Review: Fascinating and Heartbreaking
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
Curio ended in the most brilliant fashion, with Didier seeking Caroly. If you've read Curio, you know that the fact Didier came to Caroly speaks more than words. His phobia has reduced him to a half life, but Caroly is worth facing his fears. What comes next in the love affair between a prostitute and the woman he loves.Coercion is told through Didier's point-of-view, which was gave much insight into his mind. When their story began, Caroly felt insignificant in the face of his beauty. Unworthy. But through Didier, we find that he believes the opposite. How can such a woman love a man who is frightened, not to mention the fact he sleeps with other women for money? And how does Caroly cope with that?Coercion is sexy, heartbreaking, and utterly fascinating.Favorite Quote:Beauty is a queer and unearthly power.I was born of my father's infidelity and my mother's consumptive infatuation. I'm a bastard and a prostitute, crippled by agoraphobia...but I am beautiful. My deeper flaws seem to go unnoticed, all cracks in the stained glass, lost amid the dazzling colors of the whole.She settles against my chest and as I stroke her hair I think, I love this woman. For her kindness, her oddness, for the way she looks at me. I love her for having come to seek me, and even more so for spurring me to seek her, out in the wide world. In the most literal sense, she has brought warm sunshine and cool breezes and the smell of grass and clover back into my life. And if that isn't love, I do not know what is.