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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Perseus Books,U.S. (7 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0762435739
  • ISBN-13: 978-0762435739
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 14 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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1642, England David Caverly's strict father has brought home the quiet, puritanical Jonathan Graie to help his dreamer of a son work the family forge. With war brewing in Parliament, the demand for metal work increases as armies are raised.

The indolent and deceitful David Caverly is bored by his father's farm and longs to escape, maybe to join the King's Army, mustering at Nottingham. David finds himself drawn to Jonathan, and after a passing cavalry trooper seduces the beautiful David and reveals his true nature, he determines to teach Jonathan what he's learned. When David is forced to leave the farm, and the boys are separated by mistrust and war, they learn the meaning of love and truth as they fight their way across a war-torn country, never thinking they'll ever see each other again.

About the Author
Erastes is the penname of a female author who lives on the Norfolk Broads in the U.K. A member of the Historical Novel Society and the Director of the Erotic Authors' Association, she writes gay historical fiction and short stories of all genres.

Her first novel, Standish (gay regency) was published in 2006. Transgressions is her second.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Historical romance with plenty of history, 27 Jun 2009
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I love my historicals to have actual history in them - and Erastes delivers that. No doubt the research was thorough, because this is a book that completely avoids the pitfalls of being nothing more "modern people in costumes telling a modern story".

People get pressed, indentured, find themselves swept away by witch crazes, religious conflicts and tossed around by outside forces in one of the more turbulent times in English history. The people are believably people of their time and place, and that alone places "Transgressions" head and shoulder above most historical romances I've read recently, and, fairly often, above many so-called historical novels I've read. While I couldn't really warm with David, there were many moments with lesser characters I completely enjoyed, such as Tobias and Hal, but my favourite was Jonathan both for the journey he takes and his temperament (and looks, I guess. :) ).

The book sweetened a short business trip for me, and helped me get through some nasty turbulences up there in the air, so thanks to the author for that. I completely enjoyed it and found it engrossing, believable and maybe a bit too short - I'd really like to know how the characters take it from where the author has left them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars NO SPOILERS: A thoroughly enjoyable read, 1 Jun 2009
I was fortunate enough to get hold of a copy of this book as it was just coming out. I remember quite vividly, I was extremely busy and thought "Well, if I read a chapter or two now...". About half an hour later, I was furiously scribbling down notes on this book. About 4 hours later I put it down, somewhat shellshocked by the fantastic journey Erastes had taken me through.

Dealing with the English civil war, and with the then vice of sodomy, it would be really easy to think this would be a trite rehashing of the usual "men in uniform" trope. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Erastes takes us through the minutae of day to day life in England at the time, and while the war is ever present, like a character, it is more in the role of gruff and thundering uncle who visits on weekends than omnipresent and suffocating mother.

Erastes characters are a joy to behold. They have faults and foibles, and you rather want to smack them up against a wall and scream at them until they come to their senses. Often you want to pick up Erastes and do the same for taking you through an emotional mangle that leaves you elated and gasping for breath on the other side.

Transgressions is a lovely second novel from a fantastic author. I cannot wait to read more of their work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Erastes does it again...this is a terrific book!, 1 Jun 2009
I discovered Erastes as an author about a year ago and she has earned a place on my list of favorites. Why? She writes beautifully, tells a great story, pays remarkable attention to historical details (I'm a stickler for that), and is realistic in her depiction of human emotions and relationships. As an author, she delivers the complete package. As a reader, that's what I want and to date, Erastes hasn't disappointed me.

Trangressions is Erates' second novel and is a worthy successor to her first, Standish. It tells the story of David Caverly and Jonathan Graie, set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. Over the course of the novel, they travel from heaven to hell (literally) and end up back on earth with the rest of us mere mortals. There is a sliver of hope that they may see heaven again--not to live there but to at least find a little bit of happiness in a world that seems largely devoid of it.

The story opens in 1642. David is a beautiful, golden boy, on the verge of becoming a man. He is dreamy, idealistic, self-centered, impetuous and restless. He is impatient with his life, living and working with his father Jacob, the blacksmith, confined by the size of their farm and small village. He is eager to get away from Kineton and find out what world holds for him--down the road, across the river, in the city. England is at war with herself but David, as so many boys before or since, sees this as a big exciting game and wants nothing more than to be part of the adventure.

Jonathan arrives at the farm to serve as an apprentice blacksmith to Jacob. He is everything David is not: tall, broad shouldered, dark-haired; a devout Puritan who prays on his knees and turns his eyes away from David's nakedness in their shared bedroom. They have nothing in common but their age. But David becomes the ying to Jonathan's yang and they bridge their differences, becoming friends, then lovers, pledging themselves to each other with a blood oath, vowing to be together for all time.

This would seem to be the foundation for a traditional romance but wait...maybe not. David had been initiated into the `ways of the flesh' by another man. On my first reading, it seemed this might have been a convenient way for David to learn "the ropes." But as I thought about it, maybe this was a subtle way to tell us that Jonathan is not David's "one true love."

Not his one true love? Wait a minute, isn't that sacrilege? In certain corners of the romance writing world, maybe it is. But what Erastes does, and skillfully, is turn the myth on its head that 'soulmate and true love' have to be the same person. Clearly Jonathan is David's soulmate. But is he David's true love? David is a very sensual--and sexual--man. He needs a man--a lover--at his side to survive and it is in the early part of the book that he realizes this. How this plays out, throughout the story, is interesting indeed. The fact that he figures it out--he needs a man, but doesn't love all of them--is even more interesting.

This is a book that can be read on many levels. As a war story/adventure with romance thrown in, it works. As a comment on the tragedy and morality of war, it works. Myself, I found myself reading this (and thinking about it afterwards) on a very symbolic level. Pay attention to scars, knives, rapiers, swords; metal in all its forms and the fact that the David, Jonathan and others are created against the background of a fire, forge and all that entails. (Sort of spoiler: read the book and then go back and re-read David's sexual initiation and where it occurs. See if you don't look at it differently after reading the whole book. I did.)

No doubt about it, this is David's story and as the book went on, I found myself wanting to read his parts and the other stuff--not so much. There is a subplot with Jonathan that was grim and could have been shortened. It went on just a little too long and in the big scheme of things, I'm not sure the level of excruciating detail that was given was needed. Readers who identify more with Jonathan might disagree with me, however.

This is the first of four books in a new male/male romance line being published by Running Press. I was thrilled that they released a Kindle version on the same day as the print version. On my Kindle, the book was nicely formatted and had the bonus of being able to navigate from chapter to chapter using the 5-way controller (I have a Kindle 2). That's a cool feature and came in handy as I wrote this review, allowing me to move quickly through the book to review certain sections--and re-read favorite passages.

For Running Press, this is terrific book to initiate their new series. As I said at the beginning, Transgressions has it all: great story, great writing, great characters. And for those of us who like our romance hot, but tasteful: Erastes hits the ball out of the park. Read this book. You won't be disappointed.

(On behalf of L H Nicoll)
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