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nicoledeamon's review
3.0
One of the few "erotic" books I have read that is more romance than erotic. But when the heroes do finally have sex the scenes are to graphic for the romance genre.
suze_1624's review
3.0
I got this from the author in this year's HAHAT event.
In the story, Donny a spoiled kid (he's22 but still young) of privilege, is thrown out of his home by his homophobic father. I liked that we started the story in the gutter with Donny, he was a whinny spoiled kid, thinking how he could play the situation when he first met Peter - though reality crashes around him the next day. It was an almost comical lurching from one near arrest to another. Donny soon has to grow up in a tough world where he has to work and live in less than surroundings. Whilst there are others around Donny, helping him be a better person, it is almost a one MC story, as I found the other characters very much in the back ground.
I really liked the story, got emotionally involved with it but had some issues with the execution which left me conflicted a bit as to how to rate. I felt that the characters were a bit flat, introduced as are with no background and build up. I appreciate that Peter is there as the Good Man, and he was, but I felt he was a bit of a shadow and came across to me as almost simple, probably through lack of build up to his history. Also the bad boy Stone, put in as a foil to show Donny what he had been, didnt have that evil, bad boy vibe really. There were a couple of dangling threads that at the end, I thought 'what happened to x'.
So, if I had a sliding scale, the story would rate 3.5 - 4 for story, 3 for execution. An interesting tale of bad boy making good or himself and others.
In the story, Donny a spoiled kid (he's22 but still young) of privilege, is thrown out of his home by his homophobic father. I liked that we started the story in the gutter with Donny, he was a whinny spoiled kid, thinking how he could play the situation when he first met Peter - though reality crashes around him the next day. It was an almost comical lurching from one near arrest to another. Donny soon has to grow up in a tough world where he has to work and live in less than surroundings. Whilst there are others around Donny, helping him be a better person, it is almost a one MC story, as I found the other characters very much in the back ground.
I really liked the story, got emotionally involved with it but had some issues with the execution which left me conflicted a bit as to how to rate. I felt that the characters were a bit flat, introduced as are with no background and build up. I appreciate that Peter is there as the Good Man, and he was, but I felt he was a bit of a shadow and came across to me as almost simple, probably through lack of build up to his history. Also the bad boy Stone, put in as a foil to show Donny what he had been, didnt have that evil, bad boy vibe really. There were a couple of dangling threads that at the end, I thought 'what happened to x'.
So, if I had a sliding scale, the story would rate 3.5 - 4 for story, 3 for execution. An interesting tale of bad boy making good or himself and others.
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