Title: Opposites
Series: Opposites
Release Date: June 1st 2013 (re-released Nov 23 2013)
Author: T.M. Smith
Genre: New Adult Dystopian (M/M F/F M/F)
Length: 199 pages
Publisher: TTC Publishing
Blurb: In the year 2081 our planet survived global warming of an apocalyptic scale. When the dust settled and the water receded Dr. Anthony Smith, one of only a few hundred survivors of GWI, started society anew. Having come to the conclusion that injudicious breeding played a huge role in the destruction of Earth as we knew it in the twenty first century, he worked closely with other survivors to isolate the Dionysus gene. This gene has the ability to manipulate human DNA to ensure that all male children be born gay, and all female children be born lesbians. A new society is born.
In the year 2300 Dr. Smith’s descendants are ushering in the twenty fourth century having maintained control of the government that still rules society. Twins Aiya and Aiyan are preparing to meet their matches and take control of House Gaeland, the current ruling House. But not everything is as it seems.
Love is Love… it knows no gender and doesn’t conform to restrictions and boundaries. Aiyan has found his soul mate in Kaden, the prince of House Devi that he is matched with and eventually marries. But when the person Aiya falls in love with tests the boundaries put in place after GWI, all hell breaks loose. And in the midst of one secret unraveling, another will emerge. There is a growing anomaly that threatens to destroy over two hundred years of progression. This anomaly is known as Opposites.
*WARNING*: Opposites is an Adult Dystopian majorly M/M series that contains explicit sexual content and relationships between gay, lesbian and straight couples.*
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Buy Links: Appearances (Opposites: Book Two) – Amazon
The Library (An Opposites Novella) – Amazon
Song and Scene, Raven… Stay
In Appearances there is a chapter, Stay, that is written around the song. The Adam Lambert version of the song, though, although I give copyright props to Rihanna.
Raven is singing to Tanis, and since Adam is my vision for Raven, his version of the song was fitting. It’s a beautiful moment in the story after something big has happened, and I hope when you read the book (or if you already have) that you can appreciate that little part of the story a little bit more. It’s a song I’ve wanted to find a way to use for Raven and Tanis for a while, the words fit their relationship almost to a ‘T’! Fans of the series, especially fans of Raven and Tanis know how hard Tanis had to work to get his man. In Opposites I give a shout out to Adam’s hit song ‘What’ya Want From Me’ at one point as well.
All along it was a fever
A cold sweat hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air, said, “Show me something,”
He said, “If you dare, come a little closer.”
~ Raven is very hesitant to act on his feelings for Tanis in the beginning, Tanis all but dares him to love him.
Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know.
Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can’t live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay
~ Raven couldn’t reconcile his duties as a man of God with his love for Tanis, he was very unsure. But once these two gave in to those feelings, there was no going back.
It’s not much of a life you’re living
It’s not just something you take–it’s given
Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know.
~ If you’ve read Opposites, do you remember the circumstance when Raven first said “I Love You”?
Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can’t live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, the reason I hold on
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ’cause I need this hole gone
Funny you’re the broken one but I’m the only one who needed saving
‘Cause when you never see the light it’s hard to know which one of us is caving.
~ Tanis feels broken inside at times because of his past, some of the things he has done. But Raven doesn’t care, he loves him unconditionally, at one point it’s hard for Tanis to see past his past, and realize that.
Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can’t live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay, stay.
I want you to stay, oh.
~ Once they both realize what they have to loose, all they want is to stay together.
Author bio: A military brat born and raised at Ft. Benning Georgia; Smith is an avid reader, reviewer and writer. She now calls Texas home from her small town on the outskirts of the DFW Metroplex. Most days you can find her curled up with her kindle and a good book alongside a glass of something aged and red or a steaming cup of coffee!
At 42 years young, she’s decided to enter the next phase of her life by adding the title of “author” to her list of accomplishments that includes single mom of three disturbingly outspoken and decidedly different kids, one of which is Autistic. Smith is and outspoken advocate for Autism and equal rights for the LGBTQ community.
Her Opposites series is based outside the normal parameters of social acceptability, examining a ‘what if’… What If to be gay or lesbian were the norm? What if to be straight labeled you as an Opposite and made YOU the Outkast?
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Amazing post. Count me in for the giveaway
Great post. Thank you for the giveaway.