Review: Breathlessly Erotic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
You may guess that Danny Cooper's a shy secretive guy, that physique, those blue eyes like chips of sky, the uniform. Mmm, the uniform? Look again. Under the firefighter duds, Danny's every rounded inch a woman, sexy as hell and then some, and you guys may look as much as you like, she hasn't found one yet that lights her fire. Fact is, she never will.There is a guy she does like, CJ, gay as a carnival, nonthreatening, regal as a queen; and then there's Sam, long-term lover, still friends, kind of, a stand out woman who runs a bookshop and believes, as Ray Bradbury once put it: books change lives. And it's a life change Danny needs, a reason to come home from the fire station, some heat between the sheets, that hot throb you get in your guts when the right fingers warm the right places.Through a well-reconstructed sequence of cause and effect, the story unfolding with the alacrity of a conjuror taking silk scarfs from his/her sleeve, Pink Crush is divided like a pink grapefruit into neat segments that slot together in a perfect whole. I was particularly struck by a scene where Danny approaches a slender Asian girl propping up the bar and demands that she shove her hand down her jeans and into her wet patch, an exchange so breathlessly erotic I went back to read it again. Pink Crush is hot, a story of lost love and found love in the heart of the zeitgeist written, as the author tells us, from experience. Nice.