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A very simple premise, innocent boy meets experienced woman, told well... Young, innocent boy meets experienced, married woman... Horny, young, innocent boy meets experienced, married, attractive woman. An easy plot to contemplate, told well. It made me wish that I had gone camping alone when I was David's age. Maybe I could have met Jacqui.
Telephoneman patiently developed the story, a very romantic and sweet story with no strident conflict. However, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. I knew that just around the bend we would find a stumbling block that would interrupt the growing romance. That worry--and David's description of his anxious hopes as he learned and experienced more--were enough tension to keep interest strong. Oh, and the tantalizing sex scenes did too.
Read "Camping Holiday." It is a gentle romance that will have you skimming the sex parts to find out what happens next in the narrative--until you realize that you are missing very good parts, so you go back to read them.
Well proofread. I enjoyed the local flavor that the British vocabulary and expressions gave it. I found the story's ending not as strong, not as developed, as the opening chapters were--adequate, but less enticing and exciting compared to what I was expecting.
This reading was my first Telephoneman story. "Camping Holiday" is good enough to convince me to try others of his stories.