Review: Now THAT'S comedy!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2012
Candy Caine, <strong>My Neighbor Was a Peeping Tom</strong> (Candy Caine, 2011)Like a couple of other Kindle-porn-esque shorts I've run across, this one isn't porn so much as it is a kind of odd fantasy-romance with a nice comedic tinge to it that really sets it apart. It helps matters a great deal that Caine seems to share some traits with her protagonist--a novelist. These traits include the ability to develop a character, a good eye for pace, and a vocabulary that goes beyond grunts and stupid metaphors for anatomical bits. (I have no idea if she also has the long red hair. Or if Candy Caine even is a she; perhaps Candy Caine is the peeping tom with all the cats?) All of these things, coupled with a good head, no pun intended, for what makes erotica work, make this one into a winner. It's not only the best erotica short I've read today, but the best short period (out of a half-dozen or so). Quite likable. ***