If you want to get a feel for her style, just imagine a slightly more sophisticated version of Penthouse Forum.
Then, interpolate a dense, urban and largely African-American setting into the preexisting dialogue, which revolves almost exclusively around having wild, freaky, sexual experiences.
If you're interested in Arts & Letters and not simply getting a cheap thrill, then there are much more compelling novels and anthologies out there.
Personally, I was disappointed by Catherine Millet's memoir, The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
My main problem with her book was that it had an almost antiseptic quality to it, which leached it of any intrinsic eroticism or sensuality. Of course, Millet herself admitted that this dryness was essential to her story, which focused almost exclusively on the meaninglessness of (most of) her sexual encounters prior to meeting her current lover/boyfriend.
Still, I don't think that argument exculpates her from the charge that she was trying to titillate readers by regaling them with her sexual escapades, which were rendered in the most asexual and unappealing manner.
An hilarious book, if you folks are interested in reading something that focuses on the more humorous aspects of male-female congress, is MY SECRET LIFE: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London.
This is one of those books that, whether intentionally or not, will make you break out into hysterics, simply because some of the scenarios described in its pages are so ridiculous. Even the subheadings below each numbered chapter, which are much too explicit to reprint here, are too funny for words.
As for "ZANE", I'll say this much for her. She's had a very profitable career by tapping into a market that had heretofore been ignored by mainstream publishing houses.
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Like who really cares about these sexual conquests anyway fiction or real??
Every woman has her own story. :-)
Which of her books have you read?
Thanks for the critique.
And to think, for all these years I was reading the 'handy hints' section of Readers Digest for thrills! ;-)