Lenaribka

I have mixed feeling about this book: I like the idea, but I wasn’t quite convinced with the plot’s development. I like the writing, but I wasn’t emotionally deeply connected to the characters.
On the one hand, I found it good that the story was short and quick-paced, on the other hand, exactly the length of the novel didn’t give enough space for more necessary details and didn’t permit its proper development, IMO.

Harper Kidd, a marine archeologist, is is frustrated with his current job and his ex makes his life even more difficult. The timing for an offer from Stick, one of the best ROV operators and his best friend, to join her on a deep-sea dig in the Mediterranean, couldn’t be better. To take part on a sea salvage expedition close to the Greek cost on a beautiful boat equipped with the best laboratories and equipment seems like the dream comes true to Harper.



At the same time as he accepts a new job, Harper starts having very erotic dreams about a strange man, an ancient god Pelora -it's how the stranger introduced himself. These dreams are very intense and very real, and it takes a while for the dream to fade and reality to return, when Harper awakes. When the crew finds the ruins of the ancient civilization with a statue of an ancient god pelora, Harper is excited and confused at the same time. Is there a connection between their discovery and his erotic dreams? When Dimitris, his Greek captain, explains Harper who perola is – an ancient god of questionable parentage that travels between fantasy and reality and commits a sin for every good deed he does – events start to unfold with a dizzying speed, and suddenly Harper has to make a choice…

I am not a big fan of sex scenes at the beginning of the book, except gay erotica what this book is not. I need normally more time to build an emotional connection to the MC before they fall upon each other. Otherwise it feels like a manual for gay sex.


The bottom line:

Beautifully written, an entertaining story-line that is too complex to be told within 88 pages, it needs more development in all directions.
It is one of those books where many sex scene didn’t make it better, just the opposite.
Though, I already mention, the idea is refreshing and interesting.


***ARC provided to Gay Book Reviews by the author in exchange for an honest review.***