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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.
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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.
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