“A Suite Invitation”: Never Say Never | Reviewed by Rob Errera for IndieReader

Erotica comes in many flavors, designed to suit any kink or fetish. It aims to arouse the limbo by stroking the brain’s language center. Based on that criteria, John E. Morgan’s A SUITE SITUATION: NEVER SAY NEVER–a love letter to the big, beautiful women of yesteryear–is a success. Morgan doesn’t shy away from graphic sexual details, but his writing has a chaste, almost quaint quality. The sexual vignettes that make up the book are steamy yet vanilla boy-meets-big-girl hookups. No “woke” LBGTQ+ erotica here, just big, bawdy babes and the red-blooded men who love them. There are a couple of lesbian trysts and a few references to anal sex, but the heat level for most of this collection tops out at 1950s raunch. Women wear girdles, stockings, and garters. Spandex stretches across acres of rippling flesh. A SUITE SITUATION: NEVER SAY NEVER feels like a literary interpretation of Irving Klaw’s 1950s pin-up photography if Betty Page and her cohorts were a bit thicker.

Morgan understands that the mind is the body’s most erogenous zone, and he goes out of his way to create taboo scenarios that heighten erotic tension. A lusty lady pastor seduces a member of her congregation. A naughty aunt teaches an excitable younger man how to make love to a mature, Rubienesque woman. Big, bold ladies take what they want, while shy chubby girls shed their inhibitions and release their inner she-wolf. The only common denominator is that these ladies all “laugh at the skinny models on health food magazine covers.” Morgan captures the sights, sounds, and scents of lovemaking with his descriptive writing. His prose has a unique rhythm, which sometimes slips in a rhyme scheme reminiscent of old dirty limericks but the language is occasionally overwrought and clunky. Things tend to get repetitive–inane adjectives and flashing lights frequently accompany orgasms–and the anatomy doesn’t always make sense. (Is it possible to lick a g-spot with a human tongue?) But, hey, things get crazy in the heat of passion. Overall, Morgan has crafted an enjoyable and titillating ode to women of size and their many insatiable appetites.

John E. Morgan’s A SUITE SITUATION: NEVER SAY NEVER is an enjoyable but sometimes repetitive love letter to big, beautiful women that blends naturalism and spirituality with bawdy sexual escapades.