This is super screwed up and bonkers. I didn't exactly dislike it, but it is creepy and insane, although it's more up front about it than most romances where that's the case. I'm going to hold off on stars, though.

It starts interesting, but becomes predictable and extremely boring after the initial mystery is solved and the story is repining itself over and over again. It could have made an interesting horror story, with an more logical, better worked out ending. Unfortunately the ending feels illogical due to out of character change of the personalities of the characters which are flat and undeveloped anyway.
I give it one star for the beginning and the idea of the spiral.
Spoiler:
The protagonist must be both a masochist and mentally unstable if at the end he even bothers to look at Walker.This is simply sick. ( )

I liked the idea of this book, but I felt like I was stuck in the movie Groundhog Day with each chapter. Walker would invoke his spell, Joel would try to resist, but they'd end up having sex, and Joel would get shorter, and some character in the story would mention something that happened in the last year that Joel didn't remember because he can only remember his original life. ( )

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. ( )

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.

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