This is a great, if unfortunately much too short, read. The story only gave me a glimpse at the Star Mage's world, but it has me intrigued.

Galen and Anzel are great characters, both having been exiled from home for who they are, but with very different results. Galen doesn't trust easily and Anzel is very patient with him. In that, the story resembles others with that type of plot.

What makes it different is the world it takes place in. This also allows the resulting solution to have a slight twist versus what you might "expect". I would love to read more about their adventures. ( )

Quite a complex plot for being barely a novella length story; in a fantasy/futuristic world, once that reverted back to more or less medieval times, Galon is a mage and he is a man’s man. For a mage that is not acceptable, also since mages have to reproduce as much as possible being theirs an hereditary trait. But Galon is not able to renounce to his most basic desires and so he is often in danger, like this time when Anzel arrives to save him.

Anzel is the scion of a wealthy and important family, and the power of his family name protects him even if he is the same as Galon; Anzel helps Galon and offers him shelter and love, something that Galon has never had in all his life.

I’m really surprise on how much the author packed in only 29 pages, she often did some elapses in time, but that didn’t diminish the strength of the story. The strange thing is that, this plot works in 29 pages but it would have been probably worked also in a longer fashion, probably even in an epic fantasy.

There is a latent sensuality in all the story, even if this is definitely not an erotic romance, so that it resembles more a story you can tell for goodnight.

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