Just finished it.
First I have to say that I only know "Clean" and his IOPS zine contributions and thus can't compare Fever to the other IOPS book or any of his pre-IOPS work. I think that this is way better than Clean (not saying that Clean was bad). The descritptions of celebrity nudity bored me a little at the beginning, but as I progressed and started getting the "concept" of the book, it started to grow on me. The content besides that, mostly involving emasculation, disguised homosexual urges, humiliation, gender in genereal etc, was great and his thoughts really progressed nicely. The general tone was a bit darker and the themes a good deal more violent than the ones in Clean, which worked out great for me. The alternation between the fetishization of actresses, models etc and the transvestite blowjobs etc may seem weird at the beginning but works better than clearly divided sections would have, at least in my eyes. I would say that the scat and humiliation chapters were the best ones for me, however there is some kind of coherence to be found (not the case in Clean, at least in my memory). One really feels the authenticity of the author's interest which elevates Fever above most of the more "hedonistic" gore/porn literature which is only out to provoke by fake extremity.
All in all a really good read and definitely a step forward for Fremann. I would really welcome more work from him and more book releases from IOPS in general, but I guess this kind of material does not grow on trees... The cover collage is also really neat
