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Timeless Hunger
Knox likes to blow shit up. In fact, it's his life. He's got a reputation as the best demolition man in the business, at least until the enigmatic Isaac shows up and literally blows one of his jobs to kingdom come. Then Isaac invites himself to stay with Knox, leaving the big redneck wondering if he's his mind, torn between telling Isaac off and taking him right to bed. Isaac is a lot older than he looks, and tired of searching through time for the one he loves. When he finds Knox he's almost given up. He amuses himself with the youngster for awhile, but when he realizes things are getting serious, he runs, unable to bear the thought of losing Knox as he's lost so many before. This time he's not going to get away, though. Knox is a lot more tenacious than Isaac expects. They dream of each other while they're apart, the past coming back to haunt them. Knox finds that he's facing changes that he never expected, his need for Isaac far more than just afleeting love. Will their hunger for each other eat them alive, or can they strike the perfect balance between the past and the future?
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 12, 2006
About the author
B.A. Tortuga
384 books642 followersTexan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her hounds and her beloved wife, texting her grandbabies, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting, and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. Following their own personal joys, BA and Julia heard the call of the high desert and they now live in the New Mexico mountains. BA's personal saviors include her wife, her best friends, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.
Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to cowboy daddies to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which is committed to giving everyone their happily ever after. With books ranging from hard-hitting BDSM, to fiery passions, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.
Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to cowboy daddies to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which is committed to giving everyone their happily ever after. With books ranging from hard-hitting BDSM, to fiery passions, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.
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January 8, 2020
It’s been quite a while since I first read this story, and I simply loved reading it again. From the inimitable dry humor this author is so good at to the straightforward language, I found following Knox and Isaac’s adventures highly amusing and very entertaining. Knox is a down-to-earth no-nonsense guy who has channeled his need to blow things up into a career in demolition, and he could not be more different from Isaac, who is laid-back to the extreme and has all the time in the world. Literally! The men meet in an eruption of emotions that leads to the (accidental) explosion of Isaac’s family home thanks to Knox’s expertly set charges. What follows is a delightful back-and-forth of temper, opposites attracting so strongly they’re usually close to killing each other, and a rough-and-tumble relationship that originates in the physical side of things before rapidly spreading into their feelings – not that either one of them would ever admit they even have those!
Please find my full review on Rainbow Book Reviews.
Please find my full review on Rainbow Book Reviews.
February 8, 2020
Reviewed by Cindy
I’m going to start this review by saying that I adore BA Tortuga and her stories usually bring me the greatest of joy, but this one really fell kinda short for me.
I usually start with a little intro of both main characters but the blurb really does that for me and I can’t really say anything else about it and that’s my biggest problem with this story.
There really is no story.
I mean, there’s a little bit and I can see where they author was trying to go with it and I still think the premise is really interesting. After the first chapter, however, there’s very few bits and pieces and it does get across the point. The rest of it?
Sex…a lot of sex. I don’t think there’s 8 pages in the rest of the book that aren’t describing some sexual act. And I like sex, don’t get me wrong, but when I got to the end of this story, I was still waiting for the story.
And also, this author writes great sex. It’s hot and steamy and genuine and I promise you it will get you hot under the collar. And the author also is fantastic at getting us inside the mind of two almost feral characters. They know how to get across the basic, primal feelings that don’t always translate well into words.
I wanted to love Isaac and Knox. But we really don’t get to know too much about them, especially Knox. They don’t really interact with any other characters beyond a few simple sentences here and there, so there’s not even that to work from.
And near the end I found that it got a little confusing. There was a time jump that sort of got lost a bit for me and it took me until almost the end to get it.
So why three hearts you ask? Because the author’s still brilliant. Their descriptive prose paints a very beautiful, sexy and detailed picture that made it easy for me to see these two men in my head.
I just wish they would have let me get to know a little more about them outside of their fantastically enthusiastic sex life, because BA Tortuga usually gives me men I fall in love with.
This book was provided for free in exchange for a fair and honest review for Love Bytes. Go there to check out other reviews, author interviews, and all those awesome giveaways. Click below.
I’m going to start this review by saying that I adore BA Tortuga and her stories usually bring me the greatest of joy, but this one really fell kinda short for me.
I usually start with a little intro of both main characters but the blurb really does that for me and I can’t really say anything else about it and that’s my biggest problem with this story.
There really is no story.
I mean, there’s a little bit and I can see where they author was trying to go with it and I still think the premise is really interesting. After the first chapter, however, there’s very few bits and pieces and it does get across the point. The rest of it?
Sex…a lot of sex. I don’t think there’s 8 pages in the rest of the book that aren’t describing some sexual act. And I like sex, don’t get me wrong, but when I got to the end of this story, I was still waiting for the story.
And also, this author writes great sex. It’s hot and steamy and genuine and I promise you it will get you hot under the collar. And the author also is fantastic at getting us inside the mind of two almost feral characters. They know how to get across the basic, primal feelings that don’t always translate well into words.
I wanted to love Isaac and Knox. But we really don’t get to know too much about them, especially Knox. They don’t really interact with any other characters beyond a few simple sentences here and there, so there’s not even that to work from.
And near the end I found that it got a little confusing. There was a time jump that sort of got lost a bit for me and it took me until almost the end to get it.
So why three hearts you ask? Because the author’s still brilliant. Their descriptive prose paints a very beautiful, sexy and detailed picture that made it easy for me to see these two men in my head.
I just wish they would have let me get to know a little more about them outside of their fantastically enthusiastic sex life, because BA Tortuga usually gives me men I fall in love with.
This book was provided for free in exchange for a fair and honest review for Love Bytes. Go there to check out other reviews, author interviews, and all those awesome giveaways. Click below.
October 25, 2012
Little too much sex for my taste, especially with the type of sex it is
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 5/10
PROS:
- The tone of the story is conversational and easy to read, and it incorporates quite a bit of dry humor. One of my favorite descriptions occurs when Knox compares Isaac to “a cat that didn’t want to be picked up, going all boneless and impossible.”
- The chapters written from Isaac’s perspective have an odd sort of genteel charm to them. By nature, he’s a rather vicious creature--needing blood and all that--but there’s something refined about his mannerisms and his language. He’s constantly attaching words like “lovely” and “luscious” and “delicious” to his observations.
- There’s nothing particularly unusual about the paranormal plot angle in this story, but it didn’t feel stale to me, either. Tortuga turns Isaac’s condition into a fairly serious mental battle that he’s always waging internally: should he tell Knox, or not?
CONS:
- The premise that the entire story is built on--Isaac shows up at Knox’s doorstep and just doesn’t leave--was something that I simply couldn’t buy into. I kept wondering why it was so difficult for Knox to kick him out.
- I found the immediacy of Isaac’s possessive attitude toward Knox to be a little annoying. They’ve literally just met when Isaac starts thinking of Knox as “his.”
- Twenty pages from the end, there’s a suggestion that something major is about to happen in the plot, and then…nothing happens. It was a little weird for me. And anti-climactic.
Overall comments: This book has a lot of sex, which is a common feature in this author’s works, and the sex in this one is of the rough variety. Lots of bruises and lots of blood play. I didn’t love it or hate it overall; it’s just a so-so erotic romance for me. Heavy on the erotic.
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 5/10
PROS:
- The tone of the story is conversational and easy to read, and it incorporates quite a bit of dry humor. One of my favorite descriptions occurs when Knox compares Isaac to “a cat that didn’t want to be picked up, going all boneless and impossible.”
- The chapters written from Isaac’s perspective have an odd sort of genteel charm to them. By nature, he’s a rather vicious creature--needing blood and all that--but there’s something refined about his mannerisms and his language. He’s constantly attaching words like “lovely” and “luscious” and “delicious” to his observations.
- There’s nothing particularly unusual about the paranormal plot angle in this story, but it didn’t feel stale to me, either. Tortuga turns Isaac’s condition into a fairly serious mental battle that he’s always waging internally: should he tell Knox, or not?
CONS:
- The premise that the entire story is built on--Isaac shows up at Knox’s doorstep and just doesn’t leave--was something that I simply couldn’t buy into. I kept wondering why it was so difficult for Knox to kick him out.
- I found the immediacy of Isaac’s possessive attitude toward Knox to be a little annoying. They’ve literally just met when Isaac starts thinking of Knox as “his.”
- Twenty pages from the end, there’s a suggestion that something major is about to happen in the plot, and then…nothing happens. It was a little weird for me. And anti-climactic.
Overall comments: This book has a lot of sex, which is a common feature in this author’s works, and the sex in this one is of the rough variety. Lots of bruises and lots of blood play. I didn’t love it or hate it overall; it’s just a so-so erotic romance for me. Heavy on the erotic.
June 19, 2015
Okay, I like "dark" stories, but for some reason, this one really creeped me out...liked it, but found it to be unsettling. The thought of an obsession carrying on for millennia was bearable, but the creepy co-dependency of the relationship was eerie and troubling. I love vampire stories, but this went a bit beyond the pale for me. Got goosebumps and shivers.....and not the good kind.
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August 16, 2008Timeless Hunger by BA Tortuga (2006)
September 11, 2011
Impossible to classify, it pulls you in.
November 18, 2016
just tooo much sex.
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