All my reviews
- All women are snakes?
- An old Italian clunker
- A comet in the dark
- Cyber Sex in Kew
- The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
- An essential modern masterpiece
- Respectably Sexy
- A complete appreciation of the usual
- War and Peace
- Ferrante Fever
- I no longer fear death
- Making beauty out of chaos
- Easier swallowed than a flapdragon
- Perfect English Pronunciation
- Missing the point in a big way
- Why I’m ready to throw in the towel
- Sweet and juicy
- Fuck the Prose
- Trials of Life
- How to write a professional book review
- A class act
- A Sterephonic Symphony of Sex
- Indecent Victoriana
- We possess nothing certainly except the past
- A deluge of orgasms
- How to Survive a Heatwave (Really!)
- Do we really want men reading this stuff?
- Scorching prose
- Quick, before it melts…
- Devilishly hot erotica
- America’s revenge on Britain
- 886
- Mind-altering fiction: not for the faint-hearted
- A beautiful novel riddled with meanings
- One of my wettest experiences
- An old-fashioned killing
- More intimate than the internet
- Raw lesbian stories
- My next big thing
- Beware social asphyxia
- How to write hot erotica
- Land of Hope
- 800
- Immersed in a beautiful world
- Very Kinky
- Was this monster-man rape really turning me on?
- Exquisite tortures and pretty girls
- The finer points of a big, muscly bum
- The lure of Antarctica
- Beware of Marriage
- I surrender
- My inner goddess was doing the merengue
- Paranoid encounter of the Twitter kind
- Sex New York Style
- Beating la chamade: something only French hearts do
- Pure Cannibalism!
- The public hiss at me
- Impressed by the furious wanking
- Too funny for words
- I have a little list… I have a little list
- Teetering on the edge of a precipice
- Get it free!
- Brutal gang rape missed by Paypal’s censors
- Be a hero, take drugs and seduce your cousin
- Beyond all limits?
- Twisting my knickers off
- Tinkering with the Conan Doyle canon
- Farewell My Concubine
- A wordless poem, a silent sonata: 64 pages in 4/4 time
- Free books don’t come cheap
- An erotic incest story that escaped Amazon’s ban
- Think lean!
- Give the pleasure dial a twirl!
- How it feels to be Chinese
- Ring in the new year with some sensational books
- The ambiguity of sin
- How to get your novel reviewed
- The taming of primeval sexual urges
- The Panama Laugh had me in stitches for days
- Buy this for its feel and heft and smell
- Why I didn’t like doing cocaine and bad sex with this gifted madman
- The best cure for self-abuse
- Compulsory reading for all writers
- An open-minded, free-thinking, storyteller
- An old-fashioned English romp in the hay
- A sparkling erotic gem
- A few dollops of English sauce
- The facts about Asian sex
- Surreal Sex for Intellectuals
- How it feels to become a woman
- Does your fiction need an enema?
- Literatus non-interruptus
- A dark vampire lover who needs to get out more
- A valuable lesson for all aspiring novelists
- Rumour, truth and lies in book reviews
- Uninspired chick lit espionage
- The Salvador Dali of Prose
- Have a big box of tissues handy
- Off the scale of brilliance
- Poems are a gift that should not be valued lightly
- Staying alive
- Salem’s Lot: an acquired taste
- Worthy of some sort of award
- Guilt-free sex
- How I came to love my flatmate’s incoherent ramblings
- Meet Josee Renard
- Far-out fantasies that gave me a lot of pleasure
- Akutagawa on Sacher-Masoch
- Should your heroine’s knickers have a gusset?
- A landscape of absolute peace
- Hanging my head in shame
- The nastiest and most sadistic writing of our day
- Look who’s coming!
- One of the most erotic passages in all of literature
- How to improve your style
- I could double your sales, Mr. Grossman
- Learning how to become vulnerable
- The heart of an immense darkness
- Cruel and beautiful
- Neverwhere from here, there and everywhere
- Surprisingly literate
- My award goes to …
- I’ve received an award!
- This tickled my fancy
- Irresistibly seductive?
- Rape, murder, galloping gonorrhea and suicide
- Had me in stitches
- We are lucky to have her
- A persistent process of erotic self-discovery
- I Was Bitten by an Angry Wasp
- There’s nothing sleazy about this sleazy dress
- Turbo charge your erotica
- Vintage Paranormal BDSM
- Authors, build a personality!
- Frivolous, lewd and funny
- Not enough sex I’m afraid
- Grave robbing
- Disappointing bedtime stories
- Advice to a writer of modern romance
- Do not try this at home!
- Creative writing as a form of rehab
- Pretty when she cries
- Simple language that caresses your ears
- Ripe for the plucking
- What novels were invented for
- Confusing fragments of Chinese life
- A flair for melodrama and the macabre
- Love Has No Limits
- Sinister Mr. Conan Doyle
- Exquisitely erotic Joyce
- Sensual and precocious
- Forbidden Love in China
- An intriguing Malaysian story
- Like bad anal sex
- The purest erotica I’ve ever read
- Lost in admiration
- A seminal book
- Editor wanted
- Stephen King’s prime rule on writing
- Awakening sensuality
- A serious book about love
- How to love, western style
- Enter Alison’s Wonderland
- Not dirty enough for me
- Hot but not Chinesey enough for me
- Bedtimes have never been so good
- Spit and polish
- Not what I would have done
- Sex you’d rather forget
- A literary tease
- Four women who have touched me
- A Russian in Berlin
- Grisly and not at all sexy
- A bitter pill
- Candy floss
- Pandering to misconceptions about China
- Longer lasting than lemonade
- The etiquette of masturbation
- In favour of porn
- Aroused but not satisfied
- Sad but beautiful
- Beware used condoms
- Venus in Furs
- A special writer
- Is this a love story?
- Pulse
- Nothing to be ashamed of
- The Darker Sex
- Forever Amber
- All Passion Spent
- A captive in his arms
- In the grip of love
- Sharing something hot!
1 | TLS
July 3, 2012 at 8:39 am
I love your reviews as they make me belly laugh and I’m not a belly laugh kind of lady. I prefer to give a barely noticable grin to the smart and amusing. I have no control over myself when reading your blog. Thank you for that, I’ve been told I’m to uptight and lack a sense of humor now I have something to show the nitwits that find me humourless and dry. Jackasses every last one of them.They don’t know funny or smart.
Vanessa
July 3, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Thank you! I’m so glad you appreciate the humour. My flatmate laughs a lot but not at my blog. I don’t think she’s ever read it. She laughs at lots of things but most recently it’s been at a Chinese soap that she watches on her laptop while I am writing edifying prose next door for your amusement. I don’t know if you could call her laugh a belly laugh. It’s certainly an ear-piercing laugh.