K. B. Forrest

I am baffled.

Not a single person in this book makes sense. Actually no, sorry, two of the characters do (sort of), but only because the first one is an abusive control freak, who happens to be a bad cop and the other one is his gay son, who runs away from home after being driven to the point of committing suicide (you can't expect any rational decision or thought from him after 18 years of physical and emotional abuse).
But, in all honesty, I could not put the book down. It was a very surreal reading.
Two stars, since the book kept me captivated (what's the next bizarre fact/event in this AU, what else can police get away with?) and also because I am a big sucker for poor abused cinderfellas.
Nope.... changing it to one star.



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I want to be honest: I bought this one cause I like the cover! Oh, I read before K.B. Forrest, and I like his writing style (her? really I don't know if he is a man or if she is a woman), but fantasy setting mixed with demons and black magic is not my stuff.

So before reading I put the book under a test: I confess, I read some pages in the middle, to know how to expect from the book, and to decide if I wanted to read it all, cause it's also pretty long. I liked it and so I decided it would be my evening read. But when I arrived at home I found another book in my mailbox, one I was waiting from a bit, and so I read it first (it was a short novel, so I had still the time to read both). The other book was pretty strong, and sincerely as second read maybe it would be better to choose something light, and instead I read this one. And it's not light at all!

Aryazate is the abandoned child of a sorcerer in the Persia of 500 b.c.: his father has killed his mother and then he has abandoned him. He was lucky to be take in and raised by a wealthy and kindly woman, Nizami. Only there was a little problem: Nizami has disguided him as her little child, died of fever... but her child was a girl and so she has raised Aryazate like a girl. Obviously now there is another little problem: at eighteen years old Aryazate has long passed the age when usually girls married, but HE can't marry. Another problem is that, when Aryazate is angry, he unleashes some uncontrolled powers, that can make him accused of sorcery: and with the witch hunt that roars in the kingdom, it's better not to raise unwilling attention.

Kavada is a poor blacksmith that Aeyazate helps. He is enthralled by his beautiful lady, even if he sees that she is not a ordinary woman: she is too beautiful and kind, and she has powers he has witnessed with his eyes. And even if he is only a poor commoner, he wants her as a man wants his woman... but when Aryazate will unveal her secret, will Kavada still want her... him?

Aryazate is decipted like the classical cute uke, but he is not at all a submissive: he is a very dominant character, even if his strenght is not from his body but from his magic. And also from his behaviour, cause Aryazate is also a spoilt son: his mother has never forbidden nothing to him and when he sees something he wants, he takes it without asking. And this time he wants Kavada, and he 'takes' him.

Kavada is a simple man. A man with the soul and the body of a warrior, but without the behaviour of a commander. He is glady to surrender without fight to Aryazate, and he never questions his lady. He worships her like a goddess and noone, or nothing, will change his mind.

The Sorcerer's Secret is a pretty complex novel, full of enemies who lurk in the shadows, and with some very unsettling twists. For someone who likes the fantasy genre, this is for sure an interesting read. And strange to say, I find that it has also a young adut feeling in it, like the classical adventure novels of the past.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1554871409/?tag=elimyrevandra-20… (altro)

Still Waters is very different from the last two books I have read by K.B. Forrest. Where Calor del Amor and Taino Ti have plenty of yaoi hints, in Still Waters you can find some of them but they are not the mainly aspect of the novel.

Charlie is an original southern man, good and bad things of Old South all together. He is loud and passionate, funny and nut. Yoshi is a Yakuza's son who wants to exile himself from the Family. He doesn't want to take the reign after his father but around him people are not so happy to let him live his life.

Charlie takes an immediate simpathy on Yoshi, better George, Charlie's "best friend" (his penis) tells him to not let go a fine specimen like Yoshi, no matter that Yoshi is not at all agreed to let "George" near him.

Still Waters is a blurr of situations, a novel packed of action and not so much of sex. Humor and crazy dialogues are main characters in this ebook, and between them, you can read of a growing attraction that will become love eventually. It's not a classical romance, and sometimes I have the feeling to read a John Belushi's play: the same crazy plot, like Blues Brothers or Animal House.

Gorgeous cover as always: K.B. Forrest is very lucky with her covers.… (altro)

Yuis is a 22 years old young artist. His work is strange, he is inspiring by his nightmares and no much people are interested in sell it. So he moves to New York and soon finds two persons interested: Felipe, a young man who believes himself descending from an ancient puertorican tribe, the Taino, and Albert, an old gallerist who obviously is more interested in the beauty face of Yuis than in his work. But also Felipe is enthralled by this young man, very feminine and innocent.

Magic, superstition and perilious all expect Yuis in his travel to his native Puerto Rico, and also the strong feelings he is experimenting for Felipe, a man. Yuis is confused: he is still virgin and he has never felt like this nor for women or for men. It is lust, passion or maybe love?

The story is very interesting, complex and with a growing plot. Felipe is a good character, but sometimes I'd like him more "man": he is physically strong but not at all at comfort with his sexuality, he still feels shame for the desire he has for men. Yuis is a spoilt puppy, ready to bite if someone try to near him. I like is naivete, but it feels odd in a 22 years old guy. In the development of the relationship I have preferred the next story by K.B. Forrest, Calor del Amor, but for the developtment of the plot, Taino Ti is in absolutely more complete and original. Both stories, are really strong yaoi element.… (altro)