The Wrong Place at the Right Time by M.E. Tudor

The Wrong Place at the Right Time
by M.E. Tudor
Pages: 114
Date: March 6 2013
Publisher: Self
Series: There is a sequel following a different couple

Review
Rating: 4.75
Read: October 7 2016

Mary and Ashley are roommates and tend to do stuff together. As in work together, go to parties together, etc. Not as in sex. Though both are lesbians - closeted lesbians (more on that later). They just never fancied the other.

After a, to Mary, boring party, Ashley needs to rush to her 'date' and can't take the time to drop Mary off at their apartment (they also share a car on occasion, though both have cars - Ashley just doesn't like Mary's car because it's one of those mini ones that get like 800 miles to the gallon but is the size of a condom), but will drive to the date and turn over the car to Mary to get home. Ashley will catch a ride from there.

Mary is kind of trapped in the passenger seat without a choice, so it's good she's basically okay with this arranagment. Until they go into an interesting area of town. Pass a bunch of biker, and leather bars. And stop at a lesbian leather club (lesbian leather bar? one or the other). Still basically okay. But . . . Ashley forgot to leave the keys.

Mary is forced to either wait in the car or push her way inside the club. She's heckled by some leather wearing women outside (well, heckled might not be the right word, whatever term is used when a construction worker sexually harasses a woman who walks past - the leather women standing outside smoking do that to Mary as she's going inside).

Almost immediately upon entering the super packed club, various people start aggressively hitting on Mary. And by aggressively, I mean seriously. Really aggressive. Might include a little groping.

Mary can't seem to spot her roommate, and asking for a woman wearing basically black while having blond hair causes the bartender to laugh at her then point out everyone out on the floor.

Mary did finally see someone, though, who she recognized - Dyke Thug, or, as she prefers to be called (since it's her actual name and not an insult Mary flung at her earlier that day) Jackie Meredith.

While being basically groped by three women at the bar, Jackie slides in and 'saves' Mary from them. Implying that Mary was there looking for her. The other women tentatively back off while Jackie pulls Mary onto the packed dance floor. Mary's kind of wide eyed starring at some rather obvious activity going on around her while Jackie's asking questions. Jackie learns of Mary's plight - looking for Ashley, and tries to help.

They go back to the back area and Mary finally spots Ashley. On all fours. Licking a woman.

Things proceed from there. Two things to note: considering everything, the 'aggressor/agressee' in the Jackie-Mary situation was both surprising and quite neat; there's more to this story than just erotically graphic sex scenes. Just like Mary has to learn that there's more to Jackie, a reader has to learn that there's more to the book than the cover would suggest (if the reader gave the book time).

Somewhere near the beginning I mentioned something about closeted lesbians and that I'd say more later. Well, apparenty Mary, along with Ashley, belong to a particular class of lesbians that seems more fitting to the 1940s/50s (and possibly 60s/70s) - the closeted professional kind. The kind of lesbian who fears for their job if their sexual orientation is found out by their employers (despite legal safeguards put in place; as . . . someone put at some point in the book, Ashley?, Kentucky is a right to work state (or something like that), meaning that the company can fire at any time for any reason (as long as the reason is legal), so even though there are safeguards, the company could find something else to point at as the reason to dismiss).

This was a fun, exciting book. There's a sequel involving Ashley and her 'friend', but a) I do not really like Ashley and b) the description of that sequel sounds very alarming. So this might be one of my dipping into and then quickly out of a series that I sometimes do. Even when I enjoy the books.

October 9 2016