Elysian Days and Nights (Paperback)

by M. S. Valentine (Author)

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Product Description
From around the world, the most beautiful - and wealthy - neglected young wives arrive at the Elysium Spa intent on receiving a little heavy duty pampering. Luckily the spa's proprietor is a true devotee of the female form - and has dedicated himself and his staff to the pure pleasure of every lovely lady who crosses Elysium's threshold.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (April 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562014110
• ISBN-13: 978-1562014117
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,438,343 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Sordid Tale of Lust and Blackmail, May 12, 2002

By	Editor - EroticFictionReviews.com (USA) - See all my reviews

Elysian Days and Nights is a sordid tale of lust and blackmail. Packed with non-stop sexual action from start to finish, the author, M.S. Valentine, writes in smooth narrative prose, linking each scene flawlessly.

The Elysium Spa touts itself as "a woman's paradise" in high society magazines. Striking, rich, neglected young wives from around the world flock to the isolated Greek Island where the spa is located. Only women with a special fleshy attribute are allowed to stay. The unconventional medical director, Dr. Bronski, and his highly dedicated staff of attractive men and women devote themselves to the erotic pleasure of every woman who visits.

The guests enthusiastically accept the therapeutic and sometimes peculiar treatments created for them. The doctor's misfit brother, Thomas, puts the compound's high-tech surveillance system to work, filming every erotic encounter. And so a healthy dose of blackmail is included in the price of each guest's stay, leaving the greedy Thomas free to plan his own sort of blackmail against the spa guests and staff.

In spite of her most private and shameful trysts captured on film for anyone to see (especially her husband if she refuses to pay up) there is one guest who would prefer to never leave the Elysium Spa at all.

Follow the taboo and forbidden adventures of Elysian Spa guests and staff in this sexually explicit, illicit tale of debauchery.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money!!!, June 27, 2003

By A Customer

I am a woman and fairly new to erotica, having only a few Black Lace books under my belt. I was looking to branch out a bit, so I decided to troll some of the lists at Amazon. Since this novel was featured by Amazon and had one very positive review, I gave Elysian Days and Nights a whirl. Boy, what a mistake!...

First of all, this novel starts rather slowly. The premise is that a doctor with an obsession for big clitorises opens up a fantasy island type resort, where beautiful rich women come to be molested by rather gross, unattractive men. ::yawn:: I had to wade through a couple of chapters of the doctor's life story and boring backround to get to the first sex scene, which disappointingly made the sex sound more like a gynecological exam than erotica. A speculum erotic?! I don't think so! Next up, we have a black masseuse who is obsessed with butt stuff, and white women, who are mindless, faceless bimbos, thrilled to be tied up and blindfolded twenty four hours a day. LOL. I got fifty pages into the novel, when I realized none of the characters are written from a female pov, nor do they have any dialogue.

I read a little further. There is the obligatory voyeur, the doctor's brother, who sounds like he is bald, hairy and toting a beer belly. Of course, he gets in on the action with the beautiful chick. At this point, I decided to start skimming, and while it looks like the sex picks up with a couple of well-endowed Greek sailor boys, it doesn't get any better. The whole book reads like a male fantasy and is filled with these bad cliches.

As for the writing, the tone is Jack Benny does erotica. The prose is average. And the story is on the silly side with some hardcore/fetish elements. This book might work for misogynistic male readers who are looking for humor (of the MAD magazine variety), but for the layperson/female/erotica reader, it is just a waste of money.

I might have very little experience with erotica, but even I know enough to know this is the pits. If you are like me, looking for intelligent erotica, I would recommend picking up Menage or Cooking Up a Storm by Emma Holly instead. She also uses some S&M/bondage/voyeuristic elements in her stories, but they are handled with grace, without denigrating her characters in the process. She writes smart, diverse and well-drawn characters, who would appeal to readers of both sexes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot stuff!, July 14, 2004

By A Customer

You'd better put on fireproof gloves to read this one. A non-stop erotic roller coaster ride complete with the kinkiest most vivid characters you're ever likely to meet. Written in M. S. Valentine's classy style, this novel doesn't fail to thrill and thrill again. And again!