Vassily the Beautiful
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Angel Martinez
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Vassily Belikov, composer and pampered son of privilege, suffered neurological damage in the accident that killed his father. Resentful of being treated as an invalid, he lives as a recluse, dependent on his mother. That changes the day she brings home a new husband with two sons of his own.
When deep-space pirates capture Vassily's mother, he's left to the mercy of his cruel, amoral stepfather. Fighting addiction and his physical shortcomings, he's forced to seek out the criminal mastermind Baba Yaga for a crucial piece of equipment. While she agrees to deal with him if he beats his Exoticus addiction, paranoia and mysterious intentions infuse her household. Drawn to her fierce, suspicious youngest son, certain his actions are all carefully observed, Vassily must find the courage to face both his fears and his desires if he expects to survive.
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As the Indiana Jones of historical erotica, there is no document existing - or just rumored to exist - Adin Tredeger can't unearth. Why he would risk the biggest coup of his career to join the mile-high club is beyond him. But the disarming, dark-eyed man who somehow enters Adin's locked airplane washroom has him completely nude and coming apart. All without a whimper of protest.
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Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them. Handpicked to host the first-ever L'eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she'll have inside information about the mysterious L'eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara's blog following is about to skyrocket. Still, Cara isn't sure what to think when she meets Aelyx. Humans and L'eihrs have nearly identical DNA, but cold, infuriatingly brilliant Aelyx couldn't seem more alien.
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Rejection bites...Cal and I were destined to be mates. Until he rejected me. Even though it’s been years, it still hurts like hell. But now Cal’s returned, and he says I’m the only who can help him. He’s convinced someone in my pack was responsible for his father’s death, and they’re endangering his mother. Unfortunately, my big brother isn’t pleased with our little reunion. He’s the pack’s new Alpha after our father died and he’s willing to throw me to the wolves to hold on to his throne. And he’s not the only one who is angry about Cal’s reappearance...
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Not a typical rejected mate story
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Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. The outer realm may be lawless, but it's not like the law has ever been on her side. Still, off-world travel doesn't come cheap; Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm.
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Better than expected
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Time-travel tour guide Reegan McNamara's job-taking eager tourists to whenever they want to go-is usually a breeze. A trip back to 2020 to watch a world-changing speech seems no different, until a woman runs away from his tour group before the jump home. Now her tycoon husband is demanding her safe return-or Reegan will lose more than just his job.
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Insta-like with action and not much of a point
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Escape Velocity
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Linguist Elios Campbell is thrilled to be granted flight time in a Colonial Guard fighter jet, until he catches sight of his pilot. Spending time with Sender Kinnison holds even more appeal than the flight itself.
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Blood Ties Book One
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I'm no coward. I want to make that perfectly clear. But after my life turned into a horror movie, I take fear a lot more seriously now. I finally became Dr. Carrie Ames just eight months ago. Then I was attacked in the hospital morgue by a vampire. Just my luck.
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if you love 'bodice ripper novels'...
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City in Embers
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Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. When she is placed in her "last chance" home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexie, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. After high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her coworker. The man she loves. But there is something unique about Zoey.
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a totally enthralling budding romance
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How Beauty Met the Beast
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The Beast Scarred. Damaged. Living with a terrible secret. Agent of the Underlight Wesley 'Hauk' Haukon has nothing left but the fight for liberty against the oppressive Order of Ananke. He's starting to lose hope...and then he sees her. The Beauty Despite her night job as a burlesque dancer, grad student Jolie Benoit has always played the mostly good girl. That all changes following a scorching sexual encounter with a stranger whose face she doesn't see.
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A Disappointment...,
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Hell on Wheels
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Ex-Marine Nate "Ghost" Weller is an expert at keeping his cool - and his distance - which makes him one hell of a sniper. It's also how he keeps his feelings for Ali Morgan in check. Sweet, sexy Ali has always revved his engine, but she's his best friend's baby sister ... and totally off limits. Ali's never seen anything sexier than Nate Weller straddling his custom Harley - or the flash of danger in his eyes when she tells him she's in trouble. First, something happened to her brother, and now she's become the target of a nasty organization.
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Bad Narrator-Good Story.
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7th Circle
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Five years ago, I masterminded the infamous massacre of the Tri-state Timberwolves. The streets outside the Wolves HQ ran red with the blood of the old guard, and not one of those members loyal to my father were spared mercy. Not a single one. I let the media twist and distort the story. My new recruits eagerly proved themselves in spreading false news, in covering our tracks. To the general public, the Tri-State Timberwolves were extinct. But that couldn’t have been further from the truth.
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Shadow grove is back!
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- Lada Morrow
- 06-07-17
Very interesting take on Russian folklore.
Let's start with that I loved it. Very unusual and interesting old story retelling. The narrative was exceptional for an exceptional world building! Three tasks to complete for the young Vassily to get his heart's desire or what turned out to be. Highly recommended story with little angst and of course as in all fairy tales with HEA. Greg Boudreaux's was the one excellent performance. I hope he would voice other Angel Martinez's books.
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- Diane
- 06-08-18
I loved it!
I loved this book & would probably not have read it if it wasn't for my favorite narrator narrating it. Vassily broke my heart when his nasty, evil stepfather did what he did. He sure got what was coming to him. Vassily and Sumerki where perfect together and I would so love reading more about these two.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-08-17
a beautiful story with lovely narration
I adored every minute of this book: the MCs are perfect for each other, and you see them grow in such a satisfying way. This was like listening to a futuristic fairy tale, although it has a much happier ending than most Russian fairy tales. Angel Martinez is a great writer. This was my first book from her, but won't be the last.
Greg Boudreaux's narration is supurb. I'd listen to that man read ANYTHING.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-11-18
love this book
What am I favorites I listen to it several times I really enjoy listening to it over and over again
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- Zell Oakley
- 04-24-20
Pretty standard m/m romance
Vassily the Beautiful started out so well, I was sure it would be a cut above the usual m/m fare. Based on the Russian folk tale of Vasilisa the Beautiful, this novel gender swaps Vasilisa into Vassily (and also swaps the wicked stepmother and stepsisters out for a stepfather and stepbrothers) and sets it in the future, or at least in some spacefaring civilization (I'm not sure what an ESTO universe is but I imagine it has something to do with Angel Martinez's other novels which I haven't read). The author wastes no time in plunging Vassily into typical folk tale-esque despair, and quite effectively made me despise the antagonist and look forward to him getting his comeuppance. Through a series of events, Vassily is sent (like Vasilisa) on an errand to see Baba Yaga, updated from a terrifying ogress to a terrifying... I'm not sure what, really. Some sort of criminal? She certainly orders a lot of people's deaths. Vassily arrives and promptly collapses, needing medical care.
It's here that the novel, for me at least, fell apart a bit. What began as an interesting spin on a classic folk tale very quickly devolved into a very by-the-numbers m/m romance novel, the plot all but forgotten for a hefty portion of the middle section. Vassily falls in love with Baba Yaga's "son" Sumerki, and if there's ever a perfect example of a couple which seems to have been based on a heterosexual couple and then at the last minute one of them was gender swapped into a man, this is it. In fact I'd go so far as to say that if Vassily were still Vasilisa, the novel could (quite rightly) be accused of being a bit sexist. I'm seeing a lot of five star reviews and I can't help wondering, at the risk of being accused of sexism myself, how many of those are from straight women. Male/male relationships rarely have the type of power imbalance that female writers of gay fiction seem to revel in, where one character is very meek and submissive (but plucky!) and the other character dominates him to the point of being borderline nasty to him. The author does try to temper this a bit by having Vassily be the pursuer and instigator, but I can't help feeling it's a bit of wishful thinking to imagine that he has any actual power in their relationship. He's physically weak, he's gone through horrific trauma, he's been severely physically and psychologically abused, and what does he get from his true love? Literally a punch in the face (admittedly this is before their relationship starts) and a rope tied around his hands during sex because his boyfriend doesn't trust him enough to let him touch him. For plot reasons. Epic eyeroll. (Also a side note, ladies, not one gay man outside of a porn movie has ever said the words "I want you inside me" to their partner. The resulting laughter would kill the mood)
If that weren't enough, Sumerki (the boyfriend) constantly whines out line after line about how he doesn't deserve Vassily's affections, and they go back and forth about that for a good half hour, while Vassily tries to convince Sumerki that he's really a great person at heart. The biggest problem I had with this is that he's NOT really a great person, and he's a terrible boyfriend. And let's not even start on his "mother" Baba Yaga, who is nothing less than a sociopathic criminal but we're supposed to really like her because... I don't even know why, maybe because she's respected by a few characters we're also meant to like? She's also a strong woman in a novel dominated by men, but I'm not sure someone can be considered a feminist hero simply because they have a higher body count than the male characters. When Vassily recovers from the issue he has when he first arrives at her home, she sends for him and the other characters are about 60% certain she's going to order them to kill him, despite his complete innocence, because apparently that's perfectly in character for her. And she's one of the characters we're supposed to root for, for god's sake!
Anyway, by the time the novel gets back on track and remembers that there's a plot, I didn't really have the same feelings of antipathy toward the antagonist that I did in the beginning, so for me the whole thing just kind of fizzled out. If you know the story of Vasilisa, you know how Vassily's story ends too; it's pretty faithful, minus a couple details here and there. Greg Boudreaux does a good job narrating, because he always does a good job narrating, even if Sumerki ends up sounding a bit like Marge Simpson's sisters for some reason. The book was well written and I wouldn't go so far as to say it was BAD, per se, but the setup had me hoping for something more than a typical m/m romance novel romance with a huge, unrealistic, uncomfortable power imbalance between the two leads.
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