Shameless

by Andrew Lafleche

Shameless is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. It’s an invitation to a journey of sensuality, sultry, and tactile pleasure.

Andrew Lafleche speaks with raw honesty, daring to explore passionate physical affairs and secret desires. These are poems that will obsess, possess, and stay with you forever.

What are others saying about Shameless? “Disgusting. Andrew should be ashamed.”

136 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2019

About the author

ANDREW JOHN LAFLECHE (born Andrew John Bradford: 24 June 1986) is the award-winning poet and novelist from St. Catharines, Ontario. He served under Operation Enduring Freedom during the Afghanistan War. Following his duty as an infantry soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces, Lafleche received an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Gloucestershire. He is inspired by the philosophy that when young men become readers, they become better men.

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Reviews

[Brooke · Rating 2 out of 5]

*I received a copy of this book through a Goodreads giveaway* Honestly, I have to say I'm more than a little disappointed by this book. I was expecting something a little scandalous and got something downright crude. I have no problem with writing about the subject of sex, but this book is simply disgusting in the way it portrays sex. There are better reads if you are looking for something maybe a little sexy and scandalous, but this one definitely appalled more than intrigued or entertained.

[Matt Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you have ever thought, “You know what? I wish Bukowski would have been writing as a fuckboy in 2018” then you might like this collection.

[Dirty Dayna · Rating 1 out of 5]

1 Be ashamed Stars

I received this book in a GR giveaway and I was stoked. For the first time in a LONG time I read a synapsis before getting a book which was:

Lafleche has done it again with Shameless, a collection of prose depicting depravity, written in the same brutal honesty we’ve come to expect from him. Shameless is direct attack on the volumes of lifeless politically correct nauseam that has somehow replaced writing as it once was. It’s a slap in the face to anyone who thinks they have a right not to be offended. It’s about time.
What are others saying about Shameless? “Disgusting. Andrew is everything that’s wrong with the world today. He should be ashamed.”

I thought oh yeah some depraved smut this much be delicious.. they are just oddly devoid of emotion and its written in a strange way. I didn’t care for them Here is a peek at one

BOUDOIR :
I knew a woman
Who liked to fuck
Although we never did.
She would call me
On the telephone
And lead me through
Tantic
Verbal
Sexual
Experiences
Until we both got off.


Almost all of his stories involve cheating. This wasn’t for me.. I was too bored

[Heather Doughty · Rating 4 out of 5]

***I won this book via the Goodreads Giveaway program. This has not influenced my review.**

This is not a book for everyone. There is a lot of pornographic and disturbing material/topics. If you are easily offended, just skip this book.

Before diving into this book, I read the tease on Goodreads. The last sentence says, “Disgusting. Andrew is everything that’s wrong with the world today. He should be ashamed.” Well, not only was I warned, it's absolutely accurate. The rest of the tease is also quite accurate.

This is a book of poems, all written in the first person. The first poem is meant to shock and hit a nerve. There is a different rise and fall to the placement of the other poems in the book. The overall themes are that women are objects, he has little respect for anything that challenges him, sex sex sex, and women are bothersome.

I am not easily offended, and there were a few cringe-worthy moments for me. When thinking of a rating, I felt I needed to be fair to the fact that the author accomplished his goal of shocking compared to my enjoyment of the material. I definitely did not enjoy the material, but the poems were mostly well crafted and did what was intended.

Quite bold, quite arrogant, quite disturbing.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Shameless is shameless.

Poetry/prose recounting of sexual encounters,drinking and drugging experiences through the eyes of a male high on himself. Fiction or autobiographical the pieces show someone stuck on one subject.

[Rebekah · Rating 1 out of 5]

I received a free copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I knew going into this one that it would be all about sex, but I was expecting something provocative and sexy. What I got was some random guy's sexts and fantasies about sex. This is trash. Don't waste your time unless you have no class.

[Samantha Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

A raw, vulnerable, vulgar look at the world today, can’t wait for his next instalment!