While this isn't exactly a rave, I just had to share
this review from the Circlet Press site about my cyberpunky erotic novel,
Painted Doll, if just for the touching Woody Allen line ...
Disguises
are as ancient as humanity. Think the biblical story of Tamar, who
masks herself as a harlot so as to seduce her father-in-law, or call to
mind every myth in which a god walks the earth in the guise of a
mortal. Or you might recall Bertilak de Hautdesert, who appears to King
Arthur and his men as the supernatural Green Knight. And is there any
play of Shakespeare’s in which a character does not, at some point, don
the garb of another to either comic or tragic effect?
In
most of these stories, the disguise is adopted freely, but what about
those cases in which an alternate personality is imposed upon someone
who is fully conscious of the fact? How will she handle it, especially
if her life, and the life of the one whom she loves, depends upon
maintaining this ill-fitting fiction every moment of every day? These
are the questions posed by M. Christian in Painted Doll: An Erotist’s Tale,
an erotist being a body artist who specializes in neurochemical paints
that evoke the purest emotion when applied to bare skin. The
particular erotist at the center of this story is Domino—cold,
calculating, and ultimately professional, the complete opposite of the
shy and awkward Claire Munroe, who she once was, before her underworld
boss Taka ordered her execution due to suspicion of theft. To escape
his clutches, Claire became Domino, while her lover, a woman named
Flower, fled to a commune in New Zealand. Though they yearn for each
other every waking and dreaming moment, they must remain apart lest
they attract the attention of Taka’s assassins, while Claire has to
play Domino to the hilt, mixing the demureness of the geisha with the
aloofness of one of the three Fates, even though every moment as Domino
kills a little more of Claire, the woman who wants nothing more than
to rest in her lover’s arms again and be safe.
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