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False Colors (2009)

by Alex Beecroft(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0762436581 (ISBN13: 9780762436583)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Running Press

review 1: Fun, but liked the idea of it more than the reality. Equivalent to maybe a 70th percentile quality slash fic. Enjoyably indulgent, with plenty of solidly detailed Age of Sail window dressing, but not hugely psychologically convincing, nor satisfying as a well-turned novel. I am the last person to be the fun police when reading romance/erotica, but I think too many things happen for gratuitous/fetishistic reasons even by my tastes - e.g. I really don't think you can play the card of a character being horrifically tortured by ethnic infidels and then tenderly nursed back to health by his love interest twice in the same book.
review 2: I liked it a lot. It was exactly what it said it was - and akin to Patrick O'Brian. I think the details on the boats,sailing etc a... morend the illegality of homosexuality were first rate. The feeling of fear, the reluctance to show emotions, the inability to understand the attraction was well done. I loved the way the title fit so well in more than one way! I felt I'd like to have known more about Alfie and John as people - more about home life, background, childhood etc I also felt that the miscommunication bit was a little over the top but yet I can see how easily it could happen. I think what made it a four star rather than a five for me was the parallel brutality. I'm not squeamish - I actually like a bit of torture in fiction, (cough) but it was as though - well it happened to Alfie - so it has to happen to John. It didn't seem needed. This isn't going to suit readers who want lots of MM sex but for a detailed character study and historical look at what it was like to be gay in the navy at that time, it was very well done. less

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