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This book is enough to make me question whether or not I’m straight. After reading about a gay fox who has sex in every chapter (that’s an average; sometimes he has sex twice in one chapter to make up the difference), how can anyone not want to be in his position!?
What makes "Volle" enjoyable is it has an actual story to offset the sex--and a good story at that. Volle is a fox spy in a foreign land gathering intelligence about a potential invasion of his home country. But life as a spy is very hard on him. The lying, the deception, the sacrifices he has to make just to maintain the false image. It gets to him. Fortunately, there are plenty of hot males around...he’s gotta have one outlet where he can just be himself without any pretenses.
The sex scenes do get tiresome after a while, but as soon as I began to feel this, something major happened and the story itself moved on. It's satisfying, well-done and it all makes sense. The world building is very clear and easy to slip into. Gold establishes a believable society (including a religion) without having to come right out and explain it, and that takes skill.
The book does focus too much on the sex and not enough on the story that offsets it. The idea is that Volle uses sex to escape from the stress of his double life, and the story doesn’t pay very much attention to this, choosing to give nearly all the attention to his relief. I would’ve liked a little more balance, but I knew what I was getting into when I bought the book.
I shouldn’t have enjoyed this; it should’ve disgusted me; it should’ve turned me off! But I really felt for Volle. He gets burned pretty badly during the story’s climax, and it hurt me as much as it hurt him. It caught me completely off guard, and seeing him mature a little after he reaches the breaking point was satisfying. Of all the ways I guessed it could have ended I never expected it. Homosexual or no, this is a good read.
Rating:  [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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