Read alongside [b:Boy Toy|733111|Boy Toy|Barry Lyga|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1272339482s/733111.jpg|719300] to get the full impact from both the student and teacher perspectives - recommended! Obviously not the same story, and their endings are drastically different, but they both ...
First and foremost, in the publisher’s own words Alissa Nutting’s debut novel, Tampa, is a serio-comedy. It is meant to be sexually explicit, reminiscent of American Psycho in the character’s psychology, and satirical about desire. It is not for the easily disturbed or sexually timid. The subject ma...
I used to live in the Tampa area for about 10 years, and I remember a very similar story in the news. Thinking the news story hit in the first few years of 2,000. I liked this fictional account of a woman pedophile, and all the uncomfortable questions it raises about how we view a sexual predator.
This is one of those books that's almost impossible to rate. What kind of rating do you give to a book with the most despicable of narrators, most unsettling descriptions of sex, but with the sharpest satirical descriptions, the most darkly humorous observations and a strangely engaging narrative? I...
Have you ever read a book that left you having no real feelings after finishing it? In the case of TAMPA by Alissa Nutting, it wasn’t so much that I felt nothing – it was because the book had creeped me out so much that by the end, I had no real emotions left one way or another. Let’s just be real –...
I walked away numb, to be honest. Celeste's sexual rapaciousness definitely provides some intense reading - and Nutting does a far better job at capturing sex than most authors (I sure hope Harper does something like "hey housewives, you think Fifty Shades was hot?") could ever hope to do. But wha...
A copy of Tampa was provided to me by Ecco/HarperCollins for review purposes.'The rage of lust was like an IV drip in my veins; I felt it beginning to spread inside me with the helpless awareness of someone realizing she's been slipped a drug.'Celeste has the intensity of a psychopath or even a seri...
Lucky receiver of an arc.Whoa. Hold onto your hats. Perverse, twisted & wrong in all the right ways. This book is not for the faint of heart. But if you enjoy a story about a sick sociopath, and I do, then this is a must read. Every page had me anxious & disturbed and wanting to see just how far eig...
Blogged at River City Reading:Alissa Nutting's forthcoming novel centers on Celeste Price, a first-year teacher with an intense sexual obsession with young teenage boys. With eerie precision, Celeste aligns each piece of her life to meet her sexual demands; she is well provided for by her wealthy hu...
This book is officially too explicit, too graphic, and too weird for me to finish. The things in this book are not okay. Legally the definition of child pornography is any visual depiction (real or manufactured) of a minor engaging in a sexually explicit act, but this author is overly skilled at d...
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