An archeologist performs an ancient ritual and slowly seduces his female students.
Size: 1962 KB (357,274 words)
Genre: Mind Control
Sex Contents: Much Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, Ma/ft, Fa/Fa, ft/ft, Fa/ft, Consensual, Mind Control, Heterosexual, Fiction, Oral Sex, Masturbation
Review by orangeade [other reviews by orangeade]
Reviewed: - (Review Updated: )
It's not often that one can find erotica of epic length that could stand solely on either plot or sexual content, but DoktorGostel has created just that in "A Fistful of Sand," a supernatural thriller that's sometimes dark and always dripping with sensuality.
Dr. Gregg Walters is an assistant professor of archaeology at fictional Eastern State University in Chicago, a former child prodigy whose social development was squashed by being advanced in school many years beyond his peers.
But while spending a semester with student volunteers at a dig site in Tunisia, he unwittingly unleashes a lightning bolt that imbues him with powers he can barely comprehend. Once he awakens from his coma, he finds he has influence over others, predominantly in the sexual area . . . oh, and his penis has doubled in both length and girth.
If this is beginning to sound like a cheesy porn version of some old Universal Mummy movie . . . well, it kind of does. But the longer one reads, the more one finds there's greater depth to what's happening to Gregg. Is the professor actually himself a lab rat in a greater experiment? Was he intended to be gifted these powers, or was it all a cosmic screw-up? Does he deserve his new, improved life, or is none of it real? And even if he is found "worthy" of his gifts, can he escape a deadly conclusion?
All of this is doled out bit-by-bit by DoktorGostel, keeping the reader coming back for more, to see if Gregg can keep his devoted "family" together in the face of a threat he doesn't see coming.
By the time Gregg returns to his university job, the story is just beginning to fill up with memorable characters and wild facets, from a sexy pair of married ex-Mossad agents, to a punk music club where the headliner is a D/S Mistress, to a murderous strip club owner, to one of the most amoral sororities you've ever come across, to a shadowy character flitting around the edges of the action with the brutally punny name of Deuce X. Mackinaw.
Best of all, none of the plot gets in the way of the sex, which is detailed and deeply erotic, ranging from incredibly tender moments to D/S mind fucks. There is a fairly heavy amount of dom/sub content, but most of it is in the later stages of the book, and by then, even if you're not into D/S, you'll like the characters so much that you'll likely go along for the ride.
DoktorGostel gets top ratings for plot, but gets marked down for sloppiness . . . the text is littered with dropped words, as if his fingers couldn't keep up with the rate the story was spinning out in his head. It's obvious that the story didn't get a careful second read before being posted, a state of affairs made less understandable by the fact that it had already been posted on another site three years earlier. Those speed bumps won't keep you from enjoying this tale, but one this good deserved better presentation from its creator.
Although DoktorGostel is slowly posting chapters of the first sequel at storiesonline, those fans of Gregg and Co. can read the completed second and third books of the series at The Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive. After Book 1, there's still plenty of story to be told.
