Review - Don't Go Near the Sorceress by Fred Brown
14 years ago
General
Pick up this book, read it's synopsis, and you think it's going to be a potential story about an antelope who goes in search of magic to make the beautiful girl fall in love with him.
After that assumption, you read the first thirty pages and you realize it's porn, and bad porn at that. The book goes from sex scene to sex scene with a thin overall plot in order to tie together the reasons why our antelope gets his freak on with several species. Unfortunately the scenes in between the sex are bad, mostly due to the dialogue. You will cringe at some of the idiotic things he will say to the women in the story. I E-mailed some of this dialogue to a few women and their response was that if a guy said that to them, he wouldn't be getting laid...he'd be getting the boot. Much like fast forwarding in a porn movie to skip the bad acting, you'll probably want to skip pages just to get to the sex.
Some of the sex scenes themselves are hot, but some of the vocabulary used is not. I'm not talking about swear words or the silly things that may be said during sex, but an aroused vagina should not be described as "gloopy." Yuck! Also, any good writer will tell you that when it comes to writing about sex, mix up the vocabulary for anatomy or you risk boring your reader. This author missed that tip because it's always cock and pussy.
The sad thing is, this could have been a good novel if more editing work had been done on the scenes in-between the sex, a few tweaks to the sex itself, and spicing it up a little with the magic. Instead, the magic is used as a minor plot device to help get the guy laid. In the end, we get a book that's just below the level of a Harlequin Romance.
If all you want is to read about sex, this is your book. If you want some kind of character development or plot that has the spice of sex in it as well, look for something else.
After that assumption, you read the first thirty pages and you realize it's porn, and bad porn at that. The book goes from sex scene to sex scene with a thin overall plot in order to tie together the reasons why our antelope gets his freak on with several species. Unfortunately the scenes in between the sex are bad, mostly due to the dialogue. You will cringe at some of the idiotic things he will say to the women in the story. I E-mailed some of this dialogue to a few women and their response was that if a guy said that to them, he wouldn't be getting laid...he'd be getting the boot. Much like fast forwarding in a porn movie to skip the bad acting, you'll probably want to skip pages just to get to the sex.
Some of the sex scenes themselves are hot, but some of the vocabulary used is not. I'm not talking about swear words or the silly things that may be said during sex, but an aroused vagina should not be described as "gloopy." Yuck! Also, any good writer will tell you that when it comes to writing about sex, mix up the vocabulary for anatomy or you risk boring your reader. This author missed that tip because it's always cock and pussy.
The sad thing is, this could have been a good novel if more editing work had been done on the scenes in-between the sex, a few tweaks to the sex itself, and spicing it up a little with the magic. Instead, the magic is used as a minor plot device to help get the guy laid. In the end, we get a book that's just below the level of a Harlequin Romance.
If all you want is to read about sex, this is your book. If you want some kind of character development or plot that has the spice of sex in it as well, look for something else.
Alakazam
~alakazam
Thanks for the warning dude
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