Wicked Gentlemen
by Ginn Hale
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Read in February, 2008
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This was a good one. The book has two short stories and an epilogue. At first, I was disappointed that the first story ended and we moved away from the first person POV of Belimai, but the next story was even better.
My two gripes: a fade to black in the first story (I wanted to see! I'm a voyeur) and the abrupt ending. It wasn't a bad ending, just abrupt. I loved these characters and I wanted to be eased out of their lives, not dumped out.
Best part: Ginn Hale's sensual details that pull yo...more
My two gripes: a fade to black in the first story (I wanted to see! I'm a voyeur) and the abrupt ending. It wasn't a bad ending, just abrupt. I loved these characters and I wanted to be eased out of their lives, not dumped out.
Best part: Ginn Hale's sensual details that pull yo...more
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Read in December, 2007
"Wicked Gentlemen" is the perfect dark fairytale. A cross between steampunk and slash and oddly, for me, the Sherlock Holmes stories (maybe it was all the descriptions of Victorian style drawing rooms). From page one I was hooked, instantly drawn into Belimai and Harper's world, with the gestapo-esque Inquistioners, the horrific prayer engines, the nightmare landscape of Hell's Below and the promise of an illicit love affair.
All the ingredients of a good read were there for me, wel...more
All the ingredients of a good read were there for me, wel...more
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A dark and gloomy setting but a story that is warm and touching. Interesting characters. Decent plot. Sexy and elegant in an understated sort of way. The two things keeping me from giving it a full 5/5 are that a) it felt a little detached to me (emotions were not conveyed very well), and 2) I would have liked to see more of Belimai and William's first couple of months together (the bit between the end of the first part and the beginning of the second, which was time-skipped). Other than that th...more
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Read in January, 2008
Interesting ideas, executed mediocrely. Her prose is workman-like, and she's much better at writing action an intrigue than people's emotions. Lots of telling rather than showing.
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Read in January, 2008
What an intriguing premise! Too bad the author wasn't able to really develop the characters or, well, the story into anything substantial.
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