Description
There is one upside to almost getting raped. It proves that you're at
least desirable to someone. Maybe Andrew Ashton is just a little bit too
rational for his own good. Not however where it concerns his best
friend Sean Denham, scion of a political dynasty, and like him from a
privileged background. There's only one problem: Sean is straight. Of
course he is.
Being born into money was up until now one of the
smartest moves Andrew Nathaniel Ashton VII ever made. It keeps him free
from worries about his future, earning a living and more of those
trivialities, so he can dedicate himself to the really important things
in life. Like getting laid.
In his society indentured servitude,
commonly known as slavery, has been reintroduced for several, but mainly
economical reasons. It doesn't bother him all that much. Slaves are
kept on large farming corporations, in factories, in the backside of
stores and such. Out of sight.
Andrew knows slavery exists, and
he doesn't approve, but on the other hand, it is not as if he made the
system what it is, is it? Yes, there was this one time when it touched
him personally, but what could he do about it? It is not as if slavery
is ever going to become a personal issue, is it?
Andrew thinks the future, all in all, looks bright and carefree. He thinks he is about to find true love. He thinks he is safe.
He is wrong.
Praise and Reviews
Review:"Once I accepted that not everything in this story was going to be easy
to read I became immersed in the events told mainly thru Andrew's eyes.
The highs and lows, the good and bad, the beautiful moments and the ugly
truths he learns all combined to make this an entertaining and thought
provoking story. I liked the author's writing style although I did feel
at times that Andrew was perhaps too mature for his age. It was a bit
hard sometimes to believe he was so young from the way he comes through
in the book however that didn't take away too much from my enjoyment. I
did waffle a bit on the rating because of my reservations with parts of
the story but when I realized I was thinking about the story long after
I'd finished it and wishing there had been more to it I felt it deserved
a five star rating. Highly recommended."♥♥ I Love Books ♥♥I have to warn you that there are some very graphic and sometimes cruel scenes.
"I actually have sympathetic pains in my chest over this poor boy!", one reader wrote in a comment on a site where I tested it out.
"Some
of the scenes were brutal and a little hard to read, and some of the
'history lessons' were quite long. However, every single one of those
scenes was necessary in my opinion, it helped me really understand the
world I was reading about." another wrote. More recently, on my own site, where you can find the complete review, someone said
"There
was so much detail and finesse to the story. I would have liked to have
known if he was able to track down that poor kid from the airport. I
cried at that point and at the parts involving Eric. What a cruel
world." But a little bit further down, the same person says
"It is such a beautiful tale of redemption as well." and
"The epilogue was amazing also, though very bitter-sweet."There is romance too. I promise.