Rogue Review No. 397 - June 20, 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: Christmas with the Andersons
AUTHOR: J. Boswell
LENGTH: 30,100 words
MAIN CHARACTER: ?
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (1 Female, 1 Male)
                Threesome (1 Female, 2 Males)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
                Homosexual (Female)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Employer-Employee
                 Fellow Employees
                 Older Female-Younger Male
                 Student-Coach
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Home
            Office
            School
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): 2 Semi-Consensual Scenes

SUMMARY: Bobby comes home after his first semester in college.  
He is horny and has a hard time keeping his eyes off Amanda and 
Laurie, respectively his sister and mother.  Bobby doesn't know 
it but both his parents are augmenting the sex they get from each
other by having sex with some of the people they work with.  
Bobby also knows nothing of his sister's extracurricular 
activities, which include taking showers with her basketball 
coach and sleeping with the father of two children that she baby-
sits.  Bobby remains horny until Christmas Eve when he finally 
screws his neighbor, and then her daughter.

COMMENTARY: The way I have described this story it may seem that 
Bobby is the main character.  Considering how much the focus 
shifts during the story I would be hard pressed to justify that 
statement.

I think that the author tries to do just a bit too much with this
story.  It starts off at a reasonable pace.  The focus seems to 
be Bobby, but then it shifts to Laurie.  Later, it shifts to 
Amanda.  The author also spends some time focusing on the 
activities of Robert, Sr.  Generally speaking, there is nothing 
wrong with shifting the focus among a group of characters.  I do 
however have a problem with the focus shifts in this story 
because there seems to be little rhyme or reason to them.  This 
story should have been broken down into a few shorter ones, or 
expanded to the point that it becomes clearer how the various 
episodes are interrelated.

I did find the story arousing, for the most part.  There are a 
couple scenes that made me cringe.  One involves Laurie being 
forced to do something she does not seem to want to do.  The 
other involves Bobby feeling up his sister after she passes out. 
Neither of these scenes last very long, but the fact that they 
are part of the story may deter some people from reading this it.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 8.0 (out of 10)

         - Arousal: 4/5
         - Editing: 5/5
         - Plot and Characters: 3/5

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Good

LINK(S): Christmas with the Andersons

         - http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/18224.txt [1/4]
         - http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/18225.txt [2/4]
         - http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/18226.txt [3/4]
         - http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/18227.txt [4/4]

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=425131664&fmt=raw [1/4]
         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=425131676&fmt=raw [2/4]
         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=425131686&fmt=raw [3/4]
         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=425131697&fmt=raw [4/4]

