Fame and Fortune By T. M. Smith, Performed By Joel Leslie
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Audio Released: July 25, 2016
Publisher: TTC Publishing
Series: All Cocks Stories, Book 2
Victor Dimir moved to America with his traditional Romanian parents when he was just a child. His Romani parents taught him their traditions and how to be a shrewd business man. But it was the attention of a classmate at school that taught a teenage Victor about his sexuality. When he came out to his parents he knew it would be difficult for them to understand, but he never expected them to disown him.
Andrew Jones grew up with a single mom and his grandmother teaching him about life; he had an absentee father at best. The only thing the man ever did for Andy that stuck was buy him a camera for his 13th birthday. When Andrew went off to college on a scholarship to study photo journalism, he wound up falling in love with his Romanian roommate.
They became inseparable and wound up starting their own business together; a gay porn website where people could go and watch romantic gay porn instead of the rough and tough, or wham bam thank you man crap that was flooding the Internet at that time. After 10 years together, they were still perfectly happy, but they didn’t even realize something was missing until they met a broken young man that needed a family.
Matthew Carlson was homeless, jobless, and broken. He’d been on his own since he was 16 when he ran away from home after being brutally assaulted by several other young men that he thought were his friends, and then being told he brought it on himself for being gay by his parents. Matthew has done a lot of things these last few years just to get by. When he finds the flyer for All Cocks, he decides to call and see where it leads. What has he got to lose?
Matthew has deep-rooted scars that aren’t usually visible on the outside. But when he walks into All Cocks, both Victor and Andrew see them, they also see him. Can three men that didn’t even realize they needed each other get past the stigma of society to find a place of happiness together?
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
I loved this! Joel’s voice, T. M.’s words = magic!
I thought this audio book was fantastic! I love audio performances by Joel Leslie and he sure didn’t disappoint me with this one. I read book one of the All Cocks Stories so I was familiar with all of the characters in Fame and Fortune.
While book one, Gay for Pay, focused on the main character of Christopher Allan Roberts and his journey to becoming an All Cocks model named Kris Alen, Fame and Fortune focuses on the triad/thruple of Victor, Andrew and Mattie who own/run/manage All Cocks. They were introduced in Gay for Pay but Fame and Fortune is their story and gives us the background on how they came to be in their ménage relationship.
Victor and Andrew have been together since college; they are much older than Mattie. They meet him when he applies for a job to be a model for All Cocks. Mattie has been through some awful things but he’s reluctant to tell Victor and Andrew everything.
Victor and Andrew take Mattie into their home to care for him and help him get his GED. As they spend more time with Mattie they both begin to realize that he means more to them than just someone they want to help.
This story invoked so many feelings while I was listening to it. Joel Leslie is brilliant at bringing T.M. Smith’s wonderful story to life. I love the accents he does and how easy it is to distinguish which character is speaking while listening to this story. Books that really touch me usually will bring on tears at some point while I’m reading. Joel Leslie can do the same thing to me when he brings an author’s words to life.
I will definitely be listening to more of the All Cocks Stories and reading the ones that aren’t yet available in audio.
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
A military brat born and raised at Ft. Benning Georgia; TM Smith is an avid reader, reviewer and writer. A Texas transplant, she now calls DFW her home. Most days she can be found curled up with a good book, or ticking away on her next novel.
Smith is a single mom of three disturbingly outspoken and decidedly different kids, one of which is Autistic. Besides her writing, she is passionate about Autism advocacy and LGBT rights. Because, seriously people, Love is Love!
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