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Ingenious #2
Intuitive
Welcome to the Sanctuary, Beau. Now Figure a Way Out.
Abducted and desperate to escape a den of female ferals in heat, Beau hears a voice that promises him safety in return for his servitude. In what appears to be a solid metal wall, a door opens to a tunnel where he meets Galen, a powerful AI with a mandate to protect the humans in a vast underground sanctuary under its care since the apocalypse. Unfortunately, the coding supporting the habitat is failing. Members can’t escape because a thousand years ago, rebels reprogrammed the tunnel’s lasers to vaporize anyone leaving the sanctuary. Once Beau enters the tunnel, there’s no turning back. The lasers will target him if he tries to leave.
Being captured quickly turns into being utterly captivated when Beau meets his roommate, the beautiful Jagger.
Jagger has recently awakened from a stasis pod expecting to inherit the Directorship. Instead, a slight defect in the pod has disrupted the perfect coding of his brain, and he works on the farms. Ironically, his ability to think outside the code improves the harvests. Is he appreciated? No. Treated like an inferior, he’s tempted to let the lasers vaporize his miserable life.
Jagger’s attitude changes when he acquires a roommate from the outside world. Beau is a barely literate soldier whose retractable claws and fangs betray his half-feral bloodline. He shocks Jagger with stories of sentient vines spreading over the Earth and of Ruling Mothers who sound as ferocious as the female ferals who kidnapped Beau. What the heck has happened out there since the Rebellion?
Though all young adults must marry and raise a child, Jagger’s defect prohibits him from fathering a child. When the widowed Director, an older man Jagger loathes, lifts the ban on same-sex marriage to force Jagger into marrying him, Galen intervenes and offers Jagger the option to marry his infatuated roommate instead.
Beau is all in! Just how all in will require patience because Jagger is straight. But time for courtship is running out. The AI that sided with the Rebels has awakened, and its mandate is to destroy the Sanctuary and finish what the Rebels failed to do.
Intuitive is the sequel to Ingenious. There’s a matchmaking AI finding ways to sneak around its custodial mandate, and a ruthless AI mandated to destroy. Expect action and adventure mixed with graphic m/m steam between the two virginal main characters.
Inceptive is the third book in the series and takes place ten years later in the Carolina Sanctuary, which is at war with an oceanic federation seeking a mainland habitat. The heroes from Ingenious and Intuitive will pay a visit. Expect a major twist in Beau and Jagger’s marriage. The author promises the reader won’t see that twist coming!
Abducted and desperate to escape a den of female ferals in heat, Beau hears a voice that promises him safety in return for his servitude. In what appears to be a solid metal wall, a door opens to a tunnel where he meets Galen, a powerful AI with a mandate to protect the humans in a vast underground sanctuary under its care since the apocalypse. Unfortunately, the coding supporting the habitat is failing. Members can’t escape because a thousand years ago, rebels reprogrammed the tunnel’s lasers to vaporize anyone leaving the sanctuary. Once Beau enters the tunnel, there’s no turning back. The lasers will target him if he tries to leave.
Being captured quickly turns into being utterly captivated when Beau meets his roommate, the beautiful Jagger.
Jagger has recently awakened from a stasis pod expecting to inherit the Directorship. Instead, a slight defect in the pod has disrupted the perfect coding of his brain, and he works on the farms. Ironically, his ability to think outside the code improves the harvests. Is he appreciated? No. Treated like an inferior, he’s tempted to let the lasers vaporize his miserable life.
Jagger’s attitude changes when he acquires a roommate from the outside world. Beau is a barely literate soldier whose retractable claws and fangs betray his half-feral bloodline. He shocks Jagger with stories of sentient vines spreading over the Earth and of Ruling Mothers who sound as ferocious as the female ferals who kidnapped Beau. What the heck has happened out there since the Rebellion?
Though all young adults must marry and raise a child, Jagger’s defect prohibits him from fathering a child. When the widowed Director, an older man Jagger loathes, lifts the ban on same-sex marriage to force Jagger into marrying him, Galen intervenes and offers Jagger the option to marry his infatuated roommate instead.
Beau is all in! Just how all in will require patience because Jagger is straight. But time for courtship is running out. The AI that sided with the Rebels has awakened, and its mandate is to destroy the Sanctuary and finish what the Rebels failed to do.
Intuitive is the sequel to Ingenious. There’s a matchmaking AI finding ways to sneak around its custodial mandate, and a ruthless AI mandated to destroy. Expect action and adventure mixed with graphic m/m steam between the two virginal main characters.
Inceptive is the third book in the series and takes place ten years later in the Carolina Sanctuary, which is at war with an oceanic federation seeking a mainland habitat. The heroes from Ingenious and Intuitive will pay a visit. Expect a major twist in Beau and Jagger’s marriage. The author promises the reader won’t see that twist coming!
308 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2020
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July 27, 2021
A glorious sequel!
I devoured this book! I've been so excited to read the sequel. It should be interesting to see other sanctuaries in future books.
This one is Beau's book. He'd had such horror growing up amongst the ferals, and loosing his Dad at a young age. Pushed down and ridiculed at the academy, his only friend was Quinn. This book picks up right where Ingenious left off. There are moments of outstanding humor, action and of course love! With a guaranteed HEA, you will enjoy this excellent sequel!
I devoured this book! I've been so excited to read the sequel. It should be interesting to see other sanctuaries in future books.
This one is Beau's book. He'd had such horror growing up amongst the ferals, and loosing his Dad at a young age. Pushed down and ridiculed at the academy, his only friend was Quinn. This book picks up right where Ingenious left off. There are moments of outstanding humor, action and of course love! With a guaranteed HEA, you will enjoy this excellent sequel!
June 6, 2025
3.5 This was so close to good, the first 70% was an easy 4 stars for creativity and just always keeping me on my toes. The following 15% introduced a dues ex machine that sobered my enjoyment and the remaining 15% i wish didn't happen at all.
Author gets kudos for creativity and batshit insanity but a sideye for the dehumanising experience of reading the 'romance' and sex scenes in this book where everything is focused on sex and where sex is merely a transaction or powerplay
Author gets kudos for creativity and batshit insanity but a sideye for the dehumanising experience of reading the 'romance' and sex scenes in this book where everything is focused on sex and where sex is merely a transaction or powerplay
April 24, 2022
Fantastic!
Beau truly deserved his own book and Jagger deserved his own happily ever after. The world created by Barrie Farris is just fascinating. The tech is incredible and the living situations were very interesting. I highly recommend this book!
Beau truly deserved his own book and Jagger deserved his own happily ever after. The world created by Barrie Farris is just fascinating. The tech is incredible and the living situations were very interesting. I highly recommend this book!
July 29, 2021
Worth the wait
I loved Beau in the first book and even more now in his own. He has definitely met his match in Jagger who's stubborn, smart, gorgeous, and beautifully flawed.
I loved Beau in the first book and even more now in his own. He has definitely met his match in Jagger who's stubborn, smart, gorgeous, and beautifully flawed.
April 8, 2025
I love Beau ❤️
August 20, 2021
Am I the only one who's bummed there isn't a 3rd book?? I loved the world building, the variety of characters, and the connections between them. Such amazing adventures reading this series. I didn't want it to end.
August 18, 2021
I'm so happy that there was a sequel to Ingenious!
This world is so fascinating, I really can't get enough of it!
I loved Beau and Jagger
This world is so fascinating, I really can't get enough of it!
I loved Beau and Jagger
December 22, 2021
This one I actually read all the way through (since the icky bits were much, much less). I'm still not 100% sure where this is set, but I nonetheless enjoyed the rather post-apocalyptic, survivor type setting.
January 14, 2025
Barrie Farris, you have the WEIRDEST BRAIN that has ever brained. Just, WHAT created you?!?
Uh, terrible cover.
There was crying, definitely, in this book. Not from me, certainly.
Once again, even more so, actually--least sexy book of all time. Big yikes.
Uh, terrible cover.
There was crying, definitely, in this book. Not from me, certainly.
Once again, even more so, actually--least sexy book of all time. Big yikes.
September 20, 2021
So good
Still have a few questions. Are the ferals the evolution of the humans who didn't get to go to the sanctuaries. How has the Earth changed? Are their other sanctuaries?
Still have a few questions. Are the ferals the evolution of the humans who didn't get to go to the sanctuaries. How has the Earth changed? Are their other sanctuaries?
January 7, 2022
Sweet Beau!! Love a himbo MC. The ending was bonkers…
February 25, 2023
It has been a long time since i read a funny, beautiful, complex and captivating story.
Keep it up!
Keep it up!
March 24, 2025
4 stars. Inventive in many ways and I really enjoyed finding out more about how the world had become in the state it's in.
June 30, 2025
For about the first 70% this was a better book than the first one. I was having a great time, I was glued to the plot even thru the horrible sex and the shit beetles. And then it went straight off the rails after the climax. What the absolute fuck was that last 30% for? Why not just end it in dramatic triumph and then a lovely meeting with Quiggs? Is the message that if you hate your femme body enough you can get swole thru artificial means and your partner will still love you? Was this her answer to the question of if Beau would still love Jagger if he was actually a jellyfish in a meat suit who needed to anally penetrate him to turn back into his love like some fucked up sleeping beauty? I cannot begin to describe my levels of what the fuck for that last 30%. I have no idea how to rate this. |Consent and bodily autonomy were once again all the fuck over the place. I do not know if this author had ever heard about pleasurable gay sex before because it doesn't sound like it. They way they all treat each other's bodies is weirdly abusive, most of the explicit consent is actually coerced, even down to little things like kissing. What the hell with the betting system in the early relationship of Beau and Jagger. Again with the trading of sexual favors, but this time not really even for pleasure. More 'i get to do this thing to you that you have expressly told me you do not like'. And then the final love scene is literally an alien consciousness coercing painful and unwanted anal on the demi-coded Beau to awaken the true Jagger. And everyone Beau knew and trusted told him to just fuck him to get him talking, without even knowing that Jagger was in there! These people had literally no respect for bodily autonomy or consent, despite preaching it and controlling for it. Literally both books have been almost exclusively coerced consent?
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May 30, 2025
3.5 stars
I considered stopping to read this because the lack of consent and bodily autonomy in so many scenes really bothered me. In the end I couldn't resist finding out how it all ended. The writing is great, the world-building detailed and vibrant and the two main characters real sweethearts. An outstanding example of storytelling.
I considered stopping to read this because the lack of consent and bodily autonomy in so many scenes really bothered me. In the end I couldn't resist finding out how it all ended. The writing is great, the world-building detailed and vibrant and the two main characters real sweethearts. An outstanding example of storytelling.
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