Review: Sex to sorcery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
The first few chapters of this pair seem like a pretty typical fifty shades clone, with the central character tumbling into a bondage club which she does not know is actually run by her husband. At first there are no hints of the paranormal, and the plot is a collection of sex scenes and an exploration of the relationship between the central characters, but two thirds through the first book the plot goes off at a tangent into the realms of white witchcraft and lurking perils, and then squarely into the paranormal. It improves greatly as a result. The sex scenes are explicit and (particularly in the first book) relatively kinky, but are not extraordinary; the writing is straightforward.The second book takes the plot in a new direction that feels as though it was not planned from the beginning, but is more interesting. The central character discovers that most things she thought she knew at the end of the first book are wrong, and that she has mystical powers. She swiftly becomes involved with a new man who has a secret (not that it takes long for the reader to confirm what he is). The second book has far more of a story, with the sex becoming less central and more mainstream. There are considerable levels of coincidence in both books, and the novels do not explore the paranormal world the characters inhabit to any great extent. I wouldn't describe either book as great literature, but they read reasonably well – if you're looking for erotica, it serves that role effectively, but by the end of book two the conclusion of the plot has become more important than the sex.