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A review by victoriamelida
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
5.0
This is the first time ever I have read a book that contains explicit consensual homosexual intercourse. Being straight, I didn’t find the idea appealing nor I could understand how in Japan there’s a whole trend on straight women reading homosexual (man w. man) manga.
Thus, I only started reading the book because I want to read Outlander’s seventh book and I wanted to understand what’s what with Percy and John.
I LOVED the book, even the sexually explicit parts and the sexually explicit thoughts.
Gabaldon’s writing is so perfectly done, so studied, so conscious about what she writes, that she shows everything just as it is. It is sex, it’s an act of passion, sometimes an act of love, and as long as it is between consenting adults, it doesn’t really matters who does it, you just get engrossed in the reading and you go with the flow.
As a matter of fact, you get so attuned to John’s feelings that this is the only time throughout my Outlander’s romance in which I have disliked Jaimie. The way he talks to John… jeez… even as I know what’s happened to him and even as I know that was the kind of treatment homosexual people received by then (And Gabaldon’s has never been one to sugarcoat things), it stills makes my blood boils.
All and all, it shows you that the very good relationship John and Jaimie have by the third book was hard earned and was not as peachy and smooth as one assumes, which really makes a lot of sense.
Thus, I only started reading the book because I want to read Outlander’s seventh book and I wanted to understand what’s what with Percy and John.
I LOVED the book, even the sexually explicit parts and the sexually explicit thoughts.
Gabaldon’s writing is so perfectly done, so studied, so conscious about what she writes, that she shows everything just as it is. It is sex, it’s an act of passion, sometimes an act of love, and as long as it is between consenting adults, it doesn’t really matters who does it, you just get engrossed in the reading and you go with the flow.
As a matter of fact, you get so attuned to John’s feelings that this is the only time throughout my Outlander’s romance in which I have disliked Jaimie. The way he talks to John… jeez… even as I know what’s happened to him and even as I know that was the kind of treatment homosexual people received by then (And Gabaldon’s has never been one to sugarcoat things), it stills makes my blood boils.
All and all, it shows you that the very good relationship John and Jaimie have by the third book was hard earned and was not as peachy and smooth as one assumes, which really makes a lot of sense.