Afternoon Delight: Erotica For Couples
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Brand: Cleis PressEditor: Alison Tyler
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-10
ISBN: 1573443417
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: Cleis Press
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- ISBN13: 9781573443418
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A collection of 24 hours of sex
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoy well written erotica.
Alison Tyler, editor (and writer!) of a number of collections of erotica, once again returns to the fray with this volume. Despite its title, this collection is really about stories and vignettes that span all hours of the day with various characters.
The sex is almost resolutely heterosexual partnerships. Even if that seems like a limitation, the wide variety of stories provided by the authors explore the theme throughout an entire day. Like sonnets which restrict the length and style of a poem, the authors have risen to the challenges and bounds set by the collection's nature. Nothing really gets hardcore, its definitely a "light" anthology of erotica.
Like any anthology, some of the stories were more interesting than others, and some stories were more arousing than others. I read all of the stories, but some of the stories, personally, I would definitely and have read again and again. The wide variety of authors vary from authors who seem to be in many of Ms. Tyler's collections (e.g. Rachel Kramer Bussel, Sommer Marsden, Kristina Wright...(no bad thing, they are talented)) to brand new authors. Unlike some collections of this nature which seem to completely freeze out male writers, this collection has a reasonable minority of its writers as male.
Those who seek much more "hardcore" erotica, with taboo and boundary pushing limits, are going to be awfully disappointed in this anthology. Even with mild bondage and roleplay and gentle D/s themes in these stories, they will find it all too tame for their taste.
On the other hand, I think that a reader who has always wanted to try erotic fiction but has been embarrassed by what she might find should try Afternoon Delight. With this set of stories in a limited and constricted theme and range of stories, it works very well as a "first timers" anthology of erotic fiction, and a good indication of the writing ability of the authors, and the editorial hand of the anthology's creator. They certainly will find the stories in this book much better written than a furtively purchased "Penthouse Variations" anthology found in the dusty corner of a used book store.
Fans of Ms. Tyler's anthologies, or of the authors will of course want to pick up this volume and enjoy the stories therein, as I have done.
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