Review: Amusingly silly.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2012
Natalia Darque, <strong>Confessions of a Sorority Girl: The Omega Train</strong> (Natalia Darque, 2011)If you went to college, and went to college at a place that had sororities, and you're a certain kind of male (or perhaps even a certain kind of lady), you probably fantasized about sororities being hotbeds of lesbian sin who, upon occasion, would allow a lucky fellow or two to join them in dark, luscious orgies that went on for entire weekends.Or was that just me?In any case, you'll get none of that here. Natalia Darque gives us the sorority from hell, the kind that's far more likely to actually exist: a bunch of stuck-up, uptight snobs who are far more concerned with the labels on their clothes than the selection of adult novelties at the local porn emporium. Our heroine, Natalia (this is written in memoir fashion, though you've never read a memoir like this), is on the verge of getting kicked out for racial transgressions--the story takes place at an anonymous Texas college in 1986, and having spent four years in Virginia across the street from a fraternity house made up of Texans from 1987-1990, I can attest that Darque's setup here is far from implausible--and so she decides to go out with a bang, as it were. (If you're unfamiliar with the sexual connotation of the word "train", I'll let you read this to discover it. But then, if you're unfamiliar with the sexual connotation of the word "train", you're probably not reading this review in the first place.)Oddly, this has the feel of sex comedy, though it never quite hits a comedic stride well enough to pin that label on it with any confidence; I'm guessing that had I read the other four books in the series beforehand (I picked this one up during a brief period when it was offered free) I'd have a better handle on the author's intents in that regard. So I can't tell you for certain, but it's worth noting.In any case, a fun little book, as long as you don't have problems with interracial sex. If you do, well, you can just kick Natalia Darque out right now--her sorority did! **