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  • File Size: 1946 KB
  • Print Length: 122 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0989693856
  • Publisher: Eye Scry Publications (June 23, 2012)
  • Publication Date: June 23, 2012
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B008E97SOA
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4.0 out of 5 starslyrical
By Furio on September 19, 2012
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This is a pleasing gay romance, short in length but well worth a read.

It is at the same time conventional and unconventional.
Conventional in presenting the typical encounter and getting to know each other between characters with a dark past, in its touch of cinderella-like story not forgetting that subgenre where the lovely English lass, usually an aristocrat, meets the dark haired, roguish pirate of the Seven Seas.
Unconventional in avoiding the usual banter between the leads and choosing a flowery language bent on describing settings and emotions and aiming at beauty, a result it usually obtains without becoming sappy. Here and there I was a bit confused by a use of the past tenses that did not sound completely "right" but writing is generally quite good.

Diego is a crime lord in the Caribbeans Islands and deals in drugs and prostitution but has a code. In his way he is honourable (remember the roguish XVIII century pirate of straight romances?). We should despise him but the author gives him a tragic past and a humanity which endear him to us. The POV belongs to him and this simple device allows us to feel for and with him. Alec is a muscled beauty, presumably a middle class, educated man, frail and strong at the same time.
Through Alec Diego is born again and given a chance to redeem himself. Their growing love is beautifully worded except perhaps for the actual sex acts where the language does not manage to maintain the same standard it achieves everywhere else.

There is not much of a plot -this being more of an inner voyage of self discovery- but what there is is well built and consistent with the required and satisfying HEA.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Foundling by Wendy Rathbone
By Elisa on May 24, 2013
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What will remain the most with you of this romance is the language, almost poetic. Sometime I had the feeling I was reading a poem, not a novel, and it was so enthralling that I was almost forgetting the plot or the characters. And you should not because the author decided to being totally honest with them, especially Diego.

Diego is the villain, that character that usually will remain unpaired at the end, if he arrives at the end of the story; a villain can have honor, but if he doesn't redeem, he cannot have the happily ever after, or at least so are the romance rules. Well, here Diego will not redeem, and until the very end, he will maneuver is dark empire with a coldness that is scaring, a coldness that, on the other hand he doesn't reserve to Alec, the man he found lost at sea and that he brought back to life... apparently. Sure Diego has a tragic past, and he became who he is as an act of rebellion, but instead of fighting to destroy the system, he decided to conquer it; sure, he has honor, he will not trade with the worst kind of smugglers, but while weapons and drugs are not human lives, they nevertheless kill them. And not, do not hope he will be rescue by Alec's love into a new and better man, that is not where the story is aiming, on the contrary, in a way, it will be Diego that will drag Alec into his den.

Alec has amnesia, he doesn't even remember who he is; Diego is his only constant, and even if the police will tell him the true about the other man, nevertheless Diego remains his only shelter. Living in Diego's remote mansion, I think allow Alec to deny he has not more his own life; no one is asking questions, no one is pretending answers. Alec can build a new life, while Diego can reborn a little.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThe Foundling Flounders a Bit
By Evan SR Peterson on October 10, 2012
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This was a quick, easy, often preposterous read. A Caribbean mobster is sailing with a couple of his guards and encounters an unconscious amnesiac nordic god floating in a life raft. The mobster brings him aboard and begins nursing him to health, ultimately bringing the man back to his home where he finishes nursing him to health. Obviously, the two men, perfectly shaped as they are, fall in lust and then love for each other while the mobster uses his connections to try and help our young Thor recover his history.

Turns out the aryan is a man who was sold into slavery, gang raped and then made to walk the plank of his sinking slave ship during a botched escape attempt. The mobster ends up choosing to keep the man's history to himself, to let him remain amnesiac, and so they live happily ever after.

The sex aspects of the story were actually decently written in that they were fairly accurate mechanically and still a little titillating. For a regular read, maybe 2 stars. For a porn divergence 3 1/2 (it would get more here but it takes a long time--about 60% of the book--to get to the first bit of erotica).
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Foundling
By Alayne Gelfand on August 13, 2012
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In this tale of two men finding each other, literally, adrift, Ms Rathbone has created a lovely tension that applies to the characters as well as the plot. Exactly who is Diego? Who is the man he finds adrift at sea? Why is there this immediate compulsion to *know* each other from the very moment that the stranger opens his eyes? A fast-paced, intriguing, romantic adventure that draws the reader in immediately and doesn't let the reader go until the story is done. The writing is poetic but never difficult to read or to understand. The imagry is lovely. I truly enjoyed "The Foundling" and highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good tale that asks as many questions as it answers.
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