This is the fifth book in the Cremorne series of erotic novels, supposedly drawn from an Edwardian work called The Cremorne Chronicles. Although some of the later ones demonstrate that there is no shortage of stories that are capable of entertaining within the confines of the original Cremorne scenario, this one, for me, fails to deliver as well as some of the others. True, it is not short of episodes relating amorous encounters between its young subject, Sophie Starr, and her young friends, both male and female, but the ‘storyline’ that connects these is in places lamentably weak. The fairly common tendency of this genre to be repetitive in its ringing of the changes of who does what to whom and how frequently is just too much in evidence for this to be a great example of the genre. That said, it is undeniably erotic, and as these books are not usually bought for their literary qualities, it can be said to achieve its objective reasonably well. ( )