3.5 starsThis book is alternately fantastic and boring. It's a very long book, and the story isn't so long. There's repetitive issues. (You say you're attractive, Ben? To both sexes? Because sexy model man? Noooo, tell me MOAR.) And pacing issues. There are pages about how Ben feeeels, but he's t...
Just as with the book comment then—can’t believe you’ve done it in reality meaning always knew you would. That kind of misunderstanding. The one Ollie hadn’t taken any offence at because at that time in their relationship he’d thought they actually had one of those—a relationship̵...
There was some connection, that was certain. As they’d unpacked at home in Devon, his new phone had rung—the one Ben had given him for his birthday. Not many people had his new number yet, so he picked it up warily, frowning and then mouthing, “Philipa,” at Ben. He took th...
Nikolas tipped Ben out of the hammock onto the deck. “Fucking hell!” Ben rose groggily to his feet. “Wh―?” “Look at me!” Ben peered. As far as he was concerned, Nikolas looked pretty good naked in the morning light, his usual morning erection flushed dark on his belly. He was just about to cli...
I had Stephen show me the way down to the banqueting hall. The evening meal was not to be taken in the airy dining room I had eaten luncheon in but in the more formal and ancient hall in honor of the king’s return to health. Something of an impromptu celebration had been ordered. There was ...
We knew what lay beyond only from tales—me from listening to Etienne, and Aleksey from stories he heard at the colony on the coast. Thus I knew that there was a great confluence of rivers at this point and that the combined power of their joining ran for a mile or so as one mighty river bef...
For the last year or so, he and Nikolas had both made more effort to show the shared nature of their lives in their living spaces. There were one or two pictures of Nikolas now, more of Ben, but some of them together, taken by their friends, which Ben had put up. They look...