David Strom's dying mother made him promise to help his uncle. Except his uncle is the crazy patriarch of a polygamist sect of men with a fondness for very young women. What's a self-respecting man to do?
Size: 409 KB (78,024 words)
Genre: Fantasy
Sex Contents: Minimal Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, Ma/ft, Consensual, Fiction
Review by orangeade [other reviews by orangeade]
Reviewed:
The infamous head of a polygamist sect asks his estranged nephew for a favor? A bus full of young women driven by a single young man to a subterranean compound, cut off by a massive snowstorm? Well, you can see where this is going, can't you?
No, you can't.
"Will You Do This For Me?" is anything but a stroke story, despite the set up, and in the hands of a storyteller the quality of Gina Marie Wylie, it's a better story than one might anticipate. But whether or not you'll enjoy it depends upon whether you're up for the type of reading experience it represents.
David Strom is the outsider, fulfilling a promise to his late mother in regard to his Uncle Jerome's "Faith," about which he knows little more than what he sees in the media. He comes to the group entrusted to him with all the attitudes that one would usually have about adult men who have sex with underaged girls. That's the usual focus in public debate about such organizations, but Wylie flips things around over the course of the story, until the treatment of young males in the sect is found to be the true problem. But perhaps not in the way you might be expecting . . .
Confusing? Not really . . . "Will You Do This For Me?" is very deliberate in putting out its arguments, maybe even too deliberate. This isn't erotica, and Wylie doesn't label it as such. It's more an ongoing philosophical and religious discussion, a bit dry at times, and not likely to change the attitude of many readers, with revelations like "the foundation of the Faith is faith itself." David's pivotal "discussions" in his dreams with a spirit guide who's an easily recognized young French woman of seven centuries ago may put him on the path to greater understanding, but doesn't add any more heft to the story at hand.
Still, even, if one isn't swayed by Wylie's philosophical back-and-forth, one can't help but admire that she otherwise keeps the story moving at a nice pace, and has created a large cast of interesting characters. At the very least, it's worth a look as an intellectual exercise.
