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The Bookworm: Spice it Up with 'Decadence'

“Decadence” by Eric Jerome Dickey
c.2013, Dutton $25.95 / $28.50 Canada 368 pages

You’ll try anything once. You’re daring when it comes to a new restaurant, new clubs, new fashion, pretty much anything. Something different for your plate? Bring it on. An activity you’ve never done before? You head the line. New technology? They call you First-Adopter.

Being open to new adventures keeps life fresh and exciting. And as you’ll see in the new novel “Decadence” by Eric Jerome Dickey, embracing new experiences can also fulfill fantasies.

Nia Simone Bijou was feeling restless. It had been six weeks since she last saw her lover and Nia Simone applied for membership to Decadence, a private exclusive swingers club four hours away from her Smyrna, Georgia, townhouse.

The club’s fees were astonishing, the medical process was thorough and the interview was long and deeply personal, but Nia Simone had nothing to hide. She was used to being naked in front of others and she wasn’t afraid to describe her fantasies. She wanted new experiences. The club rules were simple and very little was off-limits.

On her first visit, she turned from Watcher to Doer. Decadence was a lover’s playground but, while Decadence was everything Nia Simone needed it to be, it wasn’t as anonymous as she’d hoped. Her first love, her first heartbreak, a man who was still a fist to her gut when she thought about him was in the club. And watching him please that woman brought Nia Simone a white-hot anger and a need for revenge.

Looking for a different Shades of Gray? You might find it here, so bring your oven mitts. “Decadence” is hot with a capital “H.” It fairly blisters with explicitness – but it’s also relentless. The author starts the action literally on the fourth word of this novel and he barely lets up until the end of the book.

That relentlessness sometimes made me lose interest, which is when I started noticing a handful of words that are overused to the point of silliness, and a main character that speaks in tedious, faux-poetic metaphors. To the good, though, there’s a thin plot in this book – which is better than some I’ve read in Dickey’s erotica collection. But really, let’s be honest: the plot isn’t why you’d want this book in the first place, right?

In case you didn’t catch on, this book is for adults only and shouldn’t even be kept in the same room with kids. If you’ve got that covered, then go ahead and give “Decadence” a try.
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The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 12,000 books. Her self-syndicated book reviews appear in more than 260 newspapers.

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