Monthly Archives: June 2020

Solstice Blessings.

Review of Better Than Capitalism by Samy Barnat.

This book is full of sobering facts about what we as humans are doing to our planet. The information contained in this book offers plenty of advice, compelling arguments, but also hope. Hope stemming from the actions we can take to heal our economic, ecological, political and health crises.

The author uses clear and concise language so that he book is easy to read – everyone should be able to access this information. There are plenty of hyperlinks to help you understand why this action must be taken. The topics being discussed are controversial, but we need to address these issues regardless of how uncomfortable we feel.

If you want to look into what we can do now to save ourselves and the earth, then this book is a must.

Review of Our Time by Savanna Malveaux.

I reviewed this book for the author via Reedsy, link can be found here: https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/our-time-savanna-malveaux

Our Time is set in Atlanta and tells many different stories. Leah, a successful family lawyer, has decided she wants to leave Law behind and start her own business – as a Madam, running a high end Escort Agency. Her business venture is far from the norm and she decides she will test it out whilst on a mini break with her girlfriends. Leah’s friends love her idea and cannot wait until they reach their destination.

Cue the first of many erotic scenarios.

This genre is not exactly new to me, but it is one I don’t read that often. I am always sceptical about books that come under the erotic fiction genre, not because of the amount of sex that you read about, but because the action can often overtake the plot.

Our Time is a little heavy on the sex scenes, but I do feel they are necessary. They tell of each of Leah’s clients, their needs – and often these needs are highly complex – the exact nature of what they want. These parts read really well, in the format of emails they outlined everything that each client wanted, and then Leah’s response. I found that while the action in the sex department was quite intense, it did not swallow the plot up.

I feel that each character was believable – many of them had been too afraid to reach out and grab their fantasies before Leah had opened her business up, this came across really well and certainly did not read like an ex rated movie script. I could see why they wanted to engage Leah’s services and some of them were quite bashful about what it is that wanted.

My favourite client of Leah’s was a lawyer named Lisa. She needed a stand in boyfriend for a trip back home to her folks. I loved how the energy flowed between Lisa and Tony, and her whole family were very relatable.

I wanted to like Leah a whole lot more than I did. She clearly had issues and how she dealt with them were very in keeping with what had happened to her. For me, she lacked depth.

On the whole this book will appeal to lovers of Erotica and BDSM genres. It does have a lot of sex scenes in, but it is an erotic novel so it is to be expected. This book will definitely appeal to the readers of the Erotic fiction genre.

I will give it three stars as it was a fun book to read. ***