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Now, I'm not a fan of Tucker Max, but one of the only scenes I've ever read of his was the infamous sex to poop scene. You tell me if this is gratuitous or not: Two huge smears of shit which, as she noted herself one hour later, were the precise shape of fingers hurriedly wiped across the sheets. After reading this book, I almost feel the need to want to award Lolita with an extra star.

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Nabokov, this was not. Love him or hate him, at least Nabokov brought something intriguing with his delivery of a story about a man and his nymphette. First off, a 20 year old grown woman who's a self-admitted whore, flappy vagina and all chasing a 45 year old man is not even close to being the same thing as Lolita and Humbert. Secondly, just because a woman chooses to stalk someone on Facebook for all of a few days does not even come close to the torture of what Humbert dealt with inside of his head. The comparison is so off, it's ridiculous.

What really frustrates me is that I was so excited about this book within the first few chapters and I honestly thought we had a winner here. The language started off as absolutely beautiful: Even the fingers lingering on the back of my neck felt clothed, elegant, and relaxed. For a few minutes they fluttered all the way down to my spine, caresses I had never experienced before, disturbingly reaching for the depths of my soul.

Paris held its breath. The detailed descriptions of how the events were set in motion as well as the reflections of the past were beautiful. This book could have been spectacular. The earliest character conversations over the computer and phone about books and sexual pleasures were captivating. The initial meeting in the hotel room was thrilling - they didn't even turn to face each other when he crawled into bed I loved the mystery of it all.

Then the story just deteriorated into a book made up of nothing but lust, raunchy sex and "should we or shouldn't we? Erotic literary fiction - no.

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I didn't find this book to be sexy or arousing in any way. True to life fiction - maybe? I noticed the main character was named Ellie Becker. The author of this book is named Emma Becker. The main character in the book is writing a book about her Monsieur, the man she was having an affair with. Perhaps, there's a chance that the author wrote a true-to-life account of a sordid affair? It could be a wild guess, but it appears that the author might match up in age to her female protag Sadly, this book turned out to be nothing but a tale of a man with an asshole fetish.

If anything could go there, it went there, hah. Please don't misunderstand me. If this had been a "fetish" book, I might not have felt the need to continue this review with the notes I added under comment number 2 below, as well as the inappropriate pic in comment number 3.

But this book is being marketed as some sort of spin on Lolita and I expected more than a year in the life of a girl obsessed with a man who liked dirty sex.

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This book was provided from the publisher through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. View all 32 comments. After managing to avoid the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon completely, an erotic novel wasn't at the top of my reading wishlist. I was intrigued by a couple of reviews I've read of this on book blogs I follow, though - one absolutely tore it to pieces, the other was very positive. Then it was reduced to 99p in the Kindle sale and I just thought, why not?

It's always interesting to give a different type of story a try, and the first couple of pages grabbed my attention as I immediately liked the After managing to avoid the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon completely, an erotic novel wasn't at the top of my reading wishlist. It's always interesting to give a different type of story a try, and the first couple of pages grabbed my attention as I immediately liked the narrator's voice.

Monsieur is ostensibly the story of an affair between Ellie, a twenty-year-old student, and 'Monsieur', a married plastic surgeon who is twenty-six years her senior. It may have been widely described as an erotic novel but it's only really erotic in the sense that a the sex scenes are very graphic, and b the narrator is always thinking about sex. The majority of the story is actually about the aftermath of their affair - Ellie angsting and wringing her hands over why Monsieur is ignoring her and how things could have been different.

Oh, and because he's told her to she is also writing a book about their time together, which is called, you guessed it, Monsieur. I loved the very beginning of the book: Ellie encounters Monsieur's eldest son unexpectedly, thinks about all the ways she could potentially introduce herself to him but doesn't dare to speak, and ends up sobbing, alone, on the train.

I was instantly captivated and wanted to know the backstory, the whole messy tale of how Ellie had ended up here. Unfortunately, I didn't really get that. Instead I got some detailed sex scenes most of which aren't very sexy , pages and pages of Ellie and Monsieur texting each other! It's clear that Ellie has an unhealthy obsession with Monsieur but rather than addressing why , the story throws up so many questions that just don't get answered.

Most importantly, why is she even bothered about him? He treats her pretty terribly, is always either patronising her, manipulating her, or ignoring her - often more than one at the same time. On top of that, he doesn't even satisfy her sexually, and she has a bewilderingly large collection of other lovers who she seems to be getting more enjoyment out of.

Obviously, she wouldn't be the first woman to fall in love with a horrible man, but I didn't feel like the book was doing anything to explain to me why this would have been the case here. It's hard not to see Monsieur as partly autobiographical when you learn that the author is in her early twenties - and she's given the narrator the same last name as her as well as a very similar first name.

Given that knowledge, it's hard to tell whether certain aspects of the protagonist's character have been created deliberately - which would make it a better book - or whether this is the author talking about herself - which would make it worse.

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On top of the problems with how the relationship is portrayed, Ellie isn't a very likeable person. She's unbelievably self-centred and her naivete is extraordinary, all of which makes her seem more like a spoilt child than a woman in the throes of a meaningful affair. Of particular note is the fact that she seems to take Monsieur calling her 'my love' to mean that he's in love with her, and she is bizarrely naive about some aspects of sex and relationships for someone who seems to think of nothing else.

If the character's identity didn't seem so close to the author's then I would assume we were supposed to see Ellie as almost comically gullible and childlike, but I could never be sure. I really like stories about all-consuming affairs, difficult relationships and the marks they leave on the people involved. For example, Anna Raverat's Signs of Life , one of my favourites of , would fit into that category, and it's this kind of story I was hoping for from Monsieur. I was never all that bothered about the sex scenes either way - it wasn't the promise of erotica that drew me to this book, although if they'd been good they would have added some much-needed spice to the story.

As it happened, they were okay: Becker actually seems to be better at portraying sexual tension and anticipation, most evident in the scenes between Ellie and Lucy, a female friend she finds herself attracted to, but sadly there wasn't enough of this. Becker definitely has talent: It's just a shame those glimmers of good writing weren't put to better use.

If you want a brilliantly written story about a destructive affair, read Signs of Life. If you want a good erotic novel, well, I'm not really sure what I'd recommend, but it wouldn't be this. View all 3 comments. Oct 17, Leish rated it did not like it Shelves: I seriously don't know how to even write this review right now. I'm still in shock over what I just read. This book was high on my list in terms of expectations and man, did it fail me in every way possible.

I actually had to read this book in sections because I just couldn't get past a lot of stuff. The first pages shocked me, and not in a good way.

I was expecting the writing to be more along the lines of Nikki Gemmell, but instead was shocked to find it more like E. James, but slightly I seriously don't know how to even write this review right now. James, but slightly better written. I've never heard the word cunt used so much with regards to sexy times.

Seriously, it's basically on every page. Maybe a thesaurus, Ms. She did call it a jewel case once. The language is also so strange to me. Ellie and Monsieur speak so formally to each other, it is really pretentious sounding. The way they wrote to each e-mails was bizarre. Not the act of writing e-mails, but the style of language used. I can safely say that both characters were close to getting punched in the face by me These are two vile humans that I would never associate with in real life.

Neither one had a redeemable quality. I also made the mistake of reading parts of this book while eating my lunch. Do not do it. I've also decided that Monsieur gross is really into ass-play What grossed me out while I was eating?

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It involves shit on the sheets. We'll just leave it at that. Overall, I just found this book incredibly cringe-worthy. I was embarrassed to be reading it in public and I'm sure my facial expressions gave it away. Becker, the tampon thing has already been done in 50 Shades of Grey. It's still not sexy. This book was provided for review on Confessions of a Bookaholic. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Ellie is a bored and restless 22 year old university student. It was suggested to Ellie that she should contact her uncles work colleague, Monsieur, as they both share a love of erotic literature.

Ellie was thrilled to find someone to whom she could talk too, so she made the decision to connect with Monsieur through email. Initially their exchange was harmless, all about books and writing. It all seems perfectly fine, but the problem is Monsieur is 46 years old, married and with children. Then one day, out of the blue, everything starts crumbling down.

She is an amazing and imaginative erotic writer; the passion was exhilarating when the couple first met and when it needed to be , and so selfish, dark and fierce when the relationship was coming to an end. Will he be back? The only beef I had with this book was one incident. Was she planning to shock her readers? Hearing it being described in full detail turned out to be vile, and put a slight damper on the book. Ms Becker is such a brave and honest writer, and I admire her for that, but in this case she went a bit overboard.

I really like this book. I think Ms Becker is a gifted writer and will have a great future ahead of her, should she continue to write. Sexualmente explicito, no tiene pelos en sus palabras. De hecho, a veces la lengua en este libro es cruda. Es un libro fascinante e inquietante, muy bien escrito y, a veces casi filo Brutalmente honesto. As we stand on the earth the sky is above us, and we observe it as concave and not convex. When Coronelli issued in a new edition of the celestial globe with fewer names of constellations, he put the proposed innovation into practice by producing the globe in two versions, convex and concave.

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