Quarantine

by Lisabet Sarai

Love is contagious. But when love is forbidden, the whole world's a prison. Dylan Moor will do anything for freedom. Seven years ago, a gay plague spread to heterosexuals, killing millions and sparking brutal anti-gay riots. The guardians rounded up men who tested positive for the Homogene and imprisoned them in remote quarantine centres like desolate Camp Malheur. Since then, Dylan has hacked the camp's security systems and hoarded spare bits of electronics, seeking some way to escape. He has concluded the human guards are the only weakness in the facility's defences. Camp guard Rafe Cowell is H-Negative. He figures the lust he feels watching prisoner 3218 masturbate on the surveillance cameras must be due to his loneliness and isolation. When he finally meets the young queer, he discovers that Dylan is brilliant, brave, sexy as hell - and claims to be in love with Rafe. Despite his qualms, Rafe find he can't resist the other man's charm. By the time Dylan asks for his help in escaping, Rafe cares too much for Dylan to refuse. Dylan's plan goes awry and Rafe comes to his rescue. Soon they're both fugitives, fleeing from militant survivalists, murderous androids, homophobic ideologues and a powerful man who wants Dylan as his sexual toy. Hiding in the plague-ravaged city of Sanfran, Dylan and Rafe learn there's far more that their own safety at stake. Can they help prevent the deaths of millions more people? And can Rafe trust the love of a man who deliberately seduced him in order to escape from quarantine?

Genres: M M Romance, Science Fiction, Romance

181 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 9, 2012

About the author

Two decades ago LISABET SARAI experienced a serendipitous fusion of her love of writing and her fascination with sex. Since then she has published nearly one hundred erotic titles, including the classic RAW SILK. She edited the acclaimed anthologies SACRED EXCHANGE and CREAM and is currently responsible for the altruistic erotica series COMING TOGETHER PRESENTS.

Lisabet holds more degrees than anyone needs from prestigious universities who would no doubt be embarrassed by her chosen genre. She loves to travel and currently lives in Southeast Asia with her highly tolerant husband and two cosmopolitan felines. For more information on Lisabet and her writing visit Lisabet Sarai's Fantasy Factory (http://www.lisabetsarai.com) or her blog Beyond Romance http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com). Join her VIP email list here: https://btn.ymlp.com/xgjjhmhugmgh

Reviews

[Meggie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This whole storyline is absurd. The main storyline "a gay plague spread to heterosexuals, killing millions and sparking brutal anti-gay riots" is IDIOTIC.
Okay, I admit 10% at the start was enjoyable enough, but when I saw that Dylan used sex only as a tool to manipulate Rafe as his escape goat, I simple stopped liking the story. Dylan's and Rafe's escape was rushed and some character like Kevin, dreadful. Definitely it wasn't a story for me. And I wont even start about SEX, this story is full OF IT. BORING!

[Shelby P · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another book where too much sex ruined a good premise! I wanted to know how the book ended so for that it gets 2 stars. I really enjoyed the first 20% of the book. Dylan was an intriguing character. The interracial pairing didn't feel contrived to me; it was refreshing to have most of the story told from Rafe's POV.

I don't think a man's chest should ever be referred to as breasts. Who wants to think about men with breasts????? Now why on earth would you think about having sex if you've been kidnapped, have been rescued but still in the kidnapper's house?? Couldn't Rafe and Dylan wait until they'd escaped the kidnapper's house before they had sex? Made no sense at all!

Why after you've been unconscious for days and might be blind but the first thing you want when you wake up is for your cock to be jacked???

I never understood Kevin's fatal attraction to Dylan. Just cause you rimmed him in a bathhouse you are now obsessed with him? Looks like there will be a sequel but I have no intentions of reading it.

Note to authors: The sex must make sense in the story. Sex for sex's sake sucks!

[Bookbee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once again I can't believe I'm saying this... too much sex!

Also, the book didn't live up to it's potential (imo). World-building could have provided a few more details.

[Elisa Rolle]

The story is a frighteningly possible apocalypse now future; or at least it was considering the devastation the AIDS plague brought to this world. In a future society, people tested positive to the homogene, mind you that doesn’t mean they are homosexual, but that they have a specific gene believing to determine homosexuality; consequence is that even men who are not homosexual, but married (and in love with their wives) and fathers are confined in isolated camps. For the last 7 years they are captives of machines, since prison officers are now substituted by robots and only one or two men, tested negative to the homogene, can control an entire prison.

This is the situation where we find camp guard Rafe and prisoner Dylan; Dylan understood the only weak point of that situation are the human guards and he plans to seduce Rafe. Of course nothing is simple as appears and our men will find themselves in a very uneasy situation.

The setting was perfect, since it was oppressive; as usual in these stories, even if not specifically said, the mood and the writing style convey a perennial shadow, even in broad light the sun seemed not able to warm this inhuman world.

Even the characters, Rafe and Dylan, were perfect, right for the reason they were not: Rafe didn’t struck me as particularly clever, and Dylan was ready to use everyone to his purposes. There is to be considered that Dylan was 17 years old when he was imprisoned, and now, 7 years later, he is a man of 24 who hasn’t had really any chance to live. A bit of selfishness is probably amendable.

I’m not sure the author intended this as to be a standalone book; she introduces different elements that are not totally wrapped up at the end, and even for the main characters there isn’t a 100% closure; in a way, I’m not even sure Rafe and Dylan are destined to be together, or maybe they are, but in this uncertain future, where nothing is sure, they have the only possible relationship, a relationship to be lived day by day.

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[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

i really enjoyed the scenario and the characters in this book. there were some very hot m/m scenes. Lisabet Sarai has an excellent imagination. this is also an excellent spec fic book with social commentary on what a possible homophobic future will be like. the boys were a bit too romantic for me, but there was enough grit to get me going.

[Neko · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5
If there is any type of sequel or spin-off to this I REALLY am looking forward to it! <3