Reviewed by Sarina
TITLE: Draven’s Gate
AUTHOR: Cheryl Headford
PUBLISHER: Cool Dudes Publishing
LENGTH: 268 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 5, 2015
BLURB:
All Keiron wants is a quiet life. Fat chance with a boyfriend like Bren. But if he thought Bren complicated his life, it was nothing to the complications that begin when he opens the door to a naked young man who claims to be his slave. Draven is a fairy with his sights set on the handsome human who keeps a wild place in the garden for fairies. When Draven slips though a fairy gate into the city, and Keiron’s world, he sets in motion a series of events that binds him to Keiron forever, and just might be the end of him. While Draven explores Keiron’s world with wide eyed wonder, Keiron does everything he can to keep Draven’s at bay, until the only way to save Draven and bring him home is to step into a world that exists only in children stories and animated movies – doesn’t it.
REVIEW:
While the premise of this story caught my attention sadly, the story itself really didn’t. Right at the beginning I hated Bren which may or may not have been the point; I hated him and was counting the pages until he was no longer an issue. Despite that, I just didn’t feel that Keiron saying he loved Bren one day and then the next he was ready to break up with him to be with Draven worked for me. Now, if he had come to the conclusion that he needed to break up with Bren after his actions towards Draven had come to light, I would’ve believed it more and I think it would’ve worked better.
I also hate to say it but the relationship between Keiron and Draven never seemed to work for me either. I never felt the connection between them, despite the bond they supposedly shared. Part of that was the way I had a hard time reconciling how Draven acted with his actual age and then how Keiron would get frustrated/angry at him for how he acted or didn’t act in an appropriate manner to Keiron’s way of thinking. These two just…didn’t mesh for me at all.
There wasn’t a lot of drama in the story overall; there were a couple of things that didn’t get the emotional response from me that the author was aiming for, I think, and while I normally have no problems with an easy read, this one was too easy and I needed something to bring my attention back to the story. As it was, I found myself more reading to get through the book rather than reading because I was enjoying myself. The writing itself was pretty good but my attention just wasn’t there and I found myself ending the story with a kind of ‘meh’ attitude.
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