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"Jacob and Sammi: A Fine Spring Day" by Cirsium (outdoor
infidelity) 8, 8, 7
"Jacob and Sammi: A Fine Spring Day" by Cirsium (thistle@dunes.com). This review is the personal opinion of Kim, who can be contacted at ghost@nym.alias.net Well now, I for one, never had the slightest notion that I would write this many reviews. Yet here we are at the start of my fiftieth review for Celeste. Wow! I'd just like to take a moment to thank Celeste for letting me do this, and to all the people who have taken the trouble to write me about some of my past reviews and, of course, to the authors who've suffered my contrarieties. For them my apologies and gratitude in equal measure, for the fun, pleasure, and even orgasms they've all so generously donated. Thank you. OK, on with the show! So, is my fiftieth story some extraordinarily profound, yet fuckin' horny piece of writing? Well, let's see. A guy called Jacob decides to go for an early morning stroll in the woods and commune with nature. Packing his binoculars and squeezing his lovingly toned body into some tight khaki shorts, off he wanders, having kissed his peacefully slumbering wife adieu. While admiring the singing talents of a golden-winged warbler, he's interrupted by the appearance of his wife's sister, the sultry Samantha. Quite why she's wandering the woods at this time of the morning is never explained, but after a quick admiration for each other's plumage its down to some intimate field studies of their own. They then depart back to the arms of their respective partners. Well, much as I wanted to like it - really I did - this story just didn't press my buttons I'm afraid. The sentence structures are often a bit odd, almost streams of thought, rather than coherent description. It gives it a strange impressionistic feel at times. The sex is a bit clicheed, though quite how you describe such conventional sex in any new way is a problem I know. I shouldn't be too hard on it. It's simply a nice, simple unexpected but unfaithful romp in the woods, nothing more nor less. Ratings for "Jacob and Sammi" Athena (technical quality): 8 (curious sentence structure, possibly a house style) Venus (plot & character): 8 (within its limits, not too bad) Kim (appeal to reviewer): 7 (I remained determinedly neutral throughout) |