Rory knows better than
to get involved with someone whose first love is their Job.
Unfortunately, chief of Security Jin won't take no for an answer.
Rory
has a rather intimidating personal problem: Teradyne Corporation's
chief of security, Jin. Despite his attraction to the dark-haired elite,
Rory knows better than to get involved with someone who's first love is
their Job. Unfortunately, Jin doesn't seem to want to take 'no' for an
answer.
Comment: I've had this one to read for a long time and I only got it because I enjoyed some other things by the author. However, this one fell flat because it was a short story and I don't think it as enough time to develop the characters or their personalities. The storyline had interesting elements but the personal side wasn't as well done. I didn't feel any empathy towards the two main characters and when the story ended I wasn't sorry to see it over. This is set in a futuristic world bu I wished for a more conventional personal development.
Grade: 3/10
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Humans have the option
of separation, divorce, and heartbreak—for Corinne Carol-Anne
Kirkpatrick,
sorceress and queen of the vampires, the choices are
limited to love or death. Now that she is back at Green’s hill and
assuming her duties as leader, her life is, at best, complicated.
Bracken and Nicky are rivalling for her affections, Green is gone taking
care of his people, and a new supernatural enemy is threatening the
sanctity of all she has come to love. Throw in a family reunion gone
bad, a supernatural psychiatrist and a killer physics class, and Cory’s
life isn’t just complex, it’s psychotic. Cory needs to get her act
and her identity together, and soon, because the enemy she and her
lovers are facing is a nightmare that doesn’t just kill people, it
unmakes them. If she doesn’t figure out who she is and what her place is
on Green’s hill, it’s not just her life on the line. She knows from
hard experience that the only thing worse than facing death is facing
the death of someone she loves.
Because loving people is easy—living with them is what takes the real work, and it’s even harder if you’re BOUND.
Comment: This is the third story in this series and this time there's another villain to conquer. The story doesn't run away from what we were used to in the first two books, but as always we see a lot of inner thoughts and interactions. Although the storyline doesn't feel like it's that different, there's no doubt it provides quite the emotional ride because all characters show their feelings, their issues and t some point everything is discussed. I think the author does good job showing the reader what can be inside someone's head, no matter the humanity of the subject. This isn't as bad or as good as I thought after the first book, but I can't say it isn't emotional and thoughtful.
Grade: 6/10
In fairy tales, foxes are said to be possessed by demonic spirits - but
especially fox masks. Rusty is a professional costumer with an exotic
black fox mask that he'd created after a strange accident in the woods
his senior year in high school -- an accident that left an odd scar on
his throat. An accident he can't remember. As far as Rusty's concerned,
what he doesn't know can't hurt him. A gorgeous young actor with the
same face from Rusty's most erotic dreams, walks into Rusty's costume
shop claiming that he has a fox mask just like Rusty's, though white.
"I'll show you mine, if you show me yours." Rusty is about to discover
that what he doesn't know - hasn't forgotten him at all.
Comment: Like with most books I own, this is another one I had here since..I don't even remember when. It was here and since I have this personal rule of reading two LGBT books every month..this time, this one was one of them.
This is a fantasy story, based on the myth of the fox kines.These beings are part of the oriental cultures, namely the Japanese, and the author included them in this shounen-ai story.
Rusty is an artistic, he creates masks and costumes and is successful at his work. He has a dark fox mask he created after an accident when he was younger and that was the starting point of his career. One day he meets Shiro, who ordered costumes to a play where he participates, and is as if they knew each other but that can't be possible, since Rusty doesn't remember him. However, Shiro says he has a mask too, but in white. This can't be possible either, for Rusty only did the one he has. But things are about to come to the surface and Rusty will definitely have to deal with it.
I liked this story. I didn't love it but I liked to spend the time I had to get it read. It's a more substantial read than Torrid - which I have too - but fantasy, where Torrid is contemporary.
The author has a very direct style, she doesn't spend very long on details, unless they're part of the story. On one hand, this is good, for the reader doesn't have to feel things take too long..but it has the other side, where some parts of the story start to feel a bit rushed. This happened specially at the end, where a whole new lot of possibilities begun and the reader is left wondering what might happen, how things work there...this is a case where a bigger story or a follow up would be welcome.
The characters were both very interesting. I liked their characterization, although at some points I wish we could've seen a bit more of Shiro's thoughts. I guess it's an author's trademark, the POV from only one character, but some parts really could've used Shiro's. As for their behavior in the story, well, to be expected. Nothing amazing happened, because after a while you get to see what happened to Rusty and what the meaning of all the clues about him and his art and his past. Still, a very entertaining story.
I still have one story by the author to read...probably next year...
