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'Making Love' is a book about a library book that falls in love with its reader - as told by the book itself. No ordinary book, this one is so filled with dangerous truths about love and sex that the British M15 had it destroyed. The sole remaining copy of the book is filed ignobly midst the romances in seedy Shepherds Bush Library, London. Miranda steals the book from the library by hiding it in her bra - no wonder the book fell instantly in love. A shop girl who sells sanitary napkins by day, Miranda escapes boredom and loneliness by reading romances by night. Alarmed that this heretical book still exists, M15 reopens the "Love Nuts" operation and calls in superstud agent Burnt Umber/Ferdinand. Umber's job - to "break or stop" Miranda's heart and recover the book. Thus begins a wildly improbable, sexy, silly and highly enjoyable romp.
The cast of characters is small, but each one is introduced in full regalia, their foibles and foolishness nailed with precision and riotous humor. Tony Fromnextdoor, secret computer hacker and secretly in love with Miranda; Barry in Dispatch, "over jerked and underlaid"; Mercy Bradley, Miranda's "sex on a stick" co-worker and best friend. There's Matthew Flirt, who risks life and limb (literally, and often) to aid Miranda and Mercy; Boss Scrufstayn, who enjoys his "Thursday Night Surprise" S&M adventures; bookish and fey Peesnide (Trotsky), book thief turned agent. And the romantic hero, Agent Burnt Umber, aka Ferdinand, tall, dark and handsome, whose character is "borrowed and overdue". These characters audaciously strut their stuff in scene after improbable scene. Scenes that would be oafish or overly broad on film, simply sight gag funny, are more substantive and far funnier when told in Brill's prose. Pictures sometimes aren't worth a thousand words, particularly if they're Brill's words.
The most arresting character in this book, the star of the show, is "the book" himself (he's clearly, lustily, masculine), a...