Erotic Book Review of COERCION by LUX ZAKARI
Reviewed by Peter Rosier
Respectable Valerie Mercer is starting her final year at Kenton College in small town USA. Conscious that she never attracted the boys in high school or now at college, she has dieted and exercised until her shape is far more svelte, although she's not convinced. Her long legs are definitely one of her best features, especially when emphasized by a short skirt. On her return to college, this new look is noticed by Daniel, a nice guy who secretly yearns for Valerie.
But she also attracts someone she hadn't thought to see again, local bad boy and high school dropout Michael Vartanian. Returning to education certainly isn't Michael's idea but his pastor father considers that his son's lifestyle choice of pumping gas, cruising the back roads in his truck buzzed with drugs and screwing his girlfriend Breeze, and others too, isn't a viable long-term option.
Kim Breza, Breeze, is not pleased with Michael's sudden attraction to Valerie; something he makes unsubtly clear by dropping his aviator shades by Valerie's feet in class and taking a good long look at her legs whilst picking them up.
The story hinges on what will happen in their relationship. Will Valerie settle after all for nice, but boring, Daniel, hitch up with dropout Michael or...what? This being the last year of college after which everyone will go their own way, time is running out.
The strength of this story is undoubtedly in its vivid descriptions of hot sex and the urgency which outweighs any consideration for caution. The first time Michael approaches Valerie they are in the college parking lot where, very quickly, her sweater is up around her shoulders and her panties on the ground, her bare ass being nipped by the cold metal of the car's side panels. Maybe it is too easy to think that an intelligent girl like Valerie would never seriously consider a loser like Michael as an appropriate partner but love (or lust) is like that. Opposites really can attract. Certainly her friends give her plenty of warnings but love is blind. If someone is going to get hurt, will it be her?
The story is set in the mid 1970s but, since the kids swear, smoke marijuana, piss off their teachers and at least try to have sex as often as possible, it could just as easily have been set today. However, choosing the seventies has a big advantage: at that time, nice girls didn't shave “down there”. Sure enough, there are a number of references to Valerie's curly pubic hair and Michael looking at her dark triangle. Whether this was the intention or not, it certainly adds another rich dimension to this erotic feast. And that is especially true for someone like your reviewer who experienced some of his most exciting formative sex in that decade and for whom it brings back all those hot, sticky memories.
Hot and sticky are what the kids are, too, in this memorable first novel by Lux Zakari. Read Coercion and you are transported to days of randy sex, both real and in fantasies. Lux keeps the pace up and the storyline flowing as she juggles the lives and fates of her characters. Who might like this book? If you are a college-age chick with dreams of sex with the local badass, then this book is surely for you. If you are the boyfriend of a college chick who might just be entertaining such ideas, then give her this book, buy some aviator shades and engineer boots and stand by for blast off. If you are somewhat older but not necessarily more mature, then you'll dig this blast into your past.
Coercion by Lux Zakari is available from Lyrical Press
Copyright August 31, 2011
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