Review: Vengeance, a dish best served...sexy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2013
Vogel House tells the harrowing, lust filled and scintillating story of teenaged Clarise and her family's bitter battle for survival as rich and successful Howard McNaughton sets upon them.  McNaughton is out for vengeance and hell bent on destroying her father and family completely - mentally, physically and financially. He is almost successful at it but determined Clarise gets in his way and turns the tables on him.  In this adult romance /erotica novel Young Clarise is the emboldened, sexually awakening heroine of the story, she is driven by a passion to save her family plus Vogel house from complete ruin and be with the young man that she loves.Clarise her family and friends live in a world of entitlement, fueled by drugs, liquor, sexual exploration, and deceit. It is beautiful life where the possibilities for her teenage mind and body to explore are endless until her world begins to crumble viciously around her. Keary McNaughton is the handsome, desirous, and virile young - man that Clarise falls in love with but has been forbidden to be with; he is one of the clique of wealthy, drug addled kids that Clarise and her brother Phillip consort with regularly. The story takes on an air of mystery and suspense as Howard McNaughton, crosses every possible boundary in his attempts to exact vengeance on her family including attempted murder, kidnapping and rape.  However, it is Clarise's strong will, comely beauty and bequeathed inheritance and the Russian Mafia that brings Howard McNaughton's devious plans of vengeance to a halt in a tension-filled ending.What I really enjoyed about this novel is the commendable standard of writing talent that  author John Forrester  exemplifies, his writing style somewhat resembles that of the Marquis De Sade in that it is finely detailed, prose like and unabashedly sexual.  The author is a proficient story - teller whose scenes of sexual candor, excitement, and mystery do well to entertain and titillate.  This story moves at a consistently entertaining pace that  is propelled  by the themes of forbidden love, budding sexuality, and debauched sexual behavior where the lines of right and wrong are easily blurred by wealth, drugs, alcohol and lies. Unlike a great deal of other erotica themed books the erotic scenes are written with maturity and are not like the brash pornographic works that are currently flooding the market, something which I appreciate as a reader of erotica.  I recommend Vogel House as a beguiling adult themed summer read.