Message-ID: <35311asstr$1014153005@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: From: Taintedlime@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <41.18a3baab.29a33cb5@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:29:25 EST Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} Tainted Lime Reviews #19 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:10:05 -0500 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail X-Is-Review: yes Approved: Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation X-Story-Submission: X-Moderator-ID: RuiJorge, gill-bates Tainted Lime Reviews Issue #19 February 18, 2002 Reviews are archived at http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/TaintedLime/www/. --- Stories reviewed in this issue: A Rocky Relationship, by theGreatxIam (* * * * *) My Best Friend Kissed Me On Valentine's Day, by Jeff Zephyr (* * *) Special Present for Hubby, by alicia (* *) On my university campus, by Emi Tsuruta (* * * * *) How to Make a Lady, by Richard Short (* * *) --- {ASSM} A Rocky Relationship (MF, celeb) Silver Surfer #3 By theGreatxIam http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/35248 The Silver Surfer in this story owns a small bed-and-breakfast in the isolated woods north of San Francisco. Its out-of-the-way location attracts celebrities who want to get away from the prying eyes of Hollywood for a couple days. The innkeeper's eyes pop out of his head when Raquel Welch and her husband drive up to his place. He's had a crush on her ever since he first saw her in that fur bikini in "1 Million B.C." Raquel's husband doesn't care for the isolation of the place and storms off, leaving the Silver Surfer alone with the sixty-year- old sex symbol. Have you ever wondered if sex symbols were really any good at sex? Well, according to this story, Raquel Welch earned her title fair and square. She really knows how to fuck. I like the sex, I like the subject, I like the way the story is told. But what I like most about this story is that in the end the nice guy gets the girl. This is the way the world is supposed to work. Even readers who don't know who Raquel Welch is will enjoy this story. Rating: * * * * * --- {ASSM} Valentine Story: My Best Friend Kissed Me On Valentine's Day (solo oral rom teen caution) - by Jeff Zephyr By Jeff Zephyr http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/35251 This story is told by Sam, an eighth-grader, on Valentine's Day. Sam received a valentine from Tobie, Sam's platonic best friend, and after school, Tobie admits that he wants to be more than just friends. Sam and Tobie kiss. The teenage voice is well done, but the opening explanation of Tobie and Sam's relationship as "just friends" goes on too long; I wanted the narrator to get on with the story. There is also a twist half way through that is mistimed - the story loses all its steam as soon as the twist arrives. I also think the twist is unnecessary - there is more than enough story here without it. But I like the way Sam is surprised by Tobie's confession, and I like the way Sam analyzes the situation. Rating: * * * --- {ASSM} Special Present for Hubby By alicia http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/35255 The wife in this story gives her husband anal sex as a reward for the special days in the couple's life: anniversaries, birthdays, promotions. She pretends to hate it, but if you read this story, you'll realize she likes it a lot more than she lets on! There is a formatting problem with this story (the dashes turned into question marks), but that isn't my biggest complaint. This just isn't a story. It isn't even a scene. The wife describes what a *typical* anal adventures is like. And while she provides a lot of explicit detail, it's not a description of a particular event - it's an amalgamation of a bunch of events. The author has a flair for writing, but it would be better applied towards describing a particular anal scene or two. Rating: * * --- {ASSM} On my university campus (M/F, exhib) By Emi Tsuruta http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/35263 This is the second story of Emi and Ryosuke, two Japanese students living in America. In the first story, Emi had her first sexual experience with Ruyosuke in the park. Now she is afraid that everyone at school saw her doing it, and she is a nervous wreck for a few days. Emi starts to settle down, and Ruyosuke arranges for them to hide out in a fenced garden on campus. The garden gets locked up at 4:30, which gives them time to spend alone together. They do it for the second time, outside, in the gazebo. I'm beginning to like Emi a lot. In many ways, this series reminds me of my own teenage sexual experiences: the sneaking off, desperately trying to find privacy, the fear of getting caught. And jumbled up in all that, you have the growing emotional attachment to your partner, a feeling that you don't completely understand. The sex is more explicit in this story than in the first one, but it is told without using vulgar words. The prose is smooth and the character's voice is perfect for a Japanese student recently arrived in America. I can see hints that this series is turning into one about exhibitionism and embarrassment, but at this early stage, it's more about a girl and her boyfriend looking for a way to make love. Rating: * * * * * --- {ASSM} {ASS} How to Make a Lady {SHATTIMS} (MM~F cons cheat wl) By Richard Short http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/35264 A husband and wife haven't been doing it much lately, and the husband has a great idea to put a spark back in their relationship: he'll trick Gloria into having an affair! You see, the husband is Anglo, Gloria is Latino, and Gloria misses those fiery Latino men. All the husband has to do is find the right guy.... He picks Juan, the janitor at the school where Gloria works. He approaches Juan, promises to pay him three-hundred bucks if he's successful, and turns him loose on his unsuspecting wife. Gloria and Juan quickly get close, and they are soon doing exactly what they need to do to make the husband's plan a huge success. While the grammar and spelling are reasonably good, there is one point of view shift that probably shouldn't be there, and the plot is definitely ridiculous. The tricky husband pulling off the perfect scam to get more sex doesn't sit well with me. Now I know a lot of people aren't reading stories for their plots, so this could be a very popular story with many readers. Perhaps my frustration with this story (and many like it) comes from the possibility that it could so easily be so much more than it is. Many of these Tricky Husband stories remind me of a "Mission Impossible" episode, *except nothing goes wrong!* Every "Mission Impossible" story has a glitch that must be overcome, and the way the team overcomes the problem is the best part of the story. Tricky Husband stories, on the other hand, are dull, because everything goes off exactly as planned. To be fair, this story has a little twist at the end, but it's played down so much that all the drama is sucked out of it. What we're left with is a good stroke story and the frustration that a very good setup was wasted on a plot that was too simplistic. 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