Review: for m/m lovers and connoisseurs of excellent writing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2012
Many readers can enjoy books of dubious quality, so long as there are at least a few enjoyable aspects.  Others of us are tormented by a discerning appreciation for character, dialogue, emotional interplay, humor, plot, action, setting, language, flow, style, originality, and so on.  And so we read Harper Fox, and let out long, exhaling breaths when we first pick up and begin her books.Ms. Fox writes intelligently, evocatively, expertly, realistically, romantically.  She can also pen a steamy sex scene, and in a field where too many authors too frequently write traditional male/female protagonist couples, and then change the gender of the female protag to technically fit m/m conventions - but alter nothing else - Ms. Fox instead gives us authentic gay men.  Her protagonists are imperfect, sometimes broken, and they speak and breathe and live as assuredly as anyone in real life.  Sometimes they screw up royally; other times they are simply heroic.  I want to meet these men, talk with them over a pint, become friends ... and more.  Even her "jerks" have three dimensions.The is one vast flaw with Ms. Fox's work.  It is that she apparently cannot just wink her creations into existence.  So here I am, having devoured another book, knowing it will be months until the next one.  It's alright though.  I know the wait will be worth it.