Publisher: Torquere Press
Genre: M/M, Christmas, historical, paranormal
Review Copy received from Publisher
Summary:
Jasper has never known life outside institutions and hospitals. Necessity leads him to a permanent placement at Raindell, where his doctor begins to suspect that there's nothing the medical establishment can do for him. Samson has lived his life in a haven for shapeshifters, but he yearns to be with his person. When an elderly telepath meets Samson, he's sure that the troublesome patient of a friend at Raindell is that very person. Jasper just has to hold it together a little longer, and he might find himself face to face with the cure he needs.
Kris’ Review:
At 18 pages, this story by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox is both short and appealing in all its strangeness.
Written in third person and alternating between Samson’s and Jasper’s points of view, the sorry has an ethereal feel. We can immediately tell in whose head we are, with Jasper’s thoughts being a bit naïve, and Samson’s more practical and very much like a dog’s. Both leads are interesting and whet your appetite for more about them and their circumstances.
And therein lies the only point I had contention. Ms. Crow and Ms. Fox have wonderfully woven this universe, but the reader always feels slightly out of their depth because we’re never explained much. While the way the paranormal element is approached is very subtle and alluring, we don’t quite understand how Samson, being a shapeshifter, makes him click with Jasper, or even if that’s the reason they do. The timeframe is also foggy, with the reader not being quite able to understand how much time has passed between one section of the story and the next. This is, however, characteristic of Jasper, who doesn’t have a sense of time. It does plunge us into his head but at the same time, confuses us. The ending also left me a bit wanting, but that’s a good thing because there is more of Jasper and Samson in short sequels!
Ms Crow and Ms. Fox have done a wonderful job at painting the bleak life of Jasper and how he feels trapped in his own mind. Even with limited page space, Jasper’s sense of helplessness is wonderfully conveyed, as is Samson’s emphatic desire to find ‘his person’. This is definitely a story about two souls who have been looking for each other and finally find the other. It is more about comfort than anything else, with no sex or talk of sex whatsoever--there is one sentence about it. But it definitely fits the characters and the overall atmosphere of the story.
Nice: Coming to His Senses, A Sensational Story by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox is a great short story for those of us who like our paranormal intriguing but a little on the subtle side, with a side dish of miserable circumstances that finally get turned around.
Rated 4 Delightful Divas by Kris!
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