Romance /LGBT
1917
France
A beautiful gay love story and historical
romance set in France during WW1.
In 1917 Jack Woodvine joins Captain RB
Thorne as groom to his horse Apollo. He’s slightly effeminate but good with
horses, writes poetry and gradually earns the respect of the Captain. The two
are more sophisticated than the brutish bunch around them and, having things in
common, develop a friendship full of erotic tension and undertones.
Once they become lovers the book includes
a series of explicit love scenes and the focus stays on the physical and
emotional bond. War, death and fear as well as a sense for time and place are
secondary to the romance. A side plot involving a different soldier and rivalry
amongst the ranks slowly comes to the forefront and makes for some great
tension and suspense.
In the end this turns out to be a rather
good story but it will please romance readers more than historians.
© Christoph Fischer
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