Review: Different and Quirky
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
In a not too distant future where skin on skin contact has been outlawed, two men struggle to handle their increasing attraction to one another. Sim houses exist to provide the populace with their designated orgasms as wireless sex is illegal due to an unprecedented number of diseases that medical science couldn't cure and overpopulation resulting in mass poverty. I was fascinated by this concept because I couldn't imagine living in a world with no skin to skin touching. I always enjoy this author's works so I was excited to read this story.Keith has been a sim house worker for fourteen years and sure, occasionally, he's thought about wireless sex but no one has ever tempted him enough to risk finding out. Until Aiden. Aiden has been seeing Keith every other week for months at the sim house. He always requests Keith as his tech and Keith is finding it hard to stop thinking about Aiden. They say curiosity killed the cat but I'm fairly certain humans have the upper hand when it comes to being curious. Keith is no different and he ventures underground with Aiden to a wireless lounge. What he sees there shocks and arouses him to no end. After going back to the lounge twice, Keith knows he can't do this anymore. He's jonesing for Aiden constantly and the sim orgasms just aren't cutting it any longer so he tells Aiden no more and walks away. Six weeks later Keith is going out of his mind and he rejoins Aiden at the lounge. This results in them escaping from a raid, with Aiden then disappearing for several weeks with no contact.I liked this science fiction world created by the author. Inevitably there was quite some predictability to the overall storyline but it was still an entertaining read. I might have liked a slightly different ending but they got their happy ever after and that will have to satisfy.NOTE: This book was provided by Loose Id for the purpose of a review at Rainbow Book Reviews.