"BAD INFLUENCE is a great pick if you love angst with your M/M loving"
Reviewed by Annie Tegelan
Posted May 3, 2014
Romance LGBTQ | Romance Contemporary
In book four of the Bad in Baltimore series, K.A.
Mitchell
returns to her gang of men to repair the pieces of a broken
heart. Jordan Barnett no longer exists. He now goes by the
name of Silver.
When his parents learned that he was gay, he was thrown out
of their house and tossed into a conversion camp where they
thought they could somehow change who he was. Jordan turns
to the person whom he thought he could trust, only to be
turned down and left as both shocked and completely broken-
hearted. In an attempt to rise above the obstacles placed
before him, Jordan becomes Silver, a street savvy man who
falls into prostitution.
Silver is by far the most interesting character of this
book. With a heady dose of angst, Mitchell injects the story
with a ton of emotion and relationship drama. While this
book can be read as a standalone, because of the plot line
and the multiple issues with single individuals as well as
couples, I think it would be more beneficial to read the
series in order. There is quite a lot that goes on in BAD
INFLUENCE concerning the previous couples in the series.
They
play a part in saving Silver and keeping him out of jail.
But it also took away from the main romance happening in
this book. There seemed to be too much happening all at
once.
Zebediah Harris, the other hero in BAD INFLUENCE, didn't
shine
for me as much as I had hoped he would. He often got
overshadowed with everything else that was happening in the
book and I didn't feel like his character was developed as
much as I would like. As a result, the romance didn't
resonate with me.
Though not my favourite from K.A. Mitchell, there is still a
lot to love about BAD INFLUENCE, especially if you love a
little bit of angst to go with your M/M loving.
SUMMARY
To remake their future, they’ll have to use pieces of their
broken past. Bad in Baltimore, Book 4 The young man the world knew as Jordan Barnett is dead,
killed as much by the rejection of his first love at his
moment of greatest need, as by his ultra-conservative
parents’ effort to deprogram the gay away. In his place is Silver, a streetwise survivor who’s spent
the last three years learning to become untouchable…unless
you’re willing to pay for the privilege. He shies away from
anything that might hold him down long enough for betrayal
to find him again. Zebediah Harris spent time overseas, trying to outrun the
guilt of turning his back on the young man he loved. Now,
almost the moment he sets foot back in Baltimore, he
discovers Silver on a street corner in a bad part of town.
His effort to make amends lands them both in jail. Trapped together in a cell, Silver sits on his mountain of
secrets and plans a seductive form of revenge, but finds
that using a heart as a stepping stone is no way to move
past the one man he can’t forgive, let alone forget. Warning: Contains a surly hero. May cause angst. A prolonged
delay in sexual situations may cause frustration. Author
recommends a steady dose of familiar friends and characters
to alleviate those symptoms. No actual teenagers were used
during the construction of the backstory.
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