Erotica fans with short attention spans will find these sexy quickies hard to resist.
Sensuous snippets from a fantasy sex life.
Heady and highly explicit, Trent’s debut risqué erotica collection offers 23 imaginative fantasies that will appeal to those who enjoy brief flashes of self-pleasure and intercourse rather than fully realized stories. The author unapologetically sacrifices characterization and plot in favor of heavy doses of bawdy, XXX-rated sex, encompassing a wide variety of themes, situations, moods and participants. Not one for mincing words, Trent gets right to the point: There’s always some sort of sexual stimulation occurring within her first few opening sentences. Erotica fans will benefit from the collection’s thematic variety, as will readers who bore easily, since each short fantasy—just a few pages in length—ends as swiftly and bluntly as it began. In Trent’s world, something as mundane as opening junk mail can spur an impulsive, spontaneous masturbatory session progressing into a steamy ménage à trois with two college friends who happen to drop by. She explores the innocence of youth in stories revolving around the development of her teenage body, whether unexpectedly aroused on horseback, on a bus, against the washing machine, or relishing in juicy dalliances with female college friends and roommates. From Trent’s fertile imagination materializes a nymphomaniac vixen—an insatiable minx who is easily stimulated by peeled vegetables; or the office intern; or the voyeuristic neighbor; the housekeeper; her cousin, Ginger, in Seattle; or in a movie theatre. Best enjoyed one or two in a sitting, the work’s vigorous carnality is definitely not for the prudish, and while all the sex and their associated setups do have potential, if they’re devoured sequentially, the tales’ derivativeness becomes more apparent. But there are, thankfully, moments where personality and humor, however infrequent, sparkle through, as in describing the unorthodox life of a female construction worker or when a character frequents the gym for more than just exercise, remarking, “My workouts usually don’t last that long but the relieving tension part is off the charts.” These moments undoubtedly hint at larger, more fully developed works in the future for Trent.
Erotica fans with short attention spans will find these sexy quickies hard to resist.Pub Date: Feb. 28, 2013
ISBN: 978-1482379648
Page Count: 80
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 22, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
A first novel, this is also a first person account of Scout's (Jean Louise) recall of the years that led to the ending of a mystery, the breaking of her brother Jem's elbow, the death of her father's enemy — and the close of childhood years. A widower, Atticus raises his children with legal dispassion and paternal intelligence, and is ably abetted by Calpurnia, the colored cook, while the Alabama town of Maycomb, in the 1930's, remains aloof to their divergence from its tribal patterns. Scout and Jem, with their summer-time companion, Dill, find their paths free from interference — but not from dangers; their curiosity about the imprisoned Boo, whose miserable past is incorporated in their play, results in a tentative friendliness; their fears of Atticus' lack of distinction is dissipated when he shoots a mad dog; his defense of a Negro accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell, is followed with avid interest and turns the rabble whites against him. Scout is the means of averting an attack on Atticus but when he loses the case it is Boo who saves Jem and Scout by killing Mayella's father when he attempts to murder them. The shadows of a beginning for black-white understanding, the persistent fight that Scout carries on against school, Jem's emergence into adulthood, Calpurnia's quiet power, and all the incidents touching on the children's "growing outward" have an attractive starchiness that keeps this southern picture pert and provocative. There is much advance interest in this book; it has been selected by the Literary Guild and Reader's Digest; it should win many friends.
Pub Date: July 11, 1960
ISBN: 0060935464
Page Count: 323
Publisher: Lippincott
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1960
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The best-selling author of tearjerkers like Angel Falls (2000) serves up yet another mountain of mush, topped off with...
Talk-show queen takes tumble as millions jeer.
Nora Bridges is a wildly popular radio spokesperson for family-first virtues, but her loyal listeners don't know that she walked out on her husband and teenaged daughters years ago and didn't look back. Now that a former lover has sold racy pix of naked Nora and horny himself to a national tabloid, her estranged daughter Ruby, an unsuccessful stand-up comic in Los Angeles, has been approached to pen a tell-all. Greedy for the fat fee she's been promised, Ruby agrees and heads for the San Juan Islands, eager to get reacquainted with the mom she plans to betray. Once in the family homestead, nasty Ruby alternately sulks and glares at her mother, who is temporarily wheelchair-bound as a result of a post-scandal car crash. Uncaring, Ruby begins writing her side of the story when she's not strolling on the beach with former sweetheart Dean Sloan, the son of wealthy socialites who basically ignored him and his gay brother Eric. Eric, now dying of cancer and also in a wheelchair, has returned to the island. This dismal threesome catch up on old times, recalling their childhood idylls on the island. After Ruby's perfect big sister Caroline shows up, there's another round of heartfelt talk. Nora gradually reveals the truth about her unloving husband and her late father's alcoholism, which led her to seek the approval of others at the cost of her own peace of mind. And so on. Ruby is aghast to discover that she doesn't know everything after all, but Dean offers her subdued comfort. Happy endings await almost everyone—except for readers of this nobly preachy snifflefest.
The best-selling author of tearjerkers like Angel Falls (2000) serves up yet another mountain of mush, topped off with syrupy platitudes about life and love.Pub Date: March 1, 2001
ISBN: 0-609-60737-5
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Crown
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2001
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