{"id":521,"date":"2016-07-02T04:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T04:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oortcloudreviews.wordpress.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2019-05-29T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:08:39","slug":"bionic-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llimeworks.com\/oortcloudreviews.com\/bionic-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Bionic Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Christian\u2019s Bionic Lover<\/em> sucked me right into the narrative with the very first paragraph. A very well thought out introduction to the events that were to follow. Since the subtitle had introduced it as an Erotic Lesbian Romance<\/em>, I had a good idea about some of the things to follow and yet I just couldn\u2019t quite stop. The language is so rich and captivating that at times, I was more enamored of the words than their actual meaning and that is not an easy thing to do. The sentences followed each other like pearls on a string and some of what they were saying reminded me of friends and long gone events, in other countries and other times.<\/p>\n

I am a hetero male, and like most of the ones sharing my demographic, fascinated with lesbian encounters.  Holding my breath, I kept waiting for that double female scent to emanate from my screen and envelope me. When it did occur, I was not disappointed. The strength of the encounter and the way it was depicted got me very excited. It was the middle of the afternoon and I was not alone in the house, so there was nothing I could about it. I thought that perhaps I should continue reading later on, but I just had to find out what was coming up next.<\/p>\n

When it did happen again, I was not disappointed. It was tender, passionate, rough and dirty somehow. Without giving out too many details, I can say that besides being a story that will arouse your inner passions, it is also a story of obsession and temporal encounters. So far, so good, I will soldier on for a while though I may not have enough time to finish it all in one reading, which might be for the best. I will continue later into the night, a time when I might find myself awake when all are asleep. Things might happen. <\/a><\/p>\n

The previously only hinted at environment is finally making an appearance. It put me in mind of a San Francisco that would have been at home in Bernard Wolfe\u2019s Limbo<\/em> just as much as in Philip K. Dick\u2019s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep<\/em>. The sexual encounter that was bound to come reflects that dystopial imagery. It is hard, painful and impersonal. We are looking into an abyss that we hope will never open up widely enough to swallow our heroines. Mercifully, we are granted an almost idyllic interlude.<\/p>\n

There is a part that does a great job explaining a lesbian\u2019s thoughts about a hetero male. It contains some sexual connotations, but they are very baffling and confusing (at least to their thinker.) For a second time, fingers find their way into assholes. Not necessarily a surprise, that paints a very arousing picture. I guess it is the socially unacceptable morality and presumed wrongness of it.<\/p>\n

In the end, we are left with a strong sense of the wrongness of war. If this was just supposed to be an erotic romance, how did we get here? It seems that we went from Make Love Not War<\/em> through Love Is War<\/em> and all the way to Love Me Tender<\/em>. Finding out from the Author Bio<\/em> that M. Christian is a male was not necessarily surprising, though I do wish he was a female. On the overall, I have to say that the writing was exquisite, the sex was rousing and the expected \u2018end of the world\u2019 kind of scenario did not manifest which made me let out the breath I have been holding for a while \u2013 much relieved. Male or female matters not – M. Christian is a master of the craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian\u2019s Bionic Lover sucked me right into the narrative with the very first paragraph. A very well thought out introduction to the events that were to follow. Since the subtitle had introduced it as an Erotic Lesbian Romance, I had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":322,"url":"https:\/\/llimeworks.com\/oortcloudreviews.com\/uzziah-the-general\/","url_meta":{"origin":521,"position":0},"title":"Uzziah & the General","date":"November 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not sure exactly how I can express what I feel every time I hear this kid sing this song. 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