Midnight Butterfly

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Summary: Sweet book
Review: "Midnight Butterfly" is a sweet, moving story about a girl emerging as a woman. Under the tutelage of a high class call gorl and two angels form both heaven and hell, the protagonist Ellen is taught the ways of sex, seduction, and unfolding Will. The characters are all likable, and the story is a good blend of both Ellen's fantasies and her actual experiences. These scenes are all incredibly sexy, save for the fantasies which are intentionally cliche to show Ellen's moribund existance in a small town. The no boundaries attitude of the fantasies allows Ellen to discover her boundaries in actual life. They show that sex is more than mechanical copulation. There's an "everyone's sexy" outlook that is very empowering. Sexuality connects every aspect of Ellnen's life,and helps her find her ture place in the world. The book may be a little PC for some. Lloyd insistance on safe sex in nearly every scene proves a bit distracting. Overall, though, this is a great book about a someone discovering who they really are.

Recomended.

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Fabulous!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. Well-written, three-dimensional characters, hot, steamy sex.....what else could one ask for? My wife and I have been reading passages from this book to each other for days and really enjoying it. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who wants well-written adult erotica, brimming over with plot, character and verve. Joan Elizabeth Lloyd is easily the top eroticist writing today. Definitely pick this one up!

Rating:
Summary: Boring!
Review: I was concerned when I read that 30'ish something Ellen moved out of her little Northern town to the Big Apple after winning the lottery! The thought that it will take nothing less than a nuclear explosion for this girl to make her next move scared me, but, now, after finishing the book my worst fears were realized.

I guess if you like books about common people continuing to do somewhat common things, even after they win the lottery, then you'd probably like this book. The absolutely tantalizing thing about erotic stories is the illicitness of sex, the sin of it, and the delicious chase, seduction and final submission. This book skips those things, and dumps any real spontinaity as we are continuoulsy reminded that Ellen practices ONLY safe sex as we are treated to very vanilla like couplings.

Cute

Rating:
Summary: Warm and Wonderful
Review: I was so disappointed in this book. I had been looking forward to its release. I have read all of Joan Elizabeth Lloyd's books and have always enjoyed them. The sex was cold and rehearsed. There was no variety at all. I felt I had read the story line before in one of her other books.

Rating:
Summary: Boring!
Review: Maybe I'm lacking in imagination but the premise of a ghostly prostitute teaching Ellen the art of sensuality and showing her how to become a wine connoisseur hard to take. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. There were a few episodes that were good but overall I thought this book was boring and I had no trouble putting it down. I bought this book because I enjoyed Black Satin also written by this author. Read Black Satin.

Rating:
Summary: This is a very good book.
Review: The writing is excellent, the sex scenes highly erotic without falling into the trap of needing to be more and more outre in order to avoid repetition, the characters (mostly) believable and sympathetic.

I would have been happier with it if it didn't bring in semi-divine intervention in order to accomplish what doesn't, truly, require divine intervention. Had the main character learned to shed her inhibitions without the aid of a "guardian angel" ghost of a former call girl, and had the overly cutesy good and bad angels ("Angela" and "Lucy" -- please!!!) been left out, this would have been a five-star story. As it is, it was still interesting, but not as good as it could have been.

Rating:
Summary: Sensuous erotica!
Review: When I read erotic novels, I often let the lyrical and sensuous language take me to ecstatic proportions. Midnight Butterfly is one of said novels.

When Ellen Howard, a thirty-year-old aspiring artist, flies to New York City to work on her craft, she hadn't imagined that the journey she'd take would be one of steamy and uninhibited passion. Shy and insecure, Ellen is reluctant to enter a world she'd never fathomed. However, the aforementioned world opens doors to great possibilities...

Sensuous and imaginative, Midnight Butterfly will awake your senses as well as your mind. I highly recommend it.