Driftwood edition by Harper Fox Literature Fiction eBooks
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This is the FoxTales edition of the book previously published by Samhain Publishing. Other than the cover art and description, the book is the same.
Thomas Penrose is a village doctor in rural Cornwall. Popular with patients and friends alike, and handsome into the bargain, he lives in a romantic clifftop tower by the sea. It’s a wonderful life – if only Dr Tom could enjoy it. He’s a veteran of the conflict in Afghanistan, fighting a lonely battle against alcoholism and PTSD.
Determined not to inflict his troubles on anyone else, Tom keeps himself to himself. But fate has other ideas, and brings a handsome surfer crashing to his feet after a dreadful wipe-out on Porth Beach. Just another crazy surf bunny? Not a bit of it – Flynn Summers is one of Cornwall’s heroes, a fearless search-and-rescue helicopter man. Why is he risking his beautiful neck in the stormy off-season waves?
Despite the rocky beginning, Tom and Flynn become friends. Both are concealing sorrows behind a tough facade, and for once in his life Tom thinks he’s met someone who can handle him, shadow-side and all. But Flynn isn’t a free man. He’s unhappily locked into a bond of obligations and bad memories with formidable pilot Rob Tremaine – and Rob has no intention of letting Flynn go.
As Tom and Flynn begin their high-risk, high-reward romance, will the tides of the past sweep in to destroy their new love?
Driftwood edition by Harper Fox Literature Fiction eBooks
This is about the 5th book by H. Fox that I've read. The first two (Scrap Metal, Life After Joe ) where quite good. The last three (Kestrel's Chance, The Salisbury Key) and this one have been pretty average. They all have the same problem: she is having trouble writing a realistic plot line. This story is very dark with all the gothic elements: brooding castles, cold rain, blustery storms and dark, evil characters. Unfortunately the MCs where gothic also. Fox tends to write stories with flawed characters. That's great. I'm not all that into reading about perfect people. But with BOTH characters severely flawed, this story took on the feeling of a never-ending pitty party.Fox seems to have trouble writing bedroom scenes. This was true of Kestrel's Chance, and it is true in this one. I think there was only one rather bland one. While I don't like to read stories that are non-stop sex, this one was almost devoid of any physical contact.
I think the biggest let-down was the final chapters. It is in these that Fox intends to ramp up the action. I just found it totally un-realistic. [Tom has a broken collar bone and has his arm taped to his side and is just waking up from 5 days in a coma, yet he is able to rush out of the hospital and navigate a rescue vessel through a pounding storm, pull Flynn out of the water and be the big hero of the day. Just impossible! (hide spoiler)]
While I enjoyed some of this book, there was just way too much that got in the way of a good story.
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Driftwood edition by Harper Fox Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
"Driftwood" by Harper Fox is quite a good story. Its downfall is the over-the-top, way-too-excessive angst expressed by the major characters -- unfortunately a trademark of Fox's writing. It's a gay men's love story, with a happenstance meeting of two younger men who carry with them a great abundance of psychological and physical baggage. The story takes place in about a month's time in the lives of these virile two gay guys in a coastal district of Cornwall, UK. They are both professionals one a sea rescue helicopter pilot; the other a village doctor. Thus, ostensibly, brains are not the issue, though each of the 2 main characters (Thomas and Flynn) behaves badly enough at times to question the actual extent of their gray matter.
One must suspend disbelief numerous times during the tale in order to keep from simply deleting the story from one's . Nonetheless, the story moves rapidly, not quite a page-turner, but engaging enough to keep interest high. As gay romances go, it's more than passable. The sex.....well, at times the text comes close to unabashed pornography. Some of the not-so-real details could have been edited out.
The primary topic beneath the love story is domestic violence within a gay relationship. Fox keeps pretty much to the correct contemporary view - namely, that almost always one of a couple is a victim of the violence and the other is the perpetrator of the violence. Predictable complications and bad self-concepts keep people (including gay men) in relationships where one of the members is violent. There is a book about gay men's domestic violence, published about 20 years ago by the title of "Men Who Beat The Men Who Love Them." Fox is to be admired for not falling to the usual incorrect view that people are in "violent relationships." Almost always that idea is false, since only one member is violent; the other one is a victim. One an abuser; the other the abused. Fox got this right. So, Fox gets high marks for her handling of the generally misunderstood phenomenon of domestic violence in gay relationships. She steers a proper course here. Kudos to her for that.
The denouement is truly phantasmagorical, taking place in a wild storm at sea with a magical rescue of one of the main characters. Afterward, most of the characters live "happily ever after." Recovery is quick and sure.
Not bad. I give it a 4, for its being a clever tale, well written with mostly believable characters and for the generally correct portrayal of abuse by a violent partner in a gay relationship.
Here's another excellent story by Harper Fox. We're again introduced to a less-travelled, coastal part of Britain. This much detail must reflect either diligent research or a native's knowledge of the setting.
Our protagonist is a physician, veteran of the Afghan war who retires to his remote watchtower home after his days working in a Cornish town's GP clinic.
Interpersonal and marine worlds pitch and roil around him. He must cut out the malicious rot before him, to reach a sincere man. I enjoyed this book as I have most of Fox's literary canon.
I particularly like reading this contemporary UK author whose English voice speaks through British vocabulary and idiom. Well done, redox.
As this is not my first Harper Fox novel, I knew things might seem relatively calm to begin with, but that wouldn't last. But knowing and being ready for are not the same.
This is all from Tom's point of view. I see why she wrote it that way. The themes are serious; damage to soldiers during a war, ongoing physical and sexual abuse and the damage that does, the demands the Atlantic always has for puny humans, autonomy - and the denial of it, community, alcoholism, solitude... I empathized strongly with all these characters, Tom's devotion to doctoring, Flynn's devotion to first-responder rescue flights. I loved the 'sleeper' character who plays such a critical role.
Loved that final confrontation.
Loved that last line.
This is about the 5th book by H. Fox that I've read. The first two (Scrap Metal, Life After Joe ) where quite good. The last three (Kestrel's Chance, The Salisbury Key) and this one have been pretty average. They all have the same problem she is having trouble writing a realistic plot line. This story is very dark with all the gothic elements brooding castles, cold rain, blustery storms and dark, evil characters. Unfortunately the MCs where gothic also. Fox tends to write stories with flawed characters. That's great. I'm not all that into reading about perfect people. But with BOTH characters severely flawed, this story took on the feeling of a never-ending pitty party.
Fox seems to have trouble writing bedroom scenes. This was true of Kestrel's Chance, and it is true in this one. I think there was only one rather bland one. While I don't like to read stories that are non-stop sex, this one was almost devoid of any physical contact.
I think the biggest let-down was the final chapters. It is in these that Fox intends to ramp up the action. I just found it totally un-realistic. [Tom has a broken collar bone and has his arm taped to his side and is just waking up from 5 days in a coma, yet he is able to rush out of the hospital and navigate a rescue vessel through a pounding storm, pull Flynn out of the water and be the big hero of the day. Just impossible! (hide spoiler)]
While I enjoyed some of this book, there was just way too much that got in the way of a good story.
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