My 2024 Reading Challenge for the month of February will be Beat The Backlog work (digital and print books). I'm going to start with the Monsters & Mayhem series (a mm collection of classic horror adaptations with a romantic twist). The eleventh and final book is "M.M. Scrooge" by Lee Colgin; it's a Christmas Carol retelling.
["Marley Jacobs is dead, and Max Masters Scrooge has no time for the grieving son’s sob story. Even if Jacobs Jr. is kinda cute—for a nerd.
Daniel Jacobs is anxious, drifting, and lonely. His gut tells him he’s overdue for a dose of self care, but the thought of setting foot in a gym gives him hives. Though he craves gentle guidance, what he gets is the heavy hand of the gym’s head trainer and sleaziest playboy, Max Masters.
Accustomed to topping the leader board, among other things, Max sells Daniel on his gold package. After things get steamy in the locker room showers, Max is ready to make like a ghost and vanish, as usual. But this time, he won’t get away with his selfish antics, not if a vengeful past hookup with a powerful uncle has anything to say about it."]
Because I know the original text so well, this was both not what I expecting at all and a little predictable (in a good way). I loooove knowing the characters and side characters though from Dickens, because Lee turned sick little Timmy into a cute, drolly doggo (and I'm h e r e for it).
Not gonna lie, Max full on deserved a lot of what happened to him when the ghosts of sex/relationship past visited him. He was (is--but trying now) a selfish, uncaring, isolating ass. At least Daniel gets all of the rewards from Max's new lease on life/love. ;)
Trigger Warnings: death of a parent, poorly negotiated BDSM elements, sex as punishment, and more
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