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by Shukyou, Whitney Bishop

A futuristic VR sex operator falls in love with his client, who has no idea that the man behind the computer-generated curtain is real.

ebook

First published April 16, 2011

About the author

I'm W2 (pronounced 'whit-two'), also known as ladysisyphus, shukyou, and Whitney Bishop.

You can find all my stories written as 'shukyou' at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirr..., and you can find most of those same stories (without illustrations) plus some fanfic at http://archiveofourown.org/users/lady....

I'm also the editor-in-chief of http://shousetsubangbang.com/ , where we put out nine delightfully dirty issues of short stories and art a year! We're always looking for new participants, so if you're interested, check out the website.

I also do other things in my real life, hence the pseudonymity. But I promise I'm friendly!

Reviews

[LenaRibka · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was not my book. As I have seen, it was written 2011.

Was it one of her early works?

I couldn't find any connection to the MC's and I don't like the story itself.

Though the idea itself was not bad, it just didn't touch me in a way it supposed to do.

Briefly:

GVI is a service companies that sells it's service, VR sex. It is a GVI's computer programs and it is something between telephone sex and cyber sex. Nobody who demands this kind of service knows that behind every imaginable sex-partner is hidden a real person.

There were basically two things GVE employees were never, EVER, under penalty of the wrath of the legal gods, supposed to do: we weren't supposed to tell about the human components behind the VR, and we weren't supposed to violate client privacy.

Exactly this kind of NEVER-EVER happened.

What didn't work for me:

1)The farther-son-topic and how it was performed here.
The part with "I'm supposed to have become a good son"-"But you are good." Blah-blah-blah. I hate it. And it was here too long and too detailed and too repetitive.
2)Rex,super rich and super sexy and super smart and super unhappy, was STRANGE. Not credible at all. Yes, in spite of science fiction, I need to see logic in the behavior of my characters.
3)The employer, the poor student,I-teller, who fall in love and broke the GVE's code of conduct- RIDICULOUS.
4)The ending. Absurdly³. Sorry. I can't buy it.


I feel me bad because it is the first review and the rating is not very good, but the author has already so many positive feed backs, that I hope a bit critical review helps to find out what readers like and what not very much. Though taste are different, maybe it is exactly your book.
And this book/review does nothing to my admiration of shukyou

[Meep · Rating 4 out of 5]

A futuristic Cyrano de Bergerac.

Rex is a poor rich man; handsome, successful - so why so damn unhappy? he's signed up for VR sex which is supposedly private, yet goes with the 'popular' choices not what he really wants. Again why?
Patrick breaks all the rules for love.

Not 100% sold on the idea that when they meet in person all the issues could be smoothed over that fast so their instantly on the road to a HEA. Something nice about Patrick risking everything to chase what/who he wants though.

It's fun. It made me laugh, the VR sex with behind the curtain operator practising his drama voices amused me.

Nothing to take serious or look deeper at; Quick, fluffy, fun.