Product Description

They're back! The members of the band Heaven Sent are back in the sequel to Heaven Sent: Heaven and Purgatory.

Heaven Sent: Hell

Heaven Sent gets a hell of new keyboardist with a name to match. Hell Witting is an amazing musician and proves to be the answer to a sound that the band was missing. With lavender hair and big violet eyes, he captivates Brent Rose from the start, and not just with his music.

Brent knows better than to get involved with a member of the band. That just invites trouble and the last thing he wants is trouble for Heaven Sent. So he'll just keep the attraction to himself. Doesn't matter anyway. Hell couldn't possibly want him. After all, Brent's not gorgeous and flashy like the other members of the band.

When Hell makes his interest in Brent all too obvious, Brent is unprepared...and unable...to stay away.


Heaven Sent: Faith

Darien's best friends are the other guys in the rock band Heaven Sent. The three-now four-of them are closer than brothers to him and he's happy that they've all found their life mates. He is. He doesn't at all mind that each of those life mates are men. He doesn't.

In fact, that's just it. Maybe there's something to this gay stuff. He's never been particularly interested before, but after a short, failed marriage, he's willing to open himself up to new possibilities. Especially if one of those possibilities is the gorgeous lawyer who handled his divorce, Christopher Faith.

Trouble is, Chris doesn't seem to want to believe that Darien's serious. Well, sure, Darien's never slept with a guy before, but he's allowed to change his mind. Isn't he?

Publisher's Note: This book is a male-male love story and contains homoerotic sex acts that may be offensive to some readers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74706 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Heaven Sent 2 by Jet Mykles
Hell (Heaven Sent 3) by Jet Mykles
Brent is a very talentuous guy, handsome but not beautiful, and not an alpha male. He is happy to lve among his friends and to let them drive his life. He was also the Luc's fuck buddy before push him to Reese, the real love. And he is happy for his friend, but old memories still prevent him to have a real story for himself, memories of girls first, and guys after, who walk across him to reach Luc and Johnnie. He really can't think that someone could love him when he has the change to meet the others.

But then arrives Hell, a cute guy with a cherub face and a demon behaviour. He is short and slim, but has a strong attitude. Even if Brent is greater in body, is Hell who lead their relationship. He doesn't accept a "no" and doesn't want nothing less love. And wants Brent, only for him. And what he wants, he gets.

These are two wonderful characters, who play with the yaoi rule of cute=bottom, tall=top. Hell, believe me, is not a bottom at all, and when he bottoms, he is a pushy bottom! Brent instead is like a real artist, good in his art, his world, but feared by the outside world: he needs someone who drives him and who feels him important and unique.

Faith (Heaven Sent 4) by Jet Mykles
Bingo! The last story (I really hope not) in the Heaven Sent series tells us about Darien. He is an hearthy guy, kind and funny, a real next door boy. He wants make no harm, but he feels pretty alone among all his paired friends. So he suddenly decides to marry. But he puts no heart in the matter and obviously thing goes wrong.

Helping him in dealing the divorce there is Christopher Faith, a good friend of Hell. Chris is openly gay, but he doesn't flaunt it around. He is pretty sure of his own and is a quite and handsome guy. Darien is fascinating. He has ever admited that a guy could be handsome, like Johnnie or Luc, but he has never felt something near sexual for them. But Chris is another matter. Darien wants him and can see that also Chris is attracted... so no harm to noone if they enjoy themself, isn't it?

But when things go further than a sexual fling, it is time for Darien to read really inside himself and for Chris to admit that it is not only sex with Darien. With trust and faith they can build something together.

Darien is really tender character. He has not bad feelings, he is really a good boy. Everyone likes him, and I'm no different. You can't dislike him, it is like hating a puppy or a kitten. He looks at you with big eyes and you are smitten. Like Chris.

Chris is a surprise. Giving that Darien is a straight guy that for the first time approaches a man, you expect him to be attracted by a cute and submissive type. Instead Chris is like an old strong oak tree: steady and protective. He can meld with the background but he is impressive. And has a firm hand.

Jet Mykles' stories are really simple and enjoyble but they hook you completely: you can't close the book unless you have finished it. Even if you know that you will find you happily ever after, you have to reach it and enjoy it in a rush and then immediately turn back to reread it!

But then arrives Hell, a cute guy with a cherub face and a demon behaviour. He is short and slim, but has a strong attitude. Even if Brent is greater in body, is Hell who lead their relationship. He doesn't accept a "no" and doesn't want nothing less love. And wants Brent, only for him. And what he wants, he gets.

These are two wonderful characters, who play with the yaoi rule of cute=bottom, tall=top. Hell, believe me, is not a bottom at all, and when he bottoms, he is a pushy bottom! Brent instead is like a real artist, good in his art, his world, but feared by the outside world: he needs someone who drives him and who feels him important and unique.

Hot stories, but uneven storytelling
Brent is the musical leader of the band, Heaven Sent, but in all other aspects of his life he feels like a tag-along loser. Like Reese in Heaven Sent 1, he has an inferiority complex. His lack of confidence is exacerbated by his affair with bandmate Luc, who uses him as a substitute for Reese prior to their consummated romance in Heaven Sent 1. Insecure and fearful of being hurt, he resists the tug he feels toward their newest band mate, a German keyboardist named "Hell". (The names in these books are giggle-worthy, Johnnie Heaven, Hell... oh, just stop, Ms. Mykles with the heavy symbolism.) In any case, Hell is a tiny, lavendar-died "imp" of a man who nonetheless won't take no for an answer from Brent. Complications due to Brent's insecurity and Hell's jealousy over Brent and Luc's past provide the tension in this romance. The scene of Hell and Brent's first sexual encounter is one of the best descriptions of the needs of a bottom I've read.

I was irritated by the inconclusive ending, which seemed designed to set the author up for another book. I also have to admit to a personal bias against taking this lavendar-dyed "imp" seriously as an aggressive top of a sexual partner. Moreover, who in this day and age describes an adult man as an "imp"? The language was implausible.

The weakest of the four stories in the Heaven Sent series is without a doubt the fourth entry, Darien's story. I simply did not buy that a previously-heterosexual guy would fall first into a marriage, then into a gay romance with so little introspection. Perhaps it's realistic in a way, but it's not terribly interesting. Nor did I have much success in buying the domineering nature of his partner, Chris Faith (again, with the names...). Both characters were drawn too lightly and the conflict was not strong enough to be realistic.

The best part of these stories for me were the erotic sexual scenes, catching up with the couples from Heaven Sent 1, and seeing the events of Heaven Sent 1 from another perspective.

Almost identical in style to the first volume: not at all deep, but fun
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

"Hell" - 6/10

PROS:
- Brent's character traits are established very early on, and the "abused puppy"ness of his personality makes the romance that much sweeter when Hell starts paying attention to him.
- Hell is tiny--a full head shorter than Brent--but he's very much in control of the relationship, which I found cute and different. Not only is he the top sexually, but he also is the seducer rather than the one who is pursued. This relationship turns the traditional yaoi roles of seme and uke on their heads.

CONS:
- When I read another reviewer's comment that she found it annoying when Brent refers to Hell as "imp," I thought surely it couldn't be that bad. But it is. Because he does it ALL through the book. Brent thinks of his small lover as either "imp" or "cherub" at least every 3 pages or so, and although Brent wonders at one point when he started thinking of that body type as sexy, those constant references to baby-faced woodland creatures kept me from ever seeing Hell as sexy rather than childlike.
- There are a lot of missing periods ("He opened his eyes to stare wide-eyed into Luc's concerned face[.] His friend") and quite a few double periods. It's like the story has the correct NUMBER of them, but they were just thrown in here and there and no one checked to make sure they were positioned correctly.
- I found Brent's refusal to acknowledge his feelings for Hell a little tiresome.
- Again, I'm agreeing with another reviewer here: Hell's name is problematic, not (just) because of the slap-you-in-the-face obviousness of the symbolism, but because sometimes it seems like a character who is addressing Hell by name is actually using the word as a mild curse. For example, "Well, Hell, how was I supposed to know that?"

"Faith" - 7/10

PROS:
- Darien's loneliness and longing for a mate are well-portrayed, right from page 1.
- Both of the stories in this volume are told from the band members' perspectives (as opposed to the two stories in the first book, which were from Johnnie and Luc's partners' POVs), which gives some insight into the famous characters' lives. Each story is from the bottom's POV, which is--again--consistent with yaoi.
- Chris's pet name for Darien is annoying at first, but as soon as Chris explains it, it's intimate and sweet.
- I love the constant appearances of the characters from the earlier stories. By the end of this final story, I had a good idea of how close the four-now-five band members really were.

CONS:
- Darien's decision to try sleeping with a guy seems sudden; we're not shown much of the thought process that leads to his decision to go for it.
- Chris's reactions are abrupt at times. He's shocked and puzzled and resisting one minute, and then the next minute he's throwing himself into the seduction with everything he has, predatory eyes and "little cat grin" and all.
- Chris does and says some things early on that I took as hints that he was a bit of a Dominant--calling Darien "pet," being very calm and specific when explaining to Darien exactly what is about to happen to make sure Darien's sure about having sex, asking Darien to talk to him the first time Darien is being penetrated so Chris knows he's okay--and then nothing else comes of that. Vanilla sex is not a bad thing; I just felt that I was being set up for a particular development and then was puzzled when it didn't materialize.

Overall comments: The angles on the relationships in this volume are a little different than those used in Volume 1, but this is very similar in style to the first book. You don't have to read Heaven Sent first to understand this one, but if you don't, you'll miss out on a lot of the camaraderie in this book.