Review: Decadent Prose
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2012
I'm never disappointed by a Charlotte Stein title. This book was agonizingly, decadently, powerfully, awesome. It sucked the breath right out of my lungs in the first pages and kept me in a gasping state until the very last. Thank god it was a novella; I might have expired.The distance between Abby & Ivan is emotional and/or physical depending on who you ask. The exhilaration and ache of that kind of long distance discovery is captured so well. Was this a novel about voyeurs? Not really. This was a novel about people looking in from the outside, people who feel alienated and ashamed...and who doesn't from time to time?The bridging of that distance is the challenge. The seemingly impossible HEA/HFN? I trust Charlotte Stein to get me there, and she always does. Emotionally satisfying and wish fulfilling, the end leaves room for more from these two damaged characters I grew to love. I hope to see more of Abby & Ivan in the future.Dirty talk? Absolutely. Explicit & Graphic sex? Oh MY. Breathtaking literary erotica? YES YES YES.