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Collected
One decision can change your life - and the body you live it in.
Software engineer Lyle Estevez just watched his entire future go up in flames. His engagement is over, his start-up is suddenly penniless, and his eviction is imminent. Lyle thinks the music is about to stop when he receives a mysterious letter offering to make all his troubles go away. The offer has one catch: Lyle will need to spend the next year of his life living as the kept WOMAN of his benefactor.
What starts as simple crossdressing graduates to something more when Lyle is offered a black market gadget just hitting the states from Asia, one that promises to completely rework his genetics to match anyone he samples. Suddenly Lyle isn't Lyle anymore - he's the pampered companion of a reclusive billionaire and thinking he just made the easiest trade of his life. Until something goes wrong.
The biotechnology installed in Lyle's body isn't all that it appears to be, and sinister forces greater than any Lyle can imagine are closing to put an end to his life of sex, luxury, and carefree living before it even gets started. Will Lyle outwit the strange forces attempting to control his mind and shape his body? Will he discover he has feelings for his billionaire keeper? And can he keep them both safe before the secrets are revealed, or will he be collected and join Dale Buckner as a mindless love doll forever?
Solar Harris returns to the day-after-tomorrow future of gender swapping, body transformation, and sinister intrigue she created in ACQUIRED with a new chapter and a new protagonist - but plenty of old faces along the way.
69,000 words
This work of fiction contains adult material and explicit scenes with erotic descriptions. Themes include crossdressing, m/m, orgies, gender transformations, mental corruption, mind control, identity theft, clothing fetish, interracial relations, exotic dancing, and other perverted fantasies. For mature audiences only. All characters over 18 years old.
Software engineer Lyle Estevez just watched his entire future go up in flames. His engagement is over, his start-up is suddenly penniless, and his eviction is imminent. Lyle thinks the music is about to stop when he receives a mysterious letter offering to make all his troubles go away. The offer has one catch: Lyle will need to spend the next year of his life living as the kept WOMAN of his benefactor.
What starts as simple crossdressing graduates to something more when Lyle is offered a black market gadget just hitting the states from Asia, one that promises to completely rework his genetics to match anyone he samples. Suddenly Lyle isn't Lyle anymore - he's the pampered companion of a reclusive billionaire and thinking he just made the easiest trade of his life. Until something goes wrong.
The biotechnology installed in Lyle's body isn't all that it appears to be, and sinister forces greater than any Lyle can imagine are closing to put an end to his life of sex, luxury, and carefree living before it even gets started. Will Lyle outwit the strange forces attempting to control his mind and shape his body? Will he discover he has feelings for his billionaire keeper? And can he keep them both safe before the secrets are revealed, or will he be collected and join Dale Buckner as a mindless love doll forever?
Solar Harris returns to the day-after-tomorrow future of gender swapping, body transformation, and sinister intrigue she created in ACQUIRED with a new chapter and a new protagonist - but plenty of old faces along the way.
69,000 words
This work of fiction contains adult material and explicit scenes with erotic descriptions. Themes include crossdressing, m/m, orgies, gender transformations, mental corruption, mind control, identity theft, clothing fetish, interracial relations, exotic dancing, and other perverted fantasies. For mature audiences only. All characters over 18 years old.
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First published February 23, 2014
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May 22, 2014
Collected is a standalone sequel to Acquired, the first gender transformation erotica novel from Solar Harris (check out Samuel's review here). There are small wink-wink, nudge-nudge things that carry over to connect fans of the first with the second, and the technology remains the same, but Collected brings us a new story and a new protagonist.
I really liked the way in which Harris begins the book, pairing up the stories of two businessmen who are much the same at heart, but whose careers have taken drastically different paths. The unusual clause in the business deal offered to Lyle is as tantalizing as it is terrifying, but even though there's a power exchange involved, the relationship is based on compatibility and friendship, rather than lust or cruelty. His cosmetic transformation into a woman is breathtaking to behold, and detailed exquisitely by Harris, but (again) it's only to make him feel at ease with the deal, not to humiliate or control him. By the time the amazing technological transformation is introduced, Lyle is more than willing to give it a try and see how the relationship develop.
Sci-fi elements aside, this is largely an erotic romance novel, but one with a tender, transgender soul. There's also a significant (and very dark) mystery/thriller element introduced towards the end which works as an added layer that enhances the overall tale. Harris also has some interesting things to say about personal freedoms and personal relationships, with the act of body-stealing (or copying, to be precise) having interesting consequences that very much come back to haunt Lyle.
Overall, a very well-written book that demonstrates some great imagination, and some erotic ingenuity. I enjoyed it quite a bit and look forward to the next chapter.
As published on Bending the Bookshelf
I really liked the way in which Harris begins the book, pairing up the stories of two businessmen who are much the same at heart, but whose careers have taken drastically different paths. The unusual clause in the business deal offered to Lyle is as tantalizing as it is terrifying, but even though there's a power exchange involved, the relationship is based on compatibility and friendship, rather than lust or cruelty. His cosmetic transformation into a woman is breathtaking to behold, and detailed exquisitely by Harris, but (again) it's only to make him feel at ease with the deal, not to humiliate or control him. By the time the amazing technological transformation is introduced, Lyle is more than willing to give it a try and see how the relationship develop.
Sci-fi elements aside, this is largely an erotic romance novel, but one with a tender, transgender soul. There's also a significant (and very dark) mystery/thriller element introduced towards the end which works as an added layer that enhances the overall tale. Harris also has some interesting things to say about personal freedoms and personal relationships, with the act of body-stealing (or copying, to be precise) having interesting consequences that very much come back to haunt Lyle.
Overall, a very well-written book that demonstrates some great imagination, and some erotic ingenuity. I enjoyed it quite a bit and look forward to the next chapter.
As published on Bending the Bookshelf
January 26, 2016
2.5
Nothing for me. Once more a magical box, this time it can rebuild one's genetics to any other pattern it has acquired, for ex. to make the body of a male into the one of a female. BTW it's not possible to read the book as a stand alone, it doesn't end.
Nothing for me. Once more a magical box, this time it can rebuild one's genetics to any other pattern it has acquired, for ex. to make the body of a male into the one of a female. BTW it's not possible to read the book as a stand alone, it doesn't end.
December 6, 2015
2014 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)
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