WOW what a pleasant surprise ... and, trust me one has to snuflle through a lot of (junk) to find any new erotic literature from a US author that stands heads above the fray ....
'How I Adore You' is a series of seven distict stories, between 20 to 40 pages each, giving both the author and the reader sufficient time to develop the characters and the mini plots to make each story a delicious meal in itself. Mark Pritchard's writing style is smooth, captivating with an 'in your face' kind of earthiness that makes the reader feel like he's right there in the middle of the action. And what action there is, it comes at you in all flavours and touches those hidden delicious fantasies, that, although the reader may not ever actually participate in real life, but, to sit and watch ... ahhh there's the mastery of the author.....
The book starts with a very short story 'Lessons in Submission' that lets us wander into the mind of a young man painting a crystal clear mental portrait of a seduction of his submissive girfriend. The abslolutely amazing part of this story is that the author is able to tell this story without falling into that easy trap of turning the story into the kink of domination, discipline, and rape.....
In 'Ordinary Story' we are introduced to a young black man, in San Fran, OF COURSE, troubled by an affair with Ron, who says that he has no problems with his homosexuality but that the does also have sex with one woman. Our hero has a problem with that and does not know if Ron is being truthfull in his feelings or if he is a bona fide bi-sexual. He discusses the issue with some of his friends in a conversation that is so well written I avtually thought I was sitting there with them. Our hero then decides to invite both Ron and his female sex partner, Pamela to dinner so that he can try to really understand Ron and this whole bi-sexual thing. Suffice it to say, the dinner was mind blowing and again, so real life I practically ripped the pages out of the book to get to the next part fo the story ...
Although it would be tempting to give you a flavour of all the stories,the coming of age story 'Incest' is probably my personal favorite, I must admit that this is a must have book for our erotic library to be enjoyed over and over ....