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Immaterial
Afterlife enforcer River Jordan is a cursed man. True love is the only way to end his curse. Your usual fairy tale stuff. Right? Here comes the catch-22: that man, Jordan’s true love, must die to lift the curse.
That’s one sure way to screw his HEA.
A one-night-stand, interrupted by the enforcer’s duties, becomes a challenge for carefree Emmanuel Lux, and he is determined to learn more about the mysterious, brooding hunk.
Life will twirl in unexpected ways as a dangerous, common enemy abducts Emmanuel, opening a forbidden door not only to their forgotten past but also to a turbulent future, neither of them is ready to face.
A man without love is IMMATERIAL.
WARNING: THIS EBOOK CONTAINS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT SCENES AND LANGUAGE AND MAY BE CONSIDERED OFFENSIVE BY SOME READERS. (M/M FOREPLAY AND INTERCOURSE).
That’s one sure way to screw his HEA.
A one-night-stand, interrupted by the enforcer’s duties, becomes a challenge for carefree Emmanuel Lux, and he is determined to learn more about the mysterious, brooding hunk.
Life will twirl in unexpected ways as a dangerous, common enemy abducts Emmanuel, opening a forbidden door not only to their forgotten past but also to a turbulent future, neither of them is ready to face.
A man without love is IMMATERIAL.
WARNING: THIS EBOOK CONTAINS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT SCENES AND LANGUAGE AND MAY BE CONSIDERED OFFENSIVE BY SOME READERS. (M/M FOREPLAY AND INTERCOURSE).
218 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 20, 2012
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About the author
Gabbo De La Parra
32 books70 followersBorn a Sagittarius in the fabulous year of the Rooster of ’69, at the hour when his cat was about to become a complete dragon, Gabbo de la Parra landed on the Caribbean Coast of the outlandish Republic of Panama to start the adventure of life.
Love and the Internet brought him to Middle Tennessee to embrace the American Dream and his husbandly romance. Writing has been an important part of his life since a very early age, and it’s a pleasure to share his stories with others thanks to the wonderful opportunities this land provides.
Gabbo cherishes Life with a southern gentleman in a townhouse (crowded with the spirits of his characters), close to a man-made lake and with their pets: street-smart Russian Blue Bella and rambunctious Rottweiler Alex.
Love and the Internet brought him to Middle Tennessee to embrace the American Dream and his husbandly romance. Writing has been an important part of his life since a very early age, and it’s a pleasure to share his stories with others thanks to the wonderful opportunities this land provides.
Gabbo cherishes Life with a southern gentleman in a townhouse (crowded with the spirits of his characters), close to a man-made lake and with their pets: street-smart Russian Blue Bella and rambunctious Rottweiler Alex.
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July 12, 2013
As paranormal romances go, this is pretty good. The world building is successful in providing the reader a solid background for the plot. The characters, primary and secondary, are well-defined and individually developed, doing away with the possibility of confusion. The sex? It's incandescent. Though it feels more like erotica than romance, loved it.
There were, though, a few things that detracted from my enjoyment, and ended up costing this review two stars:
* There were several inconsistencies in the storyline which left me confused. It almost felt like chunks were missing, edited out without re-reading for continuity or sense. I won't detail them because I don't want to spoil the story, but they were big enough to pull me out of the story quite thoroughly.
* Certain words kept being used repeatedly, to the point that I started unconsciously noting how many times I'd seen them in the last few pages. For example, "mitt" as a synonym for hand, or "piquant" as an adjective to most anything. Then there were the misspellings, few and far between, but I couldn't help notice.
* The ending of the epilogue left me really scratching my head. Rean? Why with Jean48? How does that make sense? Why not with Emmanuel? Just...why???
All in all, it's an entertaining read. I liked it, but that's about it.
There were, though, a few things that detracted from my enjoyment, and ended up costing this review two stars:
* There were several inconsistencies in the storyline which left me confused. It almost felt like chunks were missing, edited out without re-reading for continuity or sense. I won't detail them because I don't want to spoil the story, but they were big enough to pull me out of the story quite thoroughly.
* Certain words kept being used repeatedly, to the point that I started unconsciously noting how many times I'd seen them in the last few pages. For example, "mitt" as a synonym for hand, or "piquant" as an adjective to most anything. Then there were the misspellings, few and far between, but I couldn't help notice.
* The ending of the epilogue left me really scratching my head. Rean? Why with Jean48? How does that make sense? Why not with Emmanuel? Just...why???
All in all, it's an entertaining read. I liked it, but that's about it.
June 17, 2013
It's a hard trick to pull off, to end a novel with the title, but Gabbo De la Parra pulls it off with aplomb here, in this crazy romp-story set in the near future. It's a time when the nature of death has been redefined. Enforcer Jordan ensures those who have died move on to Afterlife while keeping the malcontent dead from interfering with the living. It's a thankless task and Jordan takes his recreation where he finds it, until he bumps into the writer-businessman Emmanuel. These two characters are hunks with bumps, and the story builds the frustration both steamily and amusingly as time after time they fail to reach ignition point due to interruptions… and a little self-doubt on both sides of the bed.
It's also quite a trick to create a mayhem, action-packed, crazy, futuristic world with men built like Transformers and coat the whole in genuine romance, for underlying the terse macho man-talk, this really is a man-on-man love affair, which proves that love conquers all… even death itself.
It's also quite a trick to create a mayhem, action-packed, crazy, futuristic world with men built like Transformers and coat the whole in genuine romance, for underlying the terse macho man-talk, this really is a man-on-man love affair, which proves that love conquers all… even death itself.
December 5, 2012
This M/M fantasy romance is quite enjoyable and well worth a read.
Set in a not too distant future when many of the events that are looming right now have already happened changing the sorts of humankind for good, the plot details the meeting and falling in love of two highly loveable characters, Emmanuel and Jordan, the one a good-looking not-so-average joe, the other a supernatural guardian of sorts. I will not go into detail about Jordan's nature to avoid spoilers.
Writing is generally neat and lively with the random grammar mistake that must have escaped proofreading and is so much more evident in the generally well edited context.
Rhythm is good, humour pleasing and the expected HEA crowns Mr de la Parra's work.
There are two sets of problems that forced me to take one star away from a full-five rating and tempted me to take even more.
Objectively, the plot is not exactly action-packed and it could have used more fight scenes and confrontations, especially with the villain.
On the other hand the author tends to overwrite the feelings of the two lovers who, by the way, fall in love a little too quickly.
Subjectively, the supernatural lore is unappealing.
It is always highly dangerous to deal with life after death: unless the author manages to exactly describe the afterlife his reader believes in, he is bound to disappoint. Should he perchance manage to appease one reader he shall displease all the others. It is a lose-lose situation anyway.
It goes without saying that the new-ageish/christian sort of afterlife imagined -and unfortunately described at length- by Mr de la Parra pushed all the wrong buttons with me spoiling a large chunk of the fun.
Of course readers with different worldviews may not see this as a problem.
Set in a not too distant future when many of the events that are looming right now have already happened changing the sorts of humankind for good, the plot details the meeting and falling in love of two highly loveable characters, Emmanuel and Jordan, the one a good-looking not-so-average joe, the other a supernatural guardian of sorts. I will not go into detail about Jordan's nature to avoid spoilers.
Writing is generally neat and lively with the random grammar mistake that must have escaped proofreading and is so much more evident in the generally well edited context.
Rhythm is good, humour pleasing and the expected HEA crowns Mr de la Parra's work.
There are two sets of problems that forced me to take one star away from a full-five rating and tempted me to take even more.
Objectively, the plot is not exactly action-packed and it could have used more fight scenes and confrontations, especially with the villain.
On the other hand the author tends to overwrite the feelings of the two lovers who, by the way, fall in love a little too quickly.
Subjectively, the supernatural lore is unappealing.
It is always highly dangerous to deal with life after death: unless the author manages to exactly describe the afterlife his reader believes in, he is bound to disappoint. Should he perchance manage to appease one reader he shall displease all the others. It is a lose-lose situation anyway.
It goes without saying that the new-ageish/christian sort of afterlife imagined -and unfortunately described at length- by Mr de la Parra pushed all the wrong buttons with me spoiling a large chunk of the fun.
Of course readers with different worldviews may not see this as a problem.
September 1, 2016
A 3.5 read for me, but not enough to put in at a four.
I did enjoy the story, it did get a bit away from me in the middle and the ending seemed a bit rushed but an enjoyable romp all the same.
I'm not a big paranormal fan and this was just enough in my comfort zone (though perhaps the middle bits were over that line which is why I didnt enjoy that section so much). The story is set in near future but with a new take on the After (death) and spiritual awareness.
I did enjoy the story, it did get a bit away from me in the middle and the ending seemed a bit rushed but an enjoyable romp all the same.
I'm not a big paranormal fan and this was just enough in my comfort zone (though perhaps the middle bits were over that line which is why I didnt enjoy that section so much). The story is set in near future but with a new take on the After (death) and spiritual awareness.
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