Rent Pleasure

First, I must say that I have been an EJD fan since high school...which has been some years now. I was like an addict for his work and then he kinda lost me with some of his recent work like Thieves Paradise, but like I said I am fan so I walked with him through his different phases no matter how boring or painful and I was thoroughly refreshed with Sleeping... and Waking.... Now, as for Pleasure. This is a side of EJD that I have not really seen. I mean I saw little peeks of it here and there but not just full out like this...and I must say that it was beautifully written. I loved the way he sort of mirrored Anias Nin with Nia's story, and the identical sins are just delectibly naughty and erotic...loved them! However, I found towards the end it started to get a little out of control and drawn out. I know that he had to properly end the story but I felt that the way it ended was sort of bleed out unneccesarily. The women in the book were not at all powerful, just borderline *****y and horny and slightly crazy. I was oddly surprised and impressed that the story did not end with the typical happy ending...but I felt that because of the ending it was more of a tragedy than an erotic novel...but maybe that was what he was going with, who knows?