Review: Sexy! A Fascinating Story of Wealth, Sex, and Suspense
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
John Forrester's Vogel House is a story of sexual awakening, redemption, danger, and suspense.  Forrester has created a world where wealth, power, and young adults come together in unconventional situations sucking the reader into a twister of love, danger, and loss.  Resembling the work First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan, the world that Forrester has created is consuming.Clarise, a wealthy young heiress, has just come into her inheritance of Vogel House--a grand estate passed from Grandmother to Granddaughter from generation to generation.  She is also coming into her newfound sexuality as she witnesses her older, and very promiscuous, brother, Philip, in compromising situations with his girlfriend, Giselle, who resembles a cheap doll.  As the story evolves, one cannot help but fall in love with the narrator, Clarise. Although she is quite out-of-touch with reality, her developing relationship with the handsome, and also wealthy, character Keary becoming intense.  Especially after Clarise learns that his father would like nothing more than to hurt her, and her entire family.  Keary's father believes that money in conjunction with power is the perfect drug--but does Keary feel the same? Will he betray Clarise and side with his father?Forrester does a magnificent job of giving the reader a glimpse into the lives of the young, powerful, and wealthy of the 21st century.  With relevant economic references, suspense, love, and sex--this book should make its way to the top of anyone's reading list.