50 Book Challenge 41

The Foundling by Wendy Rathbone

This was a quick, easy, often preposterous read. A Caribbean mobster is sailing with a couple of his guards and encounters an unconscious amnesiac nordic god floating in a life raft. The mobster brings him aboard and begins nursing him to health, ultimately bringing the man back to his home where he finishes nursing him to health. Obviously, the two men, perfectly shaped as they are, fall in lust and then love for each other while the mobster uses his connections to try and help our young Thor recover his history.

Turns out the aryan is a man who was sold into slavery, gang raped and then made to walk the plank of his sinking slave ship during a botched escape attempt. The mobster ends up choosing to keep the man's history to himself, to let him remain amnesiac, and so they live happily ever after.

The sex aspects of the story were actually decently written in that they were fairly accurate mechanically and still a little titillating. For a regular read, maybe 2 stars. For a porn divergence 3 1/2 (it would get more here but it takes a long time--about 60% of the book--to get to the first bit of erotica).