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[0] checkbox [#] position [cover] cover [title] title Silver Pearl [author] author Raiya, M. * [isbn] isbn [isbn13] isbn13 9781620040997 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 46 pp [avg rating] avg rating 3.27 [num ratings] num ratings 48 [date pub] date pub Mar 19, 2013 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Mar 20, 2013 [rating] Cole's rating 4 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 0 [votes] votes 0 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started Mar 21, 2013 [date read] date read Mar 21, 2013 [date added] date added Mar 21, 2013 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format ebook [29] actions view (with text) [review] 
review Review posted at The Armchair Reader. I've been a bit fan of M Raiya's work ever since I read Notice and it's sequels. I like the world's that she buil Review posted at The Armchair Reader. I've been a bit fan of M Raiya's work ever since I read Notice and it's sequels. I like the world's that she builds and her style of writing really seems to draw me in. So I was really excited to see that she was coming out with a new story (hopefully the start of a sequel) that introduced a whole new world. She visited the blog last week to talk a bit about it and after reading the story her guest post made a bit more sense to me (which you can read here). She talks about where she grew up and dreaming as a child and that, specifically, reminded me a lot of this story. It's dreamlike. The plot is less important, I think, than the tone of the story and the characters. Perhaps, as she alluded to in her comments on that post, this will become the first story of a series, and the plot will pick up later. I would very much like that :) As the story starts, we see Joel standing walking to a clearing in the woods a mile or so behind his farmhouse. He's alone in the world after a terrible attack and rape left him completely shattered and mistrustful of the world around him, and the peace and serenity of the lonely woods is like a balm on his fractured self confidence. He's not sure why he's taken a midnight stroll, something has drawn him deep into the woods. He finds out when a gorgeous and magical unicorn reveals himself and is able to speak in his mind. But even such a beautiful and graceful creature can surprise and upset him and the intrusion into his most sacred space, his mind, is too much to handle. Running through the woods, back to his house, he's confused and can't understand what has happened. A unicorn only reveals himself to virgins, and Joel knows that after what happened to him, he should no longer be able to see such a sight. The unicorn however, is part of a much larger plan that Joel doesn't understand. When, in the unicorn's pursuit of Joel, a hunter emerges and injures and almost captures him, he makes a drastic decision that bonds the two together into a life that Joel doesn't understand and can't take back. Apart from the fact that I liked this story and want there to be sequels, I think that this story would actually work better as the start of something much longer. As a standalone story, I think that readers might be a touch dissatisfied. The plot is quite larger than the story can carry, but instead of trying to cram it all into such a short format, the author really just showed us the beginning of the story and an introduction to the characters. It was enough to get me to really like them and want to see more of them, but I think that continuing the story would enhance this story in retrospect, because I do think that there is more to tell and the natural conclusion to the story hasn't come yet. The unicorns presented here are exactly what you'd expect from such a magical and cherished mythological creature. They're shown with beauty and wonder and there's quite a bit of backstory and worldbuilding presented that we don't often see in m/m romance. Of course, unicorn stories in m/m romance are very few and far between and unicorns are often presented as a less important creature in m/m fantasy romance alongside other creatures that readers are more familiar with, like dragons and wolves. A story about unicorns was what drew me to read the story in the first place and I'm glad that they were treated here as proper creatures and not as little girl fantasy with no real backbone. Perhaps that's why I want to see more of them, because this story offered a bit of fictional authenticity to unicorn lore instead of sparkles and fluff ;) ...more
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