About the Author
By: Victor Perillo
Former agent of Gary Coleman
Current Film Producer and Screen - Writer
Your author, Layne West, brilliantly transports us to a mystical methodical land upon reading the first page of this story. Then, without hesitation, we are led into this world created by Layne that reeks of phantasmagoria, fantasy and eroticism. It is only through the colorful and descriptive writing of West that we become so accepting of the principle characters and their plight. After the first page is turned, we never look back to question, "Where we are?" The author sweeps us away on a magic carpet ride to a land where women are the epitome of sexual dominance.
Aaron, our hero warrior, can battle beasts of beasts, but cannot be superior to the comely and sexually radiant Queen. It would be any mans erotic dream to be scolded and dictated to by this powerful woman cat. If dominatrix empowerment be your whim, then The Shifting Sands will satisfy all of your desires.
"Fight the battle, stay true to your Queen and return the victor, then you shall be rewarded" says the Queen as she massages the bulge in Aaron's leathers. With metaphoric poetry interwoven into every scene like a powerful aphrodisiac, West does not once tire us throughout this entire sensuous saga.
As one reads Layne West's writings, their sensuality becomes instantly recharged. That the belief that men are the dominant, stronger sex no longer is so. Sigmund Freud would endorse this book on the basis that, "Sex controls and dictates our every move." The leading character represents the masculinity within all men and the beautiful, seductive and often chameleon-like Queen represents all women. The Shifting Sands dramatizes just how powerful the eternal woman cat's dominant influence can be on mortal man.
In conclusion of Layne West's colorful and sexually uninhibited writings, you will be resolved that this story does not linger in the world of "XXX , Cheap Sex." There is too much poetry and human value contained within this literary piece.
If you explore West's crisp, on-site visions, throughout this book you will feel as if you could touch or speak to any of the characters at any time you wish. While reading, you will instinctively feel the hot breath of every predatory monster that looms around or over any given sandstone and dune, on the back of your neck.
Discovering there really is no other place like it, one hesitates to put the book down, only to return to their daily routine.
The Shifting Sands is in a category all of its own and well it should be, as this story is a welcomed departure from the typical romance novel.- Vic Perillo
