Victor J. Banis on PULL by Bryl R. Tyne

Okay. We authors adore great reviews, but to get a review from another author, an awesome author, one of my FAVORITE authors…Excitement, hyperventilation, the ultimate high…all understatements, surely.

Pull
By Bryl Tyne
Dreamspinner Press 2009

Reviewer: Victor J. Banis

The late Carole Lombard is alleged to have said, pertinent to Clark Gable’s sexual equipment, “Pappy ain’t got much, but what’s down there is cherse.”

The same could be said of this admittedly slim bit of erotica. Not a lot of words, but what’s here is choice. For whatever reason (and you’d think it would be otherwise) most writers don’t do maverick all that well. More often than not, it comes out all poses and bluff, like little boys playing at pirates. On the other hand, from what I’ve seen, this author’s chosen are almost inevitably the misfits, the square pegs in the round holes, the lost lambs. Indeed, Bryl Tyne could well be the poet laureate of the outsider.

The protagonist here is Chaz, a classic square peg—outside the family who booted him, outside the school that dropped him and, after getting arrested in a raid on a sex hangout, inside jail, which is way outside the borders of polite society. So when he gets an offer for rehab…but, I really can’t tell you much more of the plot without giving it all away.

Don’t expect a lot of subtleties here. This is wham-bam man on man action, with just enough story to hold it all together, though I’m willing to bet you’ll be rooting from the beginning for outsider Chaz to find his way in from the cold.

If this is your cup of tea, you’ll find it well-brewed. But, be forewarned, Reverend, it’s definitely not for the prim and prissy.

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