Review: Pointless
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2013
The way that this book starts makes you feel as if you picked it up two chapters in. I kept going back to the cover in my Kindle to make sure I wasn't missing anything.The book is historical and it starts off with a woman alone in a remote cottage. She's there with her trunk of erotic books. Great concept! However that great concept didn't fulfill itself because of terribly written characters. A man comes along who's been caught out in the storm, she lets him in and he sees that she, a respectable spinster is reading erotica and he's intrigued. They talk about it and then before you know it they're making a deal to have one night of sex where he will act out her fantasies. However here is where my problems start. This is a woman who is a self-acknowledged erotica reader and especially of "The Pearl" a "magazine" from England that at times was far worse than anything we can create in the world of Erotica today. So you would think, or at least I did, that a woman who devours such publications would have an idea of what sex is all about. The Pearl didn't leave ANYTHING out. Anal, incest, orgies, BDSM, all of it was written about it great detail. But when it comes down to it she acts surprised at everything he wants to do and suggest. She's never heard of it before? Come on!!!! Obviously the author has never read The Pearl. She had a chance to make a historical female character who was taking charge of her own sexuality, a woman ahead of her time. Instead she lost the thread. There is a scene of the two characters having anal sex (although anal or the butt is never mentioned) that is laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Don't waste your money on this.