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
Texture Like Sun
Book – Texture Like SunAuthor – Ils Greyhart
Star rating - ★★★★★
No. of Pages – 45
Cover – Nice
POV – 3rd person
Would I read it again – Yes.
Genre – LGBT, fantasy, paranormal
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I really enjoyed this. It's a rather sweet story about an asexual painter who feels emotionally and physically attracted to an incubus. It's an odd pairing, but it works. Having a painter who used magic to take colours from the world – literally from trees, the sky and such – was really original and intriguing.
The whole concept of an incubus meeting someone who doesn't know what an incubus is or what to do with one was really fun. To see Liang flounder through meeting, never understanding Xerxes's frustrations, was great. There were some really sweet moments, but also some funny parts. There was also a nice inclusion of a “concubi” and a “procubus”, which are not concentrated on sex.
There are a few spelling/grammar issues. It would have been nice if the last scene was a proper Epilogue, as well, with a warning of how long it had been since the previous scene, as it was confusing for a while.
Overall, it was a great short story, with some brilliant characters and a really original story.
