Rogue Review No. 383 - May 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: Change of Heart
AUTHOR: Virago Blue
LENGTH: 4,400 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Female
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (1 Female, 1 Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Friends
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Indoors
            Outdoors
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Crystal Beaureve is over at Jimmy's house.  She will be 
leaving for Hollywood soon and wants something from him that she 
can't seem to get from her boyfriend.

COMMENTARY: This is a somewhat arousing story.  My level of 
arousal fluctuated rather dramatically as I read the story.  On 
the whole I wasn't as aroused as I would have liked to have been.
That is why I have said this story is somewhat arousing.  Others 
may find it more arousing than I did.

This is a very well written story.  I really took to the author's
descriptions.  She does a beautiful job creating imagery.  There 
isn't a whole lot of plot, but I don't think that there was 
supposed to be.  Crystal is an interesting character; she knows 
what she wants and goes after it.  Jimmy on the other hand seems 
a bit limited, which is to say that that the author describes him
enough that he seems real, but does not do a whole lot as far as 
character development.  The story is about Crystal after all.

One thing that kept nagging at the back of my brain as I read 
this story is Crystal's last name, Beaureve.  It would be French 
for Beautiful Dream, except for the fact that 'beau' is the 
masculine adjective for beautiful and 'reve' is a feminine noun. 
The proper adjective should be 'belle', not 'beau'.  In other 
words her name should be Bellereve.  I say po-tay-toes, and you 
say po-ta-toes.  I'm just being picky and have not marked the 
story down for what appears to me to be an inconsistency.  I just
had to get this off my chest.

This was an enjoyable read.  I was more taken by the writing than
I was aroused.  I think this story should appeal more to female 
readers, than to male ones, but I could be wrong.  I have given 
it a Very Good.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 8.0 (out of 10)

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

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Very Good

LINK(S): Change of Heart

         - http://www.deja.com/=gh/getdoc.xp?AN=482156425&fmt=raw
