Rogue Review No. 388 - June 6, 1999

NOTICE: If you are easily offended, not of the required legal 
age, or material of an erotic nature is illegal where you are, 
then do not read what follows.

TITLE: Friends and Lovers
AUTHOR: Sandman (a.k.a. Bitbard)
LENGTH: 6,900 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (1 Female, 1 Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Friends
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Hotel Room
            Outdoors
GENRE(S): Romance
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Cal and Cathy are extremely close, but life conspires to
push them apart.  They see each other again over the years, but 
only on rare occasions.

COMMENTARY: This is a very arousing story.  The relationship that
Cathy and Cal share is a very intimate one.  I found this, as 
well as some of their actions to be quite arousing.

This is a very well written story.  It is well paced and has a 
logical flow to it.  The author has divided it into four 
sections.  In the first section, his characters are in their 
early teens; in the second, their late teens or early twenties; 
in the third, their early forties; and in the last, their early 
to mid-sixties.  I liked both the characters.  They seem 
realistic.  The author does a great job with the dialogue and 
descriptions.  This is not stroke material, it is a story.

I enjoyed this quite a bit.  It is both very arousing and very 
well written.  I also found it to be rather moving.  If you enjoy
reading more than just stroke fiction, then you should enjoy this
one.  I highly recommend it.  I have given it an Excellent.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 9.5 (out of 10)

         - Arousal: 5/5
         - Editing: 5/5
         - Plot and Characters: 4/5

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Excellent

LINK(S): Friends and Lovers

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=319766382&fmt=raw
         - http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7881.txt

         Bitbard's Library

         - http://www.asstr.org/~BitBard/
