Want Me

by Rowan McBride

Joel Beckett is blessed. He's popular with the ladies, a star on the football field, and worshiped by everyone on campus. Including Walker Cain. Only Walker's worship has crossed the line, driving him... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587369346
• ISBN13: 9781587369346
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Wheatmark
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Magical realism, urban fantasy, (you say potato)

I can't say enough good things about Rowan McBride and his handling of this book. He's created engaging characters and a story that captures your attention because it's part mystery, part love story, and part horror. I don't think it's going too far to say that I couldn't put the book down. What McBride creates is a seductively simply fairy tale that on the face of it, is just another snapshot of college life, the football hero and geek dorm roommate. But when things change for the main character, Joel Beckett, at first subtly and then with a snowball effect that becomes more and more frightening for him, he has to change everything he thinks and everything he knows with each new reality he's experiencing. Joel's geek roommate Walker Cain is far more than he seems on the surface, amoral, extraordinarily powerful and completely immature. I don't know why I loved this book so much, except that I never once knew where it was going to take me. I genuinely cared about and feared for Joel, but found myself not unsympathetic to Walker. I've not only given this five stars, I've recommended it on my own blog and yahoo group.

Fantastic

This was the first m/m book I've ever purchased. I actually bought it because I like the author as a person, buuuutttt, I couldn't put it down it was so wonderful I found myself reading every second of the day. I read it cover to cover before six p.m. My mail doesn't come until afternoon sometime! I can't wait to purchase another.

A campus tale with a twist - A MUST READ!!!

This is one of a very few books which does everything right. It combines very believable and interesting characters with an exciting and thrilling story and tops it all of with a sweet description of blossoming love under weird circumstances. The story itself combines the typical campus elements with ancient magic and thus is a different and fresh idea. Joel Beckett is a star on the football field and from the outside an archetype of a college athlete. On the inside he might not be at all satisfied with his life, although being admired and worshiped definitely isn't a bad thing in his eyes. Walker Cain on the other hand is a skinny young man, who has never been admired and more often been met with mistrust and rejection. And these feelings he provokes in other people are not completely unfounded as a dark curse was cast over his family in ancient times. But this curse also enables him to do magic and he invokes this ancient magic to get the one thing he wants most ... Joel Beckett. Rowan McBride did an amazing job in describing her characters to a very deep level and also the motivations behind their actions. As Joel and Walker are dragged away by the ancient magic Walker has provoked, not only their persona changes but also their entire way of reasoning. Nevertheless both characters never appear unbelievable and thus the reader is captivated by Joel's and Walker's story from beginning to end. Loved this book and without hesitation recommend it as a must read.

A Deffinite Must Read!

I absolutely loved reading Want Me. From start to finish the book is exciting and something completely new and different. Rowan is great about coming up new ways to tell a story and this novel did not disappoint. I would recommend this novel to anyone who loves a great story with all of the love, angst, and spice that could make anyone happy. To give a quick and short description of the book: Joel is a star football player with everything. Walker is a skinny, geeky young man with a curse. Both have their faults and when Walker casts a spell that locks them into a downward spiral with ancient magic, only love and honest can redeem them both. Sounds good right? You will love the book.

Want Me by Rowan McBride

Rowan McBride has a series of stories about the "growing muscle" event: one or both main characters change their looks to suit the taste of their beloved. Joel is the perfect guy: six foot six of football player, he is not the usual jock, he has also a thinking brain. But he is too used to be adored by everyone, he can have all the girls he wants and all the friends he likes. At 19 yd he is the raising star of his college. But everyone around him continue to warn him against his college roommate, Walker Cain, a creepy geek, always with a book in hand and that everyone seems to avoid. Walker is a skinny guy, five foot four, all bones and big eyes. But he has a costant perfume around him that appeals a lot to Joel, and told be truth, Joel likes to be around Walker. Obviously not in a sexual way, Joel has never had a second though on Walker in that way, but still he is comfortable around him. Walker is cursed. He is the last descendent of the biblical Cain, and he now belong to a long line of wizard. All the Cain has the chance to cast a big spell in their life and Walker chooses to use it to bond Joel to him forever: through the bond he can make Joel doing everything he wants, and he forces Joel to have sex with him. Everytime Joel reaches a climax, he passes to Walker some of his strenght and physical appereance. Both Walker and Joel think that the spell will stop when both of what Joel was will be pass to Walker, but they are wrong. And things seem to spiral down to a unthinkable end. Joel is a character in travel: during the book he will experiment many lifes and different perspective and he will learn to deal with them. You can think that Joel is a victim, but truly he "needs" this experience to see the world in the right perspective. All the things he gives granted to his physical strenght, could be not so granted if you are weaker, but you can also learn that your attitude can represent you more than your look. Walker is a sociopathic, no doubt in that. And he is also very selfish and without regrets. Even when he could see all the wrong things he has done, still he is not repentant: maybe, he says, he would do something different, but still he would cast the spell to bond Joel. Cause he wants Joel. Walker is not a good person: I think he can play the role of a good person if he has by his side Joel, but left alone, he can be a lethal weapon. He has not conscience by himself, his conscience and his good behaviour are given by Joel. For this reason, the bond between Joel and Walker is almost a sickly one. But it is also a very powerful and enthralling one. Want Me is a very original and powerful book, a pretty long story which will take you bond to the book till the last page.