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Title: More of the same as the first in the trilogy.
Review: Jeremy Reed, Sister Midnight (Velvet, 1998)Woe be unto the person who feels the need, upon completing the first book of a trilogy, to go on and read the next two even when his reception of the first book was lukewarm at best. Sister Midnight is the sequel to Reed's novel The Pleasure Chateau, the latter being one of the few erotic novels to combine the worst elements of Anne Rice's unreadable Sleeping Beauty books with those of the "naughty" novels of J. K. Huysmans. It took me about five pages of Sister Midnight to realize it was going to be more of the same, but I continued until I hit the fifty-page rule before tossing it to the dustbunnies. If you liked The Pleasure Chateau (poor soul that you are), you'll certainly find much to enjoy here; unimaginative, mechanical sex scenes broken by pages of pendulous pontification. What fun. (zero)
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