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Crush: An Erotic Novel

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Amelie is a married woman bored in a coventional marriage where she is more like a care-taker and cook rather than a senuous woman craving for affections of her husband. A small excursion to fill her car with gas results in a tryst with David, a film maker, who is bewitched over the beauty of this woman. The setting is great, the two characters good and there isn't any doubt that this story will reach greater heights.
Crush unfortunately crashes. Sure, there are explicit descriptions of the sexual act but after awhile you'll fall into boredom. The novel fails to evoke any tensions in the character's lives. You're contantly wondering where the plot (or lack there of) is going. Yes, there is sex but when there is not story behind why the characters are acting this way you end up with a clinical assessment of two humans copulating. Where is the passion, intrigue and eroticism that this novel is attempting to evoke?
In all fairness to the author the translation from the French could be the problem. If so, a book that has so many possibilities has been done an injustice. As it stands Crush can be forgotten until a newer translation emerges.

What more to say? Ok. The end was particularly disappointing, seeming to simply fall into the very "void" Amelie so often feels. "The doorbell" (obviously) rang" for the La Baume as well as she beats a hasty retreat from providing her readers with any sense of real-life closure to the notion of an "affair." It was, in her words, "a fright."

What a frank and talented writer, and full of promise. I look forward to her next.

I really liked this book. It wasn't one of those soft, I-really-don't-know-what-you-mean erotic books. This one was lusty and full of it. Just what I was looking for. I recommend it highly.