LJH Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 michael dun 1886 Michael Dun...CH 1 to 3 are up....This was the first complete novel I wrote...enjoy it. I had fun writing it cos it deals with among other things, different cultures in an amazing adventure into Africa...drop by and tell me what you think.. Men are not allowed to love each other the way we do. Therefore it is a crime and we are locked away, labelled insane and incurably so. We do not feel threatened here in this great wilderness. Here we are free, able to wrap our arms about each other or hold hands or even dance. We have never known such freedom.” Michael Dun - 1886 It is Late 1885 One year before chaos descends over the goldfields of a new town called Johannesburg. Michael Dun is an Englishman born into British aristocracy, he is a geologist, a spy for the British Colonial Office, and to top all of this, a man who prefers men to women. In these early days, the word homosexual, gay, homo, lesbian and dyke had not been coined, men simply loved other men. Michael’s first assignment is to spy on the gold digging activities on the Ridge of White Waters. As fate would have it, on the eve of his journey to the Cape of Good Hope, he is called to his family home on some urgent, unfinished business… Michael Dun will eat into your life slowly. Beware! This tale of intrigue, adventure and gay abandon, will thrill you as I take you on a journey from England to Cape Town in an original and absorbing tale of forbidden gay love. All my novels deal with the conflict between good and evil, after all, this is a universal theme and will always be around. 1
AnytaSunday Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 I enjoyed myself in this first chapter. I find it interesting that this is the first complete novel you wrote, I'll keep that in mind as I read on. I always like to analyse writing and style! hehe, I guess I'm curious. Are you working on something else meanwhile? All the best for writing! 1
LJH Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 I hope you enjoy it...i think its boring...and im not writing at the moment...need a break sigh... 2
AnytaSunday Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 What are you on about? It's an interesting story. I love the setting, the journey, the easy prose. It's all stellar!!! I do have a few things though, from a reader's perspective-- One) and I mentioned this in the reviews, but I sort of felt like I was talking to myself in there . Well, I would like to see a little more conflict/relationship building between Michael and Charlie. Two) I got a little confused one chapter with the gun pointed to Peter's head, then in the next chapter Gordon Atkinsin is looking for the way to the gold fields--um, I guess I'm a little confused as his role. ?? Maybe I have to wait and see how it plays out--maybe he'll be the glue that saves Michael and Charlie from his schemes somehow. Anyway, thanks for the read, Anyta 1
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