Treasure Greynox to the Sea Book #1
Gay Romance, Fantasy Romance, Short Read
Independent
Feb 3, 2016
Kindle
101
Amazon
Julian Massey has always been sickly. When the young man's parents send him to the seaside town of Urchin Cove to recuperate, he finds himself stranded in a tiny cabin with only the quirky local inhabitants for company. Then a storm blows through, and he finds an unexpected discovery washed up on the beach: an unconscious man.
After stealing a treasure, Kit Archer is taken prisoner by a ruthless pirate, Captain Booth. When a storm hits the pirate ship, Kit is able to escape, but not without serious injuries. Jules nurses him back to health, and friendship grows into desire. But Captain Booth is bound to come in search of his treasure and the man who stole it.
In a world with dragons, sprites, and wizards, it's going to take more than a little magic for Jules and Kit to find lasting happiness together.
Review By Sherry Perkins
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
“And then the imps appeared.”—Treasure
Kim Fielding has a charming and easy writing style, especially if you’re looking for a sometimes sweet, sometimes harrowing tale of a man who needs to be saved but in saving him, the protagonist gets saved too. It’s happily-ever-after, often told in novella or short-story format. I find things to be a bit forced in these shorter formats. You expect it though because the story is abbreviated. Not as abbreviated as flash fiction which is something I’d like to see Fielding do (but not as much as I like to see her novels!).
What’s that got to do with Treasure? Well, I think it would have been a more engaging story as a piece of flash fiction or if expanded into a novel. Perhaps that was Fielding’s plan, clever author that she is—to write a story that leaves you wanting more…
In Treasure (Greynox to the Sea), Julian Massey is a sickly, young man who has been sent by his mother to their holiday home by the sea where he can recover from his endless illnesses and frailties. Without a cadre of servants or doting family, he’s been left to care for himself with the occasional help of the fisherman and his wife who live nearby.
One day, after a fierce storm at sea, Julian stumbles across a man washed onto the beach. Injured and unconscious, Julian manages to get the stranger back to the cottage, there he tenderly cares for him. Kit Archer is the man’s name. He is everything Julian is not, plus he has a secret. He’s the ruffian who stole treasure from the feared pirate, Captain Booth. Ruffian or not, caring for Kit had given purpose to our young and innocent Julian.
The love story is quite tender but the coming confrontation with Captain Booth and the magic following it is not. This is the part where the plot gets solved too easily for me but I’m okay with that. As I said, Fielding does charming, easy reads for exactly when you need one.
A four-star, short read for those times when you need a quick, sweet, and magical pirate story.