Rogue Review No. 427 - August 21, 1999

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.

TITLE: The Dating Game
AUTHOR: Slowhand
LENGTH: 25,200 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (Female, Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Unmarried Couple
                 Older Male-Younger Female
KINK(S): --
SETTING(S): Home
GENRE(S): --
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: David, 36, falls for Mary, 34 or so.  Mary just 
wants to be friends.  Skylar, Mary's 18-year-old daughter, 
doesn't want David around and takes an unusual approach to 
get rid of him.

COMMENTARY: This story is extremely arousing.  The internal 
turmoil David experiences while trying to pick and choose 
between doing the right thing and satisfying his libido, 
certainly contributed to the level of arousal that I 
experienced.

One area in which the story comes up a bit short, is the 
resolution.  It is not outside of the realm of possibilities 
that the story could end in the manner in which it does, but 
it seems more probable than it should end differently.  At 
the very least the ending should have been drawn out a 
little more, in my opinion.  It all just came to a close too 
quickly to satisfy me.

This story will probably appeal more to male readers than to 
female ones.  It certainly reads more like a male fantasy 
than a female one.  Having said that, I think that it is 
accurate to say that the author does a better than average 
job with both female characters.

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: 9.5 (out of 10)

        - Arousal: 5/5
        - Editing: 5/5
        - Plot and Characters: 4/5

SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS: Excellent

LINK(S): Steven Gregory's Erotic Nights

        - http://extra.newsguy.com/~steveng/