Review: Not bad, but not great.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2012
Severin Rossetti, <strong>The Comfort of a Woman</strong> (Severin Rossetti, 2011)If you're going to pick a pseudonym, there are two ironclad rules you should follow. The first is to make it sound like something that could, conceivably, be an actual name. The second... have some stones. A codicil to #2 is that a nod to the otaku will be greatly appreciated by them. And thus we come to one Severin Rossetti, which <em>has</em> to be a pseudonym (his bio mentions that he used to be an art teacher, and now works in a museum, so if it's not a pseudonym, the family stayed in the art biz for a couple of hundred years). If not, well, he had some pretty great parents for rolling up a name like "Severin Rossetti". Not that any of this has sweet FA to do with <em>The Comfort of a Woman</em>, a quick tale from Rossetti's remarkably prolific pen, a classic bait-and-switch piece you've seen in any number of porn films. (Don't give me that look. I know you watch porn films.) It's a tad fumbling now and again, rather unlike its ever-so-experienced stars, but it's not a bad little story at all. A quick erotic fix with a predictable, but still fun, twist ending. **