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VIDA: An Erotica SciFi Manifesto
Scifi sex toys. Scifi violence. A turtle. Vida, the dominatrix/anarchist/punk rock badass, must use everything at her disposal to find the missing President!
126 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 19, 2019
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February 18, 2019
Confusing and Incomplete
This book comes off more like an unfinished first draft than it does a completed novel. There are extremely basic editing issues that crop up throughout the book including spelling and word usage errors, misused punctuation, and (more subjectively) very choppy writing throughout. These are technical issues that should have been resolved before charging money for the book.
The story itself is confounding - ultimately centering around a plot to rescue the kidnapped President of the United States, with seemingly random tangents about giant robots and hamfisted exposition peppered throughout. The combination of editing errors, nonsensical twists and the author's obvious overuse of a thesaurus makes large portions of the text nearly incomprehensible. The entire novel was in dire need of reworking from both a pacing, and story focus perspective.
Moreover, this book is billed as 'erotica'. I am a voracious reader of erotic literature and have read hundreds of books and stories in the genre. This book, however, is full of some of the least sensual language I've ever read in my life. Much of the language used to describe peoples' bodies and their interactions is off putting and sounds downright disgusting. Characters begin pleasuring themselves and one another at baffling and inappropriate moments. There seems to be a fundamental lack of knowledge on the author's behalf of how breasts and vaginas behave, and what stimulates them. To make matters worse, the author chose to try to thread humor into the majority of the sexual encounters in the book. It comes off as horribly immature, and ends up feeling like the sort of edgy attempts at crude jokes preteen boys make shortly after they learn what parts girls have. It's truly cringeworthy and there is absolutely nothing to be gained here from an erotic perspective. I honestly thought this was an extremely on-the-nose attempt to satirize the genre until I looked up the author and read some of his promotion of the project.
Ultimately I would encourage the author to keep working on improving his craft, but to also seriously consider bringing in an editor to help focus the story and resolve the technical issues. I would encourage the reader to look elsewhere. There are short stories, independent authors' works, and even some works of fan fiction that are available for free on the internet that are more focused, polished and erotic that would be a better use of your time.
This book comes off more like an unfinished first draft than it does a completed novel. There are extremely basic editing issues that crop up throughout the book including spelling and word usage errors, misused punctuation, and (more subjectively) very choppy writing throughout. These are technical issues that should have been resolved before charging money for the book.
The story itself is confounding - ultimately centering around a plot to rescue the kidnapped President of the United States, with seemingly random tangents about giant robots and hamfisted exposition peppered throughout. The combination of editing errors, nonsensical twists and the author's obvious overuse of a thesaurus makes large portions of the text nearly incomprehensible. The entire novel was in dire need of reworking from both a pacing, and story focus perspective.
Moreover, this book is billed as 'erotica'. I am a voracious reader of erotic literature and have read hundreds of books and stories in the genre. This book, however, is full of some of the least sensual language I've ever read in my life. Much of the language used to describe peoples' bodies and their interactions is off putting and sounds downright disgusting. Characters begin pleasuring themselves and one another at baffling and inappropriate moments. There seems to be a fundamental lack of knowledge on the author's behalf of how breasts and vaginas behave, and what stimulates them. To make matters worse, the author chose to try to thread humor into the majority of the sexual encounters in the book. It comes off as horribly immature, and ends up feeling like the sort of edgy attempts at crude jokes preteen boys make shortly after they learn what parts girls have. It's truly cringeworthy and there is absolutely nothing to be gained here from an erotic perspective. I honestly thought this was an extremely on-the-nose attempt to satirize the genre until I looked up the author and read some of his promotion of the project.
Ultimately I would encourage the author to keep working on improving his craft, but to also seriously consider bringing in an editor to help focus the story and resolve the technical issues. I would encourage the reader to look elsewhere. There are short stories, independent authors' works, and even some works of fan fiction that are available for free on the internet that are more focused, polished and erotic that would be a better use of your time.
May 9, 2019
I Read this.
Why Though?
Reddit.
Argument: I think it would be okay for you to skip this, with me having rated it One Star.
Counter-Argument: You might be interest for the morbid curiosity of it all.
This story is political. A fever dream hallucination where Mike Pence is remembered far enough into the Near Future that there are Giant Fighting Robots.
Is it Erotic though? It's not Erotica as it were. imo
It's an Erotic Sci-Fi Manifesto. And as per Manifestos it's bloody and violent.
Thus you, odds are, will not be having 'sexy feels'
The 'not quite water' in Vida's bathtub isn't the only not quite something.
The sex was surreal and not real. There was no intimacy with it. Only dream-like images and thesaurus porn.
I did not like anything about this. I finished it because I'm stuck in my ways from habits from 30 years ago.
However if you cannot believe this is real? And want to see for yourself? Spring for a copy. Experience the surreal nightmare of a dark political future where sexual rebellion goes hand in hand with a massive body count, property damage, lawlessness, and beads (that aren't necklaces) nun-chuck fight scene.
There is a Cyberpunk/GrimTech/Bizare factor which cannot be denied as well presented. However the entire everything else on top of the building blocks was not to my liking at all.
Why Though?
Reddit.
Argument: I think it would be okay for you to skip this, with me having rated it One Star.
Counter-Argument: You might be interest for the morbid curiosity of it all.
This story is political. A fever dream hallucination where Mike Pence is remembered far enough into the Near Future that there are Giant Fighting Robots.
Is it Erotic though? It's not Erotica as it were. imo
It's an Erotic Sci-Fi Manifesto. And as per Manifestos it's bloody and violent.
Thus you, odds are, will not be having 'sexy feels'
The 'not quite water' in Vida's bathtub isn't the only not quite something.
The sex was surreal and not real. There was no intimacy with it. Only dream-like images and thesaurus porn.
I did not like anything about this. I finished it because I'm stuck in my ways from habits from 30 years ago.
However if you cannot believe this is real? And want to see for yourself? Spring for a copy. Experience the surreal nightmare of a dark political future where sexual rebellion goes hand in hand with a massive body count, property damage, lawlessness, and beads (that aren't necklaces) nun-chuck fight scene.
There is a Cyberpunk/GrimTech/Bizare factor which cannot be denied as well presented. However the entire everything else on top of the building blocks was not to my liking at all.
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