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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36826 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-01
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781599987613
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Engaging, amusing and characters to fall in love with.
I have a great time reading this. No qualm about purchasing it in print too. This is a great sci-fi M/M romance with an engrossing plot, appealing characters and I like Langley's light hearted, amusing and engaging style. She has created a fascinating futuristic world and the story takes place in a planet, advanced in technology, but living in a Regency period which is patriarchal, with its "charming" protocols. Instead of the virgin ladies being "protected", it is the virgin young men, more so when he is a royalty or lord.
Both main and supporting characters are appealing and lively and they are all gorgeous men of course.
This is vol 1 of a series and centers on Captain Nathaniel Hawks, 100% alpha and a hunk. He has an unhappy past which forced him into exile but he has made an excellent military career for himself.
Then there is Prince Aiden, totally adorable in his innocence, with his artistic flair and intensity. You could not ask for a better or more romantic pairing.
The supporting characters of Aiden's royal Father and Sire and his equally gorgeous brothers as well as Nathan's adopted son are equally likable and I certainly do not mind future volumes to center on any of them.
This is not your usual M/M erotica because there is a wonderful and tightly paced plot here and characters development which take precedence over the sex, which believe me is hot and sensual. A dose of BDSM but it is OK.
Looking forward to much more on this series and bravo, J.L.Langley.

Captain McHotty Takes a (Male) Bride
In My Fair Captain, J.L. Langley takes an incongruous batch of ingredients: science fiction, speculative fantasy, historical elements from the Regency period, gay romance, explicit male-on-male action, and a sprawling family saga to create - amazingly! - a deliciously satisfying and spicy dish.

Had you described that to me - had I not read Langley's book myself - I'd think you were nuts. The elements of Langley's story sound like the craziest mash-up since Run DMC joined Aerosmith. Who'd think it could work?

If you read My Fair Captain, you'll be a believer, too. Langley is an author who truly experiences her work. The worlds she describes are fully fleshed out and, in their own incredibly way, totally believable. Regelence, where most of the action takes place, is a vivid setting that you won't soon forget. Imagine a society that combines the customs of 1,800's England with the cast of one of those Falcon videos where everyone is ridiculously hot and totally available, throw in a few Star-Trekian glimpses of future-tech, and you might begin to have a clue.

One of the nice things about the book is that it takes its time revealing the secrets of its society...and its citizens. Things you think make no sense become perfectly reasonable once you understand the planet's laws and values.

Meanwhile, a bunch of likeable and, to many readers, lick-able characters fight and fuss and fall in love. Frustrating the proceedings is fact that most of the book's men are forbidden by law from having sex - not because MM sex is illegal, mind you, but because they must save themselves for marriage - to another man, of course. That leads to a lot of pent up feelings, which, when they're finally released, are all the more explosive for having been contained.

The book's central romance is well-developed in the manner of a Harlequin romance, albeit one where all the heaving bodices have been replaced by pumped-up pecs. There's definitely some explicit sex in this book - much of it of the dom/sub variety - but that's not the primary appeal here by any means -there's not much sheet-wrestling until midway through the book. By then, you'll have fallen in love with Regelence, its characters, and the soaring, surprising imagination of J.L. Langley.

The ending of My Fair Captain leaves more than enough unresolved for a possible sequel. Let's hope we get to go back to Regelence soon.

Scott Sherman, author,
First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery

Oh Galaxy, Oh Please!
"My Fair Captain" by J. L. Langley is a poor attempt at gay fiction - kind of a high school story for a creative writing class, for which Langley would have received a C-minus. A mix of time-warp sci-fi stuff from the year 4829 and back-to-the future regression to 18th Century England, the tale is confusing and inane. There are too many characters, many of whom are known by 3 or 4 different names. There is too little actual sleuthing to solve the "mystery." There is a great sufficiency of gay man-to-man sex, and it is portrayed in a rather mediocre, faux-gay-porn-dime-novel style at best. There is little reason to plow through the tedious dialogue, the unfortunate preachy discourse on various cultural mores, and the silly hand-wrenching tension among the elders and other minor characters. Well, actually everyone is a minor character.

The love affairs are not believable, and the 2 same sex "marriages" arranged for and validated by the partners' immediate and grossly idiotic deep love for one another in the space of only a few hours time, are ridiculous to the extreme.

This story is barely above a trash rating, one that doesn't titillate much (if that's what you need) or challenge your brain at all (if that's what you hoped for) or even entertain very much (if that's what you thought you might receive for your time and money).

There's an increasing bulky genre of books and stories of this type, I'm sorry to say, none of which are very good. I keep hoping that maybe, just maybe, someone will write a gay-themed book that actually has literary value. This isn't it. I spent about 2 ½ hours with it and could well have utilized my time more wisely.