A troubled orphan boy is punished by being sent to the Dante's Inferno of orphanages, but a glitch in the paperwork lands him in a place full of love and concern for his welfare. It changes his life completely, and that of the women who run the small orphanage in Mid America during WW II.
Size: 535 KB (101,721 words)
Genre: Romantic
Sex Contents: Much Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, mt/Fa, Teenagers, Consensual, Romantic, Reluctant, Heterosexual, Cheating, Harem, First, Oral Sex, Masturbation, Pregnancy, Slow
Review by Storyreader67 [other reviews by Storyreader67]
Reviewed:
Great story. Believable characters. Riveting plot. Good closure. Not sequel material.
I haven't read anything else by this author yet. That will definitely change.
Review by Story Reader [other reviews by Story Reader]
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Quite a charming little tale…. This is the kind of story that brings a pleasant feeling to your heart and maybe even a tingle to other parts of your body. It contains, and repeatedly uses, one of my favorite plot elements – that being ‘seduction’.
I’ll not capsulize the plot as the story description does an adequate job of that. I’ll just say that the story is a ‘MUST READ’ for every romantic. I will attempt to head off criticism of this review because it, at first glance, appears to focus on the negative of the story and not on the positive. The story, albeit part of a series, stands on its own, is well written and does an exceptional job portraying the plot and characters. With this sweeping recommendation, I see no reason to make more of the stories pluses.
With all that said, I’ll move to my critique of the work.
The plot is simple but I’m not sure that complicating it would have made the story better. Just let it stand that the reader is not being asked to solve any mystery at the end.
The author also switches ‘Points Of View’ (POV) frequently during the story. Mainly the story is ‘Third Person’ POV. The switch of POV takes the form of the author being ‘chatty’ with the reader and he even uses the pronoun “us” to inject the reader into the prose. It appears that this may have been the intention of the author but I’m not sure it works adequately. It is reminiscent of a parlor story that starts “Did you hear the one about the guy who……..? Though the ‘tell’ of the tale is pleasant, being jerked from the story flow by this POV switch is a little distracting.
Happy Reading,
A Story Reader
Review by Finbar_Saunders [other reviews by Finbar_Saunders]
Reviewed:
Well,
This is a 10 out of 10 story. I thought I would get that out of the way right at the start. There's obviously been a lot of planning and thinking that went into 'The Orphanage Blues.' it's tight, clever and, most important, believable.
No technical errors worth mentioning, and wonderful use of history to add perspective.
The story is about Bobby who winds up in a house full of women during WWII. There is a wonderful lead-in to the story and BoB's superb descriptive skill brings the new orphanage to life with marvelous imagery.
Sex, this story has a lot of it, is truly "love-making" and all the characters react in delightful ways.
I'm a father of girls and I guess that's why I tend to get a bit 'jumpy' when stories have characters who get pregnant. I can't help thinking of all the implications and the social problems that accrue from that sort of event.
This story stayed truthful to reality, but it never slipped over the edge into territory that made me uncomfortable. The resolution was beautifully handled.
Review by Stormy Weather [other reviews by Stormy Weather]
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This story involves a young man who starts out in an orphanage from hell, which was the rule and not the exception, and ends up in one of those exceptions.
How he gets there, the adventures he has while there, and the relationships that develops between him and his caregivers and others he comes in contact with, and the relationships built between him and the other children is a story in which Bob has outdone himself on many counts.
This is a remarkable story of love on every level which I highly recommend.
