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A review by nikkibd4033
The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday
4.0
I'm really surprised by how much I liked this book. I don't know why - I guess because I don't read indie-label books very often and maybe I have an unfounded prejudice against them.
Anyone going in to reading this hoping for a lot of hot m/m action, you won't get it. Despite having mostly gay characters, it is not erotica. The book is a mystery first and foremost. It's a mystery that happens to take place in the setting of gay (as in homosexual) Victorian London with all their sodomy laws and legal opium trade and whatnot.
It also happens to include very well-rounded characters, (particularly the protagonist and his former friend/lover current antagonist/possibly still friend, Tim Lazarus) a lot of fast-paced action, and is very well written. Bonus points for the appearance of Oscar Wilde in the epilogue.
Anyone going in to reading this hoping for a lot of hot m/m action, you won't get it. Despite having mostly gay characters, it is not erotica. The book is a mystery first and foremost. It's a mystery that happens to take place in the setting of gay (as in homosexual) Victorian London with all their sodomy laws and legal opium trade and whatnot.
It also happens to include very well-rounded characters, (particularly the protagonist and his former friend/lover current antagonist/possibly still friend, Tim Lazarus) a lot of fast-paced action, and is very well written. Bonus points for the appearance of Oscar Wilde in the epilogue.