Pros:
- Large archive of exclusive amateur interracial (gangbang) content
Cons:
- Small pic size
- Right-click disabled throughout most of members area
- Navigation issues
Members Area Content as of November 16, 2004:
Pics of Susan Reno: 208 photosets for a total of 8,000+ pics
Vids of Susan Reno: 48 videos
Other Content: 324 erotic stories, 36 friends galleries, various video feeds from HomeGrown Content, adult games, cartoons
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Labeled by some as the "Ultimate Slut", mature blonde amateur Susan Reno may indeed live up to that name. Well, at least for black guys. At her personal website, SusanReno.com, Susan does her best to pleasure as many black men as she can get her hands on as well as a few white guys and some girls as well. Susan has a pretty large archive of pictures and videos chronicling her sexual adventures (primarily interracial gangbangs) as well as what looks to be a decent amount of bonus content. She also seems to travel quite a bit (and party along the way) so there's a chance you might be able to meet her and join in the hardcore action (I think if you're a hung black dude, your chances go waaaaay up). Anyhow, I'm covering myself in brown shoe polish as we speak and preparing to take a look behind the scenes at SusanReno.com. Let's go...
Susan Reno's members area looks pretty good: it's got an amateur feel to it (sporting the stereotypical amateur font, Comic Sans), but spices things up with some javascript buttons and a relatively tasteful color scheme. Navigation is accomplished via a graphical menu on the lefthand side or a textual menu at the bottom of the page. Theres's a welcome message from Susan and a Pic of the Day in the center of the page, and a form to subscribe to Susan's newsletter near the top. One of the problems I noticed right off is that some of the choices in Susan Reno's members menu actually link to areas on her free side. This can create some confusion because if you then use the menu on those pages to surf the site (as opposed to just hitting Back) you will of course be surfing around her tour and free area, not the members section of her site. So watch out for that. Anyhow, enough about design and such, let's check out Susan's content: pictures first.
Susan Reno's photo section is pretty big, containing 208 photosets and 8,000+ pics. The navigation of this area is a bit cumbersome. Each photoseries is listed in table format (around 10 photosets per page) with a preview thumbnail and a short description from Susan. In order to access the other pages of photoset listings, you have to keep hitting the "Next Page" button at the bottom of each page. At just roughly 10 photosets per page, this can take a while to go through all of them. I would have preferred a Page # menu so I could jump directly to any point in the picture archive without having to hit the "Previous" and "Next" links a million times. Susan does provide a link that lets you jump back to the newest galleries (1st page) from anywhere in the archive (so at least that's something) and there's also a table off to the left of the main page that lists 21 categories (Anal, Facials, Cumshots, Gangbangs, etc.) that she will be dividing all of her pics into in the (hopefully) near future. This will greatly improve the organization of the photo content here, but I'm not sure how soon "Coming Soon" actually is. Having said that, let's take a look at the pics themselves.
The newest photosets in the archive are on the first page so I started with them. These look average to pretty good quality-wise but they're way too small, weighing in at 480 x 640. As I've said many times in other reviews, we like to see a pic size of at least 600 x 800 especially when they are relatively recent photos. Paging back through the archive, the picture size never gets any larger, however it does shrink at some points (down to 413 x 550 and 394 x 525 in some sets). There are even some pics in the very oldest sets that are a tiny 192 x 256 (these might be vidcaps though, I'm not sure). Anyhow, bottom line is: all of the pics here are too small for my taste. The quality also seems to decline as the sets get older. Sometimes they're too dark, sometimes there's a blurry one here and there, other times they just look old or like they weren't taken with the best camera. If I had to guess, I'd say there have been some equipment upgrades over the years that has improved the quality somewhat over time. Why they're still so small though, I can't explain. The other annoying thing here is that throughout the entire picture section (and a lot of other sections in the members area), right click is disabled which it makes it difficult to save Susan's photos.
Moving on, there are 48 videos (split into many separate clips) available in Susan Reno's "Mpegs" section (the newer files are actually in wmv format, not mpg however). They're listed in table format like the pics, with 3 video links to a row. There aren't any thumbnail previews on the main video page: just a title and how many separate clips that full video is broken into. It looks like (according to this) the individual clips are around 1.5 minutes for the newer videos; the earlier videos sport clips of only around 20 seconds, which is way too short IMO. Anyhow, once you choose a title, you will then be taken to a page *with* thumbnails, so that's cool. Susan believes in breaking her full videos down into a lot of clips (looked like anywhere from 10-30) for a couple of reasons. One I'm assuming, is to facilitate easier downloads. The other appears to be that a lot of the videos advertise the full movies for sale in her Video Store, so she sort of gives you a lot of teaser clips from different sections of the full video hoping you'll go over and buy the hard copy in the store. Quality-wise, Susan's videos are definitely better than her pictures. Still, they're a pretty mixed bag. Some clips look quite good, others are too dark, and some look to have the contrast turned up a bit too high. They pretty much stay at 320 x 240 in size with bit rates from around 500-700Kbps (for the wmv files). They're not spectacular looking, but better than a lot of amateur videos I've seen. Definitely enjoyable to watch. Since the quality was pretty much fine, the main problem for me ended up being the very short clip length (which, as I said, in the early vids is only around 20 seconds or so) and the fact that a lot of the videos were asking me to buy a hard copy version in order to see the full scene.
As far as the subject matter of Susan's content...well, as I mentioned in the introduction, Susan Reno's specialty is interracial sex. Lots and lots of interracial sex. Going through the first three or four photoset pages, I don't think I saw one white cock, just Susan eagerly sucking and fucking one or more black guys sometimes on her own and sometimes with a female friend. I did see a gloryhole set with a white guy and some girl-girl series, but the vast majority of the photos here are pics of interracial gangbangs. Susan blows and fucks (including anal and DP) miles of long blk trousersnake, licks black ass and balls (there's also some rimming of white guys as well), and generally services a lot of very hung black dudes. As I said, she is sometimes joined by other chicks and webgirls (Tracy from Real Tampa Swingers and Darian from Darians Fire---both reviewed here at QAP---both make appearances, among others) and other times she takes on all these Mandingo mofos on her own. The action includes DP's, creampies, facials, toe sucking, and ass to mouth. What more can you ask for from a white slut? The majority of the shoots here are indoors, but I did see one or two outdoor shoots (as if locale matters to fans of these type of pics LOL).
As far as bonus stuff, Susan Reno offers up a hodge podge of material. Definitely the best bonus stuff is access to a whole slew of video feeds provided by HomeGrown video as well as access to the HomeGrown Cams network ("Fun Stuff" in the menu). Also linked from the video feed page are a few e-zines including PillowTalk TV and The Amateur. Moving down the menu, there are also 324 Erotic Stories and a Friends section (listed as "Fuckables" in the menu) containing galleries from 36 other websites along with links to that site. Then there's a Games/Cartoons/Jokes section with the same old adult games like blackjack and strip poker I've seen kicking around for years; not much to see there. Lastly, there are two sections that don't appear to be working properly. The first is a Sports/News section that looks like it's supposed to link to current news articles on a variety of subjects. All of the articles gave me "page not found" errors and the main page of this section pops up a javascript window with the error: "Stack Overflow at Line: 246". Call me crazy, but I'd say something's not right there. The final section looks like it should be a way to access an interracial movie site, but the link to this site simply doesn't work and takes you to an error page when clicked.
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Susan Reno's site had a good and bad side for me. There were quite a few navigational issues I encountered throughout, some merely annoying, others (as in the case of the bonus content) actual errors. I also thought the pic quality was sketchy at times and all of the photos were definitely too small, especially nowadays. The videos didn't look too bad, but were somewhat variable (almost looked like different photographers and equipment on various videos, which indeed may be the case). Having said all that, I think the draw here is definitely the subject matter of the content. If you like Susan's look and/or you like the idea of a mature white woman getting totally banged by and obediently servicing a plethora of well-hung black studs, then you'd probably enjoy taking a look inside Susan Reno's members area. If you're unsure, she does offer a couple of trial options which might be useful to you as a way to check out the quality of the material and some of the action without spending the full membership price (which by the way, is actually pretty reasonable at $19.99).
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Although the pictures that we provide as samples are not sexually-explicit and are exempt from 18 U.S.C. Section 2257, you can find the compliance notice for this site here.
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