Melissa likes to study herself in the mirror, and touch herself in the Secret, as she calls it. If you can’t work out what she means, then stop reading this here. She has it in mind that losing her virginity will be a great, memorable occasion that will last eternally, defining her forever. She is ignorant that when she first has intercourse – not of the regular sexual kind, of course, as so usually is the case – it will be very different. But then she is only fourteen. The beginning of her sexual life with others does soon begin – an older teen, handsome, if ugly-spirited, and not exactly successful in making sure both enjoy what ...  Read the complete review

‘One Hundred Strokes of the Brush before Bed’ is the translation from Sicilian born Melissa P. (not B) focusing on the struggles of teenage life. This is fiction but the character shares the same name. This young woman is desperate to become an adult and feeling that the only path to love is through sexual experiment. Her diary begins at the age of 14 as she has her first experience after being admired only by herself. It progresses through two years of her life as she is continually treated as an object in search of that fairytale ending. This is a piece of erotic fiction that will no doubt live up to the claim of scandal and shock for some… but not all. The ...  Read the complete review