Case File #: 00025
The Perp: Brown, Em
The Crime: Force My Hand
Classification: Historical Erotica (novella)
The Weapons: Escalating sexual encounters, gambling debts, and escalating sexual encounters.
The Victims:
- Darcy Sherwood: Is accustomed to dominating in the bedroom, is in serious debt, and bears a familiar sounding grudge against a powerful family.
- Radcliff Barrington: Is excited about the dominating, worried about the family estate, and ultimately willing to school Miss Sherwood in the art of submission.
The Accessories:
- Priscilla Sherwood: is the wronged sister.
- Everyone else: they matter so little, the authoress doesn’t even bother to name them consistently.’“A sure symptom of being in love,” Henry remarked softly. “I would sooner have fallen in love with you, Harry, for all the good it does me.” ‘
Come on Em, you have to pick one. This happens several times.
Violations: Spoiler alert! Having the two male characters, who decide there is enough of Darcy “to go around” and engage with her in a threesome, be named so similarly was an unwelcome distraction, and made it harder to visualize/keep track of who had what going where.
Analysis: Purely as a vehicle for reading sex scenes this is a fine little novella. It may feel at times that the author is narrating a deck of naughty cards, you cannot help but look at all of them, but some are more pleasing to the eye than others. Everything else is just a lead in for a new, slightly stranger than the last, sex scene.
Recommended Action: Since this erotica is the reviewer’s first, it is the best she has ever read! It was highly entertaining even while being highly predictable, and really isn’t that what romance is all about? B+