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Review of ‘Illicit Lover’

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‘Illicit Love’

by Hēdonē

reviewed by Reed James

 

ilicitaffaircover“Even husband and wives are strangers.” This quote from the book sums up Illicit Lover perfectly.

With modern technology, having an affair has never been easier. Pull out your laptop, whip out your phone, do a few taps on your tablet, and your sexting, browsing cheating websites, sending emails, planing your hook-ups, all while sitting next to your significant other. Illicit Affair is a brutally honest story, painting a sad look at infidelity in modern society.

Told primarily through chat logs and emails of two married people’s illicit affair. OscarW, the screen name of our protagonist, is married to Tara and while he claims to love her, he is no longer attracted to her and constantly belittles her in his thoughts. He is so wrapped up in his online affair with Venus, a married woman who loves her husband and family but is looking for some fun, that he misses what’s going on in his own life.

Their email and chat exchanges are both erotic and real. Illicit Affair isn’t erotica, but erotic literature. It’s intelligent with complex characters that feel so true. Between their chat logs, you get insight into our protagonist thoughts as he becomes more and more wrapped up in their affair. This story is not a fantasy, but reality, and while it was one of the best pieces of literature I’ve read in the last few months, I didn’t like it.

It was too real for me.

Hēdonē has written an amazing book and I do recommend you read it if your looking for a serious, and tragic, look at modern infidelity. Hēdonē draws you into his characters head, pulling you along through their affair. I couldn’t put it down, almost compelled to make it to the end and find out how OscarW and Venus’s affair would affect their marriages.

Despite not liking the story, it’s just not my taste, this is an extremely well crafted novella and I can’t recommended enough if you want to read a true, erotic literature. I give it 5 star for skill, style, and believability that the took in creating this book! At $4.99, ‘Illicit Lover’ is worth the price.

Available from Amazon and Amazon UK.

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Review: Men, Affairs; Why?

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Men, Affairs; Why?

by Brooks E. Hanson

reviewed by Reed James

 

UntitledWhy do men cheat? Brooks Hanson, after a career working in nightclubs, has talked to a lot of men on why they’re out at the club drinking, partying, and hooking up with other women while their wives and girlfriends are at home. It’s become her passion, you could say, collecting stories from men about their and their friend’s affairs.

‘Men, Affairs; Why?’ is an in depth look at infidelity and male psychology that is both well researched and scattered with amazing, anecdotal quotes from men on why they cheat, and from a few men on why they would never cheat, on their wives. She attacks the subject form every angle, from the way society is changing, to how technology has made available so many avenues for men to find the causal encounters they desire, to the effects of pornography can have.

This is a well written, and unflinching, look at relationships in the United Kingdom, but it holds a lot of lessons for those of use outside the UK. Its full of real quotes from men on why they cheated on their wives and girlfriends. But this is no anti-male critique. She isn’t out to bash men for just being men, though she is disappointed in men who cheat, this is a study in the root causes of male infidelity and is an absolutely fascinating, if somewhat disheartening, read.

This is a 5 star book! At $2.99, ‘Men, Affairs; Why?’ is a great steal for anyone looking to understand male psychology.

Available from Amazon and Amazon UK. You can also follow her on twitter @BrooksEHansen.

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