They sat down expecting a typical night of role-playing, but when these Columbia University Undergrads wake up in the fantasy world they had imagined, they have to fight not only to get home, but for their very survival all the while dealing with new bodies, identities and sexes.
It's the World of Allmyth, a gender-fluid world of magic and danger, where the boys may be pixies and the girls knights in shining armor.
This 36,000 word novella contains sex-changes, body-swaps, mind alterations and some steamy sex-reversed R-Rated sex scenes.
Excerpt:
Nari laughed and grabbed her boyfriend Ravi's wrists, pinning his arms above his head. Ravu struggled, grunting prettily, but she was too strong for him, and he settled back as she stared into his face, her breath hot against his cheek. Ravi tilted his hips up, pushed his knees apart, his long black hair spread out around his head. Nari let go of his arms and sat back ,looking down at his full brown breasts, the nipples hard, his small arms and round shoulders. He was a vision of womanhood, ripe and soft and radiant with feminine perfection. Ravi licked his lips and looked up at Nari with wet, cloudy eyes full of desire. "Take me," Ravi whispered in his soft, pretty voice. "Now."
What I loved about this book is the fact that it takes all the gender sterotypes and puts them out there. Then at one point, it takes the person who is the most homophobic and has him switch places (by accident) with his girlfriend and now he has to learn what it feels like to be her. This isn't simply switching bodies and that's that. It's switching bodies and having all that comes with being female (not that I would know), but at the same time his girlfriend (who's now his boyfriend) is starting to experience what it feels like to be male, and the ups as well as the downs of that (as both of them are finding out.) What was REALLY interesting is after the swap, the "macho" man kept a diary and you could see the gradual change of him into her. It was pretty cool to see the thought process and how quickly he eventually walked away from some of his more homophobic tendencies as he became her.... very very interesting.
Also, side note. Not to get all SJW, it does bring up the inequality between men and women in this book, and it's also interesting to see how people handle it when they are no longer the sex that they were....this isn't some huge genderswap book. It's what would happen in most games. When dudes pick characters that are female, or woman picks a male character instead of female........and then being forced to LIVE as that character.
Loved the story and I was taken with the way the story is told. My favorite part of the story is when they switch read the book to know what I'm referring to.....