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Heather Hunter

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The bargain bin at betterworldbooks.com can be both a pain in the neck and a wonderful place to visit all at the same time. You see, it's great for finding hidden treasures but then there's so much to choose from that I can spend hours browsing through them. In turn, that leads to fatigue and fatigued I was when I choose 'Insatiable' as one of my '5 for $15'. I was so fatigued that I didn't realize this was a novel and I thought I was buying a biography. In a way I was getting a biography though as this novel is a mixture of life experiences mixed with fiction; the type of book where the names have been changed to protect the guilty.
The story follows the rise to fame in the adult industry of Simone Young (the fictional Heather Hunter if you will) and the path she took to get there. Simone starts out as a naive young woman with strong sexual desires and through the lure of money begins to act upon those sexual desires. At first the sex for money is in the form of prostitution, albeit more high class prostitution, and she progresses from there into exploring her own sexuality, becoming a stripper and on into adult movies. Even though she starts her journey by prostituting it was very much glamorized and that glamorization is evident throughout the book to the point that the story lacks realism. Even if the events portrayed actually occurred I doubt they were all the wonderful experiences that they're depicted to be.
One of the aspects of the writing which I disliked was the constant descriptions of the female vagina being narrated as anything other than a vagina. They were numerous from beginning to end. I mean, really, when in the real world do women refer to their vagina as their "treasure chest", "forbidden fruit" or "kitty-kat"? And the descriptive masterpieces kept on coming. Yeah, intended joke. How about this description of a guy's penis, "It was thick and long and perfectly tanned, as if it had been strategically placed on an Italian beach at high noon." Or how about his "licorice candy", "meaty pistol" or "hard torpdeo"? It was all too much for me and instead of the sexual scenes being arousing, as I'm sure they were intended to be, I was taken out the book by the descriptions.
The sexual scenes in the book are often very graphic which is in contrast to the pictures that grace each chapter of the book. Bar one picture, each chapter begins with a full paged photograph of Heather Hunter. Oddly, they're all very much PG rated which seemed strange considering it's very graphic in the literary content and Ms Hunter has made her fame as a porn star. My only interpretation of this would be that the publishers decided that a nude, or in action, Heather Hunter might turn off a female audience and so decided to keep things tasteful. It's in this assumption, as well as the glamorization of the writing, that I'm left somewhat confused as to who the projected audience is for this book. Being a female porn star you would think men would have primary interest in Heather Hunter but the writing is definitely written from, and aimed at, a female perspective. It appears then that both male and female audiences were being targeted but with more of an emphasis on making the story appealing to the women and the lure of Heather Hunter being used as the bait to reel in the men. Guess I solved my own confusion.
Overall, this isn't a bad novel. It was a novel that just wasn't really for me. Michelle Valentine is a good writer whose style romanticizes the rise of Simone to that of a porn star. I would have preferred the novel to have been more gritty and realistic but ultimately I guess I was just one of those fish caught in Heather Hunter's fish net lured there by an eye catching book cover.
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