Spike was his best friend, and she made a better boy than he did. But a lot can change in only three months.
Size: 46 KB (9,085 words)
Genre: Romantic
Sex Contents: Much Sex
Tags: mt/ft, Teenagers, Romantic, First
Review by Ivan_Ronical [other reviews by Ivan_Ronical]
Reviewed: - (Review Updated: )
This is probably tied with Don Lockwood's "Finding A Place" for the sappiest/cutest story on SOL. Unlike FAP, however, "Only Three Months" is a stroke story. It has plenty of romance, as the magical genre categorizer tells you, but make no mistake: this story is about sex. Also unlike FAP, OTM does not abbreviate into a humorous sex-related phonetic.
So where to start in the my first stroke story review? Obviously I'm going to go right for the most important topic, the one which I would have to discard my Reviewer Certification Card if I did not mention: Old Softy has forgotten the metal umlaut in Motörhead. I know, it's a huge shock to me as well that any writer who is as skilled as this one could let such an amazingly vital detail slide by. Nonetheless, it happened, and my reading experience was greatly affected by the absence of this most crucial pair of dots.
Reading this story with a British accent will give the reader further enjoyment, so I recommend reading the rest of this review using it in order to practice. English accent switch thrown? Great, here we go!
Spike and Kip, or Danica and Clifford if you want to be all proper like, are a couple of ankle-biters who do not, at the onset, fancy the arses off each other. They piddle about until they get separated at different summer camps where Kip becomes a bit of a laughing boy coz he misses his molly. When they meet again, her bee stings have turned into right knockers, and she's bang-tidy enough that they get to making the beast with two backs posthaste.
I think I pulled a muscle there.
This is a well-written story. There's some missing commas, but I'm giving it a 10 because the author managed to use "lain" properly, and I'm not sure I've ever seen that on SOL. Or in anything written in the past twenty years. Very impressive. Also there's a fair amount of knob-calling and other fun slang slinging, which I can always get behind.
This is not exactly the most original plot, but that's to be expected since it's a "first time" story. Short of adding aliens, magic powers, or a Lubrican-Shaped dildo, there's just not much you can do. This story remains unique and memorable due to its characters and execution, however.
Spike, the female lead, alternates between tomboyish best friend and svelte seductress in the flip of a sentence. She's caught in the grip of overly active whore moans for a lot of the story, but her sudden switches back to being a naive, scared kid make her likable and endearing. The characterization here is strong, and I ate it up like the last cheese puff at the bottom of the bag when it's got all the extra cheese stuff on it and you wish every damn puff had that much cheese because a lot of the others don't have much cheese by comparison and you're struggling to figure out why they're even in the bag or why you should care about them at all and you wish bluedragon was making those cheese puffs so they'd get killed off before you had to deal with them. Deep breaths.
Kip, by contrast, is a typical teenage boy. He is characterized mainly by his association and interaction with Spike, and is something like a literary character magnifier for her: she gets better because he's not very interesting and goes along with whatever she wants. He does show the requisite amount of caring and attention that I'd expect, and I was happy that things worked out.
Winding down this review, the author does a great job of not overusing a thesaurus during sex scenes. We get the sense that there's a toolbox full of a few well-picked words, and the author throws them out at appropriate times. There's no Mound Of Venus or Plunging His Turgid Shaft Deep Into Her Hot, Liquid Centre, and I'm grateful for it. The sex is hot, well-written, and even a bit touching at some points -- in the good way, not the creepy uncle way.
It's tough for me to compare this to other works by the author; this is the same person who wrote my favorite story on SOL (The Collar Around The Heart), and I feel it would be unfair to hold anyone to that standard. Even so, turning the considerable talents which went into writing that story to writing a "first" stroke story worked well, and I'm happy to be able to recommend another one of Old Softy's writings.
Read it.
