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P-Town Summer by Lisa Stocker
Reviewed by TammyJo Eckhart
“P-Town Summer” refers to the summer holiday that five friends embark upon in the city of Provincetown. I was rather surprised that I got this book to review from KinkyBooks.com, because as far as I could tell, it’s not kinky in any sense of the word. So does it fit, or is Lisa Stocker’s first and thus far only novel another type of book?
The target audience is obviously lesbian readers. Of our five or six — it was hard to keep track — main characters, 5 start out as lesbians, while the sixth gives it a try by the novel’s end. Being kinky I probably just don’t know the right lesbians this book might appeal to, because there’s nothing unusual or kinky in any of the activities described in this book, unless you call getting drunk often and dancing or going shopping kinky.
The story begins with four friends — made up of two couples, Claire and Rita, Kit and Sabi — driving to Provincetown, Massachusetts for a vacation, as it is a well-known gay and lesbian vacation spot. Stocker takes us into a multitude of clubs, restaurants, bars, and stores where our main characters meet others and do a lot of looking. They meet up with Grant and Diane who sort of become two other main characters.
Day and night the friends enjoy the city and get on each other’s nerves. That’s basically the story, and that’s basically why it gets repetitive and boring quickly. I never got invested in the main characters, and not because Stocker doesn’t try to give us some background, but simply because the background seemed so average. Who enjoys reading books about average people doing average things? Not I.
“P-Town Summer” is not kinky in an age where lesbianism is fashionable. Sure, the mainstream media may throw in a lesbian couple here and there for spice, but there is nothing here that moves beyond the surface romance and contrived conflicts to separate this novel from the mainstream. Very disappointing. |
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