Downtown Delights by Vivian Sage

Downtown Delights by Vivian Sage

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is a super quick short story, I blinked and it was done.

The story follows four friends who are 1) female, 2) lesbians, 3) live in Dallas (or near-enough to it). None of them are currently in a committed relationship, though Charlie was just recently (a month ago) tossed out of her own place by her girlfriend. The other three are: Ginger (the rich one with super snotty uptight parents; I believe all three were described as having red-ish hair (calling your baby ‘Ginger’ when you have ginger hair . . . hmms) – Ginger is kind of easily frightened and never knows when someone is hitting on her (I want to read more of her interactions with Jess the bartender)); Regan is the blonde who starts off the story as the POV, is from Dallas, but her parents are from the part of the south known as the ‘Deep South’ and has a mix of their accent and a Texas accent that seems to drive women wild with lust; Charlie, already mentioned, may or may not be someone ‘of color’ since there was a comment about Ginger placing her hand on Charlie’s and how their differing skin tones were so different (hmm, that’s not close to what was said, mmphs), as noted she had been in a committed relationship with an ‘AJ’ before being kicked out of her own place, she also has her point of view pop up here and there; Lucy is something of the odd ball out, probably unintentionally, she doesn’t have her point of view appear, nor is she ‘with the gang’ on several of their events (like going to a bar), she’s constantly late everywhere and may or may not be a Latina.

Going by the descriptions in the book, and the book cover, I believe I have it correct in my mind: two white women (blonde, red-haired), two ‘POCs’ (1 Latina, 1 dark-skinned woman (I didn’t get enough to know more than ‘dark-skinned’).

The story opens with three of the four friends waiting for the fourth to arrive at a hotel. All four are there to attend yet another gay wedding. Naturally, considering I already indicated this was the case, Lucy is the one that’s late.

At some point during the reception or the party after the wedding (if that has a different name than ‘reception’), Ginger notes that she needs one of them to go with her to a charity gala (backstory: her parents basically refuse to acknowledge that Ginger is lesbian so she takes every opportunity to thrust lesbians at them, pretending that her friends are actually her dates). No one wants to suffer being near the parents, though, so they decide to have a contest – the last one to find a date to go home with at the bar will be the one to go with Ginger. It’s not as ‘frat-boy games’ as it sounds.

Don’t want to reveal everything, and haven’t really revealed much, really. I do not really know Lucy’s character well enough to make a comment, but the other three friends seem like interesting personalities/people.

I actually do look forward to the sequel. Which, apparently, should have already appeared since it is mid-summer 2017, and that’s when part 2 was supposed to appear.

Rating: 3.95

July 17 2017




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