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Deep

2017 • 123 pages

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15

This book is constructed well - the plot is predictable but I don't really mind that. Unfortunately, it does have one of my least favorite concepts in MM, gay for you, as well as a lot of present-day sensibilities, even though it's set in the future. The sci-fi trappings were not really important, which was disappointing.

One of the MCs has a lot of serious stuff in his past - unwilling sex work and related abuse and I didn't feel the author handled it with a lot of sensitivity. Specifically: Sean, the MC with the dark past, is coerced into sex by his former partner in crime, David; the other MC, Joel, knows that Sean doesn't want to be having sex with David. Joel masturbates to the sound of them having sex. That really bothered me and made it hard for me to sympathize with Joel at all.

But I don't usually read books with most of these themes - I wouldn't have read this if I'd known it was GFY - so YMMV.

May 20, 2016Report this review