Alfie tells John about his unrequited feelings for his old captain, hoping for understanding – reading the feelings that John doesn’t understand yet. Farrant, Alfie’s first captain, dares to be flamboyant – and he can get away with it because of his position. Alfie grows more attracted to John with every day, knowing this is risky because the British Navy hangs men for sodomy.Įverything changes when the HMS Britannia comes on the scene, bearing its notorious captain, Charles Farrant, Lord Lisburn. Each man, in turn, must save the other and help nurse the other back to health.
They do become friends, and their friendship is tempered by a dangerous rescue and by fierce battles at sea. Perhaps it’s because he verges on insubordination. The on board presence of Lieutenant Alfie Donwell also disturbs him, although John can’t quite explain why. With a small ship and a crew of outcasts, he’s expected to stop the slave trade in Algiers – for the Ottoman Empire has been taking British citizens as slaves. The straight-laced John Cavendish knows that his first command, on board the Meteor, is a suicide mission. I also preferred the way POV was handled in this book because the POV switched only between scenes. Also, the heroes spend a lot of time separated, and once they meet again, the real world intervenes in their relationship. However, as in Transgressions, history is shown with all its violence and disease, so the squeamish might want to look away. While there is sex, and the language is frank (as the POV characters are British sailors), the sexual content is not as explicit, so it rates a “Hot” with the warning that this isn’t your mother’s “Hot” romance. While both are M/M romances with the same publisher and a strong sense of history, False Colors tells the story of both men equally, even when they are apart – sometimes separated by an ocean. I thought it might be a mistake reading False Colors right after Transgressions, but despite similarities, they were quite different.
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