Review: Ditto Ditto Ditto, etc.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2012
No need to re-create what everyone else has said at length and so well, just my .02 in support of a wonderful author and a great book.  Latakia is a great story at a great price and it's long enough (finally) to resolve most of the plot points satisfactorily. No foreshortened novella here.  I enjoyed Latakia so much that I wrote the author a note telling him so.  Smith's other title for Kindle is Falling Off the Face of the Earth and it is also excellent.  A very different plot from Latakia, but just as good in its own way.Awhile back I read a review by someone who was perplexed about why women authors should be so popular when writing M/M romance.  I guess there just aren't enough men writing (except maybe Josh Lanyon--hope you're having a good sabbatical, Josh!) who are prolific enough, but when men like JF Smith write a gay romance it can hit all the right buttons and who cares what the gender is of the author anyway?  I think that's what makes a really fine author of romance of any kind--one who can people his or her world, real or created, with interesting characters in challenging situations with realistic conflict, humor, love and satisfying resolution without being cheesy or over the top.  JF Smith does that in spades.