Falling

Falling is one of the best gay love stories I've read in a good long while. The author knows her craft and the writing is seamless and engaging. While the basic premise is that of good vs. evil, the plot itself is detailed and interesting with enough twists and turns to keep you glued to the page. The heroes share a fate and a love that's powerful and touching. And through it all, the sex is hot as hell and intimate (and did I mention hot?), used to show the building love between the characters. I highly recommend this book. This is one I'll reread over and over and I'll be buying more books by this author. I see from looking at her website that there is going to be a sequel to this story called Magic. I'll be keeping an eye out for that one! Don't be put off by the reviewer that was critical of this author because she's a woman. I think there are several female authors currently writing gay fiction who not only hold their own, they excel at it. Women authors often dare to delve into the world of emotions between their gay heroes (something I don't always find in gay erotica written by men) blending together the love and lust in a way that makes for a more satisfying overall read. And Rhodes's Falling is definitely one of those.

This is a fantastic gay love story. There is magic, love, murder investigations, love, action, love, romance, and love. This is the story of Christian, who is a Mage, or a person who has magical powers, is an agent who fights against black magic in the Magical world. He goes undercover to the United States because of a rash of murders that seem to be the work of a black mage named Rogan. Christian is teamed up with an American police dective who is in charge of investigating the rash of murders. Alex is the police detective, who is having problems getting any real or solid leads in the murder cases. Alec is gay and has lost his lover Drew, a fellow police officer a while back, and he is still trying to recover. When Christian and Alex meet, sparks start to fly. As they work on the investigation together, they begin falling in love with each other. Alex fights it as he is still mourning Drew. Alec relizing that he is falling hopless in love with Christian, finally allows himself to make a declaration to Christian, and thus begins the romance, but quickly there are problems as Alec is attacked by the mysterious killer. Christian saves him, then reveals to Alex about the magical implications of the case, of Christian being magical. But love finally wins through, after a near death event, that has them both back in England for medical repairs. The love is so intense, and pure that I have read this novel several times. It just stirs a cord within me. This book easily rates five stars and if there were more stars I would have given more stars. This a must read book. I highly recommend this book to those who enjoy gay romance novels. The author has done an excellent job of bringing these characters to life, one might hope that she would write a sequel.

I liked everything about this story. The characters were well-developed. The plot was exciting! The bad guy was really bad! The characters were hot and so was the sex! I like the secondary characters as well. This story moved along and I couldn't find any flaws. A very good read!

Rhodes is one of my top favorite M/M writers and I am very glad to have "Falling" her latest in print. The backdrop of "Falling" is an adventure fantasy involving mages, not the type of setting I would envisaged for emotional story telling, which is Rhodes' strength. I am proved wrong as the plot of magic and villians are very much secondary to the emotions build-up and interplay between her two characters. The love is so real, the emotions intense and the characters amazingly well developed and believable. Rhodes's men are such sensitive and vulnerable characters and Christian and Alec are no exception. Each man has his own ghosts to overcome but when they do acknowledge the attraction, their romance is sizzling and their sex intimately hot. Just look at the cover!. I love Rhodes' writings. Oh yes, I also strongly recommend the lovely "The Professor's Secret Passion" and the deeply emotional "Souls Deep", her two other M/M romance under Amber Quill Press.