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This rating is pretty much entirely for fuzzwolf's contribution, which remains one of my favorite short stories of all time.

You know a story is good when you want to know more about the main character beyond the confines of the book. The characters are well developed and the plot moves along at a pretty good clip.



There were points in the book where tense and voice seemed awkward. And while the author used the character's heightened sense of smell quite effectively, he muted other characteristics (instinct, the use of the tail for balance, etc.). While I never forgot that Volle was a fox, I did need to be reminded what some of the other character's species were.



I did like the injection of the religious artifacts, the feel of the time period and the flow of the plot. So much so that I look forward to reading the second book, Pendant of Fortune.

I am leaving this book unrated. Not because it doesn't deserve a rating, but because I if I mark it honestly I would have to rate it low and that isn't fair to the author.

This book was well written and the stories within the anthology are good. It is just that the concept, the idea of 'furries' just really rubs me the wrong way! It is not a book that I would have chosen to read for myself, it was recommended to me in a challenge. So I apologise to Kyell Gold. I think you are a good author, just really not in my style.

Furries MM?

Say what?

I'm so down.

5 Stars A must read. Highly recommend. This is the first book, not downloaded, that I've bought in over a year. It was well worth it. Funny, sad, and touching. A great sequel to "Out Of Position."

My first anthropomorphic book. (Animals that act like people) It's still a m/m romance and I loved it. What's it about? Football, coming out, college life, cross-dressing.... Five Stars Highly Recommend

Aquifers
4.5 stars. Awesome YA story dealing with race, class, religion, sexuality, and family matters, but it never got maudlin. So freaking adorable and "Foxy" & Kory are the best.

In Between
5 stars. This is the first part of the novel Out of Position featuring a sweet, large football playing tiger named Dev & the gorgeous, smug, smart, activist fox named Lee. Features their first meeting, their first intimate night, and their reunion after that first night when Dev can't resist Lee. Adored it.

Secrets
5 stars. Love the continuation of In Between.

Don't Blink
3 stars. Cute, but the superhero plot line didn't really interest me as much as some of the other stories.

Jacks to Open
4 stars. The flirting and potential was awesome. Loved the supernatural element as well.

Race to the Moon
2.5 stars.

Drifting
4 stars. Um, THAT WAS THE MOST DEPRESSING STORY. EVER.

How to Get Through the Day
3.5 stars. A sort of cute story about how a poly relationship can move towards 2 of them becoming a couple, and it's ok with all 3 people. Slightly depressing, but hopeful at the end.

The Prisoner's Release
3 stars. A darker story the most of these and it had potential, but it got a bit confusing at times.

Divisions is another little step into the life of tiger Dev and fox Lee. They are now a couple, together in front of their respective families and the public. Dev’s football team is backing him, new friends are helping them settle into the life of a committed couple and some old friends are creating troubles. This new installment in a series that I loved since book 1 is confirming my idea that this is a very ordinary love story, a nice romance, with that just touch of sexy to make it good, about anthropomorphic characters, but that is like saying the guy had black hair and blue eyes, or the girl had long hair and brown eyes, only that here you have a guy with long stripes and big paws or the other guy with a fluffy tail…

It’s also about football, and for me who is not an expert, the feeling is that Kyell Gold knows about the stuff, and so, if you are a fan of that sport, I suppose this is definitely a book you wanted to read; from my external point of view, I suppose there are more men fan of the sport than women, so I would say this is quite a manly romance, but hands up, I’m pretty sure there are also women who love the sport (and the players!).

Other than football the main theme is Lee’s struggle with his mother, who has joined an ultra-conservative group that is supposedly helping the families remained united when a kid comes out. Unfortunately the group is moistly trying to “pray out” the gayness from the kid, often with tragic outcomes. Even if in an anthropomorphic setting, unfortunately this side of the story rang very true, and it’s saddening to think that this is really happening somewhere, especially in small town where the abused kid (because this is abusing) has no one else helping him out of that trap.

Kyell Gold started the book advising the readers that, once he finished the first draft of the story, it was too long to fit only 1 book, and so he split it into two separate novels. So you will reach the end knowing that not everything will be wrapped up here, but also with the good news that soon enough you will have the chance to spend another pleasant day reading about Dev and Lee.

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I'm not going to lie.

When I went into a piece of gay, furry erotica...I kind of had an idea of what I was getting myself into. I expected something trite, with all of the plotlines of the "gay man seduces straight man, story from straight man's point of view about him dealing with being gay" all planned out ahead of time.

Pretty safe to say, I was surprised. All of that tropey nonsense is dealt with within the first hundred pages. The characters are absolutely charming and enthralling, with real motivations.

The book is not flawless, however. The book switches points of view to the "gay man" in the above scenario, and I found those to be the most entertaining passages, but it soon switches back to the football playing "straight man". When it makes this switch, it focuses exclusively on the conflicts between Dev's football career and being gay. Unfortunately, football is probably one of the least interesting things in the world for me, so the long passages describing training regimen or locker rooms or games dragged. I understand why they were written so as to avoid the semblance of a list ("I practiced, played a game on Sunday, then saw Lee."), but they still drag on far too long, with only brief moments of plot interspersed.

Those moments didn't deter me, however, as it's the first book in a long time that I've read in under 24-hours. It is still an amazingly sweet story with several lovable characters, and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel.

Green Fairy is another complex novel by Kyell Gold; sometime I think there are two Kyells, the one writing furry contemporary romances, like Waterways or Out of Position, that I love, and the one writing furry fantasy, like Volle, that are more aimed to a strong-core fantasy readership. In both genres, in any case, the romance component is strong, and also the sex is good, but very explicit.

Green Fairy is a mix of the two genres almost deprived of sex; not of the romance, don’t get me wrong, it’s only that here is more tell than show. The story is, as I said, complex, a three-nestled plot: Sol, a contemporary wolf teenager who is reading a book set at the beginning of the XX century, in a parallel universe that is similar to the Paris of the Moulin Rouge Belle Epoque; the three plot paths are those of Sol, of the narrator in the book and of Niki, the fox dancer who is the main character of the book (and the mouse he is in love with). When Sol drinks a glass of absinthe he starts to dream of being Niki, but it’s not only a dream since Sol shares every feeling with the fox, from pain, love, fear, everything. And Sol will also understand that to save Niki, and himself, he has to undertake an hard journey, the journey towards being an adult.

This is what proves to me I’m reading a Kyell Gold’s novel, and that Kyell is indeed one author: doesn’t matter if contemporary or fantasy, his stories are always about being young and gay, and having to face this reality and fight it. It’s not easy, but neither impossible, and if you are true to yourself, you will always win. It’s often a metaphor with sports, in Green Fairy Sol is a baseball player, this is yet another aspect that is characteristic of Gold’s novels.

Often I tag this author’s novels as “Fantasy”, and for the type of Volle is for sure right, but for story like Waterways, Isolation Play, Out Of Position and for one plot out of three of Green Fairy, that is not right. These are metaphors of contemporary life, only that instead of the boy next door, you have a wolf, or a tiger, or a fox, or an otter; but furry or not, they are teenagers, and as such, they are facing the biggest challenge: growing up.

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After exactly three historical/fantasy and three contemporary furry romances, I can say for sure that my favourites are the contemporaries. Kyell Gold is an awesome writer in both genres, but maybe the fact that the contemporary stories are less far from mine perspective, allow me to not get lost in an anthropomorphic universe that is already a fantasy for me.

The main difference between this last one, Bridges, and the previous two, Waterways and Out of Position, is that this is apparently a lighter story, sexier, and more free: there is not the prejudice against homosexuality that was basically the pushing element of the other books, and here the main aspect is the play of perspective. A game that is in full swing in the first three chapters, the same story is seen through the eyes of the three main characters. Same scenes, same dialogues, and same output: the different perspective of who is telling it gives a different meaning to the whole. Chapter 4 and 5 are again told from two different characters, and different from the previous three, but they are subsequent, one after the other in time lapse.

Amir is a sweet and young fennec new in town and with a penchant for foxes; Amir has not trouble to find one night stands, but he is tired of senseless stories and so he thought that hanging around a bookstore is the right place to find a boyfriend. Only that Amir is really shy, and even if he has set his eyes on an handsome red fox, Hayward, he has not the courage to do the first move. The story from Amir’s point of view is sweet and tender, and the sex is almost awkward, good but missing of something.

Fin is a swift fox, another friend of Hayward, the red fox. When Hayward introduces him to Amir, the reader has the feeling that Fin is a bit aloof, maybe even jealous of Amir; at first I thought they were in competition for Hayward. The story from Fin’s point of view is a bit more detached, maybe with a sad undertone. Only at the end of Fin’s chapter the reader understands that also Fin is missing something, and like Amir he would like a long term relationship, something quite and nice.

Hayward, the red fox, at first comes out like a party boy, someone always flying from flower to flower, picking from everyone but never setting with anyone. At first his story is very light, almost naughty. There is yes something of hidden, a deep layer that very few can see. As Kinzi will say, Hayward is the bridge between different characters, he helps people to connect, everyone walks upon him, but no one is really interested in him. No one would notice him missing if not in case he crashes down. And like a bridge between the two sides of the book, Hayward’s chapter is in the middle.

Carmila is Hayward’s sister; she is forced on a wheelchair and depends a lot from Hayward. Apparently she is the reason why Hayward doesn’t want to commit to anyone, but in reality she is Hayward’s excuse, who he uses with himself to prove that he can’t have a normal relationship. Carmila’s character could have been really angst, and instead, instilling in her a bit of selfishness, the author managed to do of her someone ordinary, with ordinary needs.

Last there is Kinzi, a 40 years old coyote; he is the only one who Hayward was not able to match with someone, probably since Kinzi has already found who he wants. He understood that, to win Hayward over, he has not to pressuring him; Hayward needs time to understand things alone. Kinzi is also maybe the one who needs Hayward the less, it’s not Hayward that is helping Kinzi, like it’s not Kinzi who is helping Hayward… they are both at the same time in life when decisions need to be taken, maybe like Carmila, being a bit selfish.

Each chapter is like a little story alone, but all five together make a very good novel: romantic and sweet, with a right balance between sexy and angst.

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My friends know that I’m not an huge fan of fantasy, but I really loved everything I read by Kyell Gold, and so I approached this new book with mixed feelings. In the past I recommend all Kyell Gold’s books to my friends, but some of them, that I knew are fantasy lovers, I directed to the Volle’s series, the story of a spy fox who in the previous two book and one short story looses a lover and finds another one, Streak. Volle is not exactly my type of romance hero, it’s true that in the end he finds his place in a long-term relationship with Streak but to arrive to that he passes many adventures and beds. So, truth be told, I was not expecting for Shadow of the Father to be really romantic, I was expecting again a lot of adventures and yes, maybe a love story, but not really center stage.

As in all the classical fantasy series, the role of main character passes from father, Volle, to son, Yilon. At the beginning of his story, Yilon is a quite young, but he has already met his companion, Sinch. Due to the young age of Yilon and Sinch, at first their relationship is more that of friends then lovers. When they have sexual intercourses, they are more a mutual comfort, and the output of all the repressed energy of two young males, more than something driven by love or even by desire. The relationship between Yilon and Sinch will grow with them, as they come to their adulthood, so their relationship will mature, and Sinch will turn from best-friend, to lover and life companion. Unexpectedly, Sinch has a really important role in the story, somewhat even more important that Yilon himself.

As for the setting of the story, it’s at the same time strange and familiar. Obviously, being a fantasy tale, the time and place can’t be familiar, and the author decided to start (and finish) the story, with a punch in the gut to the reader, with Yilon who is eating locust like they are candies. Such a strange thing… but it’s really so strange? In the end, there are place in the world, where you really eat insects like that. So it’s like that, the reader moves from the odd feeling to be in a stranger place to the familiarity of the medieval setting (or at least familiar if you like to read historical novel). Other than being populated by anthropomorphic animals instead of people, this fantasy is not so different from any other historic novel I read; and more you read, more you forget that you are reading of animals, the author blend his characters in the story and make them “ordinary” for the reader.

Last thing I noticed, it’s the lack of ostracism for Yilon and Sinch’s homosexuality; the trouble is that they are of different breed, Yilon a fox and Sinch a mouse, not that they are of the same sex. All the “usual” issues linked to a same-sex relationship are here all irrelevant. First of all, even if Sinch was a woman, it would impossible for them to breed. Second, it’s not even a problem: an issue like having an heir, to mate inside your breed, it’s not something linked to who you choose to be your life companion. Mating, having an heir is a “practical” thing that you solve in the “heat” of the moment (pun very much intended). Hear is something passing, to share your life is something completely different.

I realize that I didn’t speak so much of the story… well, probably it’s since the story in itself it’s nothing without all the wonderful details and language the author enriched it with. It’s not simply the plot that made the story, it’s the whole package. As I said, when you start to read Shadow of the Father, you soon forget that you are reading of animals acting like humans, and you loose yourself in the story. What will follow is the classical life journey of two young boys towards adulthood, and that is an eternal story.

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Dev and Lee are both college students. Dev is a jock and Lee is not a nerd but almost, he is for sure a "straight" student like Dev: Lee is gay, he is part of the LGBT circle and he writes gay themed play for the local theatre group. When Lee's friend, Brian, is attacked and sent to hospital by two football players for the only reason that he is gay (even if later in the story probably we realize that Brian isn't a so easy character, and probably is not a 100% victim), Lee decides to vengeance his friend at his own way: he dresses in drag and goes to the pub where the local football team is celebrating a victory and hooks up with one of the jocks, Dev. If at this point someone is wondering how Lee could deceive Dev so much, disguising himself as a girl without no one notice it, well, it's simple, there are no clear elements to tell Lee from a girl, like a breast or gentle hips, if not his male attribute (that he can hide under a skirt), since Lee is a fox and Dev is a tiger. Out of Position is another of the anthropomorphic novels by Kyell Gold, and for me his best so far.

As in the other contemporary romance I read by Kyell Gold, Waterways, the problems that Dev and Lee have to overcome in order to have their happily ever after are the same of an ordinary couple, but in this novel there is the bonus that they are both "furry" characters, with tails, and paws and scents... plus there is an obstacle more, they are of different breeds, but this one is not so important as the other big one, that they are gay. Actually at first Lee approaches Dev believing him a 100% straight boy: Lee wants to teach to Dev a lesson, proving him that he can have sex, and enjoy it, also with a man. Problem is that Dev non only enjoys it, he is almost addicts to Lee: Dev can't help to search for Lee even if they are at opposite; Dev is in college with a sport scholarship, he is not a perfect student but he manages to have his credits thanks to his sport success; Lee is the classical perfect student and he and his friends look upon the jocks at college with superiority, like something to suffer since they can't do anything else.

At first Dev comes out like the simple mind guy who discovers that he can enjoy also a male partner; he is not an homophobic, but he has never considered having sex with a man. But if you read with attention Dev's introduction, you will realize that he is not simple as appears; in a world where Dev has the chance to have all the girls he wants, thanks to his jock status, he has a discriminating attitude, he is more for the quality than the quantity. For Dev is not necessary only a willing body, he wants that his partners have also a mind of their own, he wants to be challenged. And so when he meets Lee, after the first shock when he realizes that Lee is a man, he is ready and willing to overcome this obstacle due to the fact that he really likes Lee as a partner, not only as a body to have sex with. Not that the sex is not important, and in the book you will find plenty, so yes, if you can't go through the fact that this is an anthropomorphic novel, be careful since you will have to face a lot of scenes in which the fact that the two characters have furs, paws and tails is clearly in display.

The book is very long and follows the two characters in a long span of their life: not only as two college students that have to hide their relationship due to the homophobic environments where Dev lives, but only as two young man, Dev as a professional football player and Lee as a sport procurator for a professional football team. Strange is that it's not Dev that realizes that living as an openly gay man is not so easy as you imagined in college: it's Lee that has to come to reality, Lee who always though to change the world, and instead now is living and working in an all-male world where gays are not supposed to be. It's Lee that is questioning his beliefs and what he wants to do with his life. What the reader thought at first of the two main characters, Lee the steady one with his future all planned and Dev the uncertain one with no real skills other than being good with a ball, is totally turned up: outside of the secured walls of the college world who has problems to settle down is Lee.

I like a lot how Lee and Dev's relationship evolves: even if they have to face a lot of obstacles, they are always together, and for together I don't mean in the physical way; for work Lee and Dev have to live apart from time to time, but they are always sure of their love, they never question who is the real forever love for each other. They can have problems, they maybe have to change idea on something they thought was the right thing to do, but never, never they think to give up to their relationship. I also like as Dev comes out of the story, how his character develops and deepens to prove to the reader that being a jock not always means being dumb; all in all who makes the most embarrassing and dangerous mistakes is Lee, the one who should be the clever of the couple.

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Pendant of Fortune is the sequel of Volle, the first book about the adventure of a fox spy in a medieval anthropomorphic fantasy world. The previous book ended with Volle, a spy from Ferrenis who managed to insinuate inside the royal palace of Tephos, feigning to be the lost son of one of their aristocrat. During his previous adventures, Volle fell in love of a young cougar who was killed; apart this brief romance, Volle is more a love them and leave them type of fox, he doesn't discriminate on the breed, only on the genre: he prefers his bedmate to be males. For duty, but not for pleasure, he procreates a cub, but the mating itself is an experience he prefers to forget.

Between Volle and Pendant of Fortune there is a novella, The Prisoner's Release, in which finally Volle meets his romance: his long-term enemy Dereath keeps in captivity Volle for five months, and then sends inside the dungeon a new type of torture, a beautiful white young male wolf, someone Volle can't resist... and he doesn't resist, but so does Streak, the young wolf, who falls himself in love with Volle, and help him to escape. They spend some idyllic months in a country retreat till again duty calls Volle again in Tephos.

Volle is quite comfort and happy living in a farm with Streak, but, truth be told, it's a bit boring. No excitement, no news... no possible new lovers! Is not that Volle doesn't like Streak, but he is not sure that he is ready to settle down with only one male. And so when presented with the chance to be again in action, Volle is more than willing to jump... but Streak is not ready to let him go! Volle decides to take with him Streak at Tephos, even if he knows that he will be more weak against his enemy. Because deep in his soul, Volle is a good boy, he cares for friends and family, he has not the hard core needed to be a real lethal spy.

The story is very well plotted, the duel between Volle and Dereath is enjoyable and with enough twists to take your attention high; plus there are also some funny supporting characters, like Nero and Archie, an anthropomorphic version of Sherlock Holmes and Watson. There is less sex than in the previous book, but what sex you have is more romantic: Volle is growing, and with that he has more wisdom... sex is no more a recreational activity. A little warning to the more skittish readers: there is also a rape scene, but fortunately it's brief and not very detailed... it's not gratuitous, it serves the plot.

A nice side note: Kyell Gold winks at the female readers of gay romance, when describes a funny event; while searching Volle's private rooms, the royal guards find some gay romance novels that become favorite reading of the female members of the court... Volle wonders what these females find of interesting in that gay romance... well, as a female gay romance reader, I can say that, while I found the previous book, Volle, interesting but with very few romance, Pendant of Fortune totally satisfies my romantic side.

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This is the second anthropomorphic book I read by the same author, but they are very different. Waterways was almost a young adult novel, and reading about the problem of a young otter who was shunned by his home when he discovers he is gay was in a way more 'strange' than reading the adventures of a young fox spy in a medieval fantasy setting. Probably since in a fantasy setting it's less strange to read about animals who behave like humans and also it is more difficult to identify yourself when the setting is so different from your real world.

Anyway I remember that, when I approached this author, people warned me that Volle was somewhat a more difficult reading since it was a lot more erotic than Waterways. Here the main character, the spy fox Volle, is a young fox with a penchant for wolves and big cats, rigorously all males. And he has no problem to pick up any possible lover he finds around, and he has no problem to play the role of the top or the bottom, depending on the occasion... well after all he is a spy and a spy should be always ready for the action, shouldn't he?

Volle is just out of the spy school in a fictional kingdom; his prince, a cougar (one of Volle's crush) sends him in disguise in another kingdom: Volle has to play the role of the lost son of one of the court nobleman, and so he has the chance to live at court. Between a ball and a meeting, Volle has to handle a possible male fox noble lover, a wanna-to-be female fox fiancee, the unwanted attention of two male noblemen (a squirrel and a rat) who attempt to his 'virtue', the affair with a sweet male wolf prostitute and the true love with a very young male cougar... and I'm sure that I lost here and there some other lovers... Yes, Volle is not the emblem of purity...

But I should say that I found this more funny than other. Actually I believe that, for who has some restraints in reading an anthropomorphic book, Waterways would me more problematic than Volle; in Waterways there is the romance, and the involving of feelings, in Volle there is only a brief hint, the romance between Volle and his cougar. So for me, I have no problem to read all the sexual adventures of Volle, since there is little romance in them, and so less chance to be emotionally involved. True, I felt a bit for Richy, the male wolf prostitute, and it's true that I cheer for him to be the chosen by Volle, but I also felt that romance was not the main reason of this book.

All in all, taking in account that I'm not a big fan of fantasy, the story flows very well (it's more than 320 pages, but you don't feel them), the setting is pretty detailed and interesting, and the target to make Volle nice to the reader is reached. Again, I would like a bit more of romance (hint to the author...), but I'm a very big romantic, so, of course, it's my opinion.

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A close friend suggested I pick this up at a con I went to in November, as he had work in it. Turns out the publisher (Bad Dog Books) hadin't brought any copies with them to the con, so I ended up ordering two copies, one for me and one for my friend, online some time after I returned home. In a nutshell, Fang is a series of gay erotic short story collections. This particular volume had a fantasy theme, with varying interpretations from the different writers -- everything from stone-age-level tribal culture to Asian and Greek mythology alongside the more common sword and sorcery type works.
I didn't much care for some of the writers' styles, some had great sex scenes but started out with grating background information dumps, some just didn't mesh with me, but it was definitely worth the read as well as the money I spent on it; Vance did a good job of picking out quality fiction. Yes, it's smut, and it shouldn't be read expecting any less, but it's GOOD smut which ought to account for something. Fair warning for those of you who may be interested, however: a few of the stories (I think three of the ten, but I could be misremembering) do involve not-exactly-consentual elements in different ways and to different extent, so if that bothers you or is likely to be a trigger, I'd steer clear of it.½

How I like when I find a book, a real long and complex book, which takes me tied up from the first page to the last with the eagerness to read faster to know what happens and the hope to slow down to make it lasts a bit more. And when I finish the book, I wish to start it again to convince me that, yes, I just read a very very good book and that yes, I found another author that will gift me many beautiful stories in the future...

Kory is a seventeen years old guy. Middle-class family, private school, every gadgets a guy his age could want. But Kory is not happy, he was dumped by his girlfriend cause he wrote a beautiful poem for school paper and he didn't dedicate it to her. Worst, lately he prefers to spend his spare time at home, on line or reading, rather than with her. Probably he would finish dumping her, but still it hurts that she takes the decision from him.

So Kory decides to spend sometime in the municipal pool, and not in the usual private pool where all his friends gather and where he has to suffer the sympathetic smiles... And he meets Samaki. Samaki, same age like him, but from the poor side of the city, is a very nice guy, someone he could talk to. Kory is happy to find a new friend but still, when they part, he has the feeling to have missed something, to have not answered some untold questions by Samaki. And when he recalls all the time spent together he finally understands... Samaki was hitting on him, Samaki is gay...

How can he tell to Samaki that he is not gay? cause he is not gay... but if he is not gay why he has these dreams on Samaki? dreams that he has never had of his former girlfriend? And maybe he is so happy with Samaki cause he feels for him... But what he felt is wrong, Kory is from a strictly catholic family and he knows that God will not love him if he is gay. But when he cofesses his sin to Father Joe, he is surprised to not find a condemned glare in the priest eyes, but instead Father Joe tells him to see inside himself and to ask help if he needs. Not image of hell in front of him, not eternal damnation. And more he opens himself, more people he finds who accept him.

Waterways is the coming age journey of Kory. It's a three part story: Aquifers where Kory discovers what he feels, Streams where he has to take some decisions, and Oceans where he strengthens that decisions and starts his adult life. All along he will have Samaki and along the path he will loose some people and he will find new friends.

Waterways is a pretty intense, very romantic and utterly beautiful novel... so, does it matter if Kory is a otter and Samaki is a fox? Does it matter if this is an anthropomorohic book where all the characters are of different animal species? Someone said to me that people freak out when they are put in front of a book about love between 'animals'... I replied that maybe this is a book where it's more problematic the 'furry' thing than the gay theme, but that I would read it anyway cause I have no problem at all. And I'm very happy to have done so, cause Waterways is an huge discovery. I find really interesting how Kyell Gold deals with the furry theme, converting all the human world in a melting pot of breeds: usual expressions like 'on the other hand' become 'on the other paw', the different animal scents can be a problem, but also an arousing thing when Kory dreams of the musky fox scent of his boyfriend, the patch of white fur on Samaki's groin could be arousing like no other else for Kory's young body...

I will treasure Waterways among one of the best book I have ever read and for sure this will be not the last book by Kyell Gold that I will read.

Beautiful cover and interior illustrations by John Nunnemacher.

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