Lori U. (oneangel) reviewed on 6/17/2005 + 43 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This book will definitely keep you reading it. It is really graphic, so it's not for anyone that is easily offended. Usually this book is in the "erotic" genre of books. I read it all in one sitting pretty much. The book, though, is in perfect condition. It read it once, very lightly.

Summary:
A scandalous bestseller in her native Italy, Melissa P.'s avowedly autobiographical novel recounts a Sicilian schoolgirl's erotic adventures. "I want love, Diary," she writes just before her 15th birthday. "I want to feel my heart melt, want to see my icy stalactites shatter and plunge into a river of passion and beauty." Love may be hard to find, but sex waits at every turn, and Melissa seldom says no. In calmly vivid prose, she describes the varieties of experience, beginning with her introduction to oral sex: "I now had it before my eyes, it smelled male, and every vein that crossed it expressed such power that I felt duty-bound to reckon with it." This same sense of duty mandates sex with a woman, sex with an older man, sadomasochistic sex, group sex. Although her mother tells an ill Melissa a fable about a princess, Melissa tells herself no fairy talesand therein lies the odd, potent purity of these pages.
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