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Book Review of 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed (Black Cat)

100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed (Black Cat)
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My sincere apologies to the author, and hoping the book truly is fiction, because the writing is not floral or poetic nor was the story poignant. This book would fall somewhere around the fringes of the genre erotica.

The diary entries (therefore the story) are choppy and scattered, and while the type/style of sex mentioned is titilating and perhaps scandalous to some, the penned "sex scenes" themselves are extremely basic and occasionally just aluded to.

It is apparent that you are reading the work of a very young author which is fine, but I prefer my erotica full-fledged, well described, with a plot, and with characters the reader can invest in. The Melissa in this fictionalized account is Bi-Polar and cycles back and forth from majorly depressed to manic and looking for a man (or woman.)

I lived through my own adolescence and my daughter's, and have no desire to relive either. Once again, my apologies to the author, but I found this book forgettable and, actually, somewhat irritating because I kept wanting to scream at her, "Go get some therapy."