This is also a sexy novel, even if nothing of what happens in the intimacy between Matt and Travis is shared with the reader if you want to imagine, you have all the clues to fill the gaps, but mostly this is about the romance not the sex. Basically more a manly man novel than a romance, but surprise, surprise, the author was also able to stuff the whole with a lot of romance, almost like a club sandwich, one layer of dangerous mission, one layer of tender kisses, one layer of perilous travel, one layer of “look this is my hunky new boyfriend” in front of your lame former boyfriend and his even lamer new boy, one layer of terroristic attack and one layer of we are brothers, no matter what happens, not matter who you love and loves you back.
Latakia is first of all an adventure novel, and there is a lot of action, some violence, explosions, secret missions, brother in army mentality, soldiers equal heroes, and so on.
Between the two it’s clear who is the best pick, but the problem is that Travis is not free to come out if he wants to maintain his job. The leader of the team is Travis “Mope”, the nickname for his tendency to mope a little but Travis is also a real man, a good man, on the contrary of the vain boyfriend Matt has at home.
And then 4 men, Navy SEALS, enter the scene, rescue him, and completely change his life. Matt is a dead man only waiting for his last minute and he knows it. He found himself kidnapped and without any hope of seeing freedom again since he was not even the one they wanted. Matt is a volunteer of Doctors Without Borders who was in the wrong café at the wrong time. And if you considering I’m not much of a fan of thriller/adventure novel, it tells you even more about this novel.
Elisa_rolle Do you know how they say that self-published stories cannot be good? How they maybe can be original but lacking in all those details a publisher and/or an editor help the author with? Well, forget everything about it, since Latakia by JF Smith is one of the best novel I have read this year, including those by mainstream publishers.
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