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"The Dryad" by Peat Brett (magick & sex) 10, 9, 10
"The Dryad" by Peat Brett (v130kgg5@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) (reposted by John Dark). This review is the personal opinion of Kim, who can be contacted at ghost@nym.alias.net. . This is a wander into the realms of myth and magic, or fantasy if you will. Some unnamed guy goes for a meander in the forest and manages to get himself severely lost. So he decides to find a quiet spot and hunker down for the night. Just his luck to pick a magical glade where a small tree happens to turn into a dryad. OK, hands up, what's a dryad? Well, I'll tell ya, it's a wood nymph, half babe, half tree. Well, this is fantasy, is it not? She dances about, as wood nymphs obviously do, and captivates the observing interloper till he can restrain himself no longer. He chases her though the trees and with a flying lunge grabs her, only to have her slip from his grasp by the handy escape tactic of being able to pass through a tree trunk. Not surprisingly, the narrator bounces off, slightly stunned. But for inexplicable reasons the nymph takes pity on him and invites him inside the tree, which mysteriously, he is now able to enter. Having settled himself in, the nymph and he can't keep their hands off each other and, well, you can figure out the rest for yourself, I expect, save for the last coupla paragraphs, which came as a surprise to me. Quite what purpose the surprise achieves I'm not sure, other than to add to the mystical nature of it all. Written in a very straight forward and pleasing manner, it manages to carry off the difficult task of making you want to believe in what your reading. I enjoyed it a lot. One or two discrepancies crept in, such as the tree canopy so thick that the sun couldn't be seen, but thin enough for the moonlight to illuminate the nymphs breasts and so forth, but that's just nitpicking on my part really. Enjoyable, if you can be doing with wood nymphs and magic and such. Ratings for "The Dryad" Athena (technical quality): 10 (no complaints from me) Venus (plot & character): 9 (not much plot or character, but excellent anyway) Kim (appeal to reviewer): 10 (so... I like fantasy |