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Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} Peaches and Cream Reviews #2
Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2002 20:10:04 -0400
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Hi! We're Peaches & Cream. We're just two ordinary Joes who like
reading and romance. Recently, there was a Summer Solstice Romance
Festival on ASSM, and it caught our attention. We started discussing
the stories and our reviews were born. Our format is simple: one of us
starts the review, the other chimes in, and then the starter finishes
it off. Because this is all about romance, we'll be scoring with 0-5
kisses. We'll be posting a review a day until we finish the stories
that were submitted, beginning with the Flash stories.

There is a website devoted to the festival where you can find all the
stories we will review. 

http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/RomFest

Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life,
but to prevent life from escaping you? 
--Thomas Wolfe 


Peaches & Cream Reviews: 

***

Something Blue by Adrian Hunter 
(rom, bd)
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/36975

***

Peaches:

Imagine a bride stoked up on Viagra, dressed in a leather corset, and
a missing priest. It's drama in a way only a good Dom could direct. I
think I'd like to be a guest at this wedding just to see how it ends.

Unfortunately, I'm left with a little too much confusion--I wish I
understood the mother's role a little more.

On our romance scale this story receives 2 kisses from me.

***

Cream:

I fear I'm missing much in "Something Blue," but it's still fun to
work the puzzles, and frustrating, elusive.  I agree, Peaches, this is
one wedding I'd really like to see.  I do get some really good images:

>As organs swelled before the processional,
>he reached into his pocket and caressed the
>pair of gold rings he had borrowed from the
>best man. Another protocol breach. But his
>dearly beloved had no need for shiny baubles
>or compressed carbon. Not with his name
>tattooed above her pussy.

Complicated and sexy and straightforward all at once. And yet I
confess I'm not at all sure I figured out what the Something Blue was.
Were these borrowed rings cock rings, and did that have something to
do with the something blue, or was it in Rebecca's corseting? Or maybe
that tattoo? Or just the overall naughtiness of the wedding?

Regardless, the imagery is vivid and of a piece.  I love those
cowering priests and the mother's fists, though I'm not certain
exactly how they connect.

Not the usual stuff of romance, not at all; for example, Peaches, can
you tell me what this means:

>Yeah, right. And Chastity's a raving dyke,
>and sweet Virginia was last seen dropping
>reds, greens and blues on Sir Mick's shit-
>encrusted shoes.

I give this story four kisses because some semblance of romance really
does shine through, and four point five lashes for the richly poetic
(if sometimes confusing) brand of excitement.

***

Peaches:

I can't believe you didn't recognize the references to Sonny and
Cher's progeny or a Rolling Stones tune, but I'll forgive you. I'm not
sure what either has to do with this story except to add a little
rock-n-roll spice.

I'm inclined to believe the Something Blue in this story is the
tattoo. Aren't most tattoo's blue? Or do you think maybe the Blue is
an obscure reference to Blue movies/porn? Interesting idea. I guess
only the author knows for sure.

And you've swayed me a little. I think the puzzling aspects of this
story add to its charm, so I up my kisses to two and a half.

***

Peaches: 2.5 kisses
Cream: 4 kisses

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