Title:
Seeing Double
Author:
AKM Miles
Publisher:
MLR Press
Publishers
URL: http://www.mlrbooks.com
ISBN/BIN:
MLR-1-02015-0401
Genre:
{M/M}, Contemporary, Series
Rating:
4.5 Nymphs
Literary
Nymph Reviewer: Critter Nymph
Ben
is starting his first day on his new job when he finds himself with a problem
only his father, Soldier, can solve.
However, things move in a direction that no one sees coming and soon the
Scarcity Sanctuary’s past comes back to haunt them.
Seeing Double is the seventh book in the Scarcity Sanctuary series. Like the other books in this series, this
story pulled me in from the very first page.
The author continues to write characters that readers will like. I could not help falling for both Ben and Chip
and don’t even mention the twins. There
are times when these two steal the story.
Ben
is one of the Scarcity Sanctuary boys, so fans of this series will have run
into him a time or two already. He’s
close to finishing his master’s degree but first he has to complete an
internship, which is how he finds himself at the Showhouse Theater. The manager of the theater is a real piece of
work and readers will be surprised by what they learn about her as the story
unfolds. When she sends Ben out to the
alley to make sure an old dumpster is ready for pick up, the young man finds
more than what he bargains for.
Chip
is a young man stuck on the streets after his religious parents kick him out
for being gay. The last two years have
not been easy for him, especially since he has been trying to stay out of the
hands of a couple of pimps. When he
finds himself on the wrong side of a beating, he figures his time has finally
come. But he did not count on the help
of two little munchkins, JoJo and JaJa.
The
twins are something else and, at times, they either had me laughing or close to
tears. While not main characters, they
do play a very important part in this story and I loved how they bonded with
both Chip and Ben. It is because of
these two that I may never look at bunny slippers the same way again.
There
is a lot going on in Seeing Double,
but the author does a wonderful job keeping things moving. The relationship between Chip and Ben moves
at a slower pace than what some may be used to, but due to Chip’s age and both
men’s backgrounds, it works in this story.
The many little issues that pop up during the course of the story will
cause the readers to turn the pages just to see how each problem is
solved. There were some OMG moments in
the book, but I would have to say the way the twin’s foster father was handled
was my favorite.
