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My Fair Captain |  | Author: J. L. Langley
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1599987619
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781599987613
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Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
Talk about a compromising situation! A storm of political intrigue, murderous mayhem and sexual hungers is brewing on planet Regelence. Swarthy Intergalactic Navy Captain Nathaniel Hawkins ran from a past he had no intention of ever reliving. But when his Admiral asks him to use his peerage, as an earl and the heir to a dukedom, to investigate a missing weapons stash, hes forced to do just that. As if being undercover on a Regency planet where the young men are supposed to remain pure until marriage isnt bad enough, Nate finds himself attracted to the kings unmarried son. All Prince Aiden Townsend has ever wanted was to be an artist. He has no interest in a marriage of political fortune or becoming a societal paragon. Until he lands in the arms of the mysterious Earl of Deverell. One look at Nates handsome face has Aiden reconsidering his future. Not only does Nate make a virile subject for Aidens art, but the great war hero awakens feelings in Aiden he has never felt, feelings he cant ignore. After a momentous dance at a season ball, Aiden and Nate find themselves exchanging important information and working closely together. They have to fight their growing attraction long enough to find out who stole the weapons and keep themselves from a compromising situation and certain scandal. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, violence, hot nekkid man-love.
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 Heaven is the Planet Regelence July 12, 2010
Aryael de Kaprii (California, USA)
JL Langley has done it again with yet another GayRomance/Erotic Masterpiece. "My Fair Captian" takes its readers where every gay man has dreamed about going at least twice in their lives. The Planet Regelence by any other name is still a world populated by gorgeous gay men. Im talking soldiers, captains, kings and their sons all gay all the time (not bi, not curious). The Full Blown Absolutely Fabulous Gay Men lead elegant 19th century lives with their Formal Balls, Manors, Country Houses and estates all rolled into a futuristic digital age where the computers are chaperones and the carriages drive themselves. Sexy, fun and funny this literary world is fantastically cast with Captain Nathaniel Hawkins, Aiden Townsend, Jeremy "Trouble" Hawkins and The Royal Townsend boys. To hell with Earth, I want the next rocket to Regelence.
Some people had a problem with the sex, to that i have to say, what did you expect the back of the book says this story contains hot m/m action. Someone mentioned they were looking for a good sci-fi book, this is great sci-fi it just so happens to be Gay Romance Sci-fi. I will have to agree the story got lost in the romance and the sex, but WHO CARES, the romance and sex was the most interesting part anyway. These books are guilty pleasures, they are written to titilate. They are like those shows Dante's Cove and The Lair. These are books are like chocolate cake and ice cream you eat it because it tastes good, not for nutritional value. If you just sit back and take them at face value they are really entertaining. Do not try to extract any truth or Divine meaning from them, just let yourself fall into the fantasy. Now I am speaking to a gay male audience, I have no idea what to say to heterosexual people who read these books. Im sure JL Langley appreciates your business though.
WOW July 10, 2010
Lawrence P. Jakobi (Palmdale, CA USA)
In one word, WOW. I have read this book 4 times already. The universe created as well as the character development exceeds all expectatons for SF. The only way to improve upon this book and it's companion is to offer the public more books that help to answer the questions created and offers us more of this universe and the wonderful characters that completely engulf the reader. Please give us MORE, MORE, MORE!!
Basically just fluff, but fun all the same June 15, 2010
Charly T. Anchor (Texas)
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 7/10
PROS:
- The setting is an amusing mixture of historical and futuristic. Much of the action mirrors that of Regency novels--there are balls and pistol duels and trips requiring chaperones--except that the characters also carry around computers and travel from one location to another in spaceship-type vehicles and interact with a butler who is electronic rather than human.
- There's a lot to suggest that Aiden is basically a stereotypical female character with a male name: he lives in a society in which he receives constant marriage offers, he's smallish and slender, he's entirely innocent sexually, etc. He does turn out to have a mind of his own, though, which I liked. (Still, if you're not a fan of male damsel-in-distress stories, stay away from this one.)
- Nate and Aiden don't experience many misunderstandings or rough patches where their relationship is concerned. Not that I mind such things in books, but occasionally it's nice to read one where the two guys meet, like each other, ADMIT that they like each other, and then get together.
- As I usually find with Langley's novels, the sex scenes are pretty hot. Somehow she manages to write them with just enough detail for my taste: they're decently graphic and not overly flowery, and they last long enough to build up some anticipation before they're over.
CONS:
- The characters are maybe not the most original I've ever read about. Well, okay...they're definitely not.
- Some plot points are mentioned and then just sort of get lost in the shuffle, so that they're left pretty much unresolved when the book is over. And along the same lines, some of the things I was looking forward to seeing I didn't really get to see. In the case of a specific development in the characters' sexual relationship, for example, the book cuts off IN THE MIDDLE of the scene in which the characters are performing the act.
- I found the number of characters overwhelming at times. The prologue introduces 4 or 5 characters, then in the first chapter, we move locations and meet Aiden, all 4 of his brothers, both of their fathers, and several servants, all of whom are referred to by name. And to make things even worse, some of the characters are referred to by more than one name.
Overall comments: If you're looking for a book with profound character development or a super exciting plot or an original take on science fiction or historical fiction, this is probably not a good choice for you. But if you want a pleasant, fluffy way to spend a couple of evenings, this might be just the thing.
 Rating and Review At Odds February 25, 2010
Tracy (Fort Myers, Florida, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I find myself in the difficult position of feeling differently about a book than I thought of it, so the 3 star rating (how I felt about it) and the review (what I thought about it) are going to be at odds. And in truth, the star rating would really be more like a 2.5 if I could. But it's not because of the story itself, and therein lies the dichotomy.
I don't know quite what I was expecting from this book, but the blend of sci-fi and regency romance wasn't badly written, really. The characters were perhaps a bit two dimensional and maybe an argument could be made that they were very cliched, but in all honesty, that's sort of the nature of a regency romance and I'm very familiar with the themes. It WAS a bit odd to see so classic a theme as the ton and society mavens parading around in a genetically engineered predisposed m/m culture, but it wasn't done poorly. From the standpoint of plot development and characterization, I'd simply say I wish there had been a bit more fleshing out of the world, making the blend of historical and futuristic a bit more visceral and clear. And while I don't think there was anything wrong with the plot of the action part of the book in which an IN captain goes undercover in the house of the King of a Regency planet to discover the perpetrator of massive weapons theft and ends up discovering a conspiracy that threatens war between worlds, I didn't think it was given enough attention to really be the core of the story.
Admittedly, it is a personal genre preference when reading romance novels that the romance happens either in hand with or AROUND a central core that is not related to the romance and not the other way around.
But it wasn't badly written. I did think some of the situations were a bit too contrived and didn't really feel organic to the plot and story, especially as the conflict reached it's somewhat disappointing and too-pat peak. I did like the characters, though. I would've really enjoyed much more about the King and King-Consort and their children. I thought their characters were quite interesting and would revel in reading more about them, especially with a vehicle that fleshed them out and gave them more face time. I enjoyed the main characters, uber-alpha naval captain Nate Hawkins and artistic dream boy with a flash of spine Aiden to be interesting and likable, and there was enough story there to provide both some depth.
Honestly, if I was rating the story itself and how it was told, I'd give it a 3.5 stars, but I've realized that neither this particular genre - the scifi-regency - nor this particular type of m/m pairing with the big brawny alpha and the submissive effeminate boy to be my cup of tea for m/m romances. I prefer a bit more equality between males - that doesn't have to always be sexual equality, I don't mind a bit of bondage or dom-sub in the bedroom - but I really don't prefer when submissive becomes synonymous with feminine and it extends beyond the bedroom, like it did in My Fair Captain.
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