Arielle Eckstut

I think the author should have done a little more research into styles of pre-Victorian erotica before putting pen to paper. It's all very well to try and mimic Austen's voice, but when it comes out like fan fiction sex it is funny for all the wrong reasons. The writing felt forced, it did not read smoothly like Austen (despite her paragraph long sentences), dialogue didn't show the same depth in characters, and I thought it all rather trivial. I'm sure if Austen had left us some raunchy sex scenes tucked away in a box somewhere, they would have been more enticing and character driven than these, "oh what a large billiard cue you have" efforts. I wasn't a fan.… (meer)

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