Bryan Belrad

Outstanding

Revisado: 02-26-15

Thrust has really outdone herself on this one. The story hits its stride early on and pushes hard right to the exquisite climax. The pacing and escalation are excellent and the imagery is fantastic. Ms. Blackstone does a superb job of spinning the tale, emphasizing pace and tone in just the right way to enthrall the listener completely. The story absolutely came to life.

And what a hot story it is! Thrust's handling of a typically taboo subject is deft, bypassing all the societal hangups to get deep into the action-packed fantasy.

Most of all, I enjoy the sense it gives as a literary after taste. A stray person who didn't belong, outcast and deviant, found a place where she fit in, welcomed even, precisely for the reason others had shunned her. That's home, after all: where we are loved for who we are.

On every level, this story nailed it.

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Consuming story

Revisado: 10-28-14

What did you love best about Dark Secrets?

I very much enjoyed the way the character's fantasies took on a dimension of reality, like her thoughts were so potent they made her actually live out the scenes she was imagining. This aspect was so engrossing, in fact, I'm not entirely sure if the ending was "real" or a real-ized fantasy!

What other book might you compare Dark Secrets to and why?

I have to go with 50 Shades, because whatever a person's opinion on that work, it seems to be the benchmark everybody is familiar with for this genre. Say what you will about that author's technical ability and style, ultimately a book's "goodness" or "badness" comes down to how it makes the reader/listener feel, and how well it does it. THAT is why 50 Shades was so popular. In that regard, despite the much shorter length, I enjoyed Dark Secrets considerably more than that other story.

What does Alexandria Blackstone bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Alexandria does a superb job of narration - storytelling, really. The difference is that she made me feel like I was sitting face to face with the character, in person. She made me forget that this was a fictional story being read to me and made it more real in a dimension wholly different from any available to even the most talented author.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Sometimes you find exactly what you're looking for

Any additional comments?

I could go on and on about this story, but nobody wants to read literary analyses. Bottom line: even if you're NOT a fan of erotica, this is an entertaining, engrossing tale, and well worth your time for the experience.

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