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◼◼◼◼◼ DENIAL DECEIT DISCOVERY A brutally honest book based on a real person’s struggle to come to terms with his sexuality through his open and emotional journey. ◼◼◼◼ T H E WO L F AT H I S DOOR BOOK 1 by Adrian Reviews by Antony Simpson | Carl Loughlin-Ravenscroft Lilly is essentially a werewolf, gay, mystery novel. An enjoyable read that makes the reader impatient for the release of the 2nd book in the trilogy. Alec is an out gay man and his twin brother Adam is straight; both are College Students and live at home with their parents – Ilene & Jason. Their older sister Lucy lives with her partner Rene nearby. Also close is their grandmother – Geraldine, a woman who has psychic ‘vibrations’ when something bad is going to happen. With Geraldine’s vibrations getting worse, Alec’s friends Sam & Celeste introduce him to Jared. Then Sam & Celeste are brutally murdered. The Prologue is overly dramatic, too descriptive and far too long. But once past that you discover Lilly‘s wonderfully engaging writers voice and his third person writing style that switches between characters Denial, Deceit, Discovery is a superb first novel by J.James. A truly amazing story of Jack, a young catholic man, and his struggle coming to terms with his sexuality and perspectives. His writers voice finding the strength and courage to be true and storytelling makes The to himself regardless of the consequences. Wolf at His Door an easy read that becomes highly addictive At first glance I found the first few chapters as the reader reads on. quite graphic as the author details his sexual explorations, in fact Amazon have it The story is told in three parts. listed under 'erotica'. Whilst there are some In part one Lilly introduces the pretty explicit scenes of gay sex, after characters, Alec’s friend’s are reading the whole book, I realised that brutally murdered in the night apart from being erotic, it was instead a at a cabin in the woods and brutally truthful account of a lot of rather people are going missing. Part intense soul-searching. two deals with the aftermath of the murders, the Police start The book is split into three sections of his their murder investigation, journey, characterising the three chapters green-eyed evil Darius targets Denial, Deceit and Discovery. Based on true Alec and the investigation of e v e n t s , t h a t a r e e s s e n t i a l l y the missing people is on-going. autobiographical, this reads in the style of a personal memoir. The writing is so The book is only available in extremely honest that you often wonder eformat; but this makes it which parts were from the author’s perfect to read on the bus, train imagination and which were from his own or tube to work. The chapters life. are short meaning you could read several on the way to Anyone will be able to relate to parts of the work. However you will find story regardless of sexuality and even if the yourself reading on the way book in its entirety doesn’t completely home as well – desperate to resonate with you, it provides plenty of food find out what happens next. ∎ f o r t h o u g h t . H i g h l y re c o m m e n d e d , compelling and easy to read, the content Available on Amazon will make you blush, laugh and cry. After completing the book I wanted to carry on reading what happened next in this brave man’s journey on his pursuit for happiness. ∎ 31