REVIEWS OF SETTLING THE SCORE
Jane, for Forumsociety.com, wrote: Good read and some horny language
The June 2003 review in LIBIDO,the Journal of Sex and Sensibility, read: Birch's novel is a fun romp and bound to pick up the spirits of bored plane and train commuters.
Lorrie Summers, for the Venus Bookclub, wrote: When eight friends attend a party where nothing is taboo, sexual fervor runs fampant. But two brutal murders in their small Michigan town will have each friend wonder if they just slept with a murderer . . . it's an X-rated mystery for adults only!
Ellen Johnson, on Fuckfish.com, wrote: With characters and foundations for a plot firmly in place, Birch puts together a creditable murder mystery, heavily laced with some seriously good sex. With such an investment in character and plot, Birch gives the sex a significance and interest that few erotic books achieve.
One Reader wrote: Kudos for Robert Birch's Sexy Suspense Novel! Finally here: A can't-put-down who-done-it thriller that is filled with graphic "sizzling hot" images, credible lifelike situations, and interesting characters described in realistic case-study features, which creates captivating introductions as the story unfolds.
In this racy full-length novel, readers become intimately acquainted with each character, perhaps due to Birch's case-study style of introductions (which is always an interesting read; right?) -- although just when you think you know all the juicy (and sexy!) details on everyone, Wham!! The culprit of the crime is a definite surprise...which is what a successful mystery is all about.
Fellow readers, sit tight, fasten your seatbelts, and pay attention...this is a fun ride! Highly recommended -- but also not for the squeamish: Robert Birch utilizes his knowledge as a sex therapist throughout the book and few people will walk away from this read without learning a thing or two...or three. Fun, fun, fun!!
Another reader described SETTLING THE SCORE as: Fun, dirty and absorbing. The author does a nice job of weaving erotic fiction with a complex and tightly-knit murder mystery plot. In too many erotic novels, the sex is gratuitous and the plot merely a lame excuse for the sex scenes. In "Settling the Score," though, Birch, a sex therapist, not only has his characters linked by their varied and realistic past and present sexual liasions, but explores the way that each character's sexuality became what it is and relates that to each character's overall personality and actions in the novel. The sex is organic to the action.
I liked the variety of the sex scenes and his ability to sensitively portray, among others, the shy, the repressed, those looking for love, the twisted and all sorts of real human types.
In describing the novel another reader wrote: This is a compelling and sexually provocative mystery as told by a cast of substantive characters. The author has skillfully infused this fictional tale with humor and intrigue, all the while providing us with real insight into human/sexual nature that this reader has found extremely fascinating, and helpful.
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