Villains is written for the M/M Romance Group’s 2014 Love’s Landscapes event. It’s told in third person through the eyes of Kaede Hayashi, son and heir of Doctor Goro Hayashi, aka Doctor Terror. Kaede’s companion is Ash.

This story has a lot going on in it. It’s mostly a crime story with not much romance. The author showed how the villains could be twisted good guys going about their business in an unorthodox way. The world is complex and the characters interesting; I just wish the author had gone about presenting it in a different way which I’ll explain below.

I prefer having more dialogue in the stories I read and this was very heavy on descriptions of the characters and the history of how they came to be. Honestly, when a story is so heavy on the telling, instead of the action, my mind starts to wander and I found that happening with this story. I had to force myself to read every word.

I really liked the world that was created and the characters, but with the heavy on the telling, I found myself getting bored, unfortunately. I give this story 3 Stars
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Love it! ( )

Kaede and Ash were awesome! I hope there can be more of them in the future. There is such promise for these guys! I really loved the concept behind the story and the clever details that were woven through it. I can't remember reading anything by Andrea before but I will be looking her up. I loved the style of writing! ( )

Competently written but missing connection and emotion between the MCs. ( )

Genetically engineered villains? Men who seem to be the good guys but you cannot be sure? Mad scientists and evil plots for world domination? This story has them all, and then some. As is to be expected, there is a lot of violence in this unfolding drama of villain-against-villain, but the touch of love between two of them made it easier for me to like what was going on.

If you're looking for a violent adventure where one villain is more evil than the next, if you're not too bothered about the "good guys" having any scruples in how they fight the criminals, and if you're looking for a read set in a somewhat futuristic and slightly scary world, then you will probably like this free short story. ( )