This novel takes diverse situations, such as incestous feelings for a sibling and a one-night stand with somebody else's boyfriend, and explores the feelings of those relationships.

Characterization is really poor. In the first chapter of the book, I constantly hear how 'nice' and 'shy' Christian is but I actually never see it. And if he is so 'nice' and 'shy', then why is he cheating on his girlfriend? Also, while I realize that the author has made the fact that this is a contemporary novel, I do not think that a chat transcript in a novel is a very good stylistic choice. Very hesitant to recommend this book, but I realize this was not the kind of book I would actually buy. ( )

First of all, I have to say that I really enjoyed this book.
4Play is a delightful group of stories written with a raw feel that is refreshing from other books.
My favorite stories were: The Devilin Fey, Wicked Lovely, and Oral Fixation.
The idea of the Incubus was thrilling to read, as I had already had a fixation with Succubi.
I also enjoyed that there was a Succubus story included.
All in all, this book was a fantastic read, incorporating IM's text messages, and normal everyday words, to make it fun and easy to read. ( )

My experience reading the content of this book was, unfortunately, marred by my experience in attempting to read the layout.

It comes as a PDF, which is fine with me - I've read several PDF books on my iPod Touch now. But even as a PDF (or *especially* as a PDF) a book needs certain tools to help the reader along, like page numbers and a linked table of contents.

When I pulled this book into the Stanza app on my iPod Touch, I noticed at least 3 factors that would affect my reading:
1. For some reason, the title on the PDF shows as "June 9, 2008: My Sad Life" instead of the advertised "4:Play". I switch between books on Stanza and it takes me a little bit every time I see "My Sad Life" to remember that it is, in fact, a completely different book.
2. The Table of Contents only list "Part 1, Part 2..." instead of the story names. I like to skip around in a book, especially in a short story collection, and this makes it a little harder to do that.
3. The text in the Stanza-ified version of the PDF runs together so that the chat transcripts and poetry become a nearly incomprehensible jumble.

So I tried to read the stories on my laptop. Erotica on a laptop loses a LOT of appeal to me. Keep that in mind.

The first line of the first story is "I had nothing to do." ... and I, the reader, am immediately bored. I couldn't see how long this story would be because there were no page numbers and no bookmarks to each story in the PDF. It turned out some of the longest stories of the collection were at the beginning. I would have rearranged it so that the short pieces from the middle of the book went to the very beginning and the longer pieces went to the end. The beginning needs to grab a reader and I was anything but grabbed.

I skimmed through the stories and noticed the author was experimenting with different formats -- incorporating chat transcripts, text messages, blog posts and a few poems, but the stories themselves did not hold my interest very well. The characters all seemed too young for my taste and the sex too cliche. I think this would probably be a good book for late teens or early twenty-somethings. For more mature readers, I would recommend the compilations from Susie Bright or Best Women's Erotica from Violet Blue. ( )

This is a fun collection of erotic stories. Jess C. Scott writes with great imagery, so you can easily visualize what's happening as you read. The short stories are a perfect little foreplay for a couple to read together or for a woman to read during some alone time. ( )

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