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"An Interlude in the Bahamas" by Marlene Darcy (exotic romance)
10, 7, 5
"An Interlude in the Bahamas" by Marlene Darcy (specpress@earthlink.net). This story is an excerpt from a novel entitled "Love and Surrender," which is published as an Obelisk Library Etext by Spectrum Press Inc. I personally have no objection to publishers doing this sort of thing, as long as the excerpts stand alone as stories and are well written. Madeline is a 32-year-old, recently divorced lady from New York who wants a family and children, but she also wants something more than that. Now she's lying on a beach in a white bikini in the Bahamas. She develops a lust for the man next to her on the beach, and masturbates to fantasies about this stranger. Presumably the full story will tell us how Madeline works out her emotional stress through a passionate romance on the island. But so far, this is really pretty tame - almost boring - stuff. One wonders why a publisher would use something so bland as an inducement to lure us to a novel. Ratings for "An Interlude in the Bahamas" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 7 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5 |