Pleasure
by Eric Jerome Dickey
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Book Reviews of Pleasure
Book Review: It was okay
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a big fan of ejd and i understand that this book is in a different genre that most ejd fans are accustomed to. ejd did something different and is evolving as writer. he is stepping out of his norm and exploring different stories and different characters and for that i can appreciate it. However with this book i was on the fence. i kept reading it more out of curiosity of what was going to happen to the characters. it is erotica folks of course the main subject of the story was going to be sex. what were you expecting? my only beef is that knowing how much of a good writer ejd is i was looking for both a good erotic book along with a good subject and plot. the story just fell flat and toward the end of the book i had no care or sympathy for the characters. usually with an ejd novel i am left still thinking about the characters and the story but not with this one. as one reviewer already said, how could you let your brother sleep with the woman you loved and still marry her knowing she wished that you were someone else? and if you really loved your wife, how could you let yourself get emotionally and physically attached to someone else? all of the characters in this book is just plain dumb in my opinion. i wished that end the end that some way they all realized what they have done and what they were doing take responsibility for their actions. oh well better luck next time ejd, can't wait for Tempted by Trouble to be released in August!!!!!Book Review: Tedious
Summary: 3 Stars
It has been a while since I've read an E.J. Dickey book and now I remember why. Mr. Dickey is a good storyteller but he kills the story with an excruciating amount of detail and fluff. Kills it then backs over it again. There are so many things wrong with this book I have to number them.
1) Nia is obesessed with Anais Nin. Got it. For the amount of explaination we get about Anais' life you could really skip the autobiography.
2) The characters are really one dimensional and shallow. There is nothing that makes you care about them or what will happen to them.
3)Instead of saying that someone is driving on the espressway we have to read about all the exits on the road; the specific name of the dental office that they are passsing (Nasal Dental-why?), the make, model and year of the car someone is driving...it's excruciating. Then there are long passages where characters are talking and dropping the names of authors like shameless marketing plugs.
4) Logan really served no purpose in this story. He was fluff that could have been covered soup-to-nuts in one page.
5) Somehow everyone who lives in the south (black or white) is a straigh decendant from an island like Jamaica or the Bahamas. Reallly?
6)And finally, the last sex scene of the book (I won't spoil it for you) is so totally improbable that I had to re-read it twice. In what world would this really happen?
Book Review: love hate
Summary: 3 Stars
i have to say i love and hate this book. i hate it for two reasons. Eric honey QUIT USING THE $5 WORDS. i mean i'm all for being educated and using correct grammar but there are too many times i had to consult dictionary.com to get through this book. it already takes a few minutes to get into his books and having to look words up or contemplate their meaning really throws you off track. other reason is, Eric you left me hanging. i was so into this book trying to puzzle out the issue with Karl, Mark and Nia. Why would a twin despise his sister-in-law? how come these two haven't grown out of their competitive behavior? at some points it's almost childish at others, it really fed into the erotica. oh by the way, it's not a Yukon Ram 3500. the climax was sub par.
i truly loved this book because Nia is me. i am over the moon that someone finally addressed the young black woman with a libido to put some men to shame. it's classy an erotic. i've long dealt with my own fantasies and growing up being told "black people don't do that". kudos Eric because Nia did what i wish so many women would do. i was entranced from her first engagement with the twins. the tug between two virile men, one married the other emotionally detached, was great. Nia is me and so many others and i applaud this book. the taboo has been freed.
Book Review: SIMPLY 5 Stars
I've been predicting for many books now that EJD is destined (excused the pun) to take a trip to the Erotica genre...and he has done just that in his lastest addition. Nia is a beautiful young woman with roots in Trinidad living in the Atlanta area. Independently wealthy, Nia is an author of erotica and henceforth a fan of the written word...and of the sexual experience. After freeing herself from an unsatisfying lover, Nia encounters what she eventually labels her "twin sins;" Karl and Mark, two beautiful brothers who also happen to be identical twins. Immediately Nia finds herself sexually drawn to both brothers...and both seem anxious to satisfy her every desire. Through her "twin sins," Nia is pushed to lose all of her inhibitions and satisfy her deepest desires...however abnormal they may be. When things spiral out of control and Nia is confronted by Mark's wife, she is forced to evaluate exactly what she had become...and determine if that is where and who she wants to be.With a prose that I have come to think of as all of his own (he never fails to give me a new word or two), EJD has penned a compelling tale of sexual relationships...and all of the emotional dynamics that go along with them. A bit slow starting, admittedly...but well worth hanging on. Enjoy the ride.
DYB
Book Review: Lots of Bumping and Grinding with Literary Allusions
Summary: 3 Stars
Pleasure is a book about a woman's desire for more sexual fulfillment. Sensitized by Anais Nin's writings, Nia Simone Bijou is intrigued to find two men who fascinate and excite her. She climbs aboard to see how far the ride will take her.
Curiously, although this book is supposed to be from a woman's perspective, I continually felt that I was reading a book from a man's perspective, translated into a woman's perspective by changing the sexes of the various characters. Many men are fascinated by having sexual relationships with two attractive women at the same time, but I'm not sure that very many women feel the same way about having two men.
If you like erotic fiction, you'll probably enjoy this book more than I did. The book became all too predictable after a while, and I didn't really care if I finished it or not. The story wasn't taking me anywhere I wanted to go . . . or to find out about.
In addition, many of the sequences felt more like fantasy that reality. As such, it was hard to identify with the characters or the story.
Eric Jerome Dickey is a talented writer, but he usually puts a little more content into his stories. This one was more sensation than substance.