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Meleprija: Beautiful Day
When Dr. Sara Olson is sent to the tropical island nation of Meleprija to inspect an orchard for a business deal, she is warned about Meleprija's uninhibited culture and relaxed attitude towards nudity and sex. Intelligent and ambitious, Sara reassures her management team that she will not be distracted by the permissive culture. But when she meets Leon, the rugged project manager overseeing the orchards, she discovers how easily he is able to push the boundaries of what she is willing to do. Caught between her work and her desires, Sara struggles to keep her affair with Leon hidden even as the island ignites her exhibitionistic tendencies.
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274 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 29, 2018
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March 11, 2019
This is a wonderful erotic romance story with a near-future biopunk science fiction twist. I'm rating it 5 stars because it's as close to flawless as I expect from the melded genres: there are details we can quibble about, but how can it be otherwise for such speculative fiction?
Before I continue the review, I'll point you to a publicly-available excerpt of this story, from which this book takes its subtitle. If you like that preview, it is the first three of 37 chapters in the full book, including the epilogue. I haven't checked the two texts in detail to see how much they differ, if at all.
The beauty of this story, aside from its setting and genre, is its just-over-the-horizon plausibility. It blends enough elements from the real world with its speculations to avoid provoking the thoroughly incredulous reactions common in erotic fiction.
There's a danger in riding that line, because it invites comparison to the real world, but this author rides it well and with purpose. Contrast high fantasy stories, where we can more easily suspend disbelief because we are so far from home, so who cares about the plausibility of elves and wizards? When the world's setting is supposed to be a plane ride away, we require the author to take extra care with the details, and that is what we get here.
This book invites contrasting comparisons to two other books about dystopian futures.
The first is to The Windup Girl, in which the earth has been ravaged by climate change. This book takes the opposite tack from present: that we've instead used our human brilliance to claw our way out of danger. One of the things I value most about speculative fiction are diverging opinions like this: the better we can previsualize our options, the easier it is to choose the future we want to strive toward.
The other comparison is to a book in the erotic fiction genre, Confessions Of A Mailgirl. Like in "Melepira," a central theme is society's reaction to nudity, but I feel this book is much closer to reality. Without getting into spoilers about either, while both books have conflict, necessary in any good story, the world of "Melepria" feels much more plausible to me. The "Confessions" world frequently made me angry, and I hope for a future more like that of "Melepria."
If you don't much like erotic fiction or romantic stories, read this book for its speculative and reflective treatments of society's attitudes towards nudity and sex. If it doesn't change your mind on some issues, it will at least sharpen your arguments for whatever position you do hold.
In the erotic fiction genre, this book fills the ENF, CMNF, CFNM, and public sex subgenres. I could subdivide it further, but that will get us into spoilers, so I'll stop there. You can see those four subgenres in the public preview linked above, "A Beautiful Day."
Before I continue the review, I'll point you to a publicly-available excerpt of this story, from which this book takes its subtitle. If you like that preview, it is the first three of 37 chapters in the full book, including the epilogue. I haven't checked the two texts in detail to see how much they differ, if at all.
The beauty of this story, aside from its setting and genre, is its just-over-the-horizon plausibility. It blends enough elements from the real world with its speculations to avoid provoking the thoroughly incredulous reactions common in erotic fiction.
There's a danger in riding that line, because it invites comparison to the real world, but this author rides it well and with purpose. Contrast high fantasy stories, where we can more easily suspend disbelief because we are so far from home, so who cares about the plausibility of elves and wizards? When the world's setting is supposed to be a plane ride away, we require the author to take extra care with the details, and that is what we get here.
This book invites contrasting comparisons to two other books about dystopian futures.
The first is to The Windup Girl, in which the earth has been ravaged by climate change. This book takes the opposite tack from present: that we've instead used our human brilliance to claw our way out of danger. One of the things I value most about speculative fiction are diverging opinions like this: the better we can previsualize our options, the easier it is to choose the future we want to strive toward.
The other comparison is to a book in the erotic fiction genre, Confessions Of A Mailgirl. Like in "Melepira," a central theme is society's reaction to nudity, but I feel this book is much closer to reality. Without getting into spoilers about either, while both books have conflict, necessary in any good story, the world of "Melepria" feels much more plausible to me. The "Confessions" world frequently made me angry, and I hope for a future more like that of "Melepria."
If you don't much like erotic fiction or romantic stories, read this book for its speculative and reflective treatments of society's attitudes towards nudity and sex. If it doesn't change your mind on some issues, it will at least sharpen your arguments for whatever position you do hold.
In the erotic fiction genre, this book fills the ENF, CMNF, CFNM, and public sex subgenres. I could subdivide it further, but that will get us into spoilers, so I'll stop there. You can see those four subgenres in the public preview linked above, "A Beautiful Day."
February 5, 2019
A woman finds what she needs
It is obvious that the protagonist (Sara) is an exhibitionist -- she just doesn't know it when she arrives. It doesn't take her long to give in to her urges. Note that this is also a love story, with plenty of public sex!
The problem with her employer seems to be there just so there will be some conflict, some drama. Of course, it all works out eventually.
As a fan of exhibitionism and all forms of public nudity, I enjoyed this story a great deal. If you are more interested hot sex, you may find that there is too much "filler" between the (numerous) sex scenes. If you've read the author's Meleprija stories on Literotica, this completes the story.
It is obvious that the protagonist (Sara) is an exhibitionist -- she just doesn't know it when she arrives. It doesn't take her long to give in to her urges. Note that this is also a love story, with plenty of public sex!
The problem with her employer seems to be there just so there will be some conflict, some drama. Of course, it all works out eventually.
As a fan of exhibitionism and all forms of public nudity, I enjoyed this story a great deal. If you are more interested hot sex, you may find that there is too much "filler" between the (numerous) sex scenes. If you've read the author's Meleprija stories on Literotica, this completes the story.
February 25, 2021
Simply beautiful.
This is a well written erotic love story, that does a first rate job of world building to boot. Life on the island nation of Meleprija is a revelation to Sara Olson, and ultimately a truly liberating experience. I wish there was such an island, and that there was a tree with the energy storing capacity of the Sagana. Our planet would be much the better for it.
There is also a lot of hot, public sex in this story. Good reading all around!
This is a well written erotic love story, that does a first rate job of world building to boot. Life on the island nation of Meleprija is a revelation to Sara Olson, and ultimately a truly liberating experience. I wish there was such an island, and that there was a tree with the energy storing capacity of the Sagana. Our planet would be much the better for it.
There is also a lot of hot, public sex in this story. Good reading all around!
March 29, 2020
Great storyline, well-developed characters
I’ve read plenty of authors - this is one of the promising ones of the millennial generation. I highly recommend that you read it.
I’ve read plenty of authors - this is one of the promising ones of the millennial generation. I highly recommend that you read it.
September 1, 2023
It was very meh. The spice scenes were mid and the story was okay at best. I didn’t enjoy the relationship between the main characters. It felt too casual to me and just not my cup of tea.
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August 14, 2024
A good read with lots of exciting things happening, but the story development is disappointing.
I prefer the author’s “Coronavirus Exhibitionist” and “Candlelight City.”
I prefer the author’s “Coronavirus Exhibitionist” and “Candlelight City.”
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