Title : Escaping Camp Roosevelt
Author : Bryan T. Clark
Genre(s) : contemporary gay romance
Release Date : May 1st 2019
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“He’s a bad boy—cocky and damaged. So, why can’t I stop thinking about him?"
Broken Dreams
Sociable and unselfish, eighteen-year-old Tucker Graves loves two things—his darling little sister and the thrill of playing baseball. He never dreamed that he’d be homeless, but after a series of misfortunes, his life is nothing like he could have possibly imagined. Shocked and shattered, Tucker, his mother, and his baby sister now must brave the dangers of a dilapidated homeless encampment called Camp Roosevelt.
A Wounded Heart
Homeless since the age of fourteen, Dancer has mastered the tricks of living on the streets as a sex worker. The quiet, reclusive, and calculating ways of this twenty-year-old, green-eyed Adonis help him to survive. He hides his emotional scars from the world by interacting only with his clients, whose occasional bizarre requests he reluctantly fulfills. Dancer’s past has taught him to trust no one.
A Second Chance
When Tucker and Dancer come face to face on a stormy night, having been thrown together under the same roof, Tucker brings out a feeling in Dancer that he didn’t know still existed in him—desire. Neither man can deny the attraction he feels for the other. But some scars run deep, causing both Tucker and Dancer to question whether falling in love is even possible, especially when survival is on the line.
Bryan T. Clark is a multi-published, Rainbow Award-winning author and LAMBDA finalist.
*** One hundred percent of the royalties from the first year of this novel’s publication is being donated to the Larkin Street Youth Services/Castro Youth Housing Initiative. The CYHI provides transitional housing in the city of San Francisco, California, for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. Fear of being raped, abused, or murdered should not be a part of anyone’s youth.
“You make me feel alive,” he said, “and I don’t know if I want to feel that.”
Dancer had learned a long time ago to shut out his emotions. He lived alone, have sex for a living with strangers, get the money and move on. He didn’t like to be touched by people and shut himself from the world. But Tucker stirred something in him…and suddenly…he start to feel alive…
I have mixed feelings about this book. It certainly wasn't what I expected. With the blurb like that, the story actually come with good premise, but there’s some part that feels a bit off while I’m reading it.
I thought the first half of the book quite succeed squeezed my emotions. The past trauma and the struggles both main characters been through at their young age were close to reality. What Dancer been through to stay survive on the street since he runaway from home and being homeless for six years really broke my heart because it’s close to the reality about what young homeless LGBTQ teens must face these days. On the other hand, Tucker struggle to took care his drug addict mother and his 6 years old sister is another realty that happen in real life. And I really appreciate the way the author trying to portraying these side of social problems and put it on his book as an awareness.
But at what had happened at nearly end of the book had failed to maintaining the growing feels that successfully grabbed me right from the start. The story suddenly falls into some cliché scenes that made the story become just another so-so reading for me. Because the ‘escaping’ part in here turned out not like what I’ve expected…
And I must accepted the fact that Escaping Camp Roosevelt definitely far from what I expected. I didn’t say the book was not good or bad, this book actually come with strong and good story with good characters development, but it just not good enough for me….
But why 4 stars if it not satisfying me at some part?
That because the realness about the homeless background the author trying to portrayed in this book that concerns me. Because there’s a lot young men like Dancer and Tucker out there that still struggling to ‘escaping’ from the real Camp Roosevelt and needs helps…
In his work, he is known to push the boundaries with brilliantly crafted stories of friendship, love, complicated relationships, and challenges all woven into a hard-earned happily-ever-after.
When Bryan is not writing, he enjoys reading a great book, traveling, lying by a body of water soaking up the sun, and watching a good movie while snuggled up with his husband on the couch with their loyal companion Nettie, the Sheepadoodle.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Bryan has made his home and life in the Central Valley of California.
Author’s website: www.btclark.com
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