Fireflies

Lots of fireflies trained to fly in unison

I thought the new SSBB was to be out this week, but then yesterday I learned that I was a week off, which is terribly tragic, since I’d planned my reading perfectly so I’d be doe with other things and could read SSBB this week.

Saddened by this flaw in my plans, I took me to the local library’s website, where I went on Overdrive and perused the gay books there. I wanted to borrow a Josh Lanyon book (‘cuz who wouldn’t), but it turned out that I’d read all of his that the library had, so I was at a bit of a loss. There’s a couple of authors that I’m pretty sure I don’t like, but who I might be confusing with a different author to the extent that I actually like them, and there’s at least one author that everyone else in the slash-reading world is agog over, who I am NOT confusing with anyone else, and who I frankly just don’t like.

Then there are a lot of books by authors I haven’t heard of, or authors that I’m not sure if I’ve heard of, and it’s tricky to look those guys up on goodreads out 0f the blue, plus I’d’ve been there all night…

Basically, I went with a pretty cover. I did check the book of GR, and I’ve read something by the author, which was unimpressive, but I figured I had to start somewhere, and if it was terrible, well, it wasn’t like I paid money for it.

Which is how I ended up with Fireflies by Ally Blue.

It’s a modest book in length and scope, and frankly also in quality.

There’s a guy who has a tattoo, and then has a mental break-down, from which he’s rescued by a fairy, but that’s okay because the fairy met him once when he was five, and so now they can have sex. And then we learn that he’s got some magical powers, so they have sex to celebrate. And then we learn that he is the son of the Antagonist, so they have sex because pity or whatever. And then they practice learning to use the magic, the Antagonist attacks, they go elsewhere, and have sex.

At which point Our Guy gets upset that he’s been pulled from the life that he had previously, to the extent that his magic acts up and separates them, the Fairy does some things that prove Antagonist ain’t all that dire, they reunite, and then they fly on a plane to a secret location, where they have to spend three chapters getting across a damn gorge. But when they get to this secret location they have lots of sex. Mildly kinky sex. Until Antagonist appears, and a few obvious and contrived things happen that aren’t really all that dire or intense until the characters muse about what could have gone wrong. But then they have sex.

So, you know, it was…eh. I read it, but also I almost fell asleep, and was pretty much in skim mode the whole time. It just failed to impress, I’m afraid. It wasn’t awful, but I’d have felt gypped if I’d paid money for it, honestly. Maybe a good choice for a non-picky reader on an empty afternoon?