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"Gwen" by Friar Dave (incest & pedophilia) 10, 10, 8
"Gwen" by Friar Dave. Guest review by LeAnna. This only means my opinion, nothing more. The narrator is a grizzled old guy who has just moved to Manhattan. His 13-year-old niece comes over the next day to help him "unpack"; but as the narrator suspects, it wasn't really for that purpose. As they're unpacking, the narrator and Gwen get into a heart-to-heart about boys. The narrator is distracted, not really paying attention to what his niece is chattering about, until she starts talking about breasts in an attempt to get the narrator to notice her. And then 'touching'. And then sex. And then... the narrator starts to notice his 13-year-old niece, y'know, sexually. The sexual dialogue/noticing is first spurred by reminisces about the narrator's ex, and it gradually grows into something new started by his niece. And then the inevitable happens. I don't condone pedophilia. I find incest to be just as disgusting. I warn you, they're in this story, and they're very strongly in this story. I only reviewed this story because Friar Dave is an excellent writer, probably one of the best writers that this NG is honored with. And the major reason that I read this is because I was sure he knew this: there is disgusting, pointless pedophilia, and then there's pedo with a cause. A reason. Not an 8-year-old across the street that the 40-year-old guy thought would be fun to fuck. This is pedophilia with a reason, and the author demonstrates this with enough skill to keep my squicking at a minimum. This is interesting psychologically -- the thinking and reasoning of a tomboy that is trying to turn on her uncle to see if she really can turn someone on. Although it apparently works in the story, readers, don't try this at home as a means of boosting your niece's self-esteem. :-) I actually found that concept a bit disturbing; however, it's well used in this story. I don't find it realistic, but again, it's well used in this story. The fact that I found the pedophilia and the incest disturbing, though, is why I took off two LeAnna points. This story is fueled by excellent dialogue, and there are a few laughs in their conversation; heck, throughout the entire story. There are literary devices that probably wouldn't be noticed by anybody other than a careful reader or an author -- for instance, the art of irony as it should be used. This is a story that I urge you to at least take a peek at. Ratings for "Gwen" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 LeAnna (appeal to reviewer): 8 |