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"Portia Da Costa can always be relied on to deliver the erotic goods, and Hotbed doesn't disappoint...'Hot' is the operative word." --Forum
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
HOTBED is described on the cover as "Portia Da Costa's most shocking and arousing Black Lace novel yet" and this story shocks from the very first page. When Natalie returns to Redwych, she's amazed to discover that her staid old hometown has turned into a den of perversion and depravity. On top of this, no one is quite who or even what they seem. Take Stella for instance ... and they do! This is a gripping tale that invites the reader into a dark and thrilling world of sleaze, perversion and corruption. Every sexual boundary is crossed; every sexual fantasy is catered for. This book is a must for lovers of true erotica!
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Pass on this one.
29 May 2003
Format:Paperback
I've been buying and reading every Black Lace book as they come out each month for the past five + years. In all that time there have only been three books I did not finish. This is one of them. I read half of it and then tossed it. Why?
The heroine, Natalie, is not somebody I found I could empathize or identify with. I just plain didn't like her and didn't care what happened to her. None of the other characters are interesting because their personalities are not developed. The plot is not very compelling. Natalie is a reporter hoping to expose a local businessman's hidden illicit activities, but she's actually quite a hypocrite on this score. Most of the erotic activity falls into the kinky category, with lots of men in leather masks, beatings, and the like. Perhaps if a female reader is fascinated with the idea of having a sexual relationship with a transvestite this would be just the book to read.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Not Portia's best...
8 Jun 2004
Format:Paperback
I loved Portia Da Costa's The Tutor and Continuum and looked forward to reading Hotbed. This is one of the most shocking Black Lace novels I've ever read. And that's the problem with this novel. I think Ms. Portia Da Costa was more preoccupied with supplying a vast amount of shock value than she was of developing the characters and situations. Natalie is one of the weakest characters Portia's ever written. A London journalist, Natalie returns to her hometown of Redwych to do an expose on a clean-cut, moralist businessman. She suspects that he lives an illicit lifestyle that could ruin his golden boy image. In doing so she discovers a world of dark, lurid and kinky games she's never before witnessed. She also discovers that her half-sister and her new crop of sexual comrades have set her up. I don't know if it's the dominant transvestite, the attraction between the two sisters or what, but Hotbed is more about perversion than sensuality. The part in which Natalie has a rather steamy encounter on a train with a pseudo-academic is the only good erotic scene in this novel. The rest just isn't worth reading. It's a shame. The Tutor was such a great novel -- what happened to this author? I sure hope that the other novel I have of hers, Shadowplay, is better than this one.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Sizzler from Portia Da Costa more than comes our way ....
21 Feb 2002
Format:Paperback
Certainly way up there in the Black Lace vein we find our heroine, Natalie in a very very dark novel entering into a new relationship with her very much liberated half sister, Patti.
And what a relationship it is as Natalie finds Patti is now the exclusive seamstress of leather and spice for the somewhat beutifull transvestite social leader of a group of very very horny people led by Stella Fontayne....
What is great about the writings of this author is that she is able to take the impossible and make it delicious as Alex Hendry, one of our happy little characters soon finds out as he submits to Stella .....
Taking outwardly normal working folk and stripping them of their mostly false modesty while they not only submit but partake in sins of the flesh is what make this book really great .....
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