Enjoyable enough

Another early erotica novel from Lawrence Block and another one which entertained me on the commute without being especially memorable, titillating or explicit.

A young woman, an encounter, confusion, acceptance, romance, a relationship, a wandering eye, jealousy, a break-up, a new partner, a death in the circle of friends, a test, a confirmation.

Not much else to say really. I do kind of scratch my head at the instant proclamations of love towards a partner you've only just met. It seems more a schoolyard playground occurrence, as opposed to something that happens with people in their mid-twenties, but why do I know about lesbians in the New York village fifty years ago.

Definitely of it's time with dollar bills dropped on bar tables to settles a drinks bill and a dollar plus change the price of a cab ride. (Or was that in one of the other Block/Emerson books I've listened to recently? They do tend to blur.)

Overall it did what it was supposed to - entertained. I didn't fall in love with any of the characters, I didn't find the main one too annoying. I was interested in her story, up to a point. I liked Block's writing and the pacing. I think I'd enjoy his writing irrespective of the subject he was writing about.

3 from 5

Read (listened to) - October, 2019
Published - 1965
Page count - 198 (4 hrs 47 mins)
Source - Audible download code received from author's assistant)
Format - Audible

http://col2910.blogspot.com/2019/10/lawrence-block-as-jill-emerson-warm-and.html

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