BENNET GILLESPIE is a successful, yet burned out half Native American professional healer, who, while jogging, crashes into a recuperating crippled beauty on the beach of Virginia Beach. He begins an obsessive, sexual triangle with the innocent appearing, seductive African American, DAY, who's jealously guarded by HOPKINS, her overbearing, elder British guardian.
Benn's a master manipulator, but he could, in fact, literally lose his heart, his life, and his soul to the "knife-happy" legally insane Day, who's desperate to be free of a man, who may have crippled her, and of the prison mental ward lockdown to which she will be returned, if or when her guardian dies.
Can Benn free her? And at what cost?
Romantic Erotica
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Have you ever been traumatized by an entertainment property? Well, I have. After years of watching Sex in the City, Queer as Folk, and Six Feet Under I have had my eyes opened to another side of human sexuality. Not being a person that actively seeks pornography I am a little naïve about the sexual appetites of some people. But after a healthy dose of HBO and Showtime you think one would be prepared for anything? Well, everyday there is something new to learn, and Hobble by Neale Sourna taught me much.
Hobble was a dark, strange, and pyschologically violent novel that delved deep into how sex can be used as a vile weapon of manipulation and oppression.
Set in the Commonwealth of Virginia, an unsuspecting Native American holistic healer, Ben Gillespie, is jogging on the beach when he trips over a young buxom African-American woman named Day. Day who barely talks, has two large wounds around her ankles, which were almost severed in an accident. Ben assists the young woman home only to find himself enthralled by her sexuality and caught in the middle of a sick relationship with Day and her guardian, an aged British Gentleman, who forces himself literally into her whenever he pleases.
For a while the two openly share Day, until Ben discovers the truth behind the relationship and the other sexual encounters Day has with men, women, and even his twin sister to get what she needs and wants in life.
Hobble really does an excellent job, of delving into how sex is more than just an act of pleasure and procreation. Sourna does a superb job detailing the effects of sexual abuse and the often unreported brutal and psychological misconduct toward those who are mentally ill and institutionalized. Ben and Day are a true ying and yang couple. Though Ben is possibly the sanest character in Day’s sexual cocktail, he too carries heavy burdens that have drawn him to help Day.
While the ill and abused Day manages to find some humanity inside her that actually allows her to love a man wholly and not just sexually despite the dark world she has literally been forced into.
Yet, there is a downfall to this novel. Hobble is guilty of one thing alone, sexual overkill. Literally every other sentence in the book is filled with some extremely graphic sexual acts. The characters in this story have sex about 75 percent of the book. No, I am not being a prude. Yes, Hobble is about sexual misconduct, but not too the point where it actually becomes quite disgusting to read.
I think Sourna could have presented her message equally as well with more dialogue and story telling [Author Note: the dialogue is sexual dialogue / congress and storytelling through sex and emotions]. She relied too heavily on the sexual acts themselves to push the story, which instead took away from the story, dragging it out.
Hobble had many of the ingredients one expects from a good novel; theme, plot, likeable characters, and characters one just loves to hate. Sourna truly wrote an attention-grabbing first novel, however in the end Hobble disappoints, as it misses the mark in making a forceful impact (all puns intended).
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HOBBLE received BlackRefer.com’s Best Romantic Erotica Novel Award of Year!
“Hobble is a story of lust and obsessive sex … I was so moved … I went back to my (Franklin) dictionary … hobble means to limp along … to impede … to tie-up, shackle or leash … all of [which] were used in this steamy story, of sex and betrayal!”
—Delores Thornton, www.BlackRefer.com Reviews
"Dipping into several genres from erotica to mystery, even sprinkling a little comedy into the mix, Sourne created a story like no other. This morbid (yes morbid) tale had me shaking my head in astonishment and I can honestly say I never read anything like Hobble before.
"Sourne wrote a novel with such a large supply of twist and turns it'll have you dropping your mouth in shock.
"But be forewarned, Hobble has a crazy mix of characters who made me wish I had some holy water to splash on every single one of them. Some of the sex scenes had me (a person who loves erotica) squirming.
"Although the book is racy, it was an interesting read and should be picked up by anyone who enjoys reading something different from the norm."
--Joy Farringdon, Nubian Sistas Review
