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"Dragonlily" by LeAnna (unrequited love) 9, 7.5, 6
"Dragonlily" by LeAnna (leanna1@hotmail.com). Guest review by Nick (nick@cassandra.demon.co.uk). (First a general point covering my marking. In short anything above 6 is a definite recommendation to read, 10 I would gladly have paid good money for the privilege! Apply this loosely across the three categories.) This is a story about unrequited love. A shy awkward young boy is seduced by a beautiful redhead. He falls in love with her, but she seems to be basically playing with him, being engaged to another. This is well enough written and is hard to find serious fault. My two main criticisms are that it perhaps went on too long and that we never found out much about other aspects of the girl than that she was a jolly good fuck! I think for these reasons it didn't do much for me in the end. This was a male POV written (presumably) by a woman. I did start out wondering if this would show, and in the end it didn't - at least not enough to cause a problem. The plot was certainly able to make me forget this anyway. In short I think this is quite a promising piece, but it's not really quite there for me. Ratings for "DragonLily" Athena (technical) - 9 Venus (plot and character) - 7.5 Nick (appeal to me) - 6 |