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Green Fever Dream Book Two Blackstone by Justine G.

http://www.amazon.com/Green-Fever-Dream-BLACKSTONE-ebook/dp/B008PZ6QKA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360159502&sr=1-1&keywords=green+fever+dream

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Story Rating: 5 out of 5 paddles

Sting FActor (kink): 5 out of 5

Review:

It is possible readers will remember that the first volume in this series, Red Monolith Frenzy, garnered my highest praise for being a brilliant erotic parody of the weird fiction genre. It was – and remains – the funniest book I’ve read in a very long time, and I still highly recommend it.

Justine, a powerful sorceress and priestess of the Black Stone, flees Europe, pursued by police, and winds up in London with a brand-new acolyte. Together they rake the deliciously seedy underbelly of London’s night life for their prey, and soon discover – or does it discover them? – a bizarre spa that masks a kink club that masks an unspeakable horror. Justine and Snow kind of specialize in unspeakable horror, so it seems like a good match. Crazy sex magic with depraved cultists ensues.

This second installment stands on its own very well. Again, the language is spot-on, sharp as a knife. The book is a pleasure to read, and it went very quickly – I only put it down except when I literally had to. Once.

It’s more serious in tone than the first, and as odd as it is saying this given the events of the first, it’s darker. I was much more engaged with the characters this time, especially Justine’s acolyte, Snow, who was thoroughly charming in a total-pervert way. The relationship between Snow and Justine was a moving, believable one, and the emotional twists it took genuinely got to me on a visceral level.

Red Monolith Frenzy by Justine G

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Monolith-Frenzy-BLACKSTONE-ebook/dp/B007QDLWOW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342364968&sr=1-1&keywords=red+monolith+frenzy

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Story Rating: 5 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 3 out of 5

 Review:

I am a huge Robert E. Howard fan.  Pilgrimage to his grave,earth from his back yard, the whole nine yards. When I saw that this book was based on his Lovecraftian story “The Black Stone”, I knew I had to be the one to read it.  It is as though it was meant for me, and me alone.

I don’t know what I was expecting, I really do not.  I do know, though, that I wasn’t expecting to laugh so goddamn hard I had to take two ibuprofen and go lay down.

This is not a darkly erotic tale of horror. This is a comedy.  It is a pastiche of the entire weird tale/Lovecraftian genre, and of porn/erotica.  Each points out the ludicrous aspects of the other.  The combination of tone and subject material is utterly hilarious. It vacillates between stilted and incredibly vulgar.  It is fucking. Magnificent.  Oh my fucking god.

This short novella is the story of Justine and her search for forbidden knowledge. Once she hears of a strange idol hidden away near a strange town in the Czech Republic, and experiences a taste of its explosive sexual power for herself, she becomes obsessed with learning its secrets, no matter how blasphemous and sanity-eroding they may be.

Alas, there is no way to rate this that is fair to both its status as the funniest goddamn thing I have read this year and you as a potentially-wanting-to-masturbate reader.