Servant of the Seasons 2: Winter

Servant of the Seasons #2

by Lee Benoit

Edor and his new friends, former slaves Tywyll and Lys, are still making the most of the land. Every day the two norvigi bring changes, improving Edor's way of life. As is their way, Tywyll is growing stronger with the winter equinox, while Lys is growing weaker. When Lys goes into his sleep, Edor finally gives into his attraction to his two friends with Tywyll, knowing Lys would give them his blessing if he were awake. When Lys finally wakes, the three men find their home in danger, and they must band together even closer to save their newfound happiness. Can they solve the mystery that their attackers leave behind, and stay safe at the same time?

Genres: M M Romance, Romance

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2008

About the author

Before dawn and after dark, Lee Benoit is a writer of queer fiction, some contemporary, some speculative, some historical. During the daylight hours she is a professor of sociology & anthropology. In the old days, Lee traveled the world doing field research. Nowadays, she lives in the middle of a New England hayfield where being a two-spirit single parent provides more than enough excitement. Lee also paints watercolors, bakes wild-yeast sourdough bread, and shares her bed with a pair of cats and an abjectly adoring hound-retriever mutt. Whenever she gets itchy feet and misses the world of research and advocacy, Lee invents a new world in her head and takes notes on what happens there.

Reviews

[Elisa Rolle]

Lys and Tywyll, the two amichu who arrives to Meco's farm in the first chapter of the Servant of Seasons series, are starting to settle into a "normal" life under the lovely cure of Meco. And since the two live according to the seasons, Tywyll is bond to summer and Lys to winter, it's time for Lys to face his "seasonal" sleep. Meco and Tywyll are preparing the turf but at the same time Tywyll and Lys are trying to convince Meco to become part of their couple.

Meco has never had the chance to be near another human, nor man or woman, with a love or sexual expectation. When he was an Edor, a construction worker in the city, all the men where sexually inhibited with chemicals, and so he never felt the urge to be with another man. But now, alone in the wilderness, and with two lovely men under his roof, he is beginning to wonder if he lost something, and if he can be part of their love. Probably his reluctance is given by the fact that Tywyll and Lys obviously are one for each other, two part of a same unit.

In this second chapter I understand a bit more both Meco, than Tywyll and Lys's culture. A lot of unanswered question from the first story here find a meaning, and also Meco is a lot more easier to understand. Even if Tywyll and Lys have a great part in the story, I feel like Meco the real main characters.

In comparison to the first chapter, in Winter, other than comprehend better the characters and the setting, there is also a bit more of sex, but always like a supporting way for the men to bond and never like the true purpose of the book. This series is not an erotic series, it's a very complex fantasy tale, and I think that, when it will be complete, all the four part will be a very good long novel.

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[Mara Ismine]

An interesting future tale that unfolds over the four parts. The society is fragmented and there are no heavy explanations as to why. Information is revealed almost incidentally as Edor slowly adapts to life outside his native dome and the anarchy that surrounds him.

I read all four parts together as one story.