’s really a poet at heart. When his first book of poetry, Sand Creek, is published and gets rave reviews, David is taken out to celebrate. He wak...more How can anyone resist reading a book called Tootsies? I admit the name intrigued me and tickled me enough to give this book a shot. I’m glad I did. This is the first book I’ve read that is written by Sarah Black and it won’t be my last.

It’s funny how just a few hours can change your life forever. David Miller works as an English professor by day, but he’s really a poet at heart. When his first book of poetry, Sand Creek, is published and gets rave reviews, David is taken out to celebrate. He wakes up the next day in the mist of a sex scandal and with a very hazy memory from the night before. Even though the his superiors at the University know he’s been set up by some jealous peers, they put him on a leave of absence until the scandal blows over.

David just wants to find some peace from his world being turned upside down. He remembers the happy memories from his childhood when he stayed with his grandfather at the old run down cabin he had during the summer months. Those happy times and the warm memory of his childhood best friend and boyhood crush, Quanah Parker, who lived close by the cabin they used to stay at influence David to make a pretty spontaneous decision. He decides to stay at the cabin to reflect and write during the winter months without any thought of what kind of consequences this may bring. Unfortunately for David, he’s quite naïve about the harsh, unforgiving life of living in the middle of nowhere in a cabin that’s falling down around him can bring.

Almost as soon as Quanah Parker found out that his old friend, David, was staying at the cabin, he had a feeling that his boyhood buddy might be a little over his head. Quanah happily makes it his mission to situate himself firmly back into David’s life…and hopefully into his bed. Quanah has never forgotten the strong connection that they shared. As the men become more reacquainted, he hopes that David will decide that they really belong together forever.

I really liked this book. David is such a dreamer and often doesn’t always think things through. This gets him into trouble, but lucky for him, Quanah is there to help him through it all. I really appreciated that the book moved with an easy, slower pace. I felt like I got to know the characters, and I enjoyed watching the love blossom and develop between two childhood friends that truly were meant to be together.

Quanah was a very interesting character. Even though he has a foot fetish; that David learned to appreciate quite quickly, he’s a strong and solid character. There is an air of mystery about him that I found very appealing and I definitely understood why David had been so crazy about him all those years.

In my opinion this book is not only about the love that David and Quanah share, but also about self discovery. I liked how David’s character evolved throughout the novel. Even though he will always be a dreamer at heart, he learns that sometimes even though he had thought he’d lost everything, what he had gained with some self discovery and he found his dream come true with Quanah’s love to make his life very full and rich indeed.

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Jun 20, 2010 Serena Yates rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I really liked this story about David, a poet who teaches at a college, and his boyhood friend, Quanah Parker, a Native Indian who inspired much of his poetry.

David has a lot to think about when the life he's been trying to build collapses due to a contrived sex scandal. He retreats to his grandfather's cabin in the woods, thinking that he needs to "test himself", to show that he can be self-sufficient. He has a lack of self confidence that Quanah, who is still there, doesn't understand. To him,...more

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Mar 20, 2011 xbmbgrl rated it 3 of 5 stars

3.5 stars

"Tootsies" had a great blurb with a lot of potential for not only a glimpse into a kink that is not usually portrayed but also include interesting characters as well. Quanah Parker, native American bear ~ yum. Sounds so good. David, cute intellectual poet ~ adorable. Of course these two belong together.

Once David leaves civilization behind for the run down shack his grandfather lived in things begin to fall apart. Not only for David’s plan, but also for the story. The story seems to st...more

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Nov 13, 2011 Ami rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mm-romance-or-erotica, mm-contemporary

After reading Marathon Cowboys, I tried to do backtrack on other Sarah Black's stories and settled on this one as my second experience, since I just loved the name Quanah Parker Running Bear. I think this is another beautiful piece. I admit, the relationship part is lacking. When Quanah Parker appears in David's life in this second phase of his life, he just swoops in, no question asked. He's just there, David is his, and now it's for forever. I sort of miss the idea of reunion. The ending is a...more

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Oct 01, 2011 Veronica / V rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have never read about a Foot fetish character before, so I didn't know what to expect.
I like the story, and I love the characters specially Quanah Parker who is Native american, and oh boy I do love native american main characters.
He is the one with the foot fetish, that makes him more adorable, not creepy as he is not even aware he has a fetish.
The only thing I don't like much about this author are her sex scenes, there are the most boring, lame I ever read..I want shivers down my spine, I w...more

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Mar 26, 2011 SA rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This is a 50/50 like for me. For everything I liked, there was something I didn't. Nice buildup at the beginning, watching David internalize all this choices; then sudden-onset relationship with no real emotional workthrough. Quanah Parker is an immensely attractive character and easy to fall in love with; but again, no one ever stops to really explain themselves or think through their actions. Idaho is not a natural setting for a gay romance, but it works, and I dig it; but after the initial lo...more

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Sep 07, 2010 Elisa Ramblings added it · review of another edition

When David’s life seems to crash down he has only one place where he wants to go, Stanley, inside the Sawtooth Wilderness. In that place, when he was only a child, David was happy, and he felt at home, and he felt loved. Quanah Parker Running Bear was the one who loved him, the Native American boy next door, who fed David’s mind up with stories and stories, the same stories now in the first poetry book he wrote.

Even if apparently David is running away from an embarrassing situation, I think tha...more When David’s life seems to crash down he has only one place where he wants to go, Stanley, inside the Sawtooth Wilderness. In that place, when he was only a child, David was happy, and he felt at home, and he felt loved. Quanah Parker Running Bear was the one who loved him, the Native American boy next door, who fed David’s mind up with stories and stories, the same stories now in the first poetry book he wrote.

Even if apparently David is running away from an embarrassing situation, I think that indeed he is going back home; David has done what he should, he has published his first book, with success, he has proved that he can be independent and good far from Quanah Parker Running Bear, but not happy. When he arrives in Stanley, he doesn’t immediately go searching for Quanah Parker, but I think he knows that, when it will be the time, Quanah Parker will arrive for him, same as the boy did when they were young.

And same as so long ago, when Quanah Parker arrives, there is no need to explain, no need to ask: David knows that he belongs to Quanah Parker, and it was time for him to come back home and in the arms of the only man he has ever loved.

The feeling of the story is a mix of romanticism and comedy; love is obviously the engine behind David and Quanah Parker, but as David likes to think in haiku poem, so Quanah Parker prefers to be enigmatic, like a sphinx. Quanah Parker almost never replies to a direct question, he prefers for David to arrive by himself to the answer; same as he did with their relationship: Quanah Parker didn’t go searching for David, even if it was clear that David was his soul mate, but instead he waited for the time when David was ready to come back to him.

Quanah Parker is a really possessive man, but he doesn’t need to force people to stay with him, he knows that, if he let David free, in any case David will always come back to him; he has not even need for David to swear eternal love, actually he has no need for David to even say the love word, it’s more important that David behaves accordingly to the word.

Even if the story is centered around David and Quanah Parker, and it’s only a novella, the whole cast of supporting characters is so well delineated that they seem to come out from the pages, even if they have only few words for them: Quanah Parker’s father, the grocery store owner, the old lady, the bookstore owner… everyone of them contributes to the big Native American tapestry that is this novella.

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Jul 26, 2010 Kassa rated it 2 of 5 stars

2.5 stars

This quick novella is fun to read and entertaining, yet ultimately disappointing since it never fully comes alive. The characters and plot itself feel truncated, as if the story was meant to be much longer but got cut down to the bare minimum and leaves out a lot of detail and resolution. It’s fun to read, but never lives up to the promise of the blurb and each situation brought up is subsequently dropped almost immediately. There are easy solutions and forgettable problems that make up...more 2.5 stars

This quick novella is fun to read and entertaining, yet ultimately disappointing since it never fully comes alive. The characters and plot itself feel truncated, as if the story was meant to be much longer but got cut down to the bare minimum and leaves out a lot of detail and resolution. It’s fun to read, but never lives up to the promise of the blurb and each situation brought up is subsequently dropped almost immediately. There are easy solutions and forgettable problems that make up the tension and the romantic relationship is a given from early on so really this will appeal to fans of the author the most.

The story begins with David Miller getting drunk the night his first book of poetry is published. Along the way he has a sexual encounter that is photographed and sent the dean of the college David works at. This flimsy excuse is enough to get David suspended on morality charges and send the young poet fleeing to the woods and his grandfather’s dilapated cabin in rural Idaho. While there he reconnects with an old childhood friend and builds a new life for himself.

The plot itself is rather simplistic and involves setting up various situations only to drop them. David is suspended from school but this is never a big issue since he runs away to the cabin for the winter. David isn’t a mountain man but that’s ok since his childhood friend, Quanah Parker, is there to save him. David doesn’t have any money or a way to really make money but that’s ok since he can still buy a bunch of expensive tools, toys, food, and hot tubs anyway. David is insecure over his relationship with Quanah Parker when an ex shows up but no worries, the ex disappears almost immediately.

This kind of set up and forget theme hallmarks the story in all ways. It shows that the plot is almost no plot. David wanders up to rural Idaho and from there, Quanah Parker decides they’re soul mates and that’s that. This is frustrating since the story continually introduces new elements and issues only to drop them, so readers shouldn’t get attached to the story or invest in the issues at all. Everything from David’s insecurity to the sexual toe fetish are mentioned but then go nowhere so the entire story feels superficial and unnecessary. Why are all these issues brought up but never resolved? It makes the story feel like it’s just marking time and wasting space to just .. fill something.

Part of this is the frustration with the romantic relationship. Quanah Parker – who is always referred to with his whole name, a definite annoyance – shows up to save David from his inepititude and they’re just together forever now. There is no question of will they stay together or won’t they. They just immediately do. The blurb teases about a foot fetish and there are a few comments about this playing into their sex life but it’s all off page and so minor that I didn’t notice until I read the blurb again and realized it was supposed to be a main theme. The sexual foot fetish, like everything else, is not very important and ultimately forgettable.

While the pacing is quick, writing light and crisp, the entire story feels too empty and without focus to really grab my attention. The continual introduction of issues only to ignore them bothered me and made me disconnect more and more from the story when I realized there never would be satisfying resolutions to any of the problems. On the one hand the story waves a magic wand and all is well again while it also just ignores the problem. This is not a type of conclusion that I particularly like so reader reaction may vary depending on what you prefer.

Overall this is an ok read with some good elements and a lot of potential if the story had stuck to one focus instead of meandering in several different directions. I didn’t hate it and it’s entertaining to read so see for yourself.
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Oct 30, 2011 Yvonne rated it 2 of 5 stars

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I was caught up in the idea of the story; a poet runs away to a cabin in a mountain into the arms of his best childhood native American friend. The story itself never fulfills its promise. It ends up feeling passionless rather than passionate and reads more like a very nice outline rather than a full fledge story. What would have helped would be to take a theme--foot fetish, David's 3 steps to prove himself, the sex scandal, Quanah's belief in the two of them being fated and David's doubts, and...more

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Apr 29, 2012 Mandy*reads obsessively* rated it 3 of 5 stars

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3.5*

This is an interesting story and I enjoyed it, Sarah Black has a unique style of writing. I would have loved to have seen more of David's metamorphosis but only because I liked seeing him grow.
My only complaint is the ending felt so abrupt and not fitting to the gently and slowly told story.
The sex scenes are very tame and subtle considering the foot kink going on slightly disappointing!

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Dec 31, 2011 Catriona rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was such a cute story, somehow. I adored the main characters, really. If I had one wish it would be for the story to have been longer.

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Sep 12, 2011 Sandy Malone rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fetish, mm-butt-virgins, mm-romance, my-favorites-2011, read-2011

Just Loved it...I was really suprised to, because of the fetish i usually dont like any books that have a fetish. Great read!

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Jun 13, 2011 Cherie Noel rated it 4 of 5 stars

I love-love-loved this story. Super cute/feel good and just...smushy. Like hot cocoa on a cold day. :)

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Jul 08, 2011 Lauraadriana rated it 5 of 5 stars

LOVED!!! Sarah Black has been rocking my world this week...I love her books!

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Sep 30, 2011 Jess rated it 5 of 5 stars

Has to be one of the cutest stories I have ever read!!!!

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Jul 08, 2011 MsMiz (Tina) rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Jul 08, 2011 Cole Riann rated it 5 of 5 stars

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4.75 stars

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Sep 13, 2011 Heather C rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This has to be my favorite Sarah Black book so far. The whole story was so vivid in my mind; loved the beautiful imagery. Poor David was silly and naïve thinking he could survive the winter in his grandpa’s cabin, but luckily he had Quanah Parker to rescue him. This was a cute, feel-good story that made me smile a lot. Even Quanah Parker’s kinky foot fetish was adorable!

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Apr 05, 2013 Marge rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This story is lighter in tone and subject matter than many others by Sarah Black, but still has the same great relationship between the main characters. I thought of it fondly for several days after I finished reading it.

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Jan 01, 2012 Page Crusherz rated it 4 of 5 stars

I hate feet....seriously, I find them repulsive.

That being said, this was so cute I not only read it, I liked it...and I might read it again!

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Nov 19, 2011 Indigo rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Toes, poetry and alpacas!

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