kimberly_rose’s Reviews > Saviours of Oestend > Status Update

4.5 stars. There are several unanswered questions at story's end (a baby? Beth? Frances and Simon really satisfied with that?) but overall A-FUCKING-brilliant. I enjoyed having this to look forward to reading every time I sat down.

Aweww! I want book three! Pretty please, Marie? Jeremiah's story? It can even be het, I won't complain. Much. Maybe Beth? There's something complicated In that girl, right? Not just lazy entitlement?

Love you like a bird loves the sky, a bee loves honey, a fish loves the river.

Finished the sixsome scene. Can't say I liked it but it was believable and not gratuitous porn. I still fear for poor Frances. I understand Simon loves him in his own way, but man, if I were Frances, I'd always be worried about a woman like Lena taking over Frances place in Simon's heart; after all, if he's a (albeit, delightful and wanted) 'receptacle' for Simon's grief-that-is-love-with-no-other-place-to-go....

Oh my LORDIE LOO, THIS IS EXCITING! I love it! And this is a rare story: there are six significant characters and much of the tension is external (man vs nature) but I still love it. Usually, I am loathe to see the introduction of even a third mc, and I want the conflict to be kept to man vs self or man vs man. But the balance is just right in this series.

*spoiler* Oh--another gem like 'I love you like a bird loves the sky': I love you like a bee loves honey. Also, I like Dante's reasoning (again!): Tama, his best friend, doesn't know how to act around Dante's lover now that she knows his lover is a transgendered female. Dante says act like you did before, she (the lover) hasn't changed, only tama has.

I've been thinking about how powerfully affecting I find this thought: ppl who are used to either being ignored or being treated badly, and who, filled with desperation, humiliation, abject loneliness, will taint how they view the crumbs that they are given into a feast. (Thinking of Frances here and the young man in the Winter Fisherman's Lodge.)

I'm of two faces: delighted to see such an nontraditional, complex m/m love between Simon and Frances; and incredibly full of pity for Frances--he seems to be missing a crucial specialness in Simon's eyes. As for Dante and Cami's love--another nontraditional, complex m/m pairing--Dante's view of Cami is beautiful and so bang on.

In response to 'do you love me': He brushed his finger down her cheek. “Like a bird loves the sky.” I'm gonna say that next time.

Whew, that kitchen sudden-boner scene was intensely tense and erotic! Loved it. I am thrilled with the description/development of the way Cami changes, slowly becoming more and more desirable, in Dante's eyes.... But she's always been the same.