Last Chance is nerd vs jock college boys themed story mixed with a very light and funny intake on a vampire gothic one. Even if Aric is a little older than Stu, post graduate and under graduate, both of them are basically still young boys with the need to find their real path in life and an independent one from their respective family. On both Aric than Stu’s shoulders weight the expectations of their families and this is greatly conditioning them.

Aric is a Life Sciences student, too pretty for his own good and gay. If not for being cute like an exotic elf (he has Japanese origins), Aric is a classical nerd, with all the prejudices nerds have on jocks: he admires from afar their muscular bodies, but he doesn’t judge them able of rational thinking. And when one of them knock him down with a football ball on his head, it doesn’t help on his idea; but Stu is not your classical jock, he is also a Lit student with a passion for Romantic poets and the firm belief that true love is out there for him, and he has to wait for it. Now, it’s not that Stu is a total virgin, but to a drunken night out, he prefers a little chat in front of a coffee.

Just like that, with these two characters who play to tear down the stereotype on nerds and jocks, the story would be nice, but the author added the spicy of the paranormal element: Aric was bitten by a vampire and now he is slowly turning into one; he is desperately searching for a cure, using his studies to find a serum and in this moment he has not time for love, above all if love has the face of a straight jock who has no experience at all with guys.

On the other hand Stu is not exactly the dumb jock he appears to be: he is from a long line of vampire slayers, and he is trying to deny his heritage; he is not mean enough to kill the bad “vampires”, he seems always to find a reason to justify them. And when he discovers Aric’s problem, instead of considering him one more fledging vampire to kill, he proclaims himself his protector, never mind that Aric is older and more experienced than him, and that after all, Stu is not exactly the most skilled vampire slayer on the game. Lucky for him, his older, and gay, brother Corbin is there to help, since, truth be told, Stu is facing the issue like it was a big game he has to win, not really like a life risking battle.

In all of this, Aric is strongly trying to convince himself that, first he has not to fall for a straight jock who is probably only momentarily bi-curious, and second that he is too dangerous for Stu, not only since he is a vampire, but also since he is gay, and this means ruining Stu’s perspective for a professional future in the NFL. But his mind says one thing and his body does exactly the opposite, fully enjoying debauching the fair headed angel to make him passing to the “dark” side, in more meanings than the most obvious (Aric, by the way, has very long and luscious jet black hair).

Never once I had the feeling that Aric or Stu were really in danger if not of loosing their hearts to love, and so Last Chance is basically a cute and sweet college romance.

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