Author Sharazade wrote an awesome review for my novel Finale for Oysters & Chocolate! An excerpt:

…I wouldn’t call Finale “erotica.” You could take the sex out entirely (not that you should—I’m just saying that it would be possible), and you’d still be left with a good novel. What you have, then, is a novel with explicit, hot sex scenes that are not themselves the heart of the book. The heart is relationships, but there are so many more than just the one between the central female protagonist and the male protagonist…

The first hot scene doesn’t even end in sex—it’s an intense tease. That’s what makes the erotic tension so believable, that it’s not a perfect mating every time; rather, the physical urges are sometimes enough to overcome the emotional barriers, and then sometimes they aren’t. While I said that it would be possible to move the sex offscreen and still have a strong novel, it would also be a weaker novel if Zakari had done that. The sex is hot and believable, and serves to answer the question, “But then what would they see in each other?” Sometimes the physical is what you see in someone. I think we’ve all been there. You feel the frustration of knowing that they could be good for each other if only she didn’t… if only he hadn’t… if only she would… but I think we’ve all been there too…

There’s too much angst in this book for it to be “chick lit,” though it’s easy to read in the same way as that sort of contemporary fiction because the plot is compelling. It’s hopeful and compassionate, in the end, but with some grit to it.

Thank you, Sharazade, for such a thoughtful, in-depth review!

To purchase Finale, visit http://www.amazon.com/Finale-ebook/dp/B005IGUPCO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330646985&sr=8-1.

To read the review in full, visit http://www.oystersandchocolate.com/Articles/2379/FinaleABookReview.aspx?StoryID=2379.

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Lux Zakari
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