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Peep Show
Naughty Imogen likes to watch. When her boyfriend Christian is out at work, she spends her evenings spying on the neighbors through binoculars and viewing her secret porn collection. Most of all, though, she likes to go online and pretend to be Christian while she chats up men on a gay dating site. But when her latest virtual beau and borderline obsession Dark Knight asks for a photograph, her voyeuristic games become complicated. Suddenly Christian is being drawn in to her sleazy thrills without his knowledge. Imogen's getting more eye candy than she ever dreamed of, but at what price?
- GenresErotica
240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2005
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April 7, 2008
I bought this book purely because it's one of the very, very few I've seen that deal with a particular kink of mine, of loving male-male action although I'm a girl. Even in a time where the freakiest S&M stuff is it's own niche market, I have trouble finding something as simple as a little male homoeroticism and bisexuality. MMF threesome themes are definitely hot, and in a pinch, gay erotica hits the spot, but it's gratifying to see a Black Lace title that specifically caters to this interest, since they've done almost everything else. So thanks, Mathilde Madden, for writing on this subject!
That said, I want to give you my honest opinion of the book. When I first started it, I was a little disappointed. Imogene was not a terribly sympathetic character. I couldn't see any deep relationship between her and Christian, her voyeurism wasn't subtle-sexy but downright obsessive (high-powered binoculars?), and her gay male fetish leaned more towards S&M than anything else, which is a turnoff for me.
But as I kept reading, I was hooked. I started to really put myself in Imogene's lucky little shoes. Her character fleshed out and the plot thickened beautifully. I don't want to give the story away, but when she sees the thing she's been fearing most, well, I gasped along right with her. Though it started slow and kind of wobbly, the story was absolutely wondrous.
My complaints are only a few. Imogene is English, so, as an American, I've got to put up with 'knickers' and 'fish and chips' and British spellings (they just love to tuck 'u' into anything, don't they?) but it's not too terrible. There's some grammar problems and misspellings, which bug me, but they really are few and far between. The sex scenes were HOT. Imogene giving Christian the best sex of his life, hearing about how they met, some male-male trysts she spies on, well they're delicious. Unfortunately, a lot of the sexiness is on the page, being talked about, but not engaged, if you know what I mean. Or a couple of fade-to-blacks, or, in Imogene's case, she has to stop spying for a few moments. But overall, the book was very erotic. And the character of Lorne bugged me a little. I wanted something to happen, anything, but in the end, nothing did, and it was quite disappointing. Also, the book was very open-ended. What will happen in the future to the four characters, after all they've been through? The book doesn't give a hint, which is quite frustrating. It almost ended a tad abruptly, for me.
But don't let these complaints fool you. That's just the editor in me. The book was fabulous and definitely worth buying.
That said, I want to give you my honest opinion of the book. When I first started it, I was a little disappointed. Imogene was not a terribly sympathetic character. I couldn't see any deep relationship between her and Christian, her voyeurism wasn't subtle-sexy but downright obsessive (high-powered binoculars?), and her gay male fetish leaned more towards S&M than anything else, which is a turnoff for me.
But as I kept reading, I was hooked. I started to really put myself in Imogene's lucky little shoes. Her character fleshed out and the plot thickened beautifully. I don't want to give the story away, but when she sees the thing she's been fearing most, well, I gasped along right with her. Though it started slow and kind of wobbly, the story was absolutely wondrous.
My complaints are only a few. Imogene is English, so, as an American, I've got to put up with 'knickers' and 'fish and chips' and British spellings (they just love to tuck 'u' into anything, don't they?) but it's not too terrible. There's some grammar problems and misspellings, which bug me, but they really are few and far between. The sex scenes were HOT. Imogene giving Christian the best sex of his life, hearing about how they met, some male-male trysts she spies on, well they're delicious. Unfortunately, a lot of the sexiness is on the page, being talked about, but not engaged, if you know what I mean. Or a couple of fade-to-blacks, or, in Imogene's case, she has to stop spying for a few moments. But overall, the book was very erotic. And the character of Lorne bugged me a little. I wanted something to happen, anything, but in the end, nothing did, and it was quite disappointing. Also, the book was very open-ended. What will happen in the future to the four characters, after all they've been through? The book doesn't give a hint, which is quite frustrating. It almost ended a tad abruptly, for me.
But don't let these complaints fool you. That's just the editor in me. The book was fabulous and definitely worth buying.
May 1, 2009
This is my favorite romance novel ever, hands down. And it provided lots of interesting conversations while I donated plasma.
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