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Miriam (Blue Moon)

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it just don't cut it. Patrick Henden one the top rated Victorian writers authored this book with ALL the trappings of a wonderful Victorian erotic novel, lot's of young girls, wealthy families with nothing better to do than sleep with each other, fathers with a hunger for their daughters and mothers with a hunger for absolutely everyone, and last but not least an obligatory spanking before the act. All of that notwithstanding, I have to say that I really couldn't realte to the main character Miriam. Even after I finished the book I was not really sure if she really enjoyed the erotic rainbow to which she was subjected, or, perhaps, in the book, she never really is capable of expressing her pleasure. Alina, the companion and tutor from a girls private school, is the other main character as she pushes Miriam into varying sitautions and encourages her sexual education. She, as well, doesn't really get a chance to do more than express her absolute joy and enthusiam for sex, without ever getting into the details, for which the Vitorians are renowned. I am afraid, in retrospect, that both girls are written as being pretty darned stupid leaving them incpabale of any expressions to please the reader. Another issue, the concept of repeated, ad nauseum, whippings and spankings becomes more and more tediuos, proabably even readers that enjoys erotic spankings will get to the point in this bok to say 'enough is enough'. I mean if you get whipped and spanked before EVERY sexual encounter, well, the intended effect of the delicious punishment then just becomes part of a 'ho hum' ritual not really an erotic juicy episode. There is no real pursuit and capture, no seduction, no submission, and finally also no real growth of the characters in this book just, well you know, plain boilerplate, cookie cutter erotic elements ..... Sorry it left me flat and was a total let down ....

I didn't find anything new or refreshing about the plot, though the erotica was titillating and exciting.

From the very start this gripping erotic novel catches the reader's attention. For lovers of erotic Victorial literature this book is a must-read. It is tantalizing, titilating, and impossible to put down!