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Through The Lens Kindle Edition

4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

It’s 2002, and South Dakota third grade teacher Ellen Jeffers has signed up for a photography summer course and assistantship at an art academy in Minneapolis. Thirty-three, divorced from her college boyfriend for nearly a decade, she’s not seeking major change. She just hopes the course will enhance her teaching skills and her resume.

Aaron Brewster comes from privilege, and he has used that status to flaunt his family’s values and carve out a successful career as a photographer specializing in black and white erotic portraiture. Has he ever loved? His love is for beauty, sensuality, eroticism. His new uptight teaching assistant will never fit that vision. Should he send her packing? For reasons he cannot fathom, he takes her on as a challenge.

Aaron’s frontal assault shocks Ellen, but it also triggers something deep inside she’s never been willing to acknowledge. Is her beloved prairie a safe refuge, or will it become a crucible for transformation? The choice is not merely Ellen’s.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BZXMNNW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ eXtasy Books Inc (July 3, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 463 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023
I haven’t read much erotica, so this novel was one of my first tastes. If readers are hungry for sensual but fun sex scenes and a story of one woman’s sexual discovery, then this is the book for you!

Ellen comes across as a straight shooter, no pun intended, until she enrolls in a summer photography course and obtains an art assistantship. Like a flower, the reader watches her blossom and open-up. Readers follow her on a sexy adventure where she uncovers new routes to erotic pleasure and embraces her newfound sexual confidence. More intriguing, she discovers her bisexuality in the process. Coming into her own sexuality was an unexpected plot turn for me and probably the highlight of the novel. Ellen isn’t just experimenting with women; she’s becoming the person she was meant to be and finds herself connecting with other women in her family who dared to be themselves for love.

As an asexual, I focused more on the ways that the lovers in this novel desired to please each other. It was not a book just filled with sex scenes. Instead, readers see the characters developing bonds with each other. Readers witness the positive changes in them as they explore these new territories together both sexually and romantically. Also, as someone who used to live in Montana, the descriptions of the prairie brought back good memories!
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2023
Elementary schoolteacher Ellen Jeffers can’t afford to be associated with any sort of impropriety. Her first reaction to her friend Angie’s invitation to intimacy is a kind of panic. News travels quickly in a small South Dakota town; even if she were comfortable with the idea of a female lover, Ellen would be risking her career. She’s grateful that she has a prior commitment for the summer, teaching photography and working as a studio assistant in Minneapolis.

Aaron Brewster prides himself on his understanding of women – especially when he’s gazing at them through his camera lens. He’s adept at stripping away layers of shyness and embarrassment to expose his subjects’ intrinsic sensuality. Eager to apply his usual techniques to his new assistant, he finds that she’s a puzzle, a baffling mixture of prudish innocence and brash self-confidence. For once, he’s not completely in control of his studio scenes. Ellen has an unprecedented ability to surprise, to arouse, and to deeply disturb him.

Working with Aaron and encouraged by his long-term model Tina, Ellen begins to appreciate her own capacity for erotic pleasure. Like a prairie flower, she opens and blooms. As she explores the landscape of her own lusts in the company of Tina and her husband Mike, Aaron watches in frustration. He wants Ellen as he’s never wanted another woman, to cherish as much as to ravish, but he can’t bring himself to admit this.

Aaron, Tina and Mike have a stable polyamorous relationship, which Ellen could complete. The main obstacle turns out not to be Ellen’s conservative scruples but Aaron’s confusion about his own motives.

Through the Lens is a luscious chronicle of a woman’s journey to self-knowledge and sexual freedom. Ellen’s disastrous first marriage has made her wary of intimacy. It takes a while for her to learn how to trust her body and surrender to her fantasies. When she does, the results are incendiary.

I love stories that recognize the fluidity of desire. This erotic romance celebrates bisexuality with a frank exuberance that I found thoroughly exhilarating. Adriana Kraft understands that carnal hunger and affection are not mutually exclusive – that lust and love can be a continuum – that monogamy is not the only shape for committed relationships – and that sex can be simultaneously earth-shattering and wonderful fun.

I did find certain aspects of this novel a bit implausible. In the real world, Aaron probably couldn’t get away with his outrageous in-studio antics. Meanwhile, Ellen’s transformation from uptight schoolteacher to enthusiastic voluptuary struck me as too quick and uncomplicated. In addition, the consolidation of the polyamorous unit felt too easy. I know from personal experience that finding the right partners for polyamory can be daunting. In a way, Mike and Tina are just place-holders. They’re both physically stunning and expert in the lascivious arts. We don’t get to know them at all, except in their roles as lovers.

All in all, I think Through the Lens works better as erotic fantasy than realistic romance. That’s fine, though. The sex scenes are creative, varied and profoundly satisfying. The book delivers both the happily-ever-after promised by the genre and the more fleeting but equally delightful release of erotic tension. If you’re comfortable with non-monogamous relationships and explicit, feel-good sex, you’re bound to enjoy it.
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