Two teens experiment with lesbianism for the first time.
Size: 132 KB (25,820 words)
Genre: Romantic
Sex Contents: Some Sex
Tags: ft/ft, Teenagers, Consensual, Lesbian
Review by richardshagrin [other reviews by richardshagrin]
Reviewed: - (Review Updated: )
I hope I have the skill to do justice reviewing a Gina Marie story. But I want to recommend it to the broadest audience possible. I found the story, which I don't believe I had read before, by cruising the 2005 Golden Clitorides awards. This was a winner.
Perhaps that recommendation is an unintentional pun on "broadest." In the sense of "Broad" having dual meanings, sometimes wide and sometimes female. There is a song, "Honey Bun" in the musical, South Pacific with the lyric "And she's broad where a broad should be broad."
There is considerable hot ff sexual activity. And towards the end there are three teenagers, all female 9th and 10th graders.
To keep my union card as a Critic I need something to criticize. Okay, the story is too short. It ends on a positive note, fairly soon, a week or so, after the title characters meet. Almost nothing but their affection for each other is settled. The reader gets to decide what happens next.
The numbers: Plot is a seven, a B. Good but for the seven chapters not an awful lot of twists, turns and surprises. Technical Quality is fine, an A plus. I might have missed something, so I didn't give a ten. I am trying to hold my tens to at most one a month. Appeal to reviewer was hard to decide. I liked it a lot, but I am more heterosexually oriented and the mf activity in this story makes the boys oxygen thieves. I decided on an eight, which is an A.
It's against the author's policy to do sequels, but if she ever changes her mind, I wouldn't be sorry to see her break that policy by continuing this story. I strongly recommend anyone who isn't totally squicked by lesbians making love to read this story.
Review by tendertouch [other reviews by tendertouch]
Reviewed:
This was one of the first stories that I read on alt.sex.stories - way back when it was first posted. Imagine my disappointment when I realized that there were very few other writers posting material even close to as good as Gina Marie's. In the intervening years things have gotten somewhat better - Frank Downey, Cat5 and others are writing good stories - but a reread shows that it still measures up. The writing style is smooth - never forced or stiff and the characters feel like real people.
In the years since I first read this I've found myself hoping that Kate and Lyn managed to make a good life together. Getting that attached to fictional characters isn't particularly common for me (though Gina Marie seems to have the touch) and amongst the highest praise that I can give a story.
