Review: honest
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2011
After far too many M/M romances where even the sheer professionalism of the authors was to be questioned it was a great relief to be reading a work that may be far from perfect but is at least honestly and professionally done.First of all it is rather lengthy (and at $4,99 not overpriced), close to the average length of a common fantasy. Second the fantasy setting is not a poor excuse for sex scenes between men: this is a real, full fledged fantasy which happens to have two gay mains who fall in love and some gay or bi side characters.Plot and characterization are not flawless -and there is a marked difference in quality between the first third of the book and the last two thirds, these being worse- but they are well thought of and well executed. Nearly all the characters are fully rounded and fairly consistent. After the first third of the book the action slows down and there is a lot of talking instead, but the author manages to keep the interest up. Some redundancy cannot be avoided but it is tolerable.The writing is decent, there is even some good humor throughout. There are several typos and grammar mistakes (more in the last two thirds) that seem to be due to a bad spell-check software ('you're' confused with 'you've', etc.) but they are easy to sort out.Sex scenes are not many (which is good as they are no more than average) but explicit.All in all this is a satisfying, entertaining read: easy but not silly. I might give a try to more books from the same author.