KNICKERS-RIPPING YARNS
Sunday, November 4, 2012 @ 9:34 AM
Who would have thought it; women authors are carrying the book reading world before them. We are talking knickers-ripping, not bodice-ripping Mills and Boon romances based on fanciful scenario. This new reading craze is so hot you need to wear your oven gloves to read it.
I am unsure where this fits in with the conventional image of women being the victims of pornography obsessed males. If men’s minds are between their legs it seems the ladies got there first. Even the Russian media is doing a Cossack knees-up over the success of a new novel now outselling EL James Fifty Shades of Grey. Yes, more mummy-porn by a lady author. They used to be called authoress, but that would be sexist.
The work of fiction, Reflected in You by Japanese-American author Sylvia Day and published by Penguin, has already sold 800,000 copies in the UK and during its first week stateside sold over 100,000 copies. It gets better, if you’re Sylvia: the e-book edition has sold 450,000 copies with a further 75,000 pre-ordered in the UK.
Sylvia Day’s latest blockbuster is a sequel to her international bestseller Bared to You. It is the latest in what will be a trilogy. The storyline, which I can only quote from hearsay, focuses on a romance between billionaire business mogul, Gideon Cross and his graduate lover, Eva Tramell.