Elaine White's Life in Books
The Author
Elaine White is the author of multi-genre MM romance, celebrating 'love is love' and offering diversity in both genre and character within her stories.
Growing up in a small town and fighting cancer in her early teens taught her that life is short and dreams should be pursued. She lives vicariously through her independent, and often hellion characters, exploring all possibilities within the romantic universe.
The Winner of two Watty Awards – Collector's Dream (An Unpredictable Life) and Hidden Gem (Faithfully) – and an Honourable Mention in 2016's Rainbow Awards (A Royal Craving) Elaine is a self-professed geek, reading addict, and a romantic at heart.
The Reviewer
I’m an author and reader, who just can’t get away from books. I discovered the MM genre a few years ago and became addicted.
Top #50 UK reviewer on Goodreads
#1 reviewer on Divine Magazine
To Terminator, With Love
Book – To Terminator, With LoveAuthor – Wes Kennedy
Star rating - ★★★★★
No. of Pages – 152
Cover – Great!
POV – 3rd person, 1 POV
Would I read it again – Yes
Genre – LGBT, Asexual, Action/Adventure
** COPY RECEIVED THROUGH NETGALLEY **
I absolutely loved this! Not only does it reference all the Classic Geek movies that are close to my heart, but it does so with the appropriate respect and detail that I would expect of another geek.
There was a really wide range of characters here – fat, out of shape and geeky Dexter; the African American, gun toting agent, with a massive Sci-fi movie collection, Andre; the Indian best friend, with a killer cutting glare, Sandhya. Their personalities were just as diverse as their backgrounds, but I really loved that we had some realistic variety and it wasn't just the typical Bond style of perfect white guy that is so common.
Also, totally loved that the out of shape fat kid was the MC hero! Awesome! Dexter is by far my favourite character. The “whole fat geek, who might accidentally destroy the world, but could be the hero” vibe really worked for me. Also – college kids as heroes? As kickass Secret Agents? Yes!
There was action, there was adventure, there were robots! What more can a geeky girl ask for? Well, I wanted romance and got it, I wanted humour and it was there in buckets full. I got everything I could have wanted and more from this super incredible story. As the author helpfully pointed out, it's a little like a cross between Terminator and Minority Report.
On the down side? Not much. A few spelling/grammar issues and one inconsistency (We're told the bus leaves every six minutes, but that they have ten minutes to get to it before it leaves and the next one wouldn't arrive for another hour. Kind of confusing).
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There was nothing I didn't love about this. Geeks. Movies. Adventure. Danger. Romance. And an MC who is asexual. Perfect!
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Favourite Quote
I had so many of these marked off that I had to choose carefully which ones to add here, because adding them all would add another page to my review.
“He wouldn't be Jar Jar Binks; he would be Neville Longbottom.”
“So what if he was a loser? If there was one thing movies had taught him, it was that losers did amazing things all the time. Losers were only losers until they chose to be heroes.”
