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That's What Brothers Do

by Derekica Snake (Goodreads Author)

3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 · rating details · 573 ratings · 92 reviews

To save his family, he sold his innocence.
To save his sisters, he sold his body.
To save his love, he sold his soul.
Why?
That's what brothers do...

That's What Brothers Do has been picked up for publishing by SL Publishing Group. It has been re-written and professionally edited. It is slated for release in Spring 2012.

Paperback, 1st Edition, 167 pages

Published February 1st 2009

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Nov 09, 2011 Lauraadriana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Lauraadriana by: Mel

Shelves: m-m, recommended, cried-like-a-baby, favorites, loved-it, troubled-past

So what is the face of evil? Is it the face of a criminal who has to corrupt a boy's innocence to get what he is owed, but manages to make sure that that innocence if harried, and stained, remains unbroken? Or is it the face of a father whose weaknesses end up in the destruction of his family, and the sale of his son? Or even beyond that, is it the indolent face of a broken system that allows the cost of treating an illness to spiral down into a nightmare where people lose everything they have?...more So what is the face of evil? Is it the face of a criminal who has to corrupt a boy's innocence to get what he is owed, but manages to make sure that that innocence if harried, and stained, remains unbroken? Or is it the face of a father whose weaknesses end up in the destruction of his family, and the sale of his son? Or even beyond that, is it the indolent face of a broken system that allows the cost of treating an illness to spiral down into a nightmare where people lose everything they have? Evil has many faces, so does honor, courage and strength. Sometimes they can all live in the same place...These thoughts were all floating around my head, barely a third into this book. This book is NOT easy, it is brutal, it is raw and it is harrowing. But IT IS GOOD.

Brant Williams offers himself off as payment to Wilber, the man that held his family's fate in his hand. Wilber takes Brant, and whores him out for 10 years. In those 10 years Brant loses too much, but Wilber in the end gives him back his heart. He becomes Brant's safety, his lover, his steady solid place. Things never do get easier for Brant. He is thrown into a hard life that becomes part of who he is and all he really knows.

These men live in a dark world, where people are killed, tortured, bought and sold and worse. And here is where perspective comes in handy. Because as much as it is hard to reconcile sometimes. There IS a place for love, even in a nightmare. There IS a place for honor and courage even at our lowest moments. There IS a place for happiness in places where it should never take root.

COMPROMISE, that's the word I arrived to with this book. Because in life, for the most part, we can never have it all. The trick is figuring at what we'd rather have.

Brant is a martyred soul, whenever he needs to chose between himself, and sacrificing those he loves. He never choses himself. Those decisions teach him many lessons. Like, sometimes those who you sacrifice for, are not always deserving. Or that finding something to cherish can change what you thought you wanted and who you thought you could be.

Despite it's imperfections this story had an awesome point of view, and an incredibly generous take on morality, mercy, compassion, and right and wrong. And what those words can mean given the circumstances.

Brant and Wilber's story ended well, with a ray of light. Did it have it's shadows? Yes, but it still shined bright.

Not perfect, there were issues with editing and tons of typos. But I'd still give it a solid 4.5 stars

Hard read, but I highly recommend this book.(less)

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Nov 06, 2011 Emanuela ~plastic duck~ rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Emanuela ~plastic duck~ by: Valentina Heart

Shelves: rainbow-gay, glbt, contemporary, romance

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is really one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If you consider every single theme and try to see it under the light of your ordinary life, there's not a single behavior that can be condoned. How can you rape a boy for years and take care of him at the same time? How can you love the man that has taken your innocence away? And when you're given a way out, how can you be loyal to the man that abused you and killed your inner light?

But if you consider all these things in the world depicte...more

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Nov 02, 2010 Arzu rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Arzu by: Valentina Heart

Shelves: mm-romance, mm-qgbc-4-2010, ebooks-owned

Great book!! Not your typical romance but awesome!! Violent, no values, no morality!! Wouldn't recommend it for the light-hearted, but everybody else ... just read it!!

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Nov 06, 2011 Mel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: e-book, m-m

Wow. I finished this in one sitting, which is rare for me, but for this book I was up reading until morning. Annoyed at first with the, at times, very sloppy writing and lack of editing (typos, bad grammar). Disappointed with some stylistic choices (like using flashbacks or just skimming very important scenes). All in all: technically speaking there was a lot of room for improvement.

But the book got to me on an emotional level. I had a constant knot in my stomach while reading. I was engrossed,...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Emma rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: rent-boy, courtesan, organised-crime, reunited, rape, abusive-relationship

Aw, that was suprisingly sweet! Kind of like a cross between Pain and . . . pain?, Forgotten, and Muffin, if you imagine that Traxie had just gone on holiday to a tropical island, and arrived to find endless free coffee gelato, a houseboy dedicated to giving foot rubs, and Maru i.e. in a very happy mood.

So, although this is a about a 14 year old boy raped and forced into prostitution, followed by a life as a courtesan in the mob, it is not a dark fic.

I read one version of the original story, an...more

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Sep 09, 2011 Heather C rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Heather C by: Nikyta

Shelves: bdsm, dubcon-rape, ebook, enemies-to-lovers, m-m, read-2011, read-with-n

I really loved this book but it has to be one of the hardest books I have ever read. It was shocking and horrific and disgusting. I never cried but I did gag a few times. I think I was in too much shock to cry! Also, my chest was tight and I was nauseous throughout the entire book.

The story is about Brant, who sold himself at the age of 14 to protect his sister and pay off his father's debt. He is immediately raped by Wilbur and then pimped out by him for the next 10 and a half years. Somehow, d...more

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Jan 23, 2012 JustJen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mm, ebook

Holy cow, I loved this story. It is not for the faint of heart, and I really hope there aren't things like this going on in the real world, at least I would like to believe there aren't. I can't imagine how Brant was able to endure physically, and, even more so, emotionally, as well as he did. My heart was torn a little bit with each page turned. I wanted to get to the end to see if Brant was able to find some peace and see how things turned out, but, at the same time, I really didn't want it to...more

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Aug 17, 2012 Dreamer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cc, bdsm, erotica, contemporary, m-m-romance, kindle, abuse, first-person, dark, dub-con, non-con, angst, age-gap, rent-boy

Finished this in one sitting. Touching story of a brother's devotion to his family and ultimately to his abusive lover. Brant substitutes himself to save his sisters from entering a brothel to pay off his father's debts. Would have been 5 star if not for some diabolical spelling and grammar.

'I never had happy dancing eyes, well not that I remember, but they were never this flat grey. Bruises faded. Cuts healed. But something died in my soul a few years back. I stared at the unfamiliar stranger.'...more

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Jul 31, 2010 Deanna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: m-m, ebook, kinked, my-happy-place

AMAZING! I keep using that word to describe this book. Darkness, violence and questionable morality abound in this masterpiece. It was gripping from the beginning to end.

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Feb 17, 2012 Emelie rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: None

Shelves: m-m, m-m-romance, bdsm, contemporary, erotica, glbt, gay, mm-contemporary, ebook, adult-fiction

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. First of all: I didn't finish this book. This is bad for two reasons.
1. It's a short story.
2. I usually read the books, even those I don't like to much.

This shows that the story for me wasn't good at all. I didn't have high hopes, thought it might be a good book to pass time.

The writing was done poorly. It had a lot of typos that irritated me and destroyed the flow of the rhythm. The thing with the writing style that annoyed me the most was that it felt like it was an ordinary fiction anyone cou...more

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Sep 04, 2012 M rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: bottom-dwellers, queer-sorting-hat

I tend to give M/M books with consistently high ratings a chance, because if all those people who love the same genre as I loved the book, then surely there must be something to it. But, sadly, I'm often bitterly disappointed. This was the case here. This book fell so far short of my expectations that I've gone past not really liking it to actively hating it. I won't go into the plot in any great detail, but let's just say if I were the FBI, I'd be pretty suspicious of the author. All of the cha...more

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Sep 29, 2010 Clerah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Clerah by: Deanna

Shelves: bdsm, _own, ebook, m-m, dub-con

The book had my stomach in knots for most of the book. To say I was emotionally invested in Brant would be an understatement. Derikca Snake, told a good story that is engaging, and unpredictable. The evolution or devolution however you want to look at it of Brant was unexpected and unconventional. I loved that I wasn't able to guess what was going to happen.

The story is a bit dark and edgy, but well worth the read.

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Nov 07, 2010 Bookwatcher ~Mary MooCow~ rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Bookwatcher ~Mary MooCow~ by: Valentina

Shelves: glbt-gay, glbt-gay-challenge, bdsm, favorites, dubcon-noncon, abuse

The lesser evil or lesser of two evils principle is the idea in politics and political science that of two bad choices, one isn't as bad as the other, and should be chosen over the one that is a greater threat.

So, please before you read this book answer this quick 3 questions
1) Will you be disturbed reading about sexual intercourse without consent? (yeah, I'm talking about rape)
2) Would you freak out about minors as prostitutes?
3) To you is impossible accept master/slave relationships?

So, in...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Niks rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m-romance

I REALLY don`t get why so much ado about this book.
And why people rate it so high.
I understand, for example, when people don`t like Linn Fleweling`s style - it`s a very slow-build romance and has too many descriptions, it`s more fantasy than love story etc.
We all love different things and that`s OK))
But this one - so highly rated and recommended - was a plain disappointment.

The one and only thing I wanted to scream during the reading was bold and big "DISBELIEVE!!!!!" with lots of exclamation...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Jen rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, m-m, non-con

Oof. This really desperately needs someone to go through it and proofread and fix the mistakes. There are so many. Wrong words, mostly, but also whole sentences repeated over again in the same or next paragraph, some really horrible cliches, all things that a proofreading would have picked up immediately.

This story had some promise but it suffered from the author trying to do too much at once. This could have easily been a series or at the very least a much lengthier work. Nothing was built up....more

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Jul 07, 2012 C.C. Covington rated it 2 of 5 stars

Firstly, I gave this book two stars because despite some snags in the rug along the way the book compelled me. I really loved how "That's what brother's do" tied in to the story arc. I thought that was brilliant, and I also liked the idea, which I also thought was brilliant.

In all honesty, however I didn't have high hopes going into to it. Could be because its an eBook and I wasn't impressed by the publishing company (checked out the site an everything). This could be my own prejudiced rearing i...more Firstly, I gave this book two stars because despite some snags in the rug along the way the book compelled me. I really loved how "That's what brother's do" tied in to the story arc. I thought that was brilliant, and I also liked the idea, which I also thought was brilliant.

In all honesty, however I didn't have high hopes going into to it. Could be because its an eBook and I wasn't impressed by the publishing company (checked out the site an everything). This could be my own prejudiced rearing its ugly head, but I didn't have high hopes for the story. However the author kept me reading, and that in and of itself speaks volumes for the skill of the author :)

What got me were all the mistakes. I didn't feel as if the author took her time in the editing process, which is made apparent in all the typos and missing words. I mean, if we are supposed to take the time out and read your story, then you should at least put more care and attention into it. There are times when the author deviates from the story and focuses on flashbacks. Since they don't move the story along in any way I find it hard to see what the flashbacks have to do with the story in general. The storytelling could use a lot of work. Mostly my problem is that I think this idea could have been so much more if only the author had taken the time to actually edit. I wonder how long exactly it took her to write it.

I also don't understand how a person can fall in love with someone who rapes them as a kid, tapes it then sells it,pimps them out and then rapes them repeatedly. That's not real to me. It didn't feel real and I thought the main character was kind of stupid for falling for his own pimp. I'm not entirely clear on how that happens. While I liked the idea of the story, that part I was lost on, and kind of concerned about.

There was a lot of repetition that grew very annoying very quickly. And I wanted more story and less backstory, more dialogue and less thought.

Again, despite the bad things, the story kept me reading and I generally did care about the character. I wanted to know where he would end up and what he would do in the situations he found himself in.

So that's my review. I am still a fan of Derekica Snake, however. While the story itself had problems I was still hooked, and that's one of the most important things.

Thanks for your story, Derekica Snake ^^ (less)

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Dec 19, 2011 Adrian Anderson rated it 1 of 5 stars

That's What Brothers Do has been picked up for publishing by SL Publishing Group. It has been re-written and professionally edited. It is slated for release in Spring 2012.

About damn time... I'm almost tempted to read the re-make and see if it is worthy of the lame-a$$ contrived "award" the author says this monsterpiece won. Rainbow Award (Best Contemporary Fiction, 2009). 2009 must have been a VERY bad year if a poorly written piece of filth, (crack!fic anyone) loaded with spelling, grammatical...more

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Apr 01, 2011 Shira Anthony rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: angst, bdsm, captor-captive, dub-con, m-m-slash, smut, tearjerker

There was so much potential in this book that I've been back and forth about a dozen times trying to figure out what rating to give it. Why did I hesitate? Because I find it SO frustrating when you have a talented (I daresay VERY talented) author, but the editing is SO bad. Yes, I adored Brant -- I wanted to cry for him, and I grew to love him throughout this very dark tale. But I kept grumbling at my Kindle the entire time, because time after time there were formatting issues and tons of typos...more There was so much potential in this book that I've been back and forth about a dozen times trying to figure out what rating to give it. Why did I hesitate? Because I find it SO frustrating when you have a talented (I daresay VERY talented) author, but the editing is SO bad. Yes, I adored Brant -- I wanted to cry for him, and I grew to love him throughout this very dark tale. But I kept grumbling at my Kindle the entire time, because time after time there were formatting issues and tons of typos or incorrect words (as in "other" instead of "another" or "then" instead of "than", and on and on). Please, please Ms. Snake - fix them! You have such a wonderful story here, it really wouldn't take that much. I was half-tempted to do it myself as I was reading it. It could have been a 5-star all the way! I realize not everyone is so bothered by editing problems in books, but when I'm paying nearly eight dollars for an eBook, I expect the standards to be high.

Okay. Down off my soap box. On to the story...

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So, 3 stars, with the caveat that with a serious editor, this book could be a 5 star. I do hope the author considers a re-edit -- it's too good a book to just let languish the way it is.

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Aug 25, 2012 SueM rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: m-m, abuse-assault-rape-torture, dub-con_non-con, bingo-challenge, sacrifice, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, criminal, sex-industry

This is a very dark tale about a young innocent man, Brant, who sacrificed his future in a successful effort to save his sisters - because that's what brothers do. It follows his life as his innocence is stripped away as he pays the price of protecting his family - physically first, then the gradual erosion of the innocence of his mind and soul.

This is not a story for the faint-hearted; it is bleak, cruel and violent. The despair and lack of alternative that Brant endured had me in tears throug...more

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Nov 30, 2010 Luna Solaris added it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'm not sure what to say or how to rate this novel, but I'll try.

I came back depressed yesterday, and came across this.
"Why not?" I thought to myself.
I was grateful that the description was short, because I might not have read this novel. In the end, I don't regret reading it, but it was a tough cookie to swallow.
It's not exactly a 'fun' thing to read.

The story is of Brant.
His miserable existence for 10 long years, hope and then more misery.
He's endured so much and in the end - he was victoriou...more

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Jun 24, 2011 Carina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult, erotica

This is hard to review, and truthfully, I kept going back and forth between a 2 star and a 4 star rating. This is definetly a love or hate book. Somehow, I think I managed to draw a balance between love and hate, and with a cold mind is that I want to write this review, because if I start getting too emotionally involved in this writting then I can honestly say, I would have about 2 or 3 pages to rant about all the good and bad thing in this book. So here I go.
This was disturbing. You know the s...more This is hard to review, and truthfully, I kept going back and forth between a 2 star and a 4 star rating. This is definetly a love or hate book. Somehow, I think I managed to draw a balance between love and hate, and with a cold mind is that I want to write this review, because if I start getting too emotionally involved in this writting then I can honestly say, I would have about 2 or 3 pages to rant about all the good and bad thing in this book. So here I go.
This was disturbing. You know the saying, "Its like a car wreck, you can't look away from the horror." Well this would be the perfect example for that saying.
Brant is a whore. No, I'm not judging, and you shouldn't either. Not until you know what happens to him when he was only 14 years old. He offers him self for payment after his father is in a deep debt, that he can't pay back. Brant does it because they were going to take one of his 4 sisters as payment and he couldn't let that happen. He sacrifices him self instead because That's What Brothes do.
This next part might be a little spoilerish to the story and plot so read at your own risk.
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So he endures hell and back, once....twice....thrice....I was really asking my self, is there anyway that Brant will ever be happy?
The book deals with prostitution and rape. Alot of rape. The scenes are described very crudly so don't expect to read any censored stuff from this writter.
The characters....well lets just say its another love/hate sittuation. Brant is so strong, and HE doesn't even realize it. He is selfless and giving but he feel like everything that has happened to him, was his fault. My heart constricted with pain everytime he suffered some more. I was just desperate for him to find some happiness. And in his own way, he did.

Wilber, I seriously despised him in the beggining of the book. I don't like him now, but I can't say that I hate him either. He has more than a ton of despiteful qualities, but that 1 or 2 redeamable qualities altered my perspective on him some. Just some.

Now Constanine I definetly still hate. If yoiu read this, you'll know why.

I have to admire an author who can bring such a controversial topic and make me like the book. No, I don't like the prostitution factor or the rape factor. I in no way support it. But The book is very, VERY, well written and it exploit issues that are happening out there right now. The writting might be raw and crude, but it is also very thruthful and realistic. Its not sugar coated.

So if you're up for the challenge, then go ahead and give this a try. It might not be fluffy and pretty, but its an eye opener.(less)

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Jun 14, 2012 Emma rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There are some books you read and feel like as if you have been reading about them for years. This is what I felt for Brant. This is a highly recommended read for anyone who is into BDSM, slave / master and desolated angsty to a paragon. It gives slave / master epoch an entirely new perspective. Or maybe I have not yet read an impressive title like this before.

This was deliciously gruesome, brilliantly agonizing and satisfyingly raw! It’s a fiction wrapped in reality, …….shades of grey colored...more

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Jun 24, 2011 Stacia ~ Mistress of Mediocrity rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult

3.5 stars. My opinion of this book is all over the place. This book is absolutely taboo and extremely controversial. You have been warned. There were quite a few violent rape scenes which were hard to read, but they were necessary to illustrate just how much abuse Brant had to suffer through. Violence was also overabundant in this book. If you can't handle reading about murder, you'll want to move along. Same with any sort of male/male interaction - if it bothers you, this is not the book for yo...more

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Jan 10, 2012 Cheryl rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-challenges, 2012-read

What would you do if your family was in debt so much that your dad went to a loan shark for a loan? Most of us wouldn't do anything cause we are kids. Well the loan is due. Dad tells you that they are going to take your younger sister to a brothel to work off the debt. She's just ten years old.
Brant was fourteen when that happened. He chose to make a deal with the devil. He traded his self to save his family. Why? Cause that's what brothers do.
The book starts 10 years after he made the deal and...more

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Feb 04, 2012 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars

I stumbled across this book and thought it would hit my itch for sort of dark, slashy goodness, and found I really enjoyed it, more than I expected I would. It's very well written with only a couple minor errors. I found the story compelling, how Brant could progress in a world that he never had imagined himself being part of and somehow, in spite of it all, finding love as well.

It can be very dark, but maybe I'm just inured, because I didn't think it was as dark or graphic as some of the revie...more

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Dec 02, 2011 Adrienne Wilder rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book had a very strong yaoi feel to it. I'm not a big fan of yaoi novels (love the manga though) because of the over abundance of telling the story rather than getting to experience it through textile sensations. Like all yaoi, it left me craving more story and character interaction with the world.
However, having said that, the writing was far stronger than any Yaoi novel I have ever read. Tragic and dark, this writer takes the reader on a journey into a world where very few dare to go. It...more

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Jan 26, 2012 Trish rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: bdsm, erotic, m-m

*whole review has spoilers*

i'm so in the minority with my review. let's set aside the horrible typos and grammar, (those can be worked out) i just did not get into this story at all. i wish i felt different b/c i see many 4-5 star reviews, so i'm wondering why it didn't affect me as it did others??

yes,i was sad and i was horrified by Brant's situation. He was "played" since his birth..and my heart broke for him b/c of that....but in the end, it was not a good story for me.

i think reviewing a b...more

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Jan 01, 2010 Elisa Ramblings added it

This is not a simple book to like; it goes too much against the ordinary rules to leave bland feelings on readers. I think that, in the end, you love or hate it, but you can’t be in the middle. One of the first reactions is probably to think that it’s not possible, that it’s not real, mainly since the good doesn’t win over the evil… but, truth be told, how many time does it happens in the real world? Actually it’s more fairy-tale like to think that there will be always a positive resolution of t...more This is not a simple book to like; it goes too much against the ordinary rules to leave bland feelings on readers. I think that, in the end, you love or hate it, but you can’t be in the middle. One of the first reactions is probably to think that it’s not possible, that it’s not real, mainly since the good doesn’t win over the evil… but, truth be told, how many time does it happens in the real world? Actually it’s more fairy-tale like to think that there will be always a positive resolution of the story, since in reality that seldom happens.

What probably will create more trouble to the reader is the relationship between Brant and Wilber; at first the reader thinks that Brant is the victim of Wilber, and he is probably right. Brant was a 14 years old boy who offered himself in lieu of his father’s debts; the alternative was for one of his four sisters to do that, and the older of them was 12 years old. So no, that was not a choice, and in the end, protect your sisters is what a brother do. Wilber was the man to whom Brant offered himself, he was the man who raped him and videotaped it to sell it to the porn movie industry. That was enough reason for Wilber to be the villain and to make him the antithesis of the romance hero; but if the reader can overcome the issue of Brant’s age (and no, usually he can’t), and the non-con sex (and again, he can’t), there was a slight chance for Wilber to become a romance hero: in the pink glasses perspective of the romance reader, if Wilber took good care of Brant, making him his lover, well, maybe… and instead no, the first scene we read is about a now 24 years old Brant who is first sold to a customer more or less how you would sell a doll without soul, and then it’s raped again by Wilber. It was almost enough for me to stop the book right there, but there was a factor that kept me from it and pushed me to read more: Brant has an almost visceral attachment to Wilber, he considers Wilber all his world, and when he is near the moment when he can “gain” his freedom, he is put in front of a choice, continuing to be Wilber’s lover (no more a whore, now he will be Wilber’s boy toy) and so paying for all his sisters’ needs, or be free to go away. Again, the classical romance hero would probably choose the freedom, he would convince himself that he can provide for his sisters even without using his body, but I think that Brant’s decision to stay with Wilber is not only lead by his desire to provide for his sisters, but also from his fear to be alone, to break that bond with Wilber that now it’s his only security, the only thing he knows. Brant was subjected to an imprinting, when he was in that moment in life when usually young men learn how to be independent and how to recognize their sexuality, Brant instead knew only Wilber, and now everything is related to him.

Little by little the reader starts to see Wilber in two different ways: from Brant’s perspective, and so he sees the lover and that side of Wilber that makes him the focus of all Brant’s life, and from an outside perspective, that makes the reader realize that Wilber had no choice. In a twisted way, Wilber did the only thing he could to protect Brant. The author is so good that in the end, the reader starts to feel for Wilber, starts to understand this twisted world. And the author is little by little preparing the reader to accept the end of this novel, that is far from being ordinary, and that again pushes the boundaries of romance, to probably fit it more on reality. There is no Black and White perspective here, there is no right and wrong, it all depends on the perspective you are seeing things, and you can understand it only if you admit that there are shades of grey in between. Be aware of that you choose to try this book, and be aware of what I said before, you can love or hate it, both with all your heart.

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Jan 21, 2011 A.J. Llewellyn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: i-own-a-copy

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May 09, 2012 Monika added it · review of another edition

DNF

I won’t be rating this book, I can’t, first I wasn’t able to finish it and second it has to be one of the worst things I have ever read. The typos and/or spelling errors drove me insane....how can a publisher never mind the author who is supposed to be proud of their work let something like this out there.

I made it to 47% and that was enough for me! This story was brutal and disgusting and even though I never look for reality in the books I read this was so far out there I was stunned! The ti...more

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About Derekica Snake

Greetings, gentle readers. My name is Derekica Snake aka kiix. This is the part where I write about myself. It is harder than it looks. It is so much easier to write about fictional characters…hummm. Wait. I have a light blub moment.

On a dark and quiet evening in the month of April, a little girl child came into the world in St. Joesph General Hospital. Upon seeing the little girl with the little...more Greetings, gentle readers. My name is Derekica Snake aka kiix. This is the part where I write about myself. It is harder than it looks. It is so much easier to write about fictional characters…hummm. Wait. I have a light blub moment.

On a dark and quiet evening in the month of April, a little girl child came into the world in St. Joesph General Hospital. Upon seeing the little girl with the little curl in the middle of her forehead, the father was heard to remark…why does she have red hair? At that moment I’ve been known as the milkman’s kid, oops, I meant she’s been known as the milkman’s kid. See, this is why I write in first person. If it works for you, stick with it.

My favorite book was “Green eggs and ham”. Apparently my mother got so annoyed with me reciting it that it accidently on purpose got tossed out the window of a moving car. So I guess I started writing my own stories once I was taught to print. I’ve always loved writing fiction. In elementary and secondary school we were required to keep a journal. I didn’t want to. I love to write but not about myself. I just wrote little ideas down and handed them in. I graduated so I guess it was good.

I thought I was in deep fascination with a boy in grade seven who was very into Star Trek. I had no clue what he was talking about so I started learning about Star Trek and now it was what was his name? Sci-fi segued into Fantasy and from there I never looked back. I was a big Star Wars geek (pre-episode 1) and wrote pastiche Han Solo adventures as a teenager.

My writing began to lean towards my current selection of offerings. I initially was a little distressed. I thought I was off – way off. I was uncomfortable with the content and toned it down or cut it out completely on second draft attempts. However, it kept cropping back up and I thought I was going to have to pull my hair out to make it stop but then…on May 6, 2006 at 9:15 a.m. I discovered “Ai No Kusabi” on youtube.

That was also the same time that I realized that what I had been writing and hiding away for years had a name. Yaoi. If it had a name others were reading and writing it so I wasn’t the lone pervert out in the world. I took my hands out of my hair and put my fingers on the keyboard and embraced the world of Yaoi.

It only took me six months to figure out how to start posting stories on the Internet on www.adultfanfiction.net. It wasn’t long before I moved from writing AnK fan fiction to posting my own original Yaoi writing under the pseudonym kiix.

I started writing daily. I found a continuing education course on Professional Creative Writing in a local city and started taking courses. There were some tips and facts that were good but the social networking was the key. It was after this that I started actively exploring getting my works published. That expensive piece of paper honed my confidence enough to start sending out queries and posting my first drafts right to the net.

While I had to pony up time and money to self publish once the rejection e-mails came in, I didn’t mind. I think it was the start of something good. I think? I know it was the start of something good.

Welcome to my version of the world of Yaoi. I look forward to leaving my touch in your mind.(less)

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