Today it's time for Trick of Time by JL Merrow
Ram: Clichéd.
Ana: What sex scenes? Is it a way to start a book discussion?
Blod: Well there was some licking in...ahem areas where..yeah and cuddling LOL
Ana:What kind of discussion is it exactly? Licking??? I feel scandalized now.
Blod: You told me to start! All I remember is the licking and the ohh whore! pants dropped scene.
Ana: Ram asked us to read a bawdy book, that’s what it was.
Ram: ...I asked you to read a M/M novella. Of course it’s a bawdy book.
Blod: Hihi, well there had to be some whore action considering
Ana: it was all ridiculous but the most ridiculous of all was the time-travel aspect. Senseless
Blod: What! Noooooo! Time-travel rocks.
Ana: time travel is like rocks - plenty of writers have shipwrecked and some of them, they’ll never learn. I have never read a book where it was done right.
Blod: Why was it bad?
Ana: How can it be called good? It lacked logic.
Ram: Whut? Why is what can be called good?
Ana: Time travel and you should know it the best, our resident scientist.
Ram: Har har har.
Blod: I am a daydreamer, I believe and love all the silly things
Ram: I thought the logic was done well enough for a novella. I wasn’t expecting lengthy pseudo-scientific explanations. That a play in a certain theatre acted as a key to unlock a wormhole into another year worked for me. It’s called suspending disbelief, which I signed up for when I picked a book about time-travel.
Ana: But it was never explained why it was that particular play and not the other ones and why it affected only Ted, not anybody else. It was rubbish.
Ram: The accident. A series of coincidences.
Ana: I snort in your general direction, coincidences. There are no coincidences in good books, novellas or otherwise.
Blod: GOD did it...ok maybe not.
Ana: what God and why he/she took that particular care of a queer? Idiotic.
Blod: Oh I should not joke about that, it was the universe
Ram: I’m starting to think you just wanted a book to rip apart now.
Ana: No, not at all. I am not that mean. I am MEANER. This made me mad because it WAS bad.
Blod: Well I enjoyed it, fluffy time-travel, some whore smexing, and it was short
Ram: Sometimes fluff is good, although I’m usually allergic to the stuff.
Ana: damn, don’t tell me...and pray, how come Jem could travel along Ted without one single consequence? HOW?
Blod: Oh Ana, just believe
*Ana spits venom and fire* not a cat in hell’s chance. So tell me what else did you enjoy apart from the smexing and homoerotic fluff?
Blod: …..eh, true love wins?
Ana: true lust takes over?
Ram: Angst.
Ana: what angst?
Ram: Ted’s suffering before the time travel bit and his continued worry about what his dead husband would have thought.
Ana *cackles* oh yeah, he suffered for about 10 minutes and then he had a blowjob and stopped, poor thing ;p.
Ram: It was a novella. Try to remember that. And he’d been alone for year and a half.
Ana: I hate novellas, it is known. You owe me a good novel, m/m but good.
Ram: I thought I’d already recommended you one good one with a rent boy. This balances the scales.
Ana: ? Refresh my memory, please.
Ram: What I need by Theda Black.
Ana: *looks at it suspiciously* too short.
Ram: Maurice? American Love Songs? Counterpunch (with modern slavery)? Dark Space? The Marrying Kind? Muscling Through by JL Merrow?
Ana: will do.
Blod: Hey you guys, do not talk too much without me! *reads that Ana hates novellas* Well I do too
Ram: Oops.
Blod: But for a novella this one worked. I am usually very meh about them and they do not make me want to read more
Ana: It didn’t work for me, not really. Ok, maybe the fluffy scenes but still they were silly.
Ram: Silly? Yes. Bad? No.
Blod: I do confess that I never got why Ted was so in love and I did think the rent boy was just after a quick easy way out. But it was a novella, I forgive it
Ana: well, I don’t. I am not a forgiving kind I suppose.
Blod: It was even the best Scoundrel book so far
Ana: now that’s pure outrage
Ram: *snort* I think I liked Song of Scarabeaus more though :P
Blod: Do not even mention that boring book to me
Ana: yes, Song of Scarabaeus was far better. ;p
Ram: *giggles*
Ana : who would you recommend this one to *nobody, say nobody* ?
Ram: Someone wanting to read a short M/M time travel story. Don’t expect to be wowed and be prepared to suspend disbelief.
Blod: Fans of m/m
Ana: NOBODY.
Ram: You’re nobody then? Liar.
Ana: Nemo, call me Nemo *swims away*
Ram: It’s your turn to pick a book...
Ana: hahahahahahaha, wait and seeeee....
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Fluffy time travel with some m/m smexy times? Sounds pretty good to me! I don't mind novellas, sometimes it's fun to just having something short to give me a break before I pick up the next novel:)
ReplyDeleteI do not like novellas for the most either, but for some reason it really worked
DeleteI tend to let a lot go in terms of logic with novellas if I like the characters. But time travel in a novella - I'm not so sure. That stretches my believability in general but in a novella I'm not sure I could buy into it without a longer explanation.
ReplyDeleteI just let go totally. No time for thought at all ;)
DeleteAwesome discussion again ladies! But I don't read m/m so this won't be put on the wishlist. I do like time travel books. Ana, try some Melissa Mayhue. Timetravel because of Fairy Magic.
ReplyDeleteAna likes her fairies with swords, I doubt she likes them with time travel ;) Lol
DeleteI might try it, thanks Aurian. ;p
DeleteAw... who reads these for the science? It's all about just going with the flow. :) Enjoying the discussion! LOL
ReplyDeleteYup go with the flow
DeleteI read for the science. Yes I am awesome like that ;p.
DeleteYou guys crack me up. Great chat ladies! Novellas tend to leave me wanting more.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteAlways love your talk, thanks for the nice review!
ReplyDeleteThe only reason novellas bug me is because they arent long enough! I know defeats the purpose, but I have not read many that fully finish and leave me satisfied at the end.
ReplyDeleteOk, at BEA I grabbed a few M/M books & gave them to my brother in law, except for one. It's about 2 wolf's and a vampire. Its pretty good. Paranormal Romance M/M. I was so into it I missed the first stop on the train home :) Luckily the 2nd stop was only 5 minutes away from #1.
Same here. Things happen too fast, and then they are finished! I want more stuff in between.
DeleteLOL. Well that happens ;) And those are the truly awesome books when you are so in to them. And I would not say no to a wolf vamp book
sounds pretty good!
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DeleteO those fairies do have swords, and there are yummy highlanders with swords as well as an added bonus ...
ReplyDeletesounds lovely ;p
DeleteLol
DeleteHaha, well it happened
ReplyDeleteSorry if this posts twice, I thought I posted it last night, but my browser seems to have frozen.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, fabulous discussion again ladies! These always crack me up. I think after reading this I almost want to read this novella purely so I can laugh at it. I can get down with the lack of logic and just go with it. Love this "I snort in your general direction, coincidences." I feel that way about oh so many books.... :-)
Thank you Lauren :D
DeleteHaha, well read it for the laughs then ;) Maybe you can go all snarky
:) I always love reading these. hahaha.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Deleteyou peeps are cray-cray!
ReplyDeletetrue that!
DeleteI think your review was probably more entertaining than this book!
ReplyDeleteLol, good
DeleteThank you for this "review". LOL
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DeleteGod, I really enjoy your ramblings, gals! :))) And hey, time-travel is done well in The Outlander. Like really well!
ReplyDeleteI must try Outlander one day ;)
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