Rogue Reviews Digest No. 29 - January 11, 1998 NOTICE If you are easily offended, not of the required legal age, or material of an erotic nature is illegal where you are, then do not read what follows. CONTENTS Mailing List Information Ratings Note Reviews It Happened One Night by Al Steiner My Uncle and I by Susan Remote-Controlled Wife by DG Seeing Stars by Poison Ivan Stolen Moments by Watcher This Is What Happens by Losgud We Needed His Help by Crystal D. ***** MAILING LIST INFORMATION I send my reviews individually, when I finish them, to the Sex Stories Discussion List. If you are interested in joining there is a form for doing so on my home page. * Home Page - http://www92.pair.com/leevine/rogue-reviews/ * E-Mail - santiago@switchboardmail.com ***** RATINGS In order from best to worst I rate stories as follows: Outstanding Excellent Very Good Good Grudgingly Good Not Good The "Outstanding", "Excellent", "Very Good", and "Good" ratings indicate, to varying degrees, that I like the story. The "Grudgingly Good" rating indicates that I think the story is well written, but that I find some of the elements in the story so disturbing that if I were to review the story based solely on my personal tastes I would give it a "Not Good" rating. The "Not Good" rating indicates that I do not like the story. ----- Arousal Factor - This is a measurement of how arousing I found a story to be. Story Factor - This is a measurement of how good I found a story to be, devoid of whether there is a lot of sex in it or not. In determining the story factor I take into consideration the plot, the characters, and other more technical aspects, such as spelling and grammar. Possible values for Arousal and Story Factor are, in ascending order: Nonexistent, Low, Average, High, Ultra ***** REVIEWS ----- Rogue Review No. 293 - January 1, 1999 Seeing Stars by Poison Ivan M/F Length: 5,300 words Rating: Outstanding Arousal Factor: High Story Factor: Ultra SUMMARY Told in the first person, the narrator remembers how a night with Dawn, his girlfriend, helped him get over a bad week at work. COMMENTARY This story is very arousing, but there is much more to it than just sex. The narrator seems to be going through a bit of a depression when the story begins. He spends a night with Dawn, during which they have sex, but to me that was just the setting. To me, the story is about what brings him out of his funk, which happens to be a night he spends with Dawn. I like both characters. They seem very real. The plot is simple, but it works. It works for me because it feels very real; in particular the emotional roller coaster ride that the narrator experiences during the course of the story. There are a couple other things I like about this story. It has a fair amount of dialogue in it. I like dialogue. The author picked a great name for the narrator's girlfriend, Dawn. Even though it might sound a bit too cute as the title, the phrase "A Night with Dawn" kept running through my head as I read this story. LINKS http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/17138.txt http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=410647452&fmt=raw ----- Rogue Review No. 295 - January 3, 1999 This Is What Happens by Losgud M/F, Inc Length: 11,800 words Rating: Excellent Arousal Factor: High Story Factor: High SUMMARY The main character of this story manages to keep it in the family while cheating on his wife. COMMENTARY This story is a lot of fun read. Sex is at the heart and soul of it. While there is nothing deeply profound or moving about it, the author does do a wonderful job building up to the sex, providing interludes between sex scenes, and wrapping the story up. The sex itself is beautifully described as the main character finds himself trying to juggle two women, his wife and his cousin. While the situation the main character finds himself in is the sort of thing that fantasies are made of, there are also some very human touches in this story. LINKS http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/17164.txt http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=411409253&fmt=raw ----- Rogue Review No. 296 - January 5, 1999 Stolen Moments by Watcher M/F Length: 6,100 words Rating: Outstanding Arousal Factor: Low Story Factor: Ultra SUMMARY John falls for Barbara, a married woman and a client of the firm he works for. COMMENTARY This is a very well written story. It is not very arousing, but it does have it's moments. For the most part it is about what leads John to screw Barbara. John is attracted to Barbara because she is a beautiful woman, but the story is more than just a matter of how to get her into bed. John has some scruples, and some business sense. He does not want to wreck his own life just for a piece of ass. In the end he makes a decision that costs him, but John is not pollyannish. He knows his actions have consequences. This is not a stroke story, but it is better than the overwhelming majority of the stories that can be found on ASSM. LINKS http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/17821.txt http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=419573150&fmt=raw ----- Rogue Review No. 297 - January 7, 1999 My Uncle and I by Susan f/M, f/f/M, Teen, Inc Length: 11,400 words Rating: Very Good Arousal Factor: High Story Factor: Average SUMMARY Susan and her uncle experiment with sex. COMMENTARY This story has plot, but isn't dominated by plot. What it does have is a lot of sex. There is enough plot to balance out the sex, but they are definitely not present in equal amounts. I liked the characters. They did not seem to have their minds made up that they were going to have sex from the first sentence. There was also enough plot that the characters actually had make some decisions. They were not incredibly dynamic characters, but they were very well rendered for a stroke story. LINKS http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/17541.txt http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=415838497&fmt=raw ----- Rogue Review No. 298 - January 9, 1999 We Needed His Help by Crystal D. f/f/M, Teen, Inc Length: 5,100 words Rating: Excellent Arousal Factor: Ultra Story Factor: High SUMMARY Crystal and Shellie find themselves in a bind. They turn to Shellie's brother Tom for some help. He is more than willing to help, provided Crystal is willing to make it worth his while. COMMENTARY I like this story, a lot. It has more sex than plot, but the author does a wonderful job with the details. She does not focus on the physical action as much as she does on the emotional reactions of the three characters to the predicament they find themselves in. I think it is also worth mentioning that the incest in this story is described by someone who abets it, but not by one of the participants. I don't keep statistics, but it seems to me that this is the exception and not the rule. In other words most incest stories are related by someone who is committing incest and not someone who is observing it. Its always nice to see something different. LINK http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=416171338&fmt=raw ----- Rogue Review No. 299 - January 10, 1999 It Happened One Night by Al Steiner M/F/F Length: 7,100 words Rating: Very Good Arousal Factor: High Story Factor: High SUMMARY Al comes home late one night and finds his wife, Laura, and their neighbor, Sharon, discussing Sharon's sex life. Laura offers Sharon Al's "services". The story develops from there. COMMENTARY This is a fun read because the author takes the time to set the scene. He does not rush the sex. He realizes that there is more to telling an erotic story than just describing physical actions. As far as the story goes, Al may be the narrator, but it is Laura who calls most of the shots. Sharon is a reluctant participant throughout the story, but she does seem to enjoy herself. While this story does have a plot and some discussion of the consequences of unprotected sex, for the most part it is a stroke story. LINK http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=430274739&fmt=raw ----- Rogue Review No. 300 - January 11, 1999 Remote-Control Wife by DG M/F Length: 4,800 words Rating: Excellent Arousal Factor: High Story Factor: Ultra SUMMARY Its Cindy's birthday and DG has a surprise for her, a remote- controlled vibrator. After testing it at home they go to the mall and see how much fun they can have with it in public. COMMENTARY This is a stroke story; no doubt about it. Despite this fact I think the author did a wonderful job with it. While the focus is on sex, a good deal of the story takes place while DG and Cindy both have their clothes on. This fact does not make the story any less arousing. In fact, it probably makes the story even more arousing. If you like this story and you have not already read "Batteries Included" by Miss Behavin', then I recommend that you do. I reviewed it in Digest No. 27. When I first saw this title I thought this was going to be a mind control story. It is not. All the sex is consensual. LINK http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=430366956&fmt=raw ***** 1/11/99