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"The Home Front" by Ragtime (incest) 9, 8, 7
"The Home Front" by Ragtime (posted by Mr Double). Guest review by BillyG. "The Home Front" is a story that's set in rural England during World War II. More, it has the feeling of being written by someone who lived there during that period. It is a long, slowly moving tale that emerges as a curious mixture of bucolic beauty and unlikely plot, that is, if one care's about the plot of a sex story. As it turns out, I do, and unfortunate for me, it colored my reaction to the story. I'll speak first to that and later to what I liked about the story, which was quite a bit. First, I should tell you that whatever else it may be, "The Home Front" is primarily a story of incest. Not a tortured, pained or tragic tale to be sure. It's positive and upbeat. If one is inclined, one might stretch credulity even further to entertain the possibility of an attractive brother and sister, who are themselves the product of an improbable incestuous union, contriving to take in a displaced pair of twins, a girl and a boy, for the express purpose of broadening their sexual connections. It's titillating for them to seduce their brother-sister counterparts. By this time, the direction of the story is set and totally transparent. The twins' parents, of course, are - you guessed it - a brother and a sister. They - the parents - are brought into the story straight away. I might add that this is an unfinished story, perhaps half-way completed. We know from the outset that there are waiting in the wings still another pair of twins. Yes, brother and sister. What else? Having no scarring or horrible incestuous experiences of my own to set me on edge when reading a story of this genre, Celeste assumes (correctly) that I'll not simply reject them out of hand. Still, stories that are so unlikely as to strain our believability remove them from the ranks of those tales that move if not electrify us. This story is pleasant, hardly gripping. The protagonist of this story is Joyce Parks. She's the glue that holds it together and everyone else serves to support her designs. She's lusty and pleasant and totally uninhibited. She speaks with unabashed candor of her own desires and practices as she's in the process of instructing the willing others in the proper technique of such diverse things as bum fucking and hygiene. Exactly what is going to happen is a given. Just how Joyce manages to get all these ducks in a row is the primary fun part. There are moments when the story borders of being steamy, but there are too many plates to be juggled for sustained erotic intimacy. I suppose if the other half of this story emerges, I'll read it just to see how she adds a few more plates to the act. Ratings for "The Home Front" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 8 BillyG (appeal to reviewer): 7 |