This review is taken from The Tainted Lime Reviews Issue #39, by [email protected]
(/~TaintedLime/).
{ASSM} "Stood Up" by Dryad (MF, rom)
By Dryad <[email protected]>
http://assm.asstr.org/Year2002/36321
Lily is supposed to be on a blind date, but after waiting for a
long time at the restaurant, she realizes she has been stood up.
A man alone at the next table notices her predicament and invites
her over to share dinner with him.
We are then blessed with a long, idealistically romantic evening
with Lily and Antonio. They eat, they talk, they dance, and as
the sun is rising, they retire to Lily's bedroom.
Technically, the story is good, but the romance suffers from
being *too* perfect. And some of the key details of the evening
are skimmed over too lightly, which makes Lily's fall for the
strange man at the next table unconvincing. The sex, too, is
almost non-existent.
There are occasional moments of inspired writing, so it's clear
the author has some talent. It would be nice to see what Dryad
could accomplish with a stronger plot.
Rating: * * *
For those more used to Celeste's reviews, this means (in Tainted Lime's own
words:)
I read a few old Celestial Reviews, and since Celeste reviewed far more stories
than I have, perhaps an approximate mapping would be useful:
5 stars = high 10
4 stars = high 9 to 10
3 stars = 8 to 9
2 stars = 6 to 7
1 star = 5 or below
I do not intend to write reviews for one-star stories.
( quoted from
/~TaintedLime/issue-28.html
)