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< Dinah's Dark Desire > < Surrender > < Colters' Woman > < Blackmailed > < Decadent > < The Courage to Love (Brothers in Arms, Book 1) > Mechele Armstrong

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(From J. kaye's Book Blog)

(Dinah's Dark Desires)

(dinahs dark desire)

(Dinah's Dark Desire)

(4.5 blue ribbon Romance Junkies review)

Whether male/female/male ménage is your thing or not, one thing is for sure, Mechele Armstrong is a fantastic writer. Aside from the minor typos - this coming from the queen of typos, Armstrong weaves together a memorable tale. Dinah, the main character, has experienced pain and abuse most of her life. When she was able tobreak free of traditional taboos, her life changes forever.

The story was tastefully done with a serious undercurrent of emotion to draw the reader in. I was amazed to find out how much I enjoyed the story.

Kudos for Mechele Armstrong! I'd like to read more books by this author in the future.
I won't give details of the book, same reading gets boring. I was disapointed with this book. It definately had potential to be a great book, but the author left to many loose ends. What happened with Cait? If Ian was really in love with Dinah, why was he drapped all over Cait at the video store. Did there relationship continue????? To many questions left unanswered. The story was just to short. Greast plot idea, but the author just didn't flow with it.
Loved it. Wish there were two guys who wanted me when my husband beat me. Boy to enjoy two men at once who loved me. The author wrote a great story wish there was more sex.
Taylor Graham and Dinah Summers had been best friends since college. There was nothing that they didn't share or talk about, and when she missed their lunch date, he was instantly concerned. That concern grew when he couldn't get her to answer her phone, and she hadn't notified anyone from work that she wouldn't be there. When he went to her home without a response to his knocks, he breaks in only to find her bloody, bruised, and half unconscious on the kitchen floor. Taylor knew without asking that her boyfriend Brad had done this to her. Needing support, Taylor contacts his lover Ian McNabb to be at Dinah's bedside where they both vow she will never return to Brad to give him the opportunity to do this again.

Dinah had always loved Taylor and Ian as the best friends they were, but since she went to live with them, she never took their sexual innuendos and teasing serious because she knew they were lovers. Little did Dinah know, but Taylor and Ian wanted a women in their relationship that they could both love, and they were determined to make sure she know their intent. They both knew only too well Dinah was in a delicate state, and planned to do whatever it took to gain her love and trust. As they all get closer, she wonders what it would be like to be with them both, and when she experiences it, knows some changes are coming. She has some decisions to make.

Just as Dinah warms to with the idea of a permanent relationship with Taylor and Ian, they run into Ian's former girlfriend Cait. She instantly dislikes Dinah, and Taylor isn't happy with the reunion either. Taylor later explains that Cait and Ian used to be an item, and that she still wants him exclusively to herself. When Brad makes contact with Dinah, and someone targets her for some unknown reason, as much as she loves her men, she knows she must stand on her own and live on her own for a while. Will they wait for her? Can she have the kind of relationship with them that they have been seeking?

I enjoyed this book, but the story was too short, and the writing suffered for it. I also don't think that the relationship between Cait and Ian was really wrapped up. Ian let it slip that he had seen her more than the times Taylor even knew about, and he also told Cait the intimate details of his life with Taylor and Dinah. He wouldn't have done that if they were really over. Then there were the references Taylor made to Ian about Ian's deep feelings for Cait, and how he was still holding out hope she would change. Those type of deep feelings don't just disappear overnight.

Dinah's friendship with Ian and Taylor has been a huge issue with her live-in boyfriend, Brad. She's not about to give up the only people who truly accept her without being judgmental. Her low self-esteem made her an easy target for Brad's controlling and abusive nature - until Taylor discovers that the abuse is more than just mental.

Ian and Taylor are lovers but they also have a desire to add a woman into their relationship - permanently. They've been friends with Dinah for years, and had even hinted at a more intimate relationship before she'd gotten involved with Brad, but Dinah never took them seriously. Ian and Taylor are determined to help Dinah build up her self-esteem and show her just how good loving them could be.

Ian and Taylor had been aware of Brad's controlling nature and the toll it's taking on Dinah's sense of self worth, but they were not aware of any physical abuse until Taylor found her lying on the floor of her apartment beaten badly enough to require a few days of hospitalization. Taylor and Ian agree that Brad will never get another chance to abuse her in any fashion and insist on her coming home with them. She agrees - but only for a few weeks. Three months later, she's still living with them and Ian and Taylor's sexual innuendos are becoming more frequent. Dinah isn't sure how to respond to their `teasing.' She admits to herself that she's attracted to both men, but she's a one man kind of woman, isn't she? What if they aren't serious and reject her? Their normal Friday `date' night ends with her experiencing ecstasy at the hands of her two best friends, and Dinah realizes that in the middle of an Ian and Taylor sandwich may be exactly where she wants to be. Strange things start happening while at work that have her questioning her own desire for the men versus the expectations of her own family, friends, and society. Does she dare follow her heart?

Mechelle Armstrong's DINAH"S DARK DESIRES intrigued me from the very first page. I loved getting the opportunity to watch Dinah evolve from a quiet, fairly submissive young woman, to a woman who stands up for herself and what she believes, even if there's a possibility that she'll lose the two men she cares most about in the world - Ian and Taylor. Ian and Taylor are exactly the sort of men any woman would want in her life. They put Dinah's happiness and needs before their own. The scenes involving Ian, Taylor and Dinah are not just hot with sexual tension but they're also very sweet and tender - everything you'd want between friends and lovers. Ms. Armstrong adds an exciting element to the storyline with the air of mystery surrounding odd events that keep occurring. Just when I thought I had it all figured out I realized that I couldn't have been more wrong. DINAH'S DARK DESIRES will definitely heat up your fantasies and leave you anticipating many more wonderful books from Ms. Armstrong.

Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)
Dinah's two hunky best friends, Ian and Taylor, are there for her during any trauma that comes her way. After her boyfriend abuses her, they take her home with them so she can heal. Their relationship changes forever when they decide they want her between them forever and in all ways possible. Granted, they arouse her beyond anything she'd ever dreamed possible and give her a new sense of completion. She'd just never imagined the American dream with Dick and Jane ... and Robert. Odd things soon start happening -- ugly things that make her doubt who she's becoming. In reaction, she resists her desires, ignoring her gut feelings. Will she give in to her family's and society's pressures? Or will she find a way to give in to her darkest desire, to be the woman in the middle? Publisher's Note: This book contains sexual acts that may be offensive to some readers, including male/male sexual intercourse and male/female/male ménage.
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< Dinah's Dark Desire > < Surrender > < Colters' Woman > < Blackmailed > < Decadent > freaks

< Daddy's Little Boy > < Teacher Is the Best Experience > < The Tin Star > < Caught Running > < My Fair Captain > < No Going Home > Alan Holloway

price： 1398
Lulu.com(2006-04-18)
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(shocking)

(Riding in my mind still.....)

(Amazing!!!)

(cathy's review)

(A Father's Love)

I love to read, it could be anything, as long as it holds my attention especially on the first couple of paragraphs.
This book was read in one night (non-stop).
It made me laugh,and yes cry. The ending was shocking and I probably will read this book again. I know it will be very hard to forget.
This book will always stay on my book shelf.
An excellant read Mr Holloway.
Firstly I thought it was just another of those 'juicy' books without much of a feel.
However, as I almost coming to the last few chapters, I began to feel for Mason. Their genuine sincere love between both dad&son, following with Mason's new found lover, especially where the story ends with 'Time in a bottle'.
This book was already two years ago and I am now looking forward to another great work from the same author....
"Alan Holloway, where are you and your new masterpiece?"
I am not a big fan of reading. But one day I came across this book as I was surfing Amazon.com. I read part of this book on-line and knew I had to have it. I ordered it and within 3 days read the whole thing. I feel in love with this story! I was really surprised when I searched for other books by the author and couldn't find any. I really like his work and am looking for another book to read. If anyone has any suggestions of other books that are similar to this one PLEASE let me know. My email address is JLSmith472@gmail.com. Fell free to email me with suggestions. Thanks! Jimmy
THIS BOOK IS DIFFENTLY DIFFERENT BUT IT WAS INTERESTING READING. THIS HAD THINGS I HAD NEVER READ ABOUT BEFORE BUT A GOOD LOVE STORY AND A GOOD ENDING. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.
Daddy's Little Boy was a book I picked up thinking it was going to be an interesting read what I wasn't expecting were the erotic passages of the story that included Mason from the age of 12 until he becomes a teenager experimenting with various men and boys. Most of them are straight and are surprised to find themselves very attracted to this supple blond nymph. There was one part that i had to laugh myself silly especially because of the rotten Spanish, being Hispanic myself I was completely flabbergasted of what kind of translator or if they had any for this book. I really liked Mason's character and was surprised at the sexual encounters he pursued, whether from an Uncle, a cousin, his dad, a bully, farm workers etc. There are some heartwarming moments including Mason's love for his Father and then his newfound love among a former Bully, Brett, who falls in love with him. Though Mason is set on loving both men, he is ultimately left with one choice in who to love in the end. There is homophobia, rape, prison sex, incest, pedophilia and death set within the book's storyline, but I believe it is a worthy read despite the taboo topic of a Father and son love Daddy's Little Boy is an erotic and good book to keep in your m/m collection one that you'll want to come back to despite it's short comings.
An erotic coming of age story with a taboo twist.
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< Daddy's Little Boy > < Teacher Is the Best Experience > < The Tin Star > < Caught Running > < My Fair Captain > freaks

< Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) > < Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books > < Pale Fire > < Ulysses > < A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) > < Catch-22 > Vladimir Nabokov

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(Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece)

(Upends your preconceptions and prejudices)

(Which book did you read?)

(A road movie of the mind)

(The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written)

Lolita is a beautifully-written book about a man and his sexual relationship with a young girl. Nabokov's beautiful writing contrasts sharply with the book's crude subject matter. This contrast is what makes this book brilliant, in my opinion.
This is a book that must be read with an open mind. If you read it before judging its controversial contents, it will be sure to expand your mind and make you think about subjects in a whole new light. After I read this book, I could not stop thinking about it, and the moral questions is brought up. Most of all, it made me think: what is love? In the middle of the book, I was convinced that Humbert Humbert was a despicable monster who did not love Dolores; by the end of the book, I was less convinced.

The book was also enjoyable for the writing style; although the overuse of French annoyed me, it was fun to figure out what the literary allusions meant.
In writing `Lolita', Vladimir Nabokov had chosen a very difficult topic to demonstrate his writing prowess.

Why? Because many - if not most - readers have formed views about the subject matter and the characters before they have read the book. My review is not of the content but of the writing and the ambiguity of language.

Words are used to both summarise facts and to create fiction. Differentiating the two is not always easy, especially if the subject matter is distasteful. Our own views colour our relationship with the book, but should they also influence our assessment of literary worth?

Much of the journey with `Lolita' is undertaken from within the mind of Humbert Humbert, a paedophile, and his fixation on the eponymous Lolita. This is a book which, in my view, cannot be effectively translated into a movie. It is a book where the power of language and the images and reactions created at an individual level have the most impact. We are usually in Humbert's mind and, for me. that is not a comfortable space to occupy. And yet amidst Humbert's scattered, fixated thoughts and cunning but ultimately doomed plans are glimpses of beauty. The butterfly references can be read on a number of different levels: I choose to see the symbolism of transient but elusive beauty.

So what is it about `Lolita' that makes it worth reading? Simply, the power and beauty of Nabokov's writing. But that particular beauty depends upon which book you choose to read.

I have read this book twice in 40 years. Each time, I have formed different views. This book is not a paean to paedophilia: it is an illumination of the labyrinths of the human mind.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

Praise be to Graham Greene, who was not only an interesting novelist (e.g. The Quiet American), but he also has the merit of saving Nabokov's Lolita from obscurity. When the book found no publisher in the US, it was first brought out by a shady Parisian company that specialized in erotic books in the English language. That was a tourist attraction in Paris. For reasons unknown to me (why would Greene even know the series? he had other oddities about his character), Greene took notice of the book and named it as one of the best books of the year in a magazine article in the UK. That was the beginning of the road to fame and riches for Nabokov, including an Oscar winning, but lousy movie.
I admit I have not read Lolita recently, but I did at least twice some time ago, and I read his movie script in the LoA volume. Why do I review it now? Simply because J. talked me into it. Women can be persistent.
J did not like Lolita because she saw it as pedophile porno. I am aware that one can read the book that way. Actually most of the first buyers must have been looking for that, but most of them were badly disappointed.
Sure, the book is about a pedophile, but Nabokov never told us a straightforward story. One must be prepared to encounter mystifications and traps and double meanings.
Lolita's main text body is the alleged memoir of a man who has died in jail, where he was held for murder. We learn only late into the story who the victim was. Oddly, he was not in jail for rape and kidnapping, which he freely admits to in his text.
The hero is a decadent middle aged European of a cultured background. He has come to New England as a professor for literature. He is a pedophile, who can only 'love' pre-puberty girls. Nabokov's original title for the book was Kingdom by the Sea after E.A.Poe's poem. Humbert Humbert (the name should tell us that we can't expect clear sailing on meanings) settles down and meets a woman with the kind of daughter that he fancies. He marries her to get at the child. The woman dies (don't necessarily believe the version of her death that HH tells us), he kidnaps the girl Dolores, rapes her, and goes on the road with her, moving from place to place all over the US, settling here and there briefly, always running away before attachments can be formed. And still there comes a time when Lolita runs away from captivity.
What is the book about? It is also a little bit about pedophilia, sure, but it is mainly about an immigrant's experience of the US. Nabokov wrote about his own observations with his New England university environment, and to a large extent he wrote about his long car trips across the US on his butterfly hunts. The places where HH stays with Lolita are Nab's own stations, where he stayed with his wife, who drove the car.
HH is not a man who can be believed. He twists his tale to his liking, and even his admissions of wrongdoings with the girl have a strong smell of self-saving euphemism. The man is a self-centered egomaniac.
Lolita is not my favorite Nab-book, actually, but it is well worth reading more than once.
An account of pathological love so tender that it has no rival in literature. A dreamlike plot and dream-exquisite prose: perfection.
Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures ofLolitaare as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.

Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition.Lolitais undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:

She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.

Much has been made ofLolitaas metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguisticjouissanceis as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido.--Simon Leake
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

When it was published in 1955,Lolitaimmediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.

Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

With an Introduction by Martin Amis
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< Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) > < Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books > < Pale Fire > < Ulysses > < A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) > freaks

< Dangerous Lover (Avon Red) > < Midnight Run (Midnight Series, Book 2) > < Midnight Angel (Midnight Series, Book 3) > < Midnight Man (Midnight Series, Book 1) > < Dangerous Secrets (Avon Red) > < Woman on the Run > Lisa Marie Rice

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Avon Red(2007-07-31)
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(A good erotic suspense novel)

(Great book bad ending)

(Excellent!)

(Good book)

(PRECIOUS LOVER)

Caroline Lake has had a hard life during the last few years. Coming from a wealthy family, she lost everything but the old house that's badly in need of repairs when her parents and younger brother had an accident. Both her parents died and her brother was badly injured. After several years of high health expenses he also died and she's left all alone.
Jack Prescott grew up without a mother and an alcoholic father in homeless shelters. In his youth, Caroline was the only beam of light in that darkness. Since then he made a career as a soldier and mercenary. After twelve years he wants to start a new life after a group of mercenaries wiped out an African village for their diamond stache. He goes to meet Caroline and the two soon become lovers. But one of the mercenaries is after Jack to get the diamonds back...
This is a well-written erotic suspense novel with likeable characters with depth due to their hard past.The suspense elements are well-written, so are the erotic and romantic elements. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it.
Deadly Shadows Angel Eyes
I loved the story line but The ending had to be the worst i ever read:(
Rice could have gone another chapter to really give us a wow. It kind of just dropped off???
Lisa Marie Rice is on my autobuy list, and Dangerous Lover is the reason why. I love this book. Caroline and Jack are two very different people but very much in love. Rice is a master at characterization. Caroline is gentle and feminine but strong and practical. Jack is tough as nails but so far gone for Caroline it's heartbreaking. He takes care of her, giving her someone to depend on after many years alone, and she takes care of him, giving him the love and affection he never had as a child or an adult.
Unrequited love is one my favorite plot devices, and Rice almost does the story justice. The reader knows Jack has yearned for Caroline and all that she represents (love, security, beauty, family, belonging) for years, and it's extremely poignant. Meanwhile, Caroline has been dealing with her own problems and is completely oblivious. That part of the story is very well done. My only caveat with the book is the rushed ending. One of the best parts of the unrequited love story is when one character discovers how long the other has loved him/her and reacts to the knowledge. That's the emotional payoff. We don't get it in this book. When Jack reveals who he is, we never know Caroline's full reaction. Big, big bummer.
HOWEVER: despite the flawed ending, this is a wonderfully sexy and tender book that I highly recommend.
First of all, I really like this author and enjoy her books more than I've enjoyed a new author in a long time. However, here are the reasons that I only gave it 4 stars:
1) The romance was so similar to 'Midnight Angel'. It seemed that whole paragraphs were copied from one book to the other.
2) Deaver, the villian, was being held by UN soldiers and suspected of having 20 million of diamonds on his person. But they did not search him thoroughly enough to discover the knife in his boots??!! Give me a break.
3) Yes, the ending was too short and even a two-page Epilogue would have completed this better. I hope there is some follow-up with these characters in her subsequent books.

Despite the list above, Rice writes such compelling characters and chemistry, that I wouldn't dare miss one of her books.
Excellent! I agree totaly with the reviewers who thought this story ended at the right time! After all it was the time of the salvation of love... Both characters were very decent people in my opinion. Caroline was a premature and caring mother for her own dying brother and Jack never gave up his love and gratitute for Caroline, his first and only one passion. Poignant, full of action, and intense sensual and unforgettable love...

"I don't want to be alone tonight."

Caroline Lake can hardly believe she would ever say these words to someone she'd never met before. When a tall, dark stranger arrives wanting to rent a room in her beautiful empty shell of a mansion, she hesitates. Though she is in dire financial straits, the man looks dangerous—dangerously sexy. She's overwhelmed by the desire he sparks in her—hotter than anything she's ever felt before, making her ache to experience his sensuous touch. But who is this armed and mysterious man with danger following in his wake? He's not who she thinks he is . . .

Jack Prescott has wanted Caroline forever. He has spent the past twelve years dreaming of her, desiring her, while fighting in some of the worst hellholes on earth. Now he's back, with twenty million dollars in blood diamonds and a relentless enemy stalking him. But this time Jack's determined that nothing will stop him from finally making Caroline his.

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< Dangerous Lover (Avon Red) > < Midnight Run (Midnight Series, Book 2) > < Midnight Angel (Midnight Series, Book 3) > < Midnight Man (Midnight Series, Book 1) > < Dangerous Secrets (Avon Red) > freaks

< Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica > < Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women > < Blushing at Both Ends (Nexus) > < Over the Knee (Nexus Enthusiast) > < Spank Me (Xcite Selections) (Xcite Selections) (Xcite Selections) > < Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z >

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(A decadent pleasure)

(If It's Spanking You Want, It's Spanking You'll Get)

(Awesome collection)

(Good reading from front to rear)

(Fun&easy to read!)

The tantalizing variety of stories in this spanking-themed anthology are like rich chocolates, with each delectable morsel leaving the reader wanting just one more bite. Rachel Kramer Bussel has put together a fabulous collection of stories in Spanked. She proves-- once again-- that she is not only an outstanding author, but a shrewd editor with a keen sense of pacing that leaves the reader eagerly anticipating the next story.

Among my favorite stories in this collection are Shanna Germain's shiveringly good "Perfect Bound," Alison Tyler's naughty-but-oh-so-nice "Betty Crocker Gone Bad" and Donna George Storey's teasing confessional "A Rare Find." Speaking of rare finds, I was also pleased to discover some new-to-me authors in the lineup, including Rick Roberts. Roberts' delightful "Spanking You" opens the anthology and sets the tone for a variety of delicious intimacies.

Spanked is one of those books you will want to share with the one you love... or the ones you know love spankings!
From the cover with its delicious female bottom gently reddened to the last story written by RKB, this book was amazing. I've long been a fan and an avid follower of all things RKB but receiving this book from the editor herself, well, it was the icing on the (cup)cake.

Whether your tastes run from hetero spanking to sweet girl-girl interaction, this anthology has it all. My favorites included "Depths...", "Pink Cheeks", and "Indulgences". If it's spanking erotica you want, it's spanking erotica you'll get in this anthology.

This is a great collection.
This book is 20 short stories written by both men and women, covering spanking as well as other sexy topics. Rachel has put together an awesome collection of great writers- and even added a scorching hot tale, herself!! I read most of this book sitting out by the pool this summer, and definitely needed to jump in the water often to cool off!!
Were you in a playful mood the last time you had sex with someone?

I'm not talking about "playful" as in "kittenish," much less "monkeying" or "horsing" around. (Save your human/animal roleplay jokes for now, m'kay?)

I'm talking about the state of mind that has to do with gleeful improvisation, glistening wetness and gleaming smiles, glowing pleasure in the moment and getting a grip (or getting gripped) by a willing partner.

The latest book to remind me of that delightful state, that pleasant periphery in which ludic languor lives, is Rachel Kramer Bussel's anthology of short shories. (Full disclosure: I received a review copy in exchange for a promise to write a review and post it to the book's Amazon.com listing.)

Each story is not just a rude and randy recitation of body-part motion-capture that one might plot on a graph with as little difficulty as one might play buzzword bingo with nearly any politician's boilerplate address.

It's also not just a collection of completely unlikely or implausible scenarios (airplane bathrooms, department-store dressing rooms, college classrooms, graveyards, etc.). It's called wishful thinking, not fantastic (in that other sense of the word) thinking. Maybe it's just my own imagination, but situations where a few words gone awry result in a gauntlet thrown down and then taken up sound not just likely, but like good ideas (as in Thomas S. Roche's "Pre-Party" and Kramer Bussel's own "The Depths of Despair").

It's why I'm willing to go along with Shanna Germain's "Perfect Bound" with its library-look protagonist, bookstore-cum-flytrap setting and delightfully unexpected uses for certain old-school office supplies, or Alison Tyler's "Betty Crocker Gone Bad," which turns a domestic quirk into the kind of escapade that might get left on a cable-cooking-show cutting-room floor, or Madeline Glass' "Laser Tag," which makes the best out of bad behavior at a concert and the resulting cute-meat meet-cute.

By the time you've dropped in on the grownups-go-back-to-high-school scenario of Madlyn March's "Reunion," the barn settings (yes, if you must, perhaps now's the time for your roleplay jokes) of Thomas Christopher's "Riding the Storm" and L. Elise Bland's "The Breeding Barn," you're probably several turns of the screw into certain physical symptoms that result from the consumption of well-written erotica. You probably won't even mind the workplace-turnabout triptych of Fiona Locke's "Pink Cheeks," Laura Bacchi's "Page By Page" and Simon Sheppard's "Fiscal Discipline."

Make a point of checking this book out wherever you get your hands on it, and you'll soon concur that the only thing better than bending over a well-told tale is, well, bending over a well-toiled-over tail.
Rachel obviously put a lot of time and effort into this collection. Not only are they all highly readable and entertaining in their own right, but the progression of the stories seems so natural. It's almost as if they were all written by the same author and always intended to be part of a book. And that's amazing, considering that the stories are diverse and written by 19 different authors, including Rachel herself.

The first story, "Spanking You" by Rick Roberts, struck me as the most vanilla and easily accessible by someone new to this genre. So it was a brilliant way to lead off the series. Each succeeding story seemed to be more intense, explicit, and unconventional. I don't know if this organization was conscious or unconscious. I don't know even know whether other readers would agree with my assessment. But it was definitely my perception - and I thought it worked.

My favorite lead paragraph was provided by Madeline Glass in "Laser Tag":

"The first time he spanked me, I thought he was a pervert. The second time he did it, I wondered if I was. By the third time, I was certain that we both were."

Readers of this book might undergo a similar progression:

"After the first story, I thought Rachel was a pervert. Reading the second story, I wondered if I was. By the third story, I was certain that we both were."

Incidentally, I was a little concerned that this book would "only" be about spanking. But rest assured, there are many other forms of sensuality and eroticism displayed in the stories (all of which are enhanced by spanking), and there are orgasms aplenty.

Finally, I'd say one key reason why these stories work is that they are almost all set in familiar places - bookstores, concerts, kitchens, etc. That made it much easier for me to imagine myself participating in the scenes - which I did for almost all of these stories.

Erotic spanking— whether giving or receiving— is one of the most exciting, arousing, and sensual experiences to enjoy. In this enticing collection, spanking enthusiast Rachel Kramer Bussel has assembled 22 tales of red-cheeked arousal. Whether being disciplined for naughtiness or simply because they crave the sting of a hand against flesh, the men and women in these stories revel in being bent over, paddled, punished, and possessed by their spankers. Those delivering the blows find extreme pleasure in pushing their bottoms’ buttons, making them— and the reader— tremble and quiver in anticipation as they await the next smack. Featuring stories by Alison Tyler, Sage Vivaint, Lillian Ann Slugocki, Stan Kent, Elizabeth Coldwell, Thomas Roche, and others, this sizzling collection offers tales so breathtakingly vivid that readers might find their own cheeks sore just from reading it.

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I really, really liked this erotic fantasy book. It's covers just about any given fantasy out there today and some new ones I hadn't thought of. A great read, through and through. I liked it very much, as well as, Sex Scenes: Erotica Excerpts from the Novels of Kim Corum. The two can make for some steamy stuff!!

Who can live without lust? All day and night, our minds run through delicious possibilities— a silky hand beckoning us into the VIP lounge; a stranger in the backseat; the hunky FedEx driver bringing his package to the door— not to mention our own lascivious memories.Lustis a collection of erotica by and for women, a fierce and joyous celebration of female desire— and the triple-X trouble it gets us into. In Kay Jaybee’s“Tied to the Kitchen Sink,” a birthday boy finds his present— nude except for tall, high-heeled boots— happily devoted to domestic duties. Maria Grigoriadis’s“Pleasant Surprise” shows what can happen when you knock on the wrong apartment door— without your panties. And Bonnie Dee’s“Ripe Fruit” teasingly elaborates the sweet, sticky encounter of a soap opera idol and a fruit-stand employee on a stretch of rural roadside. Let the witty and provocative Violet Blue, best-selling writer, sex columnist for theSan Francisco Chronicleand host of the popular podcastOpen Source Sex,lead you down a primrose path to a forest of wicked, lustful surprises.

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