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With Intent
Adam's got the Spidey Sense but he'd rather be The Invisible Man. Your regular Marvel Action Hero minus lycra and enthusiasm for saving the world, he'd rather just ignore it and his dormant to extinct love life. Going nuts is more of a problem. MxM. slash
221 pages, Online Fiction - Complete
First published May 9, 2007
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November 26, 2013
Dammit. This writer is so darn good.
With intent is about Adam. Adam is our psychic narrator and, he see’s dead people.
Nah …just kidding.
He see’s people with the intent to kill, he sees what they want to do, or what they have done; he also sees acts of violence that have already occurred. As a result he’s quite the odd ball who is hanging onto his sanity by a ball hair. He is awkward, vulnerable, a self-confessed coward. Plus he's a gay man who always falls for the straight guy and God hates him. He also has severe OCD and counts to cope with it all.
When his moral compass once again points him in the direction of another soon to be victim his life gets entangled with the mysterious hot guy from work and things really get interesting.
Adam had me laughing out loud, he had me freaked, and he had me almost in tears for him, God how I felt for him. He is so tragic and yet so strong. I think I fell in love. There is so much here despite what the author feels are plot holes I see them as room to manoeuvre. The pace is fast and Adam holds my attention completely.
This is very entertaining even though I felt the author might have lost his/her way just a little in the middle, it soon picks up again. With fantastic secondary characters, a dog that really does take after his owner, some hilarious and tragic dialog, Gods constant barrage of peanuts on Adams head, this really has the potential to become a great series!
Bravo Zebbie! Just keep it coming please. I need MORE!
PS: If you love Jordan Castillo Price's Psycops you will like this.
With intent is about Adam. Adam is our psychic narrator and, he see’s dead people.
Nah …just kidding.
He see’s people with the intent to kill, he sees what they want to do, or what they have done; he also sees acts of violence that have already occurred. As a result he’s quite the odd ball who is hanging onto his sanity by a ball hair. He is awkward, vulnerable, a self-confessed coward. Plus he's a gay man who always falls for the straight guy and God hates him. He also has severe OCD and counts to cope with it all.
When his moral compass once again points him in the direction of another soon to be victim his life gets entangled with the mysterious hot guy from work and things really get interesting.
Adam had me laughing out loud, he had me freaked, and he had me almost in tears for him, God how I felt for him. He is so tragic and yet so strong. I think I fell in love. There is so much here despite what the author feels are plot holes I see them as room to manoeuvre. The pace is fast and Adam holds my attention completely.
This is very entertaining even though I felt the author might have lost his/her way just a little in the middle, it soon picks up again. With fantastic secondary characters, a dog that really does take after his owner, some hilarious and tragic dialog, Gods constant barrage of peanuts on Adams head, this really has the potential to become a great series!
Bravo Zebbie! Just keep it coming please. I need MORE!
PS: If you love Jordan Castillo Price's Psycops you will like this.
February 10, 2013
4.5 stars
Awesome free read! Stayed up till one this morning to finish it. I loved Adam's awkwardness and vulnerability but also his remarkable resilience. Adam's OCD has become the only way he can cope with the psychic flashbacks he is constantly bombarded with. He has a wonderful self-deprecating way of dealing with his crappy life and a crush 'the size of a small principality, like Monaco' on the very crushable cop, Joe.
No sex but it's fast paced, entertaining as hell and there's a fair bit of restrained sizzle between the two MCs. It could have been longer, with more time spent consummating the romance aspect of the story but I'm OK with filling in my own HEA's...epilogues can be nauseating sometimes...
Highly recommended!
Awesome free read! Stayed up till one this morning to finish it. I loved Adam's awkwardness and vulnerability but also his remarkable resilience. Adam's OCD has become the only way he can cope with the psychic flashbacks he is constantly bombarded with. He has a wonderful self-deprecating way of dealing with his crappy life and a crush 'the size of a small principality, like Monaco' on the very crushable cop, Joe.
No sex but it's fast paced, entertaining as hell and there's a fair bit of restrained sizzle between the two MCs. It could have been longer, with more time spent consummating the romance aspect of the story but I'm OK with filling in my own HEA's...epilogues can be nauseating sometimes...
Highly recommended!
May 7, 2016
Enjoyed this way back when, will have to re-read to review but only jusy discovered its been added here.
April 8, 2012
I just loved this. From the first chapter to the last. I loved it a lot.
I have an ok poker face. I can usually read anything in public without blinking an eye…but yeah this book made me both laugh and cry when I read it, even though I was sitting on a bus full of people. I just couldn’t help myself; it was just so good and so emotional. If you’ve read and liked the PsyCop series by Jordan Castillo Price there’s a chance you’ll like this story too…because it is similar, and also because it is excellent!
Adam is not your everyday twenty-something guy and it’s not just because he’s gay and every guy he falls for happen to be straight. It’s not because he’s severely OCD either…even though that makes him odd enough in most people’s eyes. No, what’s even more different than that about him is that he can see Bad Intents. He can see them before they’ve happened, or after, but he can never escape them. This leads to some complications in his life since he more often than not manages to stumble upon a more or less traumatic scene; it also causes some moral dilemmas when he’s fed information that could prevent something awful. Adam is a coward, so the whole superhero thing isn’t’ really his style. But what happens when the problem becomes a little more personal?
Adam is a severely troubled young guy. He has an awkward relationship with his mother, a guilt-ridden relationship to his brother, a crush on his very straight best friend, a really weird dog with a temper, a job as a manager who isn’t respected by his employees, a third wheel situation with his roommate, and the problem of seeing horrible “ghosts” everywhere. There are ghosts in his shower, in the park where he walks his dog, in the café where he works they come in all the time; people of the past and present with bad intents who haunts him daily. His problem is worsened by his OCD, and his OCD is worsened by his problem…not a good situation. Then he meets a strange hot guy at work (of course straight like all the rest of them) and things get just a little more complicated. Life’s a bitch, but sometimes it’s also crazy wonderful once you get through all the rough patches.
Adam talks about how god hates him and keeps throwing peanuts at his head, and it’s not hard to see where he’s coming from because EVERYTHING in his life keeps going wrong all the time, life just isn’t easy for Adam. He’s a very captivating and compelling character and his story is just wonderful. I am often charmed by “challenged” characters, and Adam’s combination of a weird form of clairvoyance and OCD is just heart clenching. The pacing was good, the writing was good, the characters were great! There wasn’t anything (that I can recall) that bothered me about this, I was completely engulfed by the story and that’s enough proof of its greatness for me. The author, and anyone else, may feel what they want about plot holes and mishaps; your opinion may vary but to me this was a brilliant, lovely, enchanting story.
I loved the story to pieces; it is one of my very favorite stories ever read. I really hope this gets that maybe-in-a-blue-moon series sequel because it was just so good!
I have an ok poker face. I can usually read anything in public without blinking an eye…but yeah this book made me both laugh and cry when I read it, even though I was sitting on a bus full of people. I just couldn’t help myself; it was just so good and so emotional. If you’ve read and liked the PsyCop series by Jordan Castillo Price there’s a chance you’ll like this story too…because it is similar, and also because it is excellent!
Adam is not your everyday twenty-something guy and it’s not just because he’s gay and every guy he falls for happen to be straight. It’s not because he’s severely OCD either…even though that makes him odd enough in most people’s eyes. No, what’s even more different than that about him is that he can see Bad Intents. He can see them before they’ve happened, or after, but he can never escape them. This leads to some complications in his life since he more often than not manages to stumble upon a more or less traumatic scene; it also causes some moral dilemmas when he’s fed information that could prevent something awful. Adam is a coward, so the whole superhero thing isn’t’ really his style. But what happens when the problem becomes a little more personal?
Adam is a severely troubled young guy. He has an awkward relationship with his mother, a guilt-ridden relationship to his brother, a crush on his very straight best friend, a really weird dog with a temper, a job as a manager who isn’t respected by his employees, a third wheel situation with his roommate, and the problem of seeing horrible “ghosts” everywhere. There are ghosts in his shower, in the park where he walks his dog, in the café where he works they come in all the time; people of the past and present with bad intents who haunts him daily. His problem is worsened by his OCD, and his OCD is worsened by his problem…not a good situation. Then he meets a strange hot guy at work (of course straight like all the rest of them) and things get just a little more complicated. Life’s a bitch, but sometimes it’s also crazy wonderful once you get through all the rough patches.
Adam talks about how god hates him and keeps throwing peanuts at his head, and it’s not hard to see where he’s coming from because EVERYTHING in his life keeps going wrong all the time, life just isn’t easy for Adam. He’s a very captivating and compelling character and his story is just wonderful. I am often charmed by “challenged” characters, and Adam’s combination of a weird form of clairvoyance and OCD is just heart clenching. The pacing was good, the writing was good, the characters were great! There wasn’t anything (that I can recall) that bothered me about this, I was completely engulfed by the story and that’s enough proof of its greatness for me. The author, and anyone else, may feel what they want about plot holes and mishaps; your opinion may vary but to me this was a brilliant, lovely, enchanting story.
I loved the story to pieces; it is one of my very favorite stories ever read. I really hope this gets that maybe-in-a-blue-moon series sequel because it was just so good!
October 28, 2020
2020 reread:
Still so good - left me hungry for more. The present tense is perfect for making you feel that sense of urgency, unease, and everything else Adam feels. I love the writing. It made me laugh, it made me want to cry, and it made me love Adam and Joe.
Original review:
Such a creative storyline, and the author succeeded in hitting me on a deep emotional level with this one. Highly recommend.
Still so good - left me hungry for more. The present tense is perfect for making you feel that sense of urgency, unease, and everything else Adam feels. I love the writing. It made me laugh, it made me want to cry, and it made me love Adam and Joe.
Original review:
Such a creative storyline, and the author succeeded in hitting me on a deep emotional level with this one. Highly recommend.
July 17, 2014
Wow. Much quirky. Very wow. Such awesome.
Or something.
No, this is great. Adam's narration is all just so in character and stuff... its like snarky, but author sass, but also character sass, even when he's getting whumped. It was like dry humor from the author, translating over into the narration and giving it character, while at the same time remaining from the character's POV and not quite transcendentally post-modern. Or something.
And omg Adam is such a dweeb.
The plot(s) seemed weirdly incidental, but idk, I guess that was in character? Because of that, though, it made it feel really short. I got to the end and thought, "Huh, that was short," but there are at least 100 pages in my dl from FictionPress copy (thank you various dl'er sites). I mean, I read this after the The West Canal story, which was genuinely short, so idk if it's points in this story's favor or not that it felt short.
Still, for a free fic, it was good stuff. The shipping stuff was a little meh for me; I kind of wanted something unexpected to happen, like for him to not end up with the most obvious person you knew he'd have to end up with. Still, w/e.
Or something.
No, this is great. Adam's narration is all just so in character and stuff... its like snarky, but author sass, but also character sass, even when he's getting whumped. It was like dry humor from the author, translating over into the narration and giving it character, while at the same time remaining from the character's POV and not quite transcendentally post-modern. Or something.
And omg Adam is such a dweeb.
The plot(s) seemed weirdly incidental, but idk, I guess that was in character? Because of that, though, it made it feel really short. I got to the end and thought, "Huh, that was short," but there are at least 100 pages in my dl from FictionPress copy (thank you various dl'er sites). I mean, I read this after the The West Canal story, which was genuinely short, so idk if it's points in this story's favor or not that it felt short.
Still, for a free fic, it was good stuff. The shipping stuff was a little meh for me; I kind of wanted something unexpected to happen, like for him to not end up with the most obvious person you knew he'd have to end up with. Still, w/e.
June 20, 2012
I hate plot points built up around silly misunderstandings and miscommunications, and this story has quite a few of those. AND YET! I really enjoyed it, and I loved the characters to pieces. It had me laughing out loud at times, and even choking up a little. The author's take on "psychic" powers felt different and interesting, and the character who had them was as wonderfully fucked up as you'd realistically expect him to be. Issues aside, I've read a plethora of published paranormal m/m that doesn't hold a candle to this one. (Though I hesitate to place it firmly in the m/m category, as it was pretty non-explicit.)
February 14, 2013
3.5 stars.
I liked the basic premise of this story, but found the the second MC - D.I. Joseph Collins - a bit of an ***hole, with few redeeming qualities. If I were Adam, I doubt I would forgive Joe quite so easily.
I liked the basic premise of this story, but found the the second MC - D.I. Joseph Collins - a bit of an ***hole, with few redeeming qualities. If I were Adam, I doubt I would forgive Joe quite so easily.
May 25, 2013
the ending was a bit too abrupt, felt annoyingly unfinished. Else it would have been 4 stars.
February 8, 2015
Really good.
February 2, 2013
I <3 Adam.
March 22, 2018
The description does not do this book justice.
It's unbelievably well written. Adam is a 23 year old with the ability to not only see dead people but feel the emotions of victims of violent crimes. The author has written an incredible view into the mind of an unbalanced, empathetic boy.
Do yourself a favour. Read this.
It's unbelievably well written. Adam is a 23 year old with the ability to not only see dead people but feel the emotions of victims of violent crimes. The author has written an incredible view into the mind of an unbalanced, empathetic boy.
Do yourself a favour. Read this.
May 5, 2012
With Intent is very entertaining. You're pulled into Adam's world where having a sixth sense isn't all its cracked up to be and add to that he has a bad self-image and is dealing with his brother's suicide and he becomes a very real, very flawed character that you can't help but love. Enter Joe, a policeman who isn't pure and has his own sense of justice and you have a combination that shouldn't work in any way, yet does in every way.
A crime is commited close to Joe, and he ends up turning to Adam out of need which pushes Adam to do something he's been hiding from all his life: use his senses, his "gift", intentionally.
There's no reason everyone shouldn't give this story a try (its free and online!) and I doubt anyone will regret reading it.
Sidenote: I didn't give it 5 stars simply because sometimes Adam's thoughts would run on a bit too long and the ending was left intentionally hanging by the author (not a cliffhanger, but just some unresolved pieces that wouldn't been much more satisfying to read the conclusion of) but no sequels are available.
A crime is commited close to Joe, and he ends up turning to Adam out of need which pushes Adam to do something he's been hiding from all his life: use his senses, his "gift", intentionally.
There's no reason everyone shouldn't give this story a try (its free and online!) and I doubt anyone will regret reading it.
Sidenote: I didn't give it 5 stars simply because sometimes Adam's thoughts would run on a bit too long and the ending was left intentionally hanging by the author (not a cliffhanger, but just some unresolved pieces that wouldn't been much more satisfying to read the conclusion of) but no sequels are available.
March 3, 2014
this storry is really hard to rate on one hand i LOVED adam he was awesome! i loved the storry the writing style everything, BUT JOE, i hated joe!!!
so ya that last bit ruined it for me so i took of a star itd be 4 stars without that...
so ya that last bit ruined it for me so i took of a star itd be 4 stars without that...
May 7, 2012
aww. i really like this book. :)
for me, the main character at first was kind of annoying 'coz well, when he has a bump or he sees something it's wierd considering the fact that it is most likely never to happen in real life. but then as the story progresses like most of the protagonist in a story, you'll get to the point where you'll like the main character.
And the story, compared to all the other stories I read, was really unique. I haven't read a story (even a straight love story) that had this kind of magical reality. Not really magic but still, it fits into the kind of magical reality my professor was talking about. haha. :)
I read this fiction in one night straight. I really liked it. The ending was so cuuute. :))
for me, the main character at first was kind of annoying 'coz well, when he has a bump or he sees something it's wierd considering the fact that it is most likely never to happen in real life. but then as the story progresses like most of the protagonist in a story, you'll get to the point where you'll like the main character.
And the story, compared to all the other stories I read, was really unique. I haven't read a story (even a straight love story) that had this kind of magical reality. Not really magic but still, it fits into the kind of magical reality my professor was talking about. haha. :)
I read this fiction in one night straight. I really liked it. The ending was so cuuute. :))
January 22, 2014
This story always had me guessing and second guessing even as I lay there dieing in laughter at other stupid crap. Then the seriouseness of things always came back but by then something else not exactly funny but funny enough cause I'm strange like that just brought it all back together.
I'm glad everything worked out the way it did for Jack… I know that's not his name. Even in my review I can't remember his name or even be bothered to go back and find it. He sounds like a Jack to me.
…his name is Adam. Sheesh talk about WAY off.
I'm glad everything worked out the way it did for Jack… I know that's not his name. Even in my review I can't remember his name or even be bothered to go back and find it. He sounds like a Jack to me.
…his name is Adam. Sheesh talk about WAY off.
April 13, 2012
4.5 I really liked this one.
Adam, a guy with OCD, who is kind of nuts and whose sixth sense is running wild is helping out Joe, a guy who is kind of fucked up. This is not a romance, they don't get all lovey dovey and sappy, but they have amazing chemistry and each on his own is a very fascinating character.
Adam, a guy with OCD, who is kind of nuts and whose sixth sense is running wild is helping out Joe, a guy who is kind of fucked up. This is not a romance, they don't get all lovey dovey and sappy, but they have amazing chemistry and each on his own is a very fascinating character.
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November 20, 2014
Actual rating 3.5
I remember feeling this started out really goodthat may or may not be an exaggeration, it's been a while since I read this after all but after a bit it lost a lot of the glow. It was still worth reading and had an interesting concept with nice characters a good setting and was well-written.
I remember feeling this started out really good
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February 2, 2013If I haven't read and loved the PsyCop series first I would be very impressed by the story plot-wise, otherwise I feel like I've read it somewhere before. It is still an overall nicely written story with some minor plot holes and inconsistencies.
July 14, 2013
Loved the power and the displaced way he deals with it, and enjoyed the first-person POV. God and his peanuts was a vibrant description.
Would have like to see how their relationship evolved and what Adam actually does with his Sight, but I'm not seeing any particular continuation ...
Would have like to see how their relationship evolved and what Adam actually does with his Sight, but I'm not seeing any particular continuation ...
January 18, 2015
this story.. was cute.
May 13, 2013
This one is sort of finished, but does not come to a very satisfying conclusion, as a romance. The author intends to make it a series but hasn't yet...
Want to read
November 27, 2013Shelley's review sold me!!!
January 20, 2014
If "With Intent" were the first book in the PsyCop series, I could finally understand the hype. As it is, this is light years ahead. Shame it's not published.
October 3, 2016
One of my favorite stories posted on FictionPress, one I have read over and over again as the years pass.
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