kimberly_rose’s Reviews > In the Darkness > Status Update

Un-fucking-believable! Now Evin is having HET sex?! Did a different author write the second half of this sorry story? I am SHOCKINGLY disappointed!

WAH! It's like an entirely different story has been introduced for the last ten or so percent.

I think the problem lies on the POV. I'm no longer in Gareth's or Evin's POV; rather, I'm abruptly dumped into a servant's, a queen's, and a sorcerer's point of view. The hell? Go away!

Hmm. The crazy-sharp left turn the story is taking is losing my interest. I don't care about previously unknown and undeveloped queens and servants and cruel demon hunters.

Holy fuck! What the hellish hell just happened?! The demon within has a-fucking-rrived.

Hmm, the way this culture (or these boys) seem to view sex as a pleasurable activity to be shared with anyone they are friends with or as a means to get something else is hard for me to like. I want the act itself to be a deeply trusting one, meaningful and special between only two people. But the characters are so compelling I'm driven to read on.

There's a curious child-like aspect to their intimacy, but the acts they do are extremely sexual: intense, deeply connecting. Adult-child Gareth... he's not being taken advantage of--in fact, he's getting what he has long needed--but I still find myself strangely... guilty? secretive? at being happy/aroused at their physical intimacy. A reflection of the stiff, generalized view society clings to about sex and youth?

I'm still trying to pin my feelings about the relationship dynamic between Evin and Gareth....

Is it warm in this room? I feel decidedly hot. I think I must self-immolate... some more! *flips back to reread night-cliff scene before pressing forward with story* (I'm like a cow, chewing my cud... cuz it's so fuckin' delicious. Lol. Gross metaphor, but yanno, it's all bodily and internal fluids like--just like that scene....)

I don't like how Evin uses his body to calm/appease/distract Tyber shortly after using it to gently comfort Gareth, but then again, I understand why he does it--it's the most powerful tool he has. And he knows the difference in the touches. But would Gareth, if Gareth saw him with Tyber? Would it cheapen the closeness Gareth may be developing with Evin?