Review: good but outrageously expensive
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2011
I have just one complaint about this product but it is vital: its price.This is no more than a short story but there is no way to realize it beforehand. At $8,84 (as of June 20th, 2011) I felt cheated. Outright cheated.(Amazon should really find out a way to clear this grey area of not knowing how long a work is)One may say that quality lies not in length but although this story is good it is not Shakespeare and simply is not worth that much.To the story itself, now.Ms March plunges us directly in medias res which is nearly always a good way to start a story.Jasper, a beautiful male prostitute working in a house catering for the wealthy in regency London, is 27 and has more than enough money to retire. He has had more than enough for years (did a common prostitute of the time working in a brothel, even one for the upper classes, earn as much? Allow me to doubt it for a moment) but chooses not to because he pines for one of his customers, ruggedly handsome Nathaniel, who visits the establishment often and always requires his services and his services only, treating him like a friend.Hardly anything happens in these pages, the author is clearly more interested in outlining characters the reader is able to feel for and situations who are so much the more dramatic because rather understated. She does it well even if, at times, Jasper felt passionate but not overly male. A switch of names and he could have been a woman in some pages.The writing is good, grammar in order, sex scenes well executed. The atmosphere is romantic but not saccharine and a believable happily ever after completes a reading experience which is pleasurable if short (and pricey).