Crash Your Party Dress
Reviewed By Kevin R. Tipple Crash
ISBN # 1-4010-1638-0 (trade paperback) Rating: *****
From the back cover of this anthology is this amusing and interesting
quote: "It's been said that lives have been changed by Adrian
Hunter's words. Some beg to differ. Others simply beg." In this
day and age of bought publicity quotes where the quoter has
no knowledge of the work and was just paid to write something
positive, a quote like the above is a breath of fresh air and
flat out funny. Besides, I read another novel of his, Once Bitten,
which he co-wrote with Chelsea Shepard so I knew he could write
on various levels. I wasn't disappointed at all.
As in his other work mentioned above, sex is a major but secondary
theme of this anthology. Instead, the stories contained in the
first anthology of his are more about a person's desires and
how they relate to others. He does not spend a lot of time analyzing
the character's needs or wants and instead follows the character
as he or she tries to satisfy that need or want. Their desire
may be nebulous or it might be concrete and just waiting for
the right incident to fulfill it. In the course of filling the
need, the character must relate to others and that is where
the real story lies. In no way shape or form, is this work or
any others of his that I have read so far, the nonsense so popular
today-Hi, I'm going to get naked now and lets get it on because
we have no other reason for being-no plot, no storyline, no
theme, nothing but sex.
The anthology is split nearly in held between his long novella
titled "Isabel" and a number of short stories, including one
by Chelsea Shepard. "Isabel" opens the anthology and is an incredible
erotic read. Isabel was always interested in bondage and through
the wonder of computers and the Internet, meets a number of
individuals interested in the same thing. One person is Ron
who seems to be more interested in her as a person than as a
sexual toy. He actually asks her about her thoughts and feelings
on a wide range of issue and gets to know her as a person, not
as a pleasure receptacle. He eventually invites her to come
to him for a week of total submission and she accepts. From
the moment she steps into his world she feels what it is like
to be totally under another's control every single minute. Her
week with Ron becomes an emotional as well as a sexual adventure
as she finds out more about herself while he does various things
to her and showcases her to his friends. But, why stop at just
a week?
While all the short stories are very good in this anthology,
one really caught my eye, especially for its ability to mess
with the reader's head. Titled "Sweet Butterfly" by Chelsea
Shepard, this story packs a very hard mental punch in its few
short pages. As the story opens the author writes, "My whole
body, dangling from the glass ceiling like a ripe fruit, is
covered in sweat. This is what being in a jungle must feel like.
This is what hanging from a huge tree in a jungle must feel
like. At night. Under the stars. The world at my feet. Except
I'm the one who is being played with and I'm not sure I like
it."
Little did she know when she innocently suggested to her male
friend that they spend a little bondage time, that she would
wind up buck naked, chained and hoisted to the ceiling of a
hothouse. After getting her naked and wrapped up in chains,
he applies a sweet smelling jell like substance to her nipples
and between her legs. Then he hoists her up top the roof of
the hothouse where she can see and be seen hanging in the moonlight.
This unnamed woman does not like bugs and has already seen
one butterfly flitting around between the plants. But if there
is one there has to be more and she begins to get some idea
of what is in store for her as a butterfly flies up to meet
her. "Its velvet-soft wings flap across my bare skin, and a
fain moan escapes my gagged mouth. The butterfly takes no notice
as it lands on my nipple and begins to suck it, or whatever
butterflies do. The flowery fragrance, the light and by the
look of it, the taste of the potion makes me the perfect bug
attraction!"
And she is, helpless as well, as more and more butterflies
land on her to partake of her sweet body. While she is terrorized
by the butterflies crawling and tasting her body, she is also
aroused by them. Their delicate probing and touching drives
her towards orgasmic bliss while at the same time she is horrified
as to what is happening. Is this the way madness lies?
These are just two of the very arousing stories in this anthology.
The writing is detailed and intense and the whole work is more
about the mental musings of the characters and less about the
sexual aspects of the acts. Instead of analyzing the why of
desire, each story accepts the desire as given and then works
on how the need is satisfied to the pleasure of all the characters
involved. Like the very enjoyable novel, Once Bitten (reviewed
here as well), Crash Your Party Dress is much more than simple
adult graphic sexuality on the page. Both works explore the
human in each of us and the wants and desires that fuel our
daily existence. This anthology is extremely well written and
available through booksellers and Xlibris at www.Xlibris.com
as well as the home website, www.adrainhunter.com
|
