Review: Well worth the money - but beware truly an adult genre
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
The scene is set straight away in this book. Absolutely no messing about as a graphic description of the main protagonists Ben and Hugo having sex unfolds across the first few pages. This theme is carried on for many more pages as Ben and Hugo celebrate their civil partnership and then head off to Cape Town for their honeymoon. Theirs is quite clearly not a monogamous relationship by any means and although it's Ben who appears to play way from home, it's actually Hugo who we first encounter having extra marital sex with a room service waiter whilst on the penultimate day of the holiday. You know trouble is brewing though, right from the mysterious exit of the unnamed wedding guest from the ceremony, to the two observersbehind the bushes watching Ben sunning himself by the pool.The plot thickens with Ben's abduction and Hugo's frantic search for him, and the involvement of Mr Mystery and the two poolside voyeurs becomes clearer. If you forget about the sex scenes for a moment, there's a bit of an undercurrent flowing though the book. Abduction and rape as well as the message of the acceptability of promiscuity can be a bit much at times, and some of the sex appears there just because it can be. However, this is a well constructed plot line for all that and although you get the impression that for many gay men, love is just not enough, there's a big dose of redemption in this book too. The two characters are very different in their outlook on life by the end of the book.I love Cape Town and the story has a special resonance with me knowing the locations described in the book, bringing much of it to life for me. The writing is very fluid and it is,  for all the gratuitous sex and the  increasingly disturbing nature of the action, a real page turner. Well worth the money, but of course with extremely `'adult' content of a specialized nature, it's not perhaps main stream enough for you to leave open on your Kindle!