If it seems too good to be true, that’s because it is. By living with and serving his victim for seven years, Tate will learn the human face of his crimes. Instead of jail, Tate is enrolled in Beulah’s Rehabilitation through Restitution program. A city without crime seems like an easy score, until he crashes into Rory during a getaway and is arrested for assaulting a citizen. He’s from Tophet, too, but he’s not a legal immigrant he snuck in as a thief.

It’s perfect, and Rory is finally getting a piece of it. Like every other kid born in the neighboring country of Tophet, he’s heard the stories: No crime or pollution. Rory James has worked hard all his life to become a citizen of the idyllic city-state of Beulah. The combination of a book by an author I trust, a genre I love, an intriguing blurb and a spellbinding and beautiful matte cover made this a non-decision. My favorite book is ‘1984’ (non-LGBT), a very dark dystopian book that is still current all those years later. Even after she had warned me about how dark ‘bliss’ would be, I trusted in her and her writing and the extraordinary matte cover almost hypnotized me. Lisa Henry’s ‘Dark Space’ was the only book of hers I had previously read ( read my review here) and it instantly joined my top ten in this genre.

I bought about 35 new print books at the convention and got them signed by their respective authors, so one would think I was stuck with an almost impossible decision when it came to picking one to read first. Why I read this book: I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Lisa Henry at the inaugural ‘Euro Pride Con’ (LGBT Fiction Convention in Europe) and asked her to bring me print copies of ‘Mark Cooper versus America’, ‘The Island’, ‘When all the World Sleeps’ and ‘Bliss’ for me to buy and get signed. This book was published by Riptide Publishing on August 18th, 2014 and is 289 pages long. Marc reviews ‘Bliss’ (Bliss 1) by Lisa Henry and Heidi Belleau.

The island by lisa henry