Rogue Review No. 494 - February 12, 2000

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: V Day
AUTHOR: E. Z. Riter
LENGTH: 5,300 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (Female, Male)
                Threesome (2 Females, 1 Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Married Couple
                 Friends
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Home
            Hotel
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Barbara gives her husband a very special gift for 
Valentine's Day.  She invites her friend, Veronica, to join 
them in bed.

COMMENTARY: This one is a little different.  The author may 
not like this, but I'm going to say it anyway, there is a 
twist at the end of the story.  It isn't that I wasn't 
expecting some sort of a twist in the tale, but in this case 
I feel that the twist did not work completely.  It was too 
abrupt and did not keep the story flowing in the same 
general direction, in my opinion.  It wasn't quite a hairpin 
turn, but it did alter the mood of story dramatically.

Aside from the ending, I enjoyed the story.  The characters 
seemed realistic enough.  The sex was hot.  It is probably 
much more of a male fantasy than female fantasy one, but the 
twist at the ending, well that's all I going to say.  You'll 
just have to read it and judge for yourself whether the 
story and the ending work.

...

After I wrote this review I looked back and noticed that the 
story codes reveal much more than the title does.  Um, in 
other words, I should not have been surprised as I was by 
the ending.  Is there a moral to this paragraph?  Maybe.  
Oh, you actually want to know what it is?  Well, um, I guess 
it is that if you want a better idea as to what a story is 
about before reading it, then maybe you should try reading 
the story codes, unlike me.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 7.5 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Good

LINK(S): V Day

         - http://assm.asstr.org/Year2000/22746

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=584819296&fmt=raw

