{"id":677,"date":"2002-03-19T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=677"},"modified":"2016-10-04T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:47:00","slug":"prayer-cushions-of-the-flesh-by-robert-irwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/fantasy\/prayer-cushions-of-the-flesh-by-robert-irwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, by Robert Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"prayer-cushions-of-the-flesh-by-robert-irwin\"<\/a>Genre: Fantasy<\/strong>
\n Publisher: Dedalus Limited<\/strong>
\n Published: 1997<\/strong>
\n Reviewer Rating: \"threestars\"<\/strong>
\n Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Seeing the title, Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh<\/b>, the reader might get the idea that Robert Irwin’s novella contained an above-average amount of sex. The reader would be correct.<\/p>\n

Set in a harem, the story is an Arabian fantasy concerning the days immediately following the protagonist’s release from the ‘Cage’ — a place where the sons of concubines are kept until they are sent for. In a reversal of the conventional notion of a Sultan keeping a harem full of voluptuous young wives, this harem contains women who use each man who leaves the Cage as their sexual plaything.<\/p>\n

Our hero, Orkhan, newly released from the Cage, believes that he is now Sultan, and that the harem is there for his pleasure. The women, however, have other ideas.<\/p>\n

Irwin spares no detail in his relation of Orkhan’s fortunes, his pleasures and his pains, so this is definitely not a book for children, despite the fairy-tale setting and the straight-forward narrative style.<\/p>\n

The best part is when Orkhan is taken to meet Emerald — a voluntary eunuch — who tells a story of such fantastical imagination, the strange goings-on throughout the rest of the book seem normal by comparison.<\/p>\n

Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh<\/b> is a quick read — which is appropriate, as the events of the story unfold, and conclude, with similar rapidity.<\/p>\n

Click here to buy Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, by Robert Irwin on Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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