Well, where do I start? Perhaps with the one-liner from the main and very lucky character when he says, “thanks for the arousal.” For I did find this book genuinely arousing. I was more than satisfied with the deftly sketched physical attributes of the heroine--for heroine she certainly was to be able to give and take ecstasy to the giddy heights of Mr Benson’s imagination. I have often scratched my head in complete bafflement at the physiques of the catwalk models favoured by famous designers. The stick insect, flat-chested look might possibly be, as it is argued, preferable for draping clothes on to maximum effect, but they still leave me cold….and do the people who buy these clothes really want to look like those models? Do many red-blooded men prefer to contemplate women with lovely faces but other physical characteristics which bring to mind a flat, desert wasteland? Give me Mr Benson’s full-bodied representation of the female form any time!
The central male character is of course footloose and fancy free, to use an old-fashioned phrase. The central female character and her shadowy husband are still married. This latter aspect I found a bit depressing, in view of their obsession with sexual gratification as obviously the only means left to achieve any kind of physical/emotional/spiritual fulfilment. This was so sad, but nevertheless realistic, as they were non-creative types, he “a leading player in the stock market,” and she, “a sales director for a high end fashion chain.” Limited interests. Few hobbies, if any. At a loss to find anything better to do than to open a boarding house where people of a similar mind could stay to indulge their animal cravings, which needed the presence of lewd murals on the bedroom walls to inspire them. But I cannot mark the author down for that, as he is only being realistic. Neither can I mark him down for the great sex but lamentable lack of any engagement of the emotions, and the huge rewards available in the exchange of such feelings, which in the end are surely more enduring than pure and simple animal lust. Because again it is, alas, a realistic depiction; these are human beings one meets every day. Play it safe. Don’t let your heart engage, the absence of all post-coital tenderness serving as a means to achieve emotional dislocation. So sad. Oh, well.
The author is very good at setting the scene. His background detail is carefully researched and therefore wholly believable. This is not for readers looking for romance, and the author is completely honest and upfront about it. It is a narrative designed to titillate, stimulate, excite and gratify, plain and simple, and in my view on this basis alone it must have a huge market in readers of both sexes (or, if today’s media is to be believed, the many sexes that now exist!). Within its brief, this book does the job, fully and completely, insofar as providing a massive hit of sexual stimulation. Therefore I cannot help but give it five stars. So readers be warned, seek peace and seclusion before taking up this book, for it will absorb you to the hilt. Again, Mr Benson, “thanks for the arousal!”
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