Primal Skin

By Leona Benkt Rhys and Leona Rhys

A story of sexual enlightenment at the dawn of human history. At the end of the ice age, a beautiful female shaman is searching for answers in a world of sabre-toothed tigers and glaciers. Her nomadic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0352335009
• ISBN13: 9780352335005
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Black Lace
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

An unusual Black Lace book you won't put down ...

yes, and what a marvellously pleasant surprise to find this exceptionaly well written book of pre-historic man and their trials and tribulations.About 31,000 years ago in the mountains and valleys of Europe we find humans living in three main tribal groups that were defined by; 'thicks', red haired, stocky, dark skinned, very strong with some neanderthal features; 'thins' fair skinned, taller usually with jet black hair and, 'hybrids' a mixture of the two other more pure blooded groups.The story starts with Skin, a young, female, 'hybrid', apprentice shaman, being whisked away from a naming ceremony she had performed by Bat, a visiting apprentice shaman from the 'thins' and his female cousin, Wasp. This group is then joined by a young female, fully certified shaman, called Wolf, who comes from the 'thicks'. Early in the book the reader discovers that Bat, concluding that his master shaman, who was suposedly killed by an earthquake, was probably murdered by someone not part of his 'thin' tribal group. He convinces both Skin and Wolf to join him in a search of the other tribes to uncover the murderer. The group of young shamans and apprentice shamans the journey through their know world to the other tribal groups to, ostensibly, discover the murderer, but, instead, what they do discover and explore is a growth of humanity and the foolishness of pre conceived notions of each tribes' difference from the other. For regular Black Lace readers the elements of strong women taking control of their lives and sexuality are obvous in this book, but, unlike other books of this genre, Primal Skin is in itself a mind blowing action packed story that does not have to depend on the eroticism of the characters for the book to stand alone. In fact, the author manages to detail erotic sexual behaviour in a very basic almost animalistic manner that one would expect from pre-historic humans. I mean, after all their intelligence level has not yet developed to such an extent that we could expect the eroticism of sex that is described in some of our Victorian classics. For those readers that have read 'Neanderthal' this book has some of the same elements with none of the violence and a much much more of the delicious sex.Finally, the sex in Primal Skin is so detailed and descriptive that certainly makes this an erotic book, but, it's that balance that the author presents in this story that makes this an unforgettable masterpiece that you won't easily put down.

Cavewomen do it better

A book that openes eyes, ears and legs to the amazing wonder of pre-historic sexuality - I couldn't believe what this story had on offer. The author must have spent ages (or should that be stone ages?) researching the details and making up the plot. Twists galore, sex aplenty and also a bit of boffin science. More please!