Customer Reviews

Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This book was not what I expected. From the cover and the blurbs on the back of the book--I thought it was going to be both lurid and hilarious--it is neither.

The book is mildly interesting in a Nancy Drew sort of way.

Apparently it is merely a take off on the pulp fiction from the 1950's minus, thank goodness, the usual negativity that accompanied those books. However, it fails to deliver any real erotica, nor did I find it particularly humorous.

The book is a little slow paced at the beginning and lapses into complete silliness towards the end.

This book was so much fun to read! I really enjoyed her book of short stories - even if the title WAS too embarrassing to read it on the airplane in public after I bought it in the airport bookstore - but this one was even better.

Her characters were funny and sweet (most of them), nobody was irredeemable, and she had the tone and dialect perfect for books actually written in the era this was set in.

Anyone who likes Mabel Maney's parodies of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys will love these. They're completely different - much more erotic, even though they certainly are PG-13 - but the era and the tone are very similar. Anyone who enjoys those old pulp novels will like this, too - she cleverly uses a lot of the old standard themes and settings.

I really hope that she writes some more like this, even if she doesn't do a true sequel.

This was a great, fun read. Monica has a word-perfect ear for the mores of the 50's, when I grew up, from fear of Commies to cheerleader routines. Her sly, tongue-in-cheek take on the worldlification of a young girl made me laugh out loud.

For a good time, read...

I really would like to give this 4.5 stars. This was a good-natured send up of the 1950's lesbian pulp fiction novel and coming of age story. I found the heroine terribly likable and entertaining. She was naive but plucky. Her gradual awakening to the possibility of her own lesbianism and that of her flat mates was darling and hilarious. And there was a fairly interesting and satisfying mystery woven in. If there had been some hotter sex scenes, I'd give it 5 stars, but that would have clashed with the charming "innocent" tone of the novel.