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peppermintheart's review
challenging
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest
pinknantucket's review
3.0
I actually read this a while ago but put off reviewing it because it's a naughty book and you'll all think I'm a pervert. I actually won this book (accidentally) in a Twitter competition (I didn't realise it was a competition) and this was just one of a whole pile of worthy books in the prize—including back issues of Meanjin and something about the history of language—look, I didn't BUY it, ok?—but guess which one I read first? That's right, the one that features incest and bestiality.The tagline for Triptych is "an erotic adventure" and it's not wrong. Three interlinking stories of people seeking intimacy, in places I suspect the majority of us don't look.
Now, the themes are a bit full on and are not going to be for everyone, and if you only like a little bit of sex in your books this is not for you because it is pretty much ALL sex, but really the sex is very well done. Certainly it leaves the sex scenes in "Lady Chatterley's Lover" for DEAD. There are a lot of uncomfortable, weird & sometimes roflsome sex scenes in books, but Kneen writes it honestly, somehow—she doesn't use phrases like "glistening manhood", for example (G.R.R Martin take note). But I believe I might have already mentioned that it is not your vanilla, missionary-position-style sex, so don't say I didn't warn you. Towards the end I was a bit, like "Juices? Really? Again? Are there other words for "juices"?" and I remain amazed at what some women can apparently fit into their personal cavities, but if one role of books is to understand something of how people less boring than yourself live then this book certainly achieves that.
Now, the themes are a bit full on and are not going to be for everyone, and if you only like a little bit of sex in your books this is not for you because it is pretty much ALL sex, but really the sex is very well done. Certainly it leaves the sex scenes in "Lady Chatterley's Lover" for DEAD. There are a lot of uncomfortable, weird & sometimes roflsome sex scenes in books, but Kneen writes it honestly, somehow—she doesn't use phrases like "glistening manhood", for example (G.R.R Martin take note). But I believe I might have already mentioned that it is not your vanilla, missionary-position-style sex, so don't say I didn't warn you. Towards the end I was a bit, like "Juices? Really? Again? Are there other words for "juices"?" and I remain amazed at what some women can apparently fit into their personal cavities, but if one role of books is to understand something of how people less boring than yourself live then this book certainly achieves that.
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