Fame and Fortune

All Cocks Stories, Book 2

By: T. M. Smith

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Victor Dimir moved to America with his traditional Romanian parents when he was just a child. His Romani parents taught him their traditions and how to be a shrewd business man. But it was the attention of a classmate at school that taught a teenage Victor about his sexuality. When he came out to his parents he knew it would be difficult for them to understand, but he never expected them to disown him.

Andrew Jones grew up with a single mom and his grandmother teaching him about life; he had an absentee father at best. The only thing the man ever did for Andy that stuck was buy him a camera for his 13th birthday. When Andrew went off to college on a scholarship to study photo journalism, he wound up falling in love with his Romanian roommate.

They became inseparable and wound up starting their own business together; a gay porn website where people could go and watch romantic gay porn instead of the rough and tough, or wham bam thank you man crap that was flooding the Internet at that time. After 10 years together, they were still perfectly happy, but they didn't even realize something was missing until they met a broken young man that needed a family.

Matthew Carlson was homeless, jobless, and broken. He'd been on his own since he was 16 when he ran away from home after being brutally assaulted by several other young men that he thought were his friends, and then being told he brought it on himself for being gay by his parents. Matthew has done a lot of things these last few years just to get by. When he finds the flyer for All Cocks, he decides to call and see where it leads. What has he got to lose?

Matthew has deep-rooted scars that aren't usually visible on the outside. But when he walks into All Cocks, both Victor and Andrew see them, they also see him. Can three men that didn't even realize they needed each other get past the stigma of society to find a place of happiness together?

©2015 TM Smith (P)2016 TM Smith

fave characters of series

Vic, Matty, and Andy are my fave characters of this series and hearing their story brought to life by Joel was amazing. i found every aspect of this listen very enjoyable.

Loyalty, love and lust

Victor, Andrew and Mathew...what can I even say? These three compliment each other so well and you can honestly feel the intensity between them. Loyalty, love and lust, the perfect recipe for this "throuple."

Fantastic story

I’m so glad Joel Leslie took over this series since I wasn’t a big fan of the previous narrator. I loved getting the back story of Matty, Andrew and Victor’s relationship. Great story and narration!

Fantastic menage - excellent narration

We met this “throuple” in book one, so we “know how it ends” ;)
We get a very short back story on how Victor and Andrew met but the majority of the story is Matthew meeting the guys and his story.

I loved the background information and thought that the author did a fantastic job of showing us the love between Andrew and Victor without fixating on it, that way when we introduce Matthew it seems like a really solid triad without feeling like he was just an accessory.

For the most part I love how Victor is portrayed – protective, alpha, a bit “European” – but sometimes I think the way his speech is denoted feels a bit juvenile and less like someone who is learning a new language and more like someone who is learning to speak at all.

The other thing I don’t love about this series is the author lacks contractions in her writing. Natural speech and writing uses contractions almost all the time and this stands out as missing in this series.

I love the sense of family we get with All Cocks and the continuing thread that connects each story to the other.

I’ve really enjoyed this series and I think books one and two are my absolute favorite.

The audiobook for book one was fantastic and I hope we see more of them turned into audio format.

4 of 5 stars


Audio

Joel Leslie did such an amazing job with this! I love his Victor so much! It was a joy to listen to and I was so glad to see him doing the narration!

5 of 5 stars

Overall 4.5 of 5 stars

Actually amazing!

I liked the first book, but not the narrator. I almost didn't get this book because of that, however I needed to know Victor, Andy and Matthew's story. Imagine my surprise when the narrator started talking and it was one of my top 3 fave narrators, Joel Leslie!!! omg i was so happy. The story was sweet, made me laugh, tear up and squeal! Joel once again was amazing! I highly recommend this book!

Wow

Matthew, Andrew, and Viktor really had a journey to get to their HEA. I love reading about strong characters and Matty especially fits the bill. He went through the ringer and came out the other side stronger and still a sweet soul. What an amazing story and good narration.

fantastic

Fame and Fortune is the second book in the All Cocks Stories series by T.M. Smith. It is the story of how Victor, Andrew, and Matthew came together as a throuple. God, I love throuples!!! And this one builds from a sweet and protective friendship to a hot and steamy committed relationship. The characters are likeable - sweet and fun. They build a little family. The story had some drama and emotion, but also humor and a big dose of heat. It is written from multiple point of views and allows us to feel the many characters. Definitely a good read and made me anxious to read book three next.

Narration is done by Joel Leslie. Fantastic voicework and recording - clean, clear and smooth with emotion and personality. Very enjoyable listen.

Vic, Andy and Matty, the All Cocks power throuple.

Oh, what a difference a great narrator makes!
I liked book 1 in the series, but I just couldn't connect with the narrator's style. Joel Leslie's narration of this second book makes all the difference to turn a very good book into something even more special!
The book leads us through these three men story, from the very beginning, when Victor and Andrew become a couple, and then decide to create a gay porn studio, to when they meet homeless, scarred, hurt, 18 years old Matty. Through the years and all the events that bring the three men together.
A hurt/comfort story with some hilarious moments and many sexy times.
This series is just a pleasure to read, with enough plot to keep it interesting, but not so much angst that you bawl your eyes out while listening, and the wonderful plethora of characters is so endearing, this porn studio turned makeshift family, that I just can't wait to hear who's story is next.

Definitely recommended

I almost wish I'd listened to this first.

There was so much background about Victor and Andrew and how Matty came to be the third. I absolutely loved their story and how they came to be the threesome that they ended up with.

I didn't love the multiple jumps in the timeline, though. It made me feel as though, once again, I was missing some important parts of a story.

Overall, I'd totally recommend this one!

Great story brought to life by excellent narration

I don't know where to start... I already loved the book (the series really), but add Joel Leslie as the narrator and wow! Joel did a brilliant job giving Matty his voice - innocent, despite the hardship he'd endured, Victor sounded just the way I had imagined (I laughed many times at how Victor expressed certain phrases).
The book itself is great, I loved how their story spanned over about 5 years, so you get to see Matty grow more confident before he lets Victor and Andrew know that he wants to be with them. I have all 5 books (I hear there is a 6th???)
I am so hoping that Joel narrates the rest of the series.