jennifer

No Substitute for Karen Kallmaker

Revisado: 03-24-25

i loved the characters how their separate predicaments helped bring them togeter (and, as usual in these stories, kept them apart.)

i love the sex scenes which were not over the top and used sparingly.

i love the Australian connection.
i REALLY loved the impeccable narration by Angela Dore.

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wonderfully affirming

Revisado: 11-08-24

As an AuADHD person with cptsd thank you to Steph and eeveryone who contributed to the book. It's been validating and informative.

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great fun

Revisado: 10-16-22

I love the story. I suggested my English teacher friends get their students to study it.
it is wonderfully performed. it is well paced and keeps surprising and amusing the reader.

Read this story.
My only complaint is it is too short. I want more.

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Way too rapey for my likes.

Revisado: 02-25-22

In an absolutely flawless performance by Angela Dawe, this is a cute little story of a quirkey, shy, reclusive, young woman and her abuser, the slave her Father gave her (she objects to slavery).

Areola quickly shows she has fallen into infatuation with Assistant (she cannot bring herself to call her Slave) who then, one night when Ari is distraught about something, comes into her room and forces her to have sex with no prelude other than a gory story about pirate violence. The only defence to this is that she is clearly the Pirate Queen they keep mentioning that no one has seen. she should have been armed with Checkov's gun.

Assistant then sets out, through repeated rapes, to derpen her manipulative control over Ari.

If it had not been for the performance by Angela Dawe I would have stopped listening after the first rape. She, and a science fiction romance are the reasons I bought it. Angela did not disappoint. She never does.

The fact that I had tumbled to the real identity of Assistant as the pirate queen allowed me to reason that her character would do that. Perhaps Roslyn Sinclare was working with sad old tropes of abusive male lovers wooing over their conquests in hetero romances but these days, and in lesbian circles, we expect our love to not come fro. coersive rape.

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My partners and my favourite lesbian novel.

Revisado: 02-22-22

This adaptation of Touchwood is really well read 10/10 would recommend to anyone looking for a romance.

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As shiny as if the show was never cancelled.

Revisado: 08-21-20

My only misgiving about this book is that it makes me miss the series more.
The story is not like episodes of the show but that is due to the nature of the plot device and foreshadows the movie well.
The narrator/performer/reader reminded me of Richard Castle's book readings and thus like Nathan and therefore Mal was telling this story.

Good Book.

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Quite Heteronormative For A Lesbian Novel.

Revisado: 08-16-20

Having the sex scenes involve eagerly sucking her penis was not a good thing. The rest of the book was good and felt like listening to an episode of 'Crown' but the book felt like a standard romance novel with the king, George, having a change in personal pronouns. This was saved by the inclusion of references to 'the first gay queen' and the cousin's use of pervert (though their real reason was heredity). This was all overlookable for the 'Crown Experience.
The narrator's voice was initially annoying (as they often start out) but got better as the book progressed. I was dissapointed that the second book (that I did not finish) used a different performer of lesser quality.
The sex scenes were irritating not just for their heteronormative description but more for constant use of the term 'her sex' to refer to her female parts when there are many safe nonvulgar ways to describe a mound or bush or vulva. The scifi use of intellifles was cute but having Bea eagerly sucking George's penis was really annoying.

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Very heteronormative lesbian fiction.

Revisado: 08-16-20

It reads like a normal romance novel with the man's personal pronoun changed to she and her. They do not even get renamed with a feminine name. The damsel wears cute little outfits while he always wears suits or masculine clothes. The damsel princess ogled the dom for their musculature and the description could be ripped straight from any male romance lead. Now I know plenty of butch lesbians. This did NOT feel like that. I feel safe in saying they do not wear 'aftershave'. It was after the second occurrence of this that I stopped listening. I do not take this lightly. I have several hundred audible books in my library and have stopped listening to 3. (Pacific Vortex and something else) I loved the first book. It was like listening to an episode of Crown. This book lacks that completely. That book also was tres hetro. the use of an inteliflesh 'strap on' was annoyingly straight. Yes, I know lesbians who use them but they do not eagerly suck them to felate their girlfriend. This is not a lesbian thing.
I was waiting to see how this book dealt with sex scenes but the repeated aftershave references killed it.
The performer also reads spoken text well but the descriptive passages were too fast and flat like a robot or a student in my class.

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exciting fiction in an exciting time

Revisado: 05-23-20

i really enjoyed the story. The characterisation was good.
Nsrration was excellent and in keeping with the character of the protagonist.
My only dissapointments were
- the pronunciation of Japanese words was? at first quite in keeping with the protagonists low level of language skill. i wish the pronunciation had improved as his skill improved.
- the story suddenly ended with an unlooked for surprise event while there were many historical events to continue with.

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it was ok.

Revisado: 03-18-20

i mean i did not stop at the beginning but i only may read the sequals.
the pronunciation of japanese words really grated on me.
i thought it was going to be a cool samurai story then it turned into harrypotter and the bully contest at school but in aydoh...
it redeamed itself by dropping the school bully plot.

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