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Temper Tantrum
Synopsis Natasha Linnet has a weakness for dirty old men - hence her relationship with wine buff and accomplished spanker Percy Ottershaw. When Percy visits a former colleague, the louche Dr Blondeau, in France, Natasha tags along. Blondeau, figuring correctly that any girlfriend of his perverted old friend must be a willing submissive, has extreme ideas of his own, for which he considers Natasha fair game. Natasha sees right through his wiles, of course. But how can she gave in, and still have the last laugh? The latest book in Penny Birch's series of bestselling erotica takes the mischievous Natasha on a humiliating, exhilarating, wet-knickered thrill ride through rural France.
222 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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July 27, 2009
The cover art has absolutely nothing in common with the contents of this book. This should have been a warning sign...
I may now safely write a dissertation on Penny Birch!
Overall I preferred the novel structure of most volumes in the series, with a beginning-middle-end, to the fragmented stories of Tight White Cotton or In For A Penny.
In this "novel" however, the beginning is the end! What comes in between is...well, I won't go into details... Jut to note that most of the action is quite literal, rather than symbolically played out, as in Tie and Tease.
I know I criticized Tie & Tease for the filler scenes that took up time/space but weren't crucial to the plot development (whatever that may be, in a smut book). In retrospect though, Tie & Tease is the most tightly structured work, and whatever I said about Tie & Tease actually can be better said of this particular volume.
At times I sensed that Natasha's encounters in Temper Tantrums were forced upon the reader (or more appropriately, force-fed, like the poor geese on the French farm) without any particular narrative purpose.
The story starts off with the premise of a so-called philosophical wager, one in which Natasha desperately wants to come out the winner. But up until the last scene, Natasha's troubles & triumphs don't have any real bearing on the conclusion. The reader knows full well how it's going to be, and sure enough, there are no surprises when the conclusion comes round.
In Tie & Tease, by comparison, there was a more entertaining as well as structured exploration of the supposed "moral argument." Also, Penny (the protagonist of Tie & Tease) develops and evolves, learning new tricks along the way. The final scenes of Tie & Tease, despite their extreme nature, are rationally "justified" by all that precedes that climactic scene with the roasting spit, allowing the reader to laugh safely and without restraint, in response to the farcical predicament of the hapless women.
In Temper Tantrum, by contrast, the humour falls flat, because of the total literalness of the acts, even though Natasha's conflict with Jo had the potential to be funny as well as titillating.
I may now safely write a dissertation on Penny Birch!
Overall I preferred the novel structure of most volumes in the series, with a beginning-middle-end, to the fragmented stories of Tight White Cotton or In For A Penny.
In this "novel" however, the beginning is the end! What comes in between is...well, I won't go into details... Jut to note that most of the action is quite literal, rather than symbolically played out, as in Tie and Tease.
I know I criticized Tie & Tease for the filler scenes that took up time/space but weren't crucial to the plot development (whatever that may be, in a smut book). In retrospect though, Tie & Tease is the most tightly structured work, and whatever I said about Tie & Tease actually can be better said of this particular volume.
At times I sensed that Natasha's encounters in Temper Tantrums were forced upon the reader (or more appropriately, force-fed, like the poor geese on the French farm) without any particular narrative purpose.
The story starts off with the premise of a so-called philosophical wager, one in which Natasha desperately wants to come out the winner. But up until the last scene, Natasha's troubles & triumphs don't have any real bearing on the conclusion. The reader knows full well how it's going to be, and sure enough, there are no surprises when the conclusion comes round.
In Tie & Tease, by comparison, there was a more entertaining as well as structured exploration of the supposed "moral argument." Also, Penny (the protagonist of Tie & Tease) develops and evolves, learning new tricks along the way. The final scenes of Tie & Tease, despite their extreme nature, are rationally "justified" by all that precedes that climactic scene with the roasting spit, allowing the reader to laugh safely and without restraint, in response to the farcical predicament of the hapless women.
In Temper Tantrum, by contrast, the humour falls flat, because of the total literalness of the acts, even though Natasha's conflict with Jo had the potential to be funny as well as titillating.
March 9, 2009
Continuation of this spiral. I've been promised this is the last by this author.
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