Cult Busters: A Verity Vale Adventure

Cult Busters is a piece of chick lit erotica & fantasy sex.

The novel is superbly erotic and our heroine, Verity Vale is a modern girl. She has had a tempestuous relationship with her boss Peter Proud. The author gets inside their heads in an exciting, crisp style of writing and soon, we, the readers, realise that both individuals spice up their sexual lovemaking with secret fantasies, which the other doesn't know about.

So early on, we know that the characters are prone to sexual role-playing, before they each realise this about each other.

The relationship between the two main characters is a fiery one and this part of the novel could be described as classic "Chick Lit" but with more graphic sexual descriptions than might be normally found in that genre.

The couple's work brings them into contact with a fantasy role-playing group, which they both find exciting and stimulating. At this stage the book moves into deeply erotic and pornographic descriptions, which will appeal to both men and women, as well as to adventurous couples.

Running through this fantasy sex-role playing are cult aspects, where the charismatic leader Patrick LeMaitre combines sex activity with philosophical ideas and he has a band of devoted followers.

Verity Vale and Peter Proud attend this group's meeting along with other new arrivals to the group and friendships are forged, despite Verity's and Peter's misgivings about the cult.

Some role-playing is described in erotic detail, sometimes beautiful and romantic, sometimes more pornographic, as our characters play Roman, World War two, medieval and schoolboy, schoolgirl roles.

It comes as a surprise to both characters of the novel that as the sex-roles start to dominate their lives, they each find themselves beginning to become attracted to friends of their own gender and the novel moves into homoerotic feelings experienced by both Verity and Peter.

Things come to a dramatic head as the newcomers head towards "initiation" into the cult.

A little, amusing side issue is that the chapter titles of the novels are named after songs in the movie, "Love Actually". This is a movie with which the heroine, Verity Vale is obsessed.

The author, Richard Peters, usually writes novels that are essentially gay-themed in one way or another. This novel "Cult Busters - A Verity Vale Adventure" deals with straight heterosexual sex, fantasy sex-role playing and a sex cult. Not forgetting his gay readers, in this novel we find the characters becoming increasingly attracted to members of their own gender.

This novel will stretch the limits of all readers and open them up to new erotic possibilities.