Spark by Sammy Reynolds
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Spark by Sammy Reynolds is an adult, LGBT+ romance novel, originally published on April 4th 2022.
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Trigger Warnings
Author-Provided Warnings
The following warning can be found on the authors website:
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Tropes, general themes, and what you can expect:
- Forced proximity on a road trip
- “But there’s only one bed!”
- Angsty but sweet (but not syrupy sweet)
- Sunshine/grumpy
- Alpha/alpha
- Motorcycle club/Greaser gang
- Set in the US in an alternate 80s timeline
- One character is gay, one is bi
- A small age gap (3 years)
- The older MC’s a virgin
- Hurt/comfort
- Childfree characters
- Coming to terms with internalized homophobia
- Omegaverse with shifters and wereshifters
- Mpreg is possible in this world, but male omegas are very rare. No mpreg in this book, but there is knotting.
- Shifts occur via a quantum rift (there’s otherwise no magic or fantasy in this world)
- Fated mates, but not mutually instantaneous
- A happily ever after conclusion to the MCs’ romance (though their lives continue to develop in the background of later books)
- No cheating
- A found-family formed by the end of the story, develops throughout the series
Content advisory (ordered from least spoilery to most spoilery):
- Explicit sexual content
- Violence and mild gore
- Bad language including: profanities, homophobia, misogyny
- A generally homophobic society
- Both MCs have oppressive families they’ve permanently cut off
- One instance of alcohol use
- One scene with junkies high on a fictional drug
- One MC knows someone who killed themselves
- One MC knows someone who was abused as a teen
- Vague mention of rape and abuse of an off-page character
- One MC made a suicide attempt in the past, has scars to show it, but no longer has any suicidal intentions
- Aftermath shown of a violent hate crime
- One MC takes conversion therapy medication for a time
- One major character death (not a romantic lead)
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Representation
An asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity.
- MLM main characters
- Bisexual main character
- Gay main character
- M/M romance
- Dyslexic main character
Tropes
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