Review: Amusing, if generic.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2012
Rachel Boleyn, <strong>Confessions of a Sex Addict: 12 Steps Back</strong> (Sweet Nothings Press, 2011)No-strings-attached quickie about a sex addict attending her first 12-step meeting. Amazed that the author actually took the time to build up a red herring in this one, balanced out by the fact that (SPOILER ALERT) the entire thing turned out to be... well, not a red herring (or a roleplaying session or something else to that effect). If Boleyn fleshes, no pun intended, this out into a full-length piece of adult dysfunction lit rather than a silly throwaway piece of erotica, I think it could actually work; the setup here shows us that she's got some good ideas about how to plot, she builds suspense successfully, and the denouement tells us there's some thinking towards the emotional fallout of her actions (which is rare in porn, but a staple of dysfunction lit--one of the reasons why those two things so rarely cross, even though they seem a perfect match). ***