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Talk about a compromising situation! A storm of political intrigue, murderous mayhem and sexual hungers is brewing on planet Regelence. Swarthy Intergalactic Navy Captain Nathaniel Hawkins ran from a past he had no intention of ever reliving. But when his Admiral asks him to use his peerage, as an earl and the heir to a dukedom, to investigate a missing weapons stash, hes forced to do just that. As if being undercover on a Regency planet where the young men are supposed to remain pure until marriage isnt bad enough, Nate finds himself attracted to the kings unmarried son. All Prince Aiden Townsend has ever wanted was to be an artist. He has no interest in a marriage of political fortune or becoming a societal paragon. Until he lands in the arms of the mysterious Earl of Deverell. One look at Nates handsome face has Aiden reconsidering his future. Not only does Nate make a virile subject for Aidens art, but the great war hero awakens feelings in Aiden he has never felt, feelings he cant ignore. After a momentous dance at a season ball, Aiden and Nate find themselves exchanging important information and working closely together. They have to fight their growing attraction long enough to find out who stole the weapons and keep themselves from a compromising situation and certain scandal. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, violence, hot nekkid man-love.

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5 out of 5 stars

Engaging, amusing and characters to fall in love with. May 7, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful

I have a great time reading this. No qualm about purchasing it in print too. This is a great sci-fi M/M romance with an engrossing plot, appealing characters and I like Langley's light hearted, amusing and engaging style. She has created a fascinating futuristic world and the story takes place in a planet, advanced in technology, but living in a Regency period which is patriarchal, with its "charming" protocols. Instead of the virgin ladies being "protected", it is the virgin young men, more so when he is a royalty or lord.
Both main and supporting characters are appealing and lively and they are all gorgeous men of course.
This is vol 1 of a series and centers on Captain Nathaniel Hawks, 100% alpha and a hunk. He has an unhappy past which forced him into exile but he has made an excellent military career for himself.
Then there is Prince Aiden, totally adorable in his innocence, with his artistic flair and intensity. You could not ask for a better or more romantic pairing.
The supporting characters of Aiden's royal Father and Sire and his equally gorgeous brothers as well as Nathan's adopted son are equally likable and I certainly do not mind future volumes to center on any of them.
This is not your usual M/M erotica because there is a wonderful and tightly paced plot here and characters development which take precedence over the sex, which believe me is hot and sensual. A dose of BDSM but it is OK.
Looking forward to much more on this series and bravo, J.L.Langley.

2 out of 5 stars

Oh Galaxy, Oh Please! June 18, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful

"My Fair Captain" by J. L. Langley is a poor attempt at gay fiction - kind of a high school story for a creative writing class, for which Langley would have received a C-minus. A mix of time-warp sci-fi stuff from the year 4829 and back-to-the future regression to 18th Century England, the tale is confusing and inane. There are too many characters, many of whom are known by 3 or 4 different names. There is too little actual sleuthing to solve the "mystery." There is a great sufficiency of gay man-to-man sex, and it is portrayed in a rather mediocre, faux-gay-porn-dime-novel style at best. There is little reason to plow through the tedious dialogue, the unfortunate preachy discourse on various cultural mores, and the silly hand-wrenching tension among the elders and other minor characters. Well, actually everyone is a minor character.

The love affairs are not believable, and the 2 same sex "marriages" arranged for and validated by the partners' immediate and grossly idiotic deep love for one another in the space of only a few hours time, are ridiculous to the extreme.

This story is barely above a trash rating, one that doesn't titillate much (if that's what you need) or challenge your brain at all (if that's what you hoped for) or even entertain very much (if that's what you thought you might receive for your time and money).

There's an increasing bulky genre of books and stories of this type, I'm sorry to say, none of which are very good. I keep hoping that maybe, just maybe, someone will write a gay-themed book that actually has literary value. This isn't it. I spent about 2 hours with it and could well have utilized my time more wisely.

5 out of 5 stars

My Fair Captain- A Joyfully Recommended Title May 8, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

Aiden Townsend is one of the princes of the regency planet Regelence, but thankfully not the heir to the throne. All Aiden has wanted to do in his life is to be allowed to pursue his art and become a painter of note. He has zero interest in political intrigues, mingling in society or worse still - acquiring a consort! However, if he keeps having these little accidents that require being rescued, his parents, King Steven and King-Consort Raleigh have threatened to find Aiden a consort and curtail his freedom to pursue his art. This has kept Aiden toeing the line, or at least seeming to, but when he is caught falling out of a tree by visiting dignitary Nathaniel Hawkins, Lord Deverell, Aiden finds something outside of his art to hold his interest. Aiden wants to pursue his attraction for this handsome man, but how to do that without being compromised?

Nathaniel Hawkins is a captain in the Intergalactic Navy and he has been sent undercover to Regelence to investigate the theft of a stash of IN weapons. Nate reluctantly accepts this assignment to investigate knowing that he is entering into a patriarchic society where the nobility is composed of male pairings and where young men are expected to remain pure until marriage. Nate thinks he is ready to handle the situation, until he comes across one of the King's unmarried sons. Now Nate has to fight his attraction for Aiden, or he risks compromising the boy and ending up married to him.

My Fair Captain is by far one of the best books I've read in a long while. It's a fast passed, erotic and humorous story that will engage you from the very first word. Aiden and Nate are amazing characters that you will love for their charm, wit and sense of humor, and of course it doesn't hurt that they are both hunks! The plot is very compelling and the chemistry between Aiden and Nate will scorch you every time they come together. Ms. Langley creates a great world for her characters to inhabit, and I hope we will get to explore it further in future books. The secondary characters are wonderful and add playfulness to the book that is thoroughly enjoyable. J.L. Langley did a masterful job in My Fair Captain creating characters and a world that you will want to revisit often. If you enjoy spicy and playful m/m romances I recommend that you pick up My Fair Captain today, but be warned you might stay up all night reading this book!

Sabella
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

5 out of 5 stars

Captain McHotty Takes a (Male) Bride May 14, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

In My Fair Captain, J.L. Langley takes an incongruous batch of ingredients: science fiction, speculative fantasy, historical elements from the Regency period, gay romance, explicit male-on-male action, and a sprawling family saga to create - amazingly! - a deliciously satisfying and spicy dish.

Had you described that to me - had I not read Langley's book myself - I'd think you were nuts. The elements of Langley's story sound like the craziest mash-up since Run DMC joined Aerosmith. Who'd think it could work?

If you read My Fair Captain, you'll be a believer, too. Langley is an author who truly experiences her work. The worlds she describes are fully fleshed out and, in their own incredibly way, totally believable. Regelence, where most of the action takes place, is a vivid setting that you won't soon forget. Imagine a society that combines the customs of 1,800's England with the cast of one of those Falcon videos where everyone is ridiculously hot and totally available, throw in a few Star-Trekian glimpses of future-tech, and you might begin to have a clue.

One of the nice things about the book is that it takes its time revealing the secrets of its society...and its citizens. Things you think make no sense become perfectly reasonable once you understand the planet's laws and values.

Meanwhile, a bunch of likeable and, to many readers, lick-able characters fight and fuss and fall in love. Frustrating the proceedings is fact that most of the book's men are forbidden by law from having sex - not because MM sex is illegal, mind you, but because they must save themselves for marriage - to another man, of course. That leads to a lot of pent up feelings, which, when they're finally released, are all the more explosive for having been contained.

The book's central romance is well-developed in the manner of a Harlequin romance, albeit one where all the heaving bodices have been replaced by pumped-up pecs. There's definitely some explicit sex in this book - much of it of the dom/sub variety - but that's not the primary appeal here by any means -there's not much sheet-wrestling until midway through the book. By then, you'll have fallen in love with Regelence, its characters, and the soaring, surprising imagination of J.L. Langley.

The ending of My Fair Captain leaves more than enough unresolved for a possible sequel. Let's hope we get to go back to Regelence soon.

Scott Sherman, author,
First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery

5 out of 5 stars

Oustanding, Langley's Best Work July 17, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I have eagerly purchased all of Langley's published work, and enjoyed every one. Her M/M romance leans heavily toward erotica, but she always creates well-drawn, likeable characters that make the stories special beyond the hot sex. However, in "My Fair Captain" she has created a rich science fiction novel full of mystery and adventure with a beautiful romance at the heart of it. I was astounded at how good a writer Langley is beyond the romance. Her world-building is intricate and detailed, and the cast of characters full and diverting.

The story is set in the distant future when humans have colonized many worlds and travel between them on starships. Langley has chosen a convention that I have seen before in scifi that works well here - individual worlds based on old-Earth societies set among high technology. Two worlds are at the forefront of this story - Englor and Regelence. Both societies are based on Regency England. So you have dukes, earls, swords, waistcoats and cravats intermingling with spaceships and faser-like weapons. The main difference between the two is that Regelence has become a truly patriarchal society. The aristocracy is male and have been genetically engineered to prefer same-sex unions (whereas on Englor homosexuality is taboo). This was a wonderful twist from Langley, as old conventions are uniquely and humorously applied. Young men are considered minors until they reach majority at age 25, and are expected to remain pure until they are married. They are also expected to attend balls in search of a suitable consorts. This made for a wonderful opening to the novel as the king's sons outsmart the house computer system in order to sneak out without their chaperones! Later at a formal ball, they come up with clever ideas for disposing of their electronic dance cards. The story is full of little details like this that add humor and make this world seem real to the reader.

At the heart of the story is Nate Hawkins, captain of a ship in the IN fleet. He is the son of an Earl from Englor, but was disowned after killing someone in a duel. But it is because of his familiarity with the customs of regency society that he is selected to go to Regelence to investigate a stolen weapons stash. He takes his adopted son with him to act as his valet and an additional spy. The weapons were stolen from the royal castle, so someone inside must have been in on it. Could it be one of the princes? This causes Nate a problem when he finds himself falling in love with one of them - Aiden. In fact, he comes to like and befriend the entire royal family. The main characters are completely three-dimensional, but Langley also expands upon minor characters. The king and his consort are loving parents to the princes and theirs is a happy family that I quickly came to like. Langley gets readers invested in more than just the main couple. The romance is very slowly built compared to Langley's previous works. I was quite surprised that nearly a third of the book passed before there was any sex! But, there is plenty of other action (and angst) to keep a reader turning the pages until Nate and Aiden finally get together. After that, the sex scenes are explosive. Langley has added BDSM to the couple's relationship, but it's not extreme by any means. Just added a little spice to the romance. The overarching plot is well developed, with several twists and turns. The romance is strong, but does not eclipse the plot. Unfortunately, the story ends with a cliffhanger, but not the kind that has you screaming in frustration. The stolen weapons are part of a greater conspiracy that reaches to other worlds, specifically Englor. Aiden and Nate's romance gets closure, but a greater adventure is still to come. Highly recommended, and I can hardly wait for the sequel.

"The Englor Affair" is due out in November as an e-book from Samhain Publishing.

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