Kylie Gable's Calendar Girl Review

"Brandi" (Brandon) being prepared for his Valentine Day photo shoot. 

Where do we begin? Its been a little while since a review took place on the blog, but I recently made some time to read and review Kylie Gable’s Calendar Girl. An entry into what I’m dubbing her Du Pont College series (a collection of stories that take place on the fictional college).

The book deals with Jennifer’s fundraising efforts for her sorority Delta Theta, (the sorority mentioned in Boys of Alpha The Nu book). Delta Theta member, Jennifer has been hounded by an annoyingly persistent guy named Brandon since arriving at Du Pont, if that wasn’t enough for her she has the stress of overseeing a fundraiser for her organization. Enter the Delta Theta, Jennifer and her sorority sisters learn that a pin-up calendar produced by the organization which was started back to the 1940’s will be used to help raise money for their organization and other charity groups, however they are surprised to find that the sorority has been turning deserving boys into the annual calendar girl since the 1960’s.With the stress of raising the funds for a local women’s shelter as well as not wanting to let their big sisters down, Jennifer realizes the perfect candidate to transforming into a cute femboy is the same persistent guy that has been  trying to get into her panties!

After my enjoyment of Gable’s and Acosta’s The Boys of Alpha The Nu book, I was very much looking forward to this short story taking place in the same Du Pont College. Although Claudia Acosta is absent, the story doesn’t really suffer at all. Instead Gable decides to tell the story from the point of view of Jennifer and the rest of girls from Delta Theta. That is one of the major strengths of this story. Much like The Alpha Theta Nu story, Gable’s again writes a very well laid out trap for the guy. However this time the trap feels smoother and entraps Brandon so well that very little physical force is needed to subdue him.

“Can’t you just picture all those guys buying the calendar and taking it home to masturbate to you? Oh Miss January, they’ll moan as they rub one out”

Dialogue is tight and solid. Zero complains! This is a Kylie Gable story right? Did you expect anything less?

Although this book is shorter and is nowhere near ambitious as the Welcome to College series or The Alpha Theta Nu series, Calendar Girl gets a few thing right that Gable’s previous other books lack. Calendar Girl is sharp and focused. There is no fluff, like a an unnecessary dance to Madonna’s Like a Virgin dance nor does it drag on Like Welcome to College did. I’m also happy to see it offers its readers a slightly better ending than the Alpha series.

The outfits and overall style that is applied to make Brandon into Brandi is cute, but nothing you haven’t read about before. The girls have Brandi in a range of outfits from sophisticated to a cute demure college girl of preparing Brandi for her first modeling job. Aside from an a sexy outfit chosen for the month of February shoot, there really isn’t anything that stands out unless you are a fan of Wonder Woman. An opportunity for the author to really cut loose on outfits during the pin-up shoot was slight lost. Gable never obsesses over the feel or the appearance of the dresses she has her male characters wear like other authors do, but it could have benefited this story had she slowed down a little to describe her outfits more since the majority of the story is a build up to a photo shoot.

The erotic and feminization scenes are well presented, but they can’t match up to the same creativity found in The Boys of Alpha Theta Nu. One of the probable reason’s is the length of the story and although it is “milder” than the Alpha Theta Nu, it has a few scenes that will have you making sure you have enough privacy in your room to fully enjoy it… This story may have the best bed bondage scene I have read in a long time. One of the most erotically humiliating aspects of this book is not what they do to Brandon, but what they don’t let him do. Being blindfolded while a coed might be changing in front of him and seeing his former girlfriend go on a date with another guy dressed as demure school girl and unable to prevent it a  Like the bed trying scene!   There are a few clichés in the story, but Gable knows when to use them.
Trying to read this story with one hand will be a little hard…if you know what I mean.

Fortunately, Gable offers readers the ability to listen to the story via Marami Hung's (an erotic voice actress) narration of the story. Its hard for me to review it, because I can’t compare it to anything else. I will say it is an innovation and Gable should be praised for taking the extra step to allow a new way of enjoying a solid story. To be fair, Hung’s voice is pretty sexy and you catch certain things that you may have missed when reading it.

Great story! A worthy addition to your library of feminization literature.  

Click here to visit Kylie Gable's website

Click here to read my earlier review of The Boys of Alpha Theta Nu. 

Kylie Gable's Calendar Girl review/illustration on the way

My apologize for not updating the blog. Thanks to all those who continuing to enjoy this blog and messaging me.

I have been finding time to work at my drawing desk and my computer coloring and re-editing (Hastings profiles, Valerie project, Sub Sissy) illustrations for the blog, so don't fret fans!

I'm finishing up a review/illustration for (right) Kylie Gable's Calendar Girl a spin off/semi-sequel to Alpha Theta Nu series. I have a few things to say about it and it should be soon in my reviews section.

 

The Boys of Alpha Theta Nu Book Review

"Candy" (Matt Landon) being prepared for his porn movie debut.  

Its been a little while since my last review, recently I started looking into pay-for-reading stories on Amazon. One of the stories that grabbed my attention is Kylie Gable and Claudia Acosta’s The Boys of Alpha Theta Nu Collection. 

This first person narrative centers around a Freshman at the Midwestern institution of DuPont College named Matt Landon. Landon has had his heart set on pledging Alpha Theta Nu at the college since learning about their wild parties through his brother Davis, an alumni of the college. Matt quickly realizes that as a pledge, “Hell Week” is going to be Hell in what his frat brothers agree in letting the girls from the sorority Delta Delta Omicron (DDO) to participate in the pledges humiliation…..which begins to foreshadow what is to come for Matt and his pals. Matt’s name is then changed to Candy by the frat and the sorority (cute name) begins wearing bra and panties under his boy clothes and endure changing clothes in front of the sorority girls.

Candy is assigned to Elizabeth who is his “Big Sister,” and after being put through some light humiliations by Elizabeth and being made to do a raunchy home movie with fellow pledges, “Dollface” and “Barbie” to show his commitment to the frat, Matt then begins to question the trials and the emphasis on the increased feminization of the boys. The stress and strangeness gets to Matt eventually leading to his decision to leave the frat, however after attempting to leave the frat he gets pulled into a panty raid on the house of the DDO that goes terribly wrong. Matt and his fellow pledge brothers, Barbie and Dollface soon find themselves captured by the girls and slowly realize that Matt’ suspicions may be right after all. Thus leading to an unforgettable forced feminization scene that made this reviewer heart race like it was my first time reading a story of this genre.

The story is large and would not be considered a short story. What Gable and company do so well for the story is how they well they entrap and set-up up the boys, it is beautifully done! The girls of Delta Delta Omicron are incredibly organized and use the college's resources realistically. It has been stated that character development is her strength, I have to respectfully disagree. It is the way the girls set-up the boys to fall into a trap and the only way to get out is to go in deeper.

The sex scenes are hot! The outfits range from cute to slutty. Gable is not as descriptive as other authors in the genre, but its ok because it allows the reader to add to the imagination. The language is never really vulgar, but instead honest.

One refreshing aspect of the story is that Matt is not some closeted crossdresser or troubled/lazy young man (forced fem stories are riddled with them), but he is just a teen that unfortunately gets pulled into this due to his associations. Just to put this out there the erotic school girl movie that our three heroines starred in cannot be topped and it is one of the highlights of the story. There is one mark that Kylie misses in her story in the creativity of her sex scenes and that is a scene that involved Candy being left on a bed as a gift for a drunken frat guy. Had it been allowed to fully play out, it would have been memorable…oh well.

The book does take on some serious themes and I am glad Gable explorers it. One question that is asked, Who decided the girls should have the right to punish the boys through forced feminization? That question is put out there by the writer and is used as an instrument to move the story. Something that I wished that the writer would have taken advantage of more is the multi ethnic populations that colleges have become. The story primarily takes place on a college campus, but we don’t really get much diversity in the cast of characters.

The story also touches on racism and attempted suicide, but never fully explores them, instead it goes back to the question above which plays a part in helping Candy and boys find a way to try to escape their feminized lifestyle. The story has a firm storyline and towards the middle it offers a surprise twist and begins building towards a climatic showdown with the books primary antagonist, but it never fully materializes. It almost feels as if the author became exhausted towards the end and decided to end the story on her terms, but Gable’s creativity in sexy scenarios is what readers will take away from the book. 4/5 Stars!