Consequences

by Alp Mortal

Gregory and Taylor meet when Gregory starts a new job teaching English at a hotel in the French Vosges Mountains. Taylor lives nearby, choosing to live off of the land; a hippie forest dweller, eleven years older than Gregory. Taylor's dog, Jack, brings them together. Can these men find themselves, perhaps common ground and even love?

A story about what happens when two men on wildly different trajectories meet ... and the consequences.

I am always very happy to receive your feedback. If you wish to contact me directly, please email me at: alpmortal@hotmail.com.

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Thank you,
Alp Mortal

Genres: M M Romance

70 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 4, 2013

About the author

I'm English by birth, from the Isle of Wight, living in Newport, spending part of the year in the USA, co-managing The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent publishing house, incorporated in the State of Indiana.

I was 51 years old in 2016. I only started writing in 2009, proving, I suppose, that it is never too late. I didn't think about publishing until late 2012, now, nearly four years later, I'm even more energized by the process than ever before.

I'm a qualified English teacher, specializing in teaching English as a second language (TEFL), though I don't do much of that now. In the distant past, I taught software skills. In the very distant past, I was a project manager on big IT projects and at the very beginning of my career, I was an Internal Auditor. I have degrees in Internal Auditing, Computer Auditing and Project Management. I'm studying for my degree in Sustainable Development at the moment. Renewable energy is what really interests me.

I'm a member of The Society of Authors, The Society for Editors and Proofreaders and The Independent Author Network.

I have no great philosophy except "energy follows intention" and "honour your gifts". These two principles keep me sane, very happy and exceedingly busy!

I am always very happy to receive your feedback. If you wish to contact me directly, please email me at: alpmortal@hotmail.com.

Visit the website, alpmortal.weebly.com, for updates on the next gay romantic story or crime thriller that I am working on.

Together with Chambers Mars, I am half of Carter Seagrove, author of Dust Jacket and The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries.

Alp Mortal, Chambers Mars, Shannon M. Kirkland and Morgan Starr are The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent book publisher. Find us at www.carterseagrove.weebly.com, on Twitter @carterseagrove and on Facebook www.facebook.com/thecarterseagrovepro....

Reviews

[Liz Winters · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the second story I read by this author and it was much different than the first. Where "The Mouse that Felled the Oak" was a sweet romance with a bit of a m/m fairy tale feel, this was a contemporary story that seemed to bounce around like a pinball. One of the main characters, Taylor, is styled after the author (at least according to the author's biography,) making me wonder if the story itself is not autobiographical. Given that truth is often stranger than fiction, if this were indeed an autobiography, it would go a long way to explain some of the bizarre twists and turns of the story.

I liked the first half of the story, especially the way the main characters did not hit it off right from the start but instead had a fairly rocky beginning. I also liked Taylor's rustic lifestyle (again, styled after the author's own apparent lifestyle) and the part it played in the development of the MCs relationship. By the time the MCs got together I was really rooting for them and hoping for a HEA, which may have been difficult given that one of the MCs was only visiting for the summer. I actually suspected that the potential separation at the end of the summer might be the source of the story's conflict, but that turned out not to be the case.

Somewhere around the mid-point the story took some very bizarre and perplexing turns that had me scratching my head in confusion. There were two separate unexpected conflicts. The one that would have caused a huge problem for me turned out to be easier to solve than the one that I would have expected the characters to handle better. The epilogue seemed to wrap things up, but in a way that still left the potential for open-endedness.

Based on the second half I cannot rate the story as highly as I may have wanted to after reading the first half, but I do like this author's writing style and intend to read more of his m/m stories.

p.s. not relevant to the content, but my one final nit is with the cover, which currently shows a snow covered evergreen. Given that the main story (outside the epilogue) takes place during a warm summer, the cover makes no sense.

[D · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an awesome story! It pulled me in and I was totally engrossed. I look forward to reading more from this author.

[Lisa ~ Books Are My Drugs ~ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just didn't feel much connected to either of the MCs. Although I did feel bad for Taylor when his dog was killed. Maybe this wasn't the best choice for my first time reading this author's work.