Goldilocks and His Three Bears was my first m/m book. As expected, I did not find it erotically stimulating. There was some humor, and it was an interesting little dynamic. I've no real idea how to rate something like this. There was too much sex for me to rate it as I would rate a non-sexually graphic book. I can't rate the sex scenes for technical competence, pleasure to read, or anything like that. So, I'm left just marking the book "read".

Men on men action isn't really exciting for me. Why read? I was curious. I've read straight male-female erotic fiction. I've read lesbian erotic fiction. I've read bisexual erotic fiction. But I had never read male-male erotic fiction.

I would probably rate it, using GoodRead's little hints (ie, 2 = ok; 3 = like), two stars, but that doesn't really seam fair. As I would only rate it a 2 because I just found it ok. If I liked m/m fiction, I'd be able to fully rate the book. ( )

This one is a little funny jewel, I needed to stop reading it to go out dinner with a friend and I spent almost all the time trying to retelling all the funny scenes I read.

Brian is a walking trouble. Pretty, cute and innocent, he is a small-town guy who finds himself in big-city and feels empty and lonely. Young and without the money to go college he works as clerk in a food store and meanwhile browse the gay club trying to fill the void in his life. No string attach relationships don't help him and so when he meets Paul it's like a dream. A classical Leather Daddy bear, Paul is a control freak: his life, his home, even his relationships are perfect and "straight", exactly what Brian needs. After a while they seems to have found a routine and Brian is happy like a fish in his bowl. But then Paul has to leave town for work and he will be gone for six months. Brian risks to fall again in his unsteady status, when he meets Jim, another bear, but this time more the feed and caring type, and in fact his nickname is Momma Bear. Brian clings to Jim like a baby to his teddy bear, and when he discovers that Jim is also the roommate of Paul, he freaks a little, but then Paul is away and he really needs the comfort he finds in Jim's embrace. But Jim is a free spirit, he arrives and goes as the wind and when he needs to go he goes. He asks Brian to water the plants, and so Brian has at least the chance to be in the house where Paul and Jim made him so happy. After some weeks arrives Scott, the third (and last!) roommate: a ball of energy and more a pal friend than a lover, Scott fills a bit the void left by Paul and Jim. But when Brian awakes in bed with Scott and with Paul and Jim glaring over him, he knows that he needs to take some important decisions...

A funny and a bit porn retelling of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears fable, the roles are pretty clear: Daddy Bear is Paul, the more steady and controlled of all the group, he is the one to whom all of them relate when important steps need to be take; Momma Bear is Jim, big heart and big body, he is the gentle and comforting touch in the group, always ready to listen and always available to dispense big hugs; Little Bear is Scott, full of energy, happy-go-live man, maybe not just fully grown, a bear in training. All of them together fill all the demands of Brian, who need a crowded family to never again suffer from loneliness: fantastic the description of when Brian bounces having eat too much chocolate...

Of course it's a foursome, but of course, like always when the bed is a bit crowded, different bonds will form between the men, some strong and some weaker, some true love and some a friend with benefits type of relationship.

A.M. Riley is very good in giving to all the men a deeply and complete characterization and even if all turns around Brian, no one of the other bears remain without a personality. It would be wonderful if something like that could really happen in real life, since the home these four men build together is an happy haven and a place where love and comfort and joyous sex reign.

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