Review: Tender and Thoughtful
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
Confession is a turning point for Didier and Caroly. The time has come for feelings to be declared, changes to be made. This story is a celebration, of his progress, her openness and happiness and their love.What continues to strike me with the Curio series is how beautifully McKenna has constructed her characters. Didier is not just a prostitute, he is an artist, a teacher. Caroly is not only a woman who's protected herself from rejection, she is a woman strong enough to support and help the man she loves, she is an appreciator of beauty in all it's forms, she is strong and confident in herself.McKenna's writing is sheer perfection. Her prose stuns me with its beauty. She's taken what could have been a curious and unbelievable premise and created an perfectly tender and thoughtful love story.Favorite Quote:I could choose to feel insecure about Didier's experiences, and to resent those patrons for what they enjoy with him. Or I could continue to borrow their tastes and come to appreciate this man through the fantasies of a hundred different women, and view his experience as an enrichment, not a dilution. People are afraid of what a lack of variety will do to their attraction when they settle down, but Didier is countless lovers in a single body, all mine to peruse and sample without even so much as ogling another man. I hope I'll be the same to him.