Review: So much better than the other Haven I've read it makes me wonder if "Kelly Haven" isn't a committee.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2012
Kelly Haven, <strong>Special Delivery</strong> (Sweet Nothings Press, 2011)What possessed me to read another Kelly Haven short story after the monstrosity that was <em>Taboo: Mommy Knows Best</em> (cf. review 22Dec11)? I can't actually answer that question, other than to say it popped up as a free Kindle short. This one isn't quite (okay, isn't nearly) as bad, though it's still par for the free-Kindle-erotica course as far as things like characterization, mundane description, etc. etc. (all of which are, of course, nonexistent). But here Haven uses a first-person voice, and for some reason, unlike in the other book (perhaps because the author is passing this off as her own diary?), the narrator actually has something that vaguely resembles a personality. Not a fully-formed one, by any means, but it's better than nothing. **