Rogue Reviews Digest No. 47 - August 29, 1999

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Reviews

  "Other Plans" by Miss Behavin'
  "The Dating Game" by Slowhand
  "The Choice" by Bitbard
  "My Aunt Mattie" by BitBard
  "Potential" by Three
  "New Beginnings" by Pami
  "Bruce" by Losgud

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Rogue Review No. 426 - August 18, 1999

TITLE: Other Plans
AUTHOR: Miss Behavin'
LENGTH: 12,900 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Female
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (Female, Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Unmarried Couple
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Outdoors
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Melissa and Chris have been friends all their 
lives, but never lovers.  Something happens to change that 
at the same time that her brother is getting married.

COMMENTARY: This is a very well written story.  It is nicely 
plotted and nicely paced.  There is much more to it than 
just sex.  If you are looking for stroke fiction, then I 
recommend you look elsewhere.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 9.0 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Very Good

LINK(S): Miss Behavin's Bedtime Stories

        - http://www.missbehavin.com

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Rogue Review No. 427 - August 21, 1999

TITLE: The Dating Game
AUTHOR: Slowhand
LENGTH: 25,200 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (Female, Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Unmarried Couple
                 Older Male-Younger Female
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Home
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: David, 36, falls for Mary, 34 or so.  Mary just 
wants to be friends.  Skylar, Mary's 18-year-old daughter, 
doesn't want David around and takes an unusual approach to 
get rid of him.

COMMENTARY: This story is extremely arousing.  The internal 
turmoil David experiences while trying to pick and choose 
between doing the right thing and satisfying his libido, 
certainly contributed to the level of arousal that I 
experienced.

One area in which the story comes up a bit short, is the 
resolution.  It is not outside of the realm of possibilities 
that the story could end in the manner in which it does, but 
it seems more probable than it should end differently.  At 
the very least the ending should have been drawn out a 
little more, in my opinion.  It all just came to a close too 
quickly to satisfy me.

This story will probably appeal more to male readers than to 
female ones.  It certainly reads more like a male fantasy 
than a female one.  Having said that, I think that it is 
accurate to say that the author does a better than average 
job with both female characters.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 9.5 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Excellent

LINK(S): Steven Gregory's Erotic Nights

        - http://extra.newsguy.com/~steveng/

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Rogue Review No. 428 - August 23, 1999

TITLE: The Choice
AUTHOR: Sandman (aka Bitbard)
LENGTH: 14,100 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Many
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
                Homosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Unmarried Friends
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Home
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Dan is convinced that Sandra is the woman for him.  
Sandra is willing to accept a romantic relationship with Dan 
only if he is willing to accept that she is bisexual and in 
a relationship with an unmarried couple (Sara and Jeff), and 
is open to the idea of sleeping with all three of them.

COMMENTARY: This was an interesting read for me, primarily 
because I don't read many stories that involve male 
bisexuality.

I like the premise behind the story.  The main character is 
faced with a dilemma: adopt a bisexual lifestyle (within the 
confines of a foursome) or lose the woman he wants to spend 
the rest of his life with.  Dan is a man who considers 
himself heterosexual, not bisexual or homosexual.  This 
isn't an easy decision for him to make.  He doesn't have a 
moral problem with being part of a bisexual foursome.  He 
enjoys Jeff's company, but he just isn't sure if he can 
enjoy sex with Jeff or whether sleeping with Jeff too steep 
a price to pay in order to be with Sandra.

The author does a credible job with the story, spending 
relatively equal amounts of time on hot sex, plot 
development and character development.  There are two things 
that I found disappointing.  One, there are a number of 
spelling errors.  Two, the male-male sex seemed much more 
mechanical than the male-female sex.  Admittedly, Dan is a 
bit reluctant, but still it would have been nice if the 
descriptions of sex between Dan and Jeff had been a bit more 
lush.

If you don't care for stories involving male bisexuality, 
then you may not care for this one.  

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 8.0 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Very Good

LINK(S): The Choice

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=312053147&fmt=raw

         Bitbard's Library

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

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Rogue Review No. 429 - August 24, 1999

TITLE: My Aunt Mattie
AUTHOR: Dude
LENGTH: 6,600 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Solo (Female, Male)
                Twosome (Female, Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Aunt-Nephew
KINK(S): Voyeurism
SETTING(S): Home
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Aunt Mattie comes to live with Danny and his 
parents.  In the cramped apartment that they live in, he has 
to share his bed with her.

COMMENTARY: This story has a very specific feel to it.  It 
doesn't feel generic, but very real.  Danny's descriptions 
of how he sees things and of how he feels seem appropriate 
for a 15-year-old boy.  Some of the terms he uses are not 
ones that I would use, but the general tone that the story 
is told in, is one that is very familiar to me.

This story is about desire.  Some fantasies are realized by 
Danny, but the bulk of the story is about longing and pining 
for Aunt Mattie; someone that is legally off limits to him.  
I found the ending to be a bit anticlimactic, and not quite 
as satisfying as the rest of the story.  I think that I was 
expecting something a little less restrained at the end.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 9.0 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Very Good

LINK(S): Erotic Nights

         - http://extra.newsguy.com/~steveng/

         Erotic Stories.com

         - http://www.eroticstories.com/

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Rogue Review No. 430 - August 27, 1999

TITLE: Potential
AUTHOR: Three
LENGTH: 9,700 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Female
COMBINATION(S): Solo (Female, Male)
                Twosome (Female, Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Strangers
KINK(S): Exhibitionism
SETTING(S): Car
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Susie is working in the local library, the summer 
before her senior year of high school.  One day she 
accidentally exposes herself to Chad, a guy whom she has the 
hots for.  She manages to get over her initial shame.  When 
the opportunity presents itself she gets to know him a 
little better.  In time, her accidental exhibitionism leads 
to intentional exhibitionism, by both of them.

COMMENTARY: I am a sucker for well written dialogue.  I can 
appreciate well written narration, but almost always prefer 
dialogue over narration.  The author of this story does a 
nice job with both.  Susie isn't omniscient.  Chad is able 
to hold up his end of an intelligent conversation.  Even 
without exposing their bodies, Susie and Chad manage to heat 
this story up very quickly.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 10.0 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Excellent

LINK(S): Potential

         - http://www.eroticstories.com/story/3458

         Erotic Stories.com

         - http://www.eroticstories.com/

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Rogue Review No. 431 - August 28, 1999

TITLE: New Beginnings
AUTHOR: Pami
LENGTH: 4,100 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Female
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (Female, Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Unmarried Couple
KINK(S): Dom/Sub
SETTING(S): Home
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: A woman and man explore their relationship by 
playing a dominance and submission game, in which he submits 
to her whims.

COMMENTARY: The author does a nice job setting the scene and 
a wonderful job following through.  The story isn't 
overloaded with details.  The ones that are included, are 
more than enough to fire the imagination of the reader, so 
that she or he may fill in the details.  It would have been 
nice if there was a bit more to the story.  By that I mean a 
little more detail on the characters or a little more to the 
plot.  The amount of sex is well suited to a story of this 
length.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 9.5 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Excellent

LINK(S): New Beginnings

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=465237609&fmt=raw

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Rogue Review No. 432 - August 29, 1999

TITLE: Bruce
AUTHOR: Losgud
LENGTH: 12,600 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (Female, Male)
                Threesome (1 Female, 2 Males)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Brother-Sister
                 Married Couple
KINK(S): Exhibitionism
SETTING(S): Home
            Restaurant
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Bruce stays with Janice and Harold, his sister and 
her husband, while he is away from home on business.  One 
thing leads to another...

COMMENTARY: This is a very well written and extremely 
arousing story.  The author does a nice job of not cutting 
to the chase too fast.  The tension builds over a series of 
close encounters between Bruce and Janice, until eventually 
something does happen.  Another thing that I like about this 
story is the dialogue.  It reveals things both explicitly 
and implicitly.  I also enjoyed the narrator's sarcastic 
tone.

Of course, if you don't care for stories of incest then this 
may not be for you.  In my opinion, you won't find too many 
incest stories that are written much better than this one.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 10.0 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Excellent

LINK(S): Bruce

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=497927197&fmt=raw

         StoriesOnline.net

         - http://www.storiesonline.net/

