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"Blood and Sand" by DG (boxing and sexy romance) 10, 10, 10
"Blood and Sand" by DG (dionysian1@hotmail.com). This is a fully developed, multidimensional story. It starts off with Fabian Barnes the gardener, doing "inside work" for the lady whose lawn he mows for one of those familiar weak imitations of Lady Chatterly's Lover. No way, Jose! This is a sex-and-boxing story. It turns out that Jack gets involved with beach brawling - an illegal form of boxing. He's good at it, and soon Jack is having a merry time with Janice the boxing groupie. But she's just another distraction along the way. The real target is Lissa, a high-school senior, who is jerking off before a beach brawl the first time we meet her. After the brawl, she engages in more complete activity (her first time) with Jack, who has just defeated her brother in the fight. Anyway, Lissa and Jack fall in love, but then her brother discovers that Jack has gotten Lissa pregnant, and he has sworn to his mother that he will kill anyone that hurts his little sister. Memories of Romeo and Juliet! How would Will Shakespeare handle the denouement? Actually, the author handles it more the way the Bard would have had Friar Laurence been a licensed counselor. This is another excellent story! Ratings for "Blood and Sand" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8 |