Lubrican has a talent for heartwarming smut. When you read one of his books, you know that sex is in the offing, but your emotions are nearly always engaged before the act occurs. His characters are subject to lust, but they go through a gamut first—guilt, compassion, fear, protectiveness, jealousy. And, almost as inevitably, the conclusion leaves more than the senses satisfied: his heroes end up making someone else happy.The Last Wish Blues has more emotions than most before any kind of fulfillment. The protagonist, Bob, is suffering from an almost crippling emotional loss, when he encounters a girl in more dire circumstance still. Brenda came to his dude ranch as part of her last wish. The two young people go through a trip full of emotional growth before even a hint of lust shows up. The first part is a tear-jerker; but Lubrican succeeds in limiting the angst. A gradual romance develops, through glimpses of humor, discovery of nature, and compassion. The tragedy is at last averted, and wish-fulfillment-style happy ending sets in, but so smoothly that it does not cheapen the suffering before.
And impressively for a relatively short work, even the secondary characters add color. Brenda's parents' fear and desperate hope; and Bob's friends' compassion make the story even more engaging.
The author crafted engaging characters, and deftly steered a narrow path between melodrama and callousness. The end result is more of a Romance than Erotica, but no less exciting for all that. The Last Wish Blues can be found on here on Amazon.com.
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