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Title: The Scent of Your Breath
Author: Melissa P.
Narrator: Edwina Wren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-30-08
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 1.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Erotica & Sexuality, Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Melissa, desperate for love and willing to do anything to find it, is now a successful writer in Rome, living with her new lover, Thomas. But as soon as she meets Viola, a woman from Thomas's past, sexual passion and insecurity mount in tandem, and Melissa is consumed with jealousy.
Written as a confessional letter to her mother, the story that follows is one of dark obsession, violent lust, and soul-destroying talent. Driven by Melissa's singular voice - that unique and compelling combination of impetuous naivete and poetic sophistication that has mesmerized readers in 31 countries - The Scent of Your Breath blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy and delves deep into the disturbing yet strangely familiar mind of a teenage girl terrorized by love.
Editorial Reviews:
100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, an erotically charged 2004 novel by young Italian author Melissa P. was published in 40 countries and earned its author a reprimand from the pope. Its steamy sequel is given a languorous, sensual performance by Edwina Wren.
The Scent of Your Breath is composed as a letter from a young woman to her mother in which she speaks of her past loves and coming of age. Melissa P.s story is fresh, tender, and - with its frank, graphic sexual detail - sometimes shocking.
Wren uses an Italian accent, and her breathy delivery is reminiscent of a young Sophia Loren.
Members Reviews:
Dissapointing, compared with her first novel. Less erotic ...
Dissapointing, compared with her first novel. Less erotic, and lacking the insightful social commentary on the arrogant behavior of some Italian men ( Behaviour not unique to Ilallians, of course). Some material in one hundred Strokes of the Brush was derivative, but , in my opinion, her first novel was much superiour to this effort.
Mesmerizing
Sensual and satisfying, this book was great. Not as good as One Hundred Strokes but only by a inch. Scent of your Breath was more mature and beautifully written. Loved it.
Not as compelling as her debut
Though this book is well-written, it is nowhere near as exciting or passionate as "100 Strokes..." Fluctuates between the distant past, the recent past, and the present, and it is hard to decipher what is real and what is imagined. Melissa describes the collapse of her relationship with Claudio (the lover she had at the end of her first book) and her love affair with Thomas, a sensitive intellectual. Thomas and Melissa's relationship is doomed from the start, ironically partly because they feel such intense love and passion for each other. The plot is hard to follow, though eventually things start to come together...sort of. It is hard to follow the plot, as the novel often mirrors phantasmagoric stream of consciousness. Melissa's writing is still overtly sexual, self-absorbed, witty, and poetic, but the storyline is hard to follow and the book is, at times, plain boring.
I didn't enjoy this book
This book is very difficult to follow and not an easy read even though it is a really short book. I don't know if the book was "lost in translation" or what but I didn't enjoy and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.