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When Darkness Falls
Shadow Chasers are dark and mysterious creatures of the night, among the oldest supernatural beings walking the earth. Their strength and ability to manipulate the darkness makes them powerful, but everyone has a weakness.
Jet is no exception. He's always used his good looks and sex appeal to his own advantage. Never being the settling down type of guy, Jet is content with loving both men and women and then leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake.
After jilting one too many lovers, Jet suddenly finds himself banished to the farthest reaches of the world, the Arctic Circle. Can a creature who has existed for centuries locked in darkness survive in the land of the midnight sun?
Jet is no exception. He's always used his good looks and sex appeal to his own advantage. Never being the settling down type of guy, Jet is content with loving both men and women and then leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake.
After jilting one too many lovers, Jet suddenly finds himself banished to the farthest reaches of the world, the Arctic Circle. Can a creature who has existed for centuries locked in darkness survive in the land of the midnight sun?
- GenresParanormalM M Romance
27 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 12, 2013
12 people want to read
About the author
K.C. Grim
8 books6 followersHey, I'm KC and I've been writing for a few years now. I love dark thrilling stories, creatures of fantasy and things that go bump in the night.
Just like my real life, I'm also a hopeless romantic, but I know that not every story can have a happy ending, the boy doesn't always get the boy, but I still have to try.
I have a few stories published with JMS Books and a few available for free on GayAuthors.org
Check them out and let me know what you think. I love to hear from readers. It helps me know what I'm doing right, but more important what is wrong. I'm always looking to improve.
Send a message or just say 'hello' :D
Thanks,
KC Grim
Just like my real life, I'm also a hopeless romantic, but I know that not every story can have a happy ending, the boy doesn't always get the boy, but I still have to try.
I have a few stories published with JMS Books and a few available for free on GayAuthors.org
Check them out and let me know what you think. I love to hear from readers. It helps me know what I'm doing right, but more important what is wrong. I'm always looking to improve.
Send a message or just say 'hello' :D
Thanks,
KC Grim
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May 22, 2013
Review posted at Brief Encounters Reviews.
You know, unfortunately this story started off on a bad foot for me. One of my pet peeves is when the blurb gives more information about the story than the story itself. I finished the story feeling like I'd just been caught in a small worldwide, with the pace moving incredibly fast with little to no transition between scenes and knowing hardly anything about the characters but a few superficial facts. Then I read the blurb again, and much more of the story fell into place for me. But, that's not a good thing. The story should be able to stand by itself.
The basis of the story is a love triangle between Jet, a shadow chaser (a supernatural being whose power comes from the darkness), his best friend and jilted lover Roderick (who is a vampire), and the human who rescues and nurses Jet back to health after Roderick and his whole team turn against him and try to kill him. Holton (the human) is perhaps the most perplexing because we know very little about him, only that he's nursing a broken heart. Really, that's pretty much the whole story -- what, with proper explanation, character building and deeper plotting -- would have been a novella or a novel condensed into 20 pages by rushing the scenes (at breakneck speed), jumping large pieces of plot and not really exploring the characters at all but for a few sentences about them.
I'm afraid that I just can't recommend this story at all. I've never read anything by this author before, but I hope that their other stories slow down a little and allow the story time to unfold. To be completely frank, this story seemed much like a storyboard. The five or six major scenes of a larger story written down and then bunched together. I was so confused while I was reading it with the story jumping around all over the place and not giving us many clues about what was going on. And while, at the end, I finally understood what happened in the story, it missed so much that should have been there: getting to know the characters, understanding their motivations.
So, no I'll have to say that you should skip this one. I'll definitely give the author another go though, and hopefully I'll have a better experience with their other stories.
You know, unfortunately this story started off on a bad foot for me. One of my pet peeves is when the blurb gives more information about the story than the story itself. I finished the story feeling like I'd just been caught in a small worldwide, with the pace moving incredibly fast with little to no transition between scenes and knowing hardly anything about the characters but a few superficial facts. Then I read the blurb again, and much more of the story fell into place for me. But, that's not a good thing. The story should be able to stand by itself.
The basis of the story is a love triangle between Jet, a shadow chaser (a supernatural being whose power comes from the darkness), his best friend and jilted lover Roderick (who is a vampire), and the human who rescues and nurses Jet back to health after Roderick and his whole team turn against him and try to kill him. Holton (the human) is perhaps the most perplexing because we know very little about him, only that he's nursing a broken heart. Really, that's pretty much the whole story -- what, with proper explanation, character building and deeper plotting -- would have been a novella or a novel condensed into 20 pages by rushing the scenes (at breakneck speed), jumping large pieces of plot and not really exploring the characters at all but for a few sentences about them.
I'm afraid that I just can't recommend this story at all. I've never read anything by this author before, but I hope that their other stories slow down a little and allow the story time to unfold. To be completely frank, this story seemed much like a storyboard. The five or six major scenes of a larger story written down and then bunched together. I was so confused while I was reading it with the story jumping around all over the place and not giving us many clues about what was going on. And while, at the end, I finally understood what happened in the story, it missed so much that should have been there: getting to know the characters, understanding their motivations.
So, no I'll have to say that you should skip this one. I'll definitely give the author another go though, and hopefully I'll have a better experience with their other stories.
May 31, 2013
2 - 2 1/2 Hearts
Review written for MM Good Book Reviews
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Jet is a Shadow Chaser who works with a group of Vampires in security, but Jet’s bed habits land him in trouble when he takes one lover too many and he is betrayed by his best friend and sometime lover, Roderick, and a disgruntled Governor. Finding himself rescued by a human, Holton, in the Arctic Circle Jet finds himself in a position he has never been in before, trapped by the endless sun and falling for a human.
This short story wasn’t too bad but just too short and lacking in detail to be truly enjoyed, it would have been much more suitable as a novella giving us, the reader, the chance to savour the storyline. Jet is a man who hops from bed to bed, and then one day he goes too far, his punishment is harsh but with the care of a human he finds something he has never had before, love. Holton has been hurt in the past and begins to trust Jet, but Jet’s past comes back and Holton is forever changed because of jealousy.
I really liked what this story was about and would have really enjoyed it if there were much more details, like more of Holton’s background and more of the interaction between Holton and Jet. I would have liked more depth to the story and a reason why Roderick suddenly popped up again, why he snatched Holton and why Holton acted like he did and did what he did. We were given no explanations for why Roderick betrayed Jet other than jealousy, but that wouldn’t have explained why the rest of the team turned on Jet. There was so much potential with this story from the paranormal aspects to the relationship between Holton and Jet, and then the final betrayal by Roderick… there was just so much missing for it to be fully enjoyed.
I will recommend this to those who like short stories with huge potential, finding love in unexpected places, danger, a twist and a happy ending.
Review written for MM Good Book Reviews
http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com/
Jet is a Shadow Chaser who works with a group of Vampires in security, but Jet’s bed habits land him in trouble when he takes one lover too many and he is betrayed by his best friend and sometime lover, Roderick, and a disgruntled Governor. Finding himself rescued by a human, Holton, in the Arctic Circle Jet finds himself in a position he has never been in before, trapped by the endless sun and falling for a human.
This short story wasn’t too bad but just too short and lacking in detail to be truly enjoyed, it would have been much more suitable as a novella giving us, the reader, the chance to savour the storyline. Jet is a man who hops from bed to bed, and then one day he goes too far, his punishment is harsh but with the care of a human he finds something he has never had before, love. Holton has been hurt in the past and begins to trust Jet, but Jet’s past comes back and Holton is forever changed because of jealousy.
I really liked what this story was about and would have really enjoyed it if there were much more details, like more of Holton’s background and more of the interaction between Holton and Jet. I would have liked more depth to the story and a reason why Roderick suddenly popped up again, why he snatched Holton and why Holton acted like he did and did what he did. We were given no explanations for why Roderick betrayed Jet other than jealousy, but that wouldn’t have explained why the rest of the team turned on Jet. There was so much potential with this story from the paranormal aspects to the relationship between Holton and Jet, and then the final betrayal by Roderick… there was just so much missing for it to be fully enjoyed.
I will recommend this to those who like short stories with huge potential, finding love in unexpected places, danger, a twist and a happy ending.
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