Book Rec: Captain's Surrender
*****
At last, a book that I could read and forget I was reading a book! I found myself completely drawn into the world and lives of Peter Kenyon and Joshua Andrews and it felt more like I was watching a movie than reading a book.
The language used is visual, immediate and feels 'right' for the time and setting of the story. Although it is not a graphically erotic book, I felt the love scenes were well drawn, complete and not overwrought to the point where they outweigh the plot and that was a pleasant change from some of the erotic books that are available today.
Several plot twists actually made me laugh with surprised delight, and the battle scenes produced genuine horror and concern for the characters who were so alive to me that I was surprised to find myself biting my lips or holding my breath during the more tense scenes.
As a commentary on the treatment of homosexual men of the period, the book also draws comparative attention to the treatment of homosexuals today, and delivers a strong message in favor of acceptance and tolerance, without becoming preachy.
The only point in which the accuracy falls down is in the language of the Biblical texts quoted in the story, which is too modern and would have set better with me had it been drawn from the King James Version of the Bible. But even taking that minuscule error into account, I still give it a hearty five stars!
Bravo!
(cross posted at amazon.com)