Tremble: Erotic Tales of the Mystical and Sinister by
Tobsha Learner My rating:
1 of 5 stars I'm being generous and rounding up the score to 2 stars from 1 1/2.
I did not find these stories to be either particularly well written or to have half-way decent story lines. Essentially, I felt that I was reading erotic versions of Goosebumps books.
The plot twists were ridiculously obvious from only a short way in to each story. It got to the point that I needed to only the first couple of pages of each in order to figure out the ending.
The character names were often just stupid. They may have been intentionally silly but I felt they seriously disrupted any potential flow in the story. They sounded like stupid insults you come up with after a night on the beer, of the douchnozzle and twatburger variety.
I found many of the female characters to be simply too manipulative and too subordinate. In some cases there was an explanation for this, such as religion, but I felt like there was no possibility allowed for a female to really take charge or not be a neurotic whiner (Madeleine in Hair Shirt particularly made me want to break things).
The only reason it got a half star was that The Custodian centered around Classical scholarship, at least initially, concerning one of my own areas of past study. Even then the story was incredibly predictable and I found myself thinking I should just skip to the end and that I wouldn't even be too upset about not reading the racier parts.
Sod it, I'm taking away the half star.
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