As part of my continuing celebration of the re-release of my cyberpunk/erotic novel,
Painted Doll, here's a review of the book from Forum UK:
In
an unnamed Japanese city of the near future, Domino is a highly sought-
after erotist, who uses a combination of skilful words and paints
loaded with unforgettable sexual experience. However, the icily perfect
Domino is only a façade, an identity created to protect American Claire
from a killer who is on her trail. Meanwhile, Claire’s girlfriend,
Flower, has been sent to a hippy commune in New Zealand, also for her
own protection. The girls only have their memories, which they share in
increasingly explicit letters, to keep the relationship alive, but both
live in hope that one day they will be reunited...
The
Painted Doll is a dark erotic novel, set in a world where the United
States as we know them have been destroyed and the only safe haven is
the hi-tech world across the Pacific. M. Christian weaves a clever tale
of love and loss, slowly dripping in the details of Flower and Claire’s
back story as events builds to a startlingly unexpected conclusion.
Domino’s sessions with her clients are designed to explore how large a
part emotion plays in any sexual encounter, and as the men who visit her
as manipulated to climax by her words and her paints, she begins to
realise that it isn’t always the most obvious scenarios which will push
anyone’s erotic buttons. This is one for lovers of speculative fiction,
rather than the general reader, but it’s memorable and skilfully done.
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