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Swedborg & Reilly #2
Perfect Hope
Jason Swedborg and Daniel Reilly have been partners and lovers for over a year, but working together takes on new meaning and new dangers when Jason is ordered to play the part of a young gay man on the make. Daniel must watch from the sidelines while his partner is used as bait to lure a foreign terrorist who is also a serial killer.
But he refuses to watch helplessly and enlists the aid of Jason's family in unravelling a tangled web of intrigue and violence that seems destined to leave both of them alone and without hope.
The second Swedborg and Reilly mystery.
But he refuses to watch helplessly and enlists the aid of Jason's family in unravelling a tangled web of intrigue and violence that seems destined to leave both of them alone and without hope.
The second Swedborg and Reilly mystery.
- GenresM M RomanceGay
257 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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May 22, 2008*ETA safe-sex snark*
Took me a long time to finish Brondo's second novel about a gay couple who are sort-of-Black-Ops. It was quite entertaining again. It was also very like non-published m/m fiction by women for women again, although Brondos leans more towards the manga and anime attitude, her heroes being a bit like those in Yellow or Fake, and like most of those Japanese stories in feel with the increasing supernatural slant of it, with Jason's and Daniel's spirit animals taking over in the fights.
Can I just say that one should never, ever, name ones heroes with similar sounding names? It was even worse in the first book, but even here I had to keep thinking which one was the AmericanIndian/Viking and which one was the Cajun (what with them being manga-perfect, both incredibly strong and fast and smart yet also prone to pages of wibbling if they are really loved and what might happen to their woobie, I mean partner).
Another comparison would be Elizabeth Scarborough, who has written truly cruel villains and heroines in real danger overcome at real cost for a few decades; the strong older women here seem a nod to her.
ADDENDUM 2: the previous (first) book was set in "the early 80s" which enabled the author to let the newly minted homosexual heroes have completely unprotected sex, suck and fuck with not even a thought of condoms needed even when thinking to get lubrication. Now please compare to this book, only a year later, when suddenly the public talks of "disease riddled gays". This is not plausible; she can't have it both ways, even if 1984 was the watershed (oh and what little one hears about sex seems still unprotected, as befits this pair; it would be interesting to see if Brondos tries to go the route of Nava and Wilson a bit further, but I have to admit in this case any infection would probably end in a miracle cure due to mental healing).
Took me a long time to finish Brondo's second novel about a gay couple who are sort-of-Black-Ops. It was quite entertaining again. It was also very like non-published m/m fiction by women for women again, although Brondos leans more towards the manga and anime attitude, her heroes being a bit like those in Yellow or Fake, and like most of those Japanese stories in feel with the increasing supernatural slant of it, with Jason's and Daniel's spirit animals taking over in the fights.
Can I just say that one should never, ever, name ones heroes with similar sounding names? It was even worse in the first book, but even here I had to keep thinking which one was the AmericanIndian/Viking and which one was the Cajun (what with them being manga-perfect, both incredibly strong and fast and smart yet also prone to pages of wibbling if they are really loved and what might happen to their woobie, I mean partner).
Another comparison would be Elizabeth Scarborough, who has written truly cruel villains and heroines in real danger overcome at real cost for a few decades; the strong older women here seem a nod to her.
ADDENDUM 2: the previous (first) book was set in "the early 80s" which enabled the author to let the newly minted homosexual heroes have completely unprotected sex, suck and fuck with not even a thought of condoms needed even when thinking to get lubrication. Now please compare to this book, only a year later, when suddenly the public talks of "disease riddled gays". This is not plausible; she can't have it both ways, even if 1984 was the watershed (oh and what little one hears about sex seems still unprotected, as befits this pair; it would be interesting to see if Brondos tries to go the route of Nava and Wilson a bit further, but I have to admit in this case any infection would probably end in a miracle cure due to mental healing).
January 3, 2008
Second novel featuring Jason and Daniel, undercover black ops soldiers who happens to love each other. This novels picks up a few years after the first novel. We find Jason working alone on the case of his brother's almost fatal attack, the attack part of a much bigger case of a serial killer. Daniel is also working on the same case without his knowledge at first, investigating his nephew's death at the hand of the same killer. Past ghosts, terrorists and spirits guides all blend together and make an interesting action/spy/romance tale. As good as I remembered it.
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