Review: Melted the edges of my kindle
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
This is a novella. Short, Steamy, Sweet. Did I mention STEAMY? My kindle was getting melty at the corners.This doesn't happen often with me, but I was glad of the dictionary function on my device for many of the words. Kind of stopped me in my reading tracks a couple of times. I like learning new words, but this was beyond that.As I've been told by other editors, it's okay to skip relationship steps in erotica. So I read this as just that, erotica. And it worked nicely. They meet, there's that instant attraction...and then they act upon it. And, boy oh boy do they act on it! This book is filled with m/m love...m/f/m love...f/m/m love. I think that's actually what I liked the most about this. It's filled with LOVE scenes. It's really not just sex. Even in my erotica, I want there to be love and this book gave me that. I want to giggle and say: Many times, in fact!Marcus' art was a lovely extra layer here. I'm an artist myself and reading about his paintings made me want to SEE his paintings. Guess I will just have to imagine!If this were a full length book, I would have wanted to see a bit more fleshing out of some of the details. Owen's history was just glossed over. Would have liked to have seen more of that, and what happens with them in the future. Because I'd want to see babies! But as a novella, it was actually very well done. There was "enough" of the meat of the story. Well done!Yes, FOUR BOOKMARKS from me.I'd read more of this, for sure.*Thank you, NetGalley and Portia Da Costa, for the opportunity to read this ARC.This review may also be found at:Beyond the Squee: Book Reviewswww.beyondthesquee.com