Rogue Review No. 469 - November 29, 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: Three Days in August
AUTHOR: MichaelD38
LENGTH: 9,100 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Female
COMBINATION(S): Solo (Female)
                Twosome (Female, Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Older Man-Younger Woman
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Indoors
            Outdoors
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Lori is nineteen years old and about to start her 
sophomore year of college.  She flies to southern 
California, intending to spend three days visiting with her 
father.  As it turns out, he doesn't have the time or desire 
to actually spend time with her.  She makes the best of a 
crummy situation by hanging out with his 33-year-old 
neighbor, Jack.

COMMENTARY: I have a feeling that this story may appeal more 
to women than it does to men.  It is a romance; it isn't 
filled with sex; the main character is a young woman.  
Another way of putting all this is that while I was 
entertained, I have enjoyed other stories more than I 
enjoyed this one.  I attribute this fact not to a lack of 
ability on the author's part, but to the fact that my tastes 
and this story do not mesh very well.  If the main character 
had been a young man and he had been hanging out with older 
woman I think I would have enjoyed the story more, but then 
it would have been quite a different story.

OK, now I am feeling guilty.  I didn't mean to give this 
story short shrift.  It is very well written.  The author 
does a very nice job with Lori.  She seems realistic.  It is 
just that the subject matter wasn't the sort of stuff I look 
for in erotica.  By the way, the operative in the last 
sentence, in case you missed it, was 'I'.  To be perfectly 
honest I -- there I go again -- get the impression that the 
author wrote this with a female audience in mind.  Have I 
gone too far?  Was it really necessary to say all that?  
Maybe, maybe not, but I wanted to make sure that y'all 
understood that while I wasn't wild about the story, I get 
the impression that some of you may care for it more than I 
did.  In particular I was thinking that members of the 
female persuasion will probably enjoy it more than I did.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 8.0 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Very Good

LINK(S): Three Days in August

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=519384057&fmt=raw [1/3]
         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=519384051&fmt=raw [2/3]
         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=519384047&fmt=raw [3/3]

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