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    Violated

    By Jamie Fessenden

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    Derek Sawyer thinks he has it all—a high-salaried position, a boyfriend, a dog, even a new cabin on the lake—until a business trip with his manager and best friend, Victor, shatters his world.

    One night of drunken horsing around in their hotel room leads to the most intensely personal violation Derek has ever endured. As if the humiliation of working under his attacker every day isn’t enough, Victor reports Derek for sexual harassment. Now he’s without a job, without a boyfriend, and the mortgage on the cabin is due.

    Officer Russ Thomas has worked with rape victims before, and it doesn’t take him long to sort out the truth in Derek’s tale. With his support, Derek finally reports the crime, months after it happened. But restraining orders and lawyers further Victor’s anger toward him, and even though a relationship develops between Derek and the policeman, Russ can’t be there to protect him all the time.

    A 2015 Rainbow Awards Best LGBT Cover Runner-Up

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateAug 7, 2015
    ISBN9781634764513
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    Jamie Fessenden

    Jamie Fessenden is an author of gay fiction in many genres. Most involve romance, because he believes everyone deserves to find love, but after that anything goes: contemporary, science fiction, historical, paranormal, mystery, or whatever else strikes his fancy. He set out to be a writer in junior high school. He published a couple short pieces in his high school’s literary magazine and had another story place in the top 100 in a national contest, but it wasn’t until he met his partner, Erich, almost twenty years later, that he began writing again in earnest. With Erich alternately inspiring and goading him, Jamie wrote several novels and published his first novella in 2010. That same year, Jamie and Erich married and purchased a house together in the wilds of New Hampshire, where there are no street lights, turkeys and deer wander through their yard, and coyotes serenade them under the stars. Visit Jamie: jamiefessenden.wordpress.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Jamie-Fessenden-Author/102004836534286 Twitter: @JamieFessenden1

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    • 3/5
      It took a while for me to settle on a rating for this book, because there were some things in here that I really liked and some things that I didn't. I'm averaging it out to three stars.So what did I like? I really liked how Derek handled the trauma of being raped; he didn't brush it aside or just magically be healed by another dude's dick. And I think that he reacted as many rape victims do. His first instinct wasn't to report the crime; I know a lot of people always wonder why people wash away evidence and don't report the crime until days, weeks, months, or even years later - but it is completely understandable. After being raped, the last thing going through most people's minds is "oh, I need to collect evidence for the police." You feel violated, betrayed, or even can't believe that this happened to you. So to see Derek react like many do felt realistic to me.The fact that his sex life also suffered felt incredibly realistic to me, too. He didn't want to sleep with his fiance of five years, Tim, even though Derek had been penetrated during the rape and in his sexual encounters with Tim he was the one penetrating. Also, Derek had a lot of trust issues and didn't warm up well to Russ at first, which I also felt to be true to the character and his experiences.I also like that the guys in this book were, well, guys. How many times have you read a book to hear about how some guy smells like citrus and jasmine or something ridiculous? I mean, granted, there are scented soaps and lotions and stuff, but that scent doesn't tend to hang around all day. And, no offense intended, but guys tend to...sweat. A lot. And smell like sweat. Haha. And the guys in this book DID smell like sweat at times, did get dirty, did have to take baths, did burp and fart and all of the stuff that real guys DO. So I really liked that, because it made the story more realistic as well.Also, poor Russ. His love life was just horrible; all he wanted to do was find someone to snuggle with who liked dogs, and he kept getting in the weirdest situations. His botched attempts at finding someone did provide some comic relief to an otherwise very serious story.But there were some things I didn't like, as well. There was just something about the writing style that didn't connect with me; I never got the feeling that I was IN the story. I always felt like I was reading a story. I never got to immerse myself entirely into the book. I never felt like I knew any of the characters all that well, and I never got past the "oh, these are characters in a book" feeling.Tim and Victor were just SO bad. Tim was such a little brat, and I couldn't see why Derek would stay with him, much less want to marry him and spend the rest of his life with him, when Tim was just such a snot. He basically dumped Derek because he had been raped, because he didn't believe that Derek could be raped since he was fairly fit. What the fuck ever. Then he brought his "new boyfriend" over to rub it in Derek's face. Ick. I didn't like his character at all. And Victor, the rapist, was such a horrible person and was a jackass to Derek even when they were "friends," so I couldn't see why Derek and Victor had remained friends for so long.I also felt like there was too much "before" and not enough "after" when it came to this book. I think a chapter or two would have sufficed before Derek being raped, but the rape didn't occur until something like 25% into the Kindle book, which I felt kind of limited the "after" part with Derek trying to move on with his life and work through what had happened to him. Plus I really couldn't stand Tim, so less of him would have been better for sure.For those who are triggered by sexual assault, the rape does take place "on page."I liked the book, but I didn't love it. I did like that it tackled a really important subject and handled it pretty well; I just felt like the romance itself was a bit lacking. But I would definitely give this author another try!
    • 4/5
      4.5 stars. Thoughtful & sensitive handling of difficult subject matter. Outstanding.