Rarely Pure and Never Simple
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Angel Martinez
Format: ebook
Publish date: November 1st 2013
Publisher: MLR Press
Pages no: 145
Edition language: English
Series: Variant Configurations (#1)
What, it ended? Just like that? How is it possible? What about Shudder? I need to know more about Shudder! Oh, crool, crool almost-cliffy!!! Funny how I came to care about Shudder even more than Blaze or Damien. Of course, they are going to get their time together in the end, but poor Shudder, all a...
3.75 stars rounded upI have come to cherish Ms. Martinez's stories -- though not all of them are hits but I usually can enjoy her characters. Set in the future, variants are people who have developed certain abilities thanks to a new nucleic acid, Fredamine, which at first designed to alleviate a wi...
Overall I thought this was a very enjoyable sci-fi/dystopian romance about two very different “variant” men whose powers, personalities, and histories often keep them very separated from others, but who end up fitting very well with each other.What I liked:- I’ve only read one other work by Martinez...
4.5+ stars rounded up. I love a good paranormal/sci-fi story. Add in two quirky, very different, flawed but likeable men, smoldering sexual tension, a hurt-comfort theme, and a believable (to me anyway) romance, I'm happy. There is not a lot of smut in this book and that is more than ok with me. The...