The Geography of Murder by P.A. Brown

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This novel mixes with mastery crime, BDSM and romance. Due to the fact that I’m not much into the crime and BDSM, I have to say that I was really glad to discover that romance has a good share, and both characters are really into each other and the love story. Yes, this is not simple a romance, it’s above all a love story.

Before going into details of the story and the characters, I’d like to highlight the nice and original development: each chapter is told in first point of view by one of the two main characters, Jason and Alex, and they pass the ball to each other at the end of the chapter. In this way, both of them have the chance to grow and develop in front of the reader’s eyes, and when the novel arrives to its end, the reader has really the feeling to know them very well, and in a way, it’s more reluctant to let them go.

Jason is a twenty something years old “street” guy; not exactly an hustler, even if he doesn’t mind to do some little “favours” when he needs some cash, and not exactly an addicted, even if he doesn’t mind a bit of drug here and there, he is living on the edge of danger. Then one morning he awakes beside the dead body of a man he has never seen before and with a handsome detective, Alex, who is asking him why he killed the man. I was almost already planning in my mind a clandestine relationship between con and cop, when Jason is found innocent of the crime, and Alex takes it as free pass for the boy.

From this moment on the attention shifts more on the love story between Jason and Alex than on the crime story to find out who is the killer. And probably this is also due to the fact that the killed man was not a “nice” man, a paedophile who, for a reason or the other, never paid for his actions.

The relationship between Jason and Alex starts immediately with an acceleration; as soon as it’s safe for Alex to be “interested” in Jason, and this means the same day he is released from prison, Alex stakes a claim on Jason, practically without asking Jason if he is willing or ready. Truth be told, I think Jason is in a very fragile emotional phase, and he is not able to refuse Alex; it’s not that Jason has to refuse him, Alex after all is “good” for Jason, but I don’t think Jason is ready to embark in an intense relationship with Alex like a BDSM relationship involves. What probably I like most of this BDSM novel is that it doesn’t respect the usual fees, Alex, the dominant, is not the straight-forward and perfect cool man, Alex, like Jason, has some emotional issues, basically the fear to loose Jason, probably since he “feels” to not being ready for the type of relationship he is asking out from Jason.

Both Jason than Alex have multiple layers, and it’s a pleasure to discover them chapter after chapter, with the added help to have the point of view of both characters. It’s clear to the reader that they are perfect for each other, like it’s clear that they have to find their balance.

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[yachay.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this story, and this review.
The changing POV's were interesting indeed, and like you said, the characters were multi-layered. :)