Lady Scoundrels' discussion: Trick of Time by JL Merrow

Today it's time for Trick of Time by JL Merrow

Ok how about those sex scenes?

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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