Fluffers Inc by Hank Edwards has one of those characters that sticks in your brain. Charlie is a young farm boy from Idaho who lands in Los Angeles with a job to keep the porn stars ready for filming before and between takes.While the story is full of sex, there is still humor and interest in the way Charlie and his friends carry out their tasks.A light and enjyable read.

So this book gave me a few genuine laugh out loud moments and I liked the hints of 'something more' between Rock and Charlie, but overall, it felt very unfinished and unsatisfying. The info at the end says the author is/has written two sequels but I'm not sure I'm interested in plowing through that much smut for the tiny nuggets of plot. A good three quarters of the book was fucking and my eyes began to glaze over at the half-way point (and not the good kind of glazing over). Much of the sex was gratuitous, adding absolutely nothing to the story, and the book could have benefited from more plot (which would have rendered a sequel unnecessary).

PWPPH = Porn with plot plus humor.There is a lot of sex in these books, but surrounding that is a great yarn.I enjoyed reading “Vancouver Nights” as much as I did the other two in the series. By page seven, I had done enough laughing to justify buying the book and what was even better, the laughs continued right to the last page. Unusual in comedic books that often fizzle out half way through.Here the sex makes a welcome break to the comedy and vice versa.You don’t have to have read the previous two books about Charlie Heggensford to enjoy VN. In fact if you come across this one first, you can still enjoy reading them afterwards. In each book Hank has added to his great cast of characters. They come in all shapes, sizes – each an unforgettable addition to the team who work for Fluffers Inc.Hank introduces a new character here, Ming Ho. Her intro in the first chapter in an almost slapstick routine sets the tone for the rest of the book.To give Charlie a fresh, fertile field to play on, Hank manoeuvres him out of town and away from his work as a fluffer by having him inadvertently cause a strike in the porn industry. He is aghast to watch on the news as the porn stars:” carried picket signs and shouted, “Hell no, we won’t blow!” as they moved gracefully within their tight bike shorts and form fitted T-shirts and tank tops. Some of the signs read “Porn Stars Are People Too,” “We Don’t Get Paid, They Don’t Get Laid,” and “Porn Stars CAN Say NO!”Charlie has a reputation for courting disaster. If he’s not being a tad too enthusiastic in keeping a porn star hard for his next sex scene, he’s getting into all sorts of other mischief. He doesn’t go looking for trouble, trouble finds him.He escapes the scene by travelling up to Vancouver with another great new cast member: Canyon Collingwood, the four and a half foot truck driver who gives Charlie a ride in his truck. Sex with dolls takes on a whole new meaning with him.Throughout it all, Charlie is the same good natured country boy he was when we first met him two books ago. He puts his foot in his mouth regularly:“It’s always good to have someone similar to you in your life. It helps me feel less abnormal.”That of course is when he doesn’t have something more solid in there; something he can really suck on.Hank also includes all sorts of good medical advice like when Charlie gets hives from Endora the cat:“How ‘bout a blow job?” Brent asked, leaning in the bathroom doorframe with his beefy arms crossed over his bare, hairy chest. “Would that help clear your sinuses?”As far as Charlie is concerned a BJ cures everything.Inevitably, Charlie runs into the bane of his life, Cedric Wilmington: He did not want to be anywhere near Cedric ever again, he was an evil, lying, conniving bitch who had hated him on sight. Well, maybe because Charlie had just finished sucking off Rock Harding, Cedric’s lover at the time, but that had been an honest mistake! Poor Charlie, he’s pining for Rock and his nine inch dick, but in the meantime he’s happy to have sex with whoever takes his fancy, or should I say pants.The story has balls of every size. Sex in every position and location. While Charlie might be your average Idaho farm boy, the guys he has very vigorous encounters with are anything but average. In the course of the story, Charlie manages to take a nose dive into a barrel of severed hands, trip over a rotten step and end up flat on his back (a position he rarely finds himself in – too vanilla) he collides with a pole, and numerous other solid objects, get hives and has hamster shit smeared all over his face and later is covered in even worse excrement. So if even reading about animal faecal matter turns you off, just skip that bit. There is always something new, something different around the corner you just have to keep turning the pages to see what other misadventures will befall our hapless hero including an unusual way to get drunk on champagne and escape from bound wrists in a hostage situation.Throughout there are sentences, situations and characters to amuse. I liked this one:“Never underestimate the power of a lesbian on a sports team.”You just had to be there, though to really appreciate it.This is a story where you don’t have to be beautiful to star. Yes there are hot bods, but more than that, the characters have personality. They have life.His scenes also are very vivid. I asked Hank a few questions by email and will include these in an interview on my blog: http://www.abgayle.com/1/post/2010/12/vancouver-nights-hank-edwards.htmlIf you’re tired of reading the same old, same old and feel in need of a laugh while being entertained by a lively plot and enough kinky sex to keep the most jaded satisfied, do yourself a favour....