Coquette
N, translated by Nelli ReesErotic fiction
Available from Phaze
ISBN: 1-59426-956-4
April 2007
| Sally Smith is in charge of keeping her family safe while George, her politician husband goes out and about campaigning. Their eighteen year old daughter Laura, who's a jazz singer, seems to have fallen for a Machiavellian drug lord named Viktor Lazarev. The more Sally finds out the more she decides she has to develop a plan to keep her daughter from being pulled into his evil clutches.
N, the nom de plume of a Russian writer, gives us a great tale of how far a mother may go to protect her family. George seems pretty hopeless as an ally in helping her daughter. He's too busy pontificating about what everyone else should do and wooing the voters. Sally is a great character. She's part laid back politician's wife, part lioness when it comes to protecting her cubs. Viktor is just evil but he has a weakness that Sally is all too ready to exploit. He isn't even half as smart as he thinks he is. The author does a great job setting up Viktor for his Waterloo. She makes sure Sally is resourceful, smart and thinks of everything so her plan doesn't backfire. Of course Viktor is so sure he has Sally over a barrel with threats against Laura that he allows his hormones to do his thinking for him until it's too late. There's just something about a really nasty ending to an evil villain that I think is great reading. This one is a lot of fun.
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Reviewer: Dee Dailey |
