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Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Zane, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of
Erotic Fiction, brings a new collection of lesbian erotica
that will blow the sheets off beds everywhere.

What happens when "The Finest Man" you have ever laid eyes on is a woman? What happens when a woman comes home to her man after a hard day's work with "Lipstick on Her Collar?" What happens when a married woman runs across the love of her life -- another woman -- who insists that "It's All or Nothing?" Is there such a thing as playing too "Hard to Get?" What happens when "Mom's Night Out" turns into group sex? What happens when you discover your true sexuality "At Last?" All of these questions and more are answered within the pages of Purple Panties.

Written by women from all over the world, here is a new level of lesbian erotica, compiled by Zane, that promises the most exciting and steamy reading experience possible. These stories move beyond race, age, and all walks of life, including long-hidden passions, secret rendezvous with strangers, and May-December romances.

With Zane's ever-growing popularity, and the need for increasingly quality erotica, Purple Panties will satisfy a long-standing demand for African-American lesbian literature.

In the tradition of such successful erotica anthologies as Chocolate Flava and Caramel Flava, Purple Panties uncovers a new world of evocative risk-taking that has never been explored before from a lesbian perspective. The adventures in these stories are beyond everyone's wildest imaginations.

Wet: True Lesbian Sex Stories

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Damp 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Sorry, a little disappointed. I would have called this book "Damp" or "Moist" or "AllMost" or "AllMoist" ....but not "Wet". Close but no cigar...

Soaking wet 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Loved it! What a turn-on. Another great new book is "The Call Girl Actress, Confessions of a Lesbian Escort" by Erica Black.

Title Says It All 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book is great I loved all the stories. I bought an erotica book prior to this but I wasn't too pleased with it. The stories were made up and some submitted by men. I don't want to read about some strange man's fantasy. This book was really great though. I descretely brought it into school and read it during my study halls... It made my day again and again with every page I turned. If you're looking for some great, true stories. This is your book.

Editorial Review:

Intense and vibrantly real lesbian erotica in the spirit of Skin Deep, these quick and dirty true stories revel in hot lesbian sex. As they peek into the diary of a very busy (and very bad) girl, readers will be panting hungrily as women from around the world reveal their most intimate lesbian encounters.

Nicole Foster edited the best-selling books, Skin Deep, Awakening the Virgin, Body Check, and Electric. She undresses in front of her window in Los Angeles.

Shame on It All: A Novel

Zane

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Total reviews: 142 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

One of the stupidest book I've read in a long time!! 1 out of 5 stars.
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I have never read a Zane book before and after reading this book, I can say I NEVER will again, the book starts off alright and you expect some substance, but it quickly begins to go down hill.
The sponsor ads were pointless, not funny and a waste of paper, then she throws the silliness from the ads into the story which makes the story just annoying and unrealistic.

The Harmony mystery was such a big secret and when they "revealed" what was wrong that was such a disappointment. The dean escapade was over the top and again....not realistic. The mandingo thing was disgusting and extremely stupid. I was very disappointed with this story and discourage anyone who doesn't have money to blow to stay away from this book.

Editorial Review:

Shame on It All is an unforgettable showcase for Zane's talent -- insight, comedy, and wild high jinks.

For anyone who has ever observed the behavior of a close friend or family member and suppressed the urge to scream "Shame on you!" out loud, Shame on It All is the novel for you.

Harmony, Bryce, and Lucinda (a.k.a. Lucky) Whitfield are sisters in every sense of the word. They argue and get on each other's nerves, but when it comes down to the wire they are extremely protective of one another. Shame on It All follows their adventures, their friendships, their love lives, and their outlooks on life in today's society. Jam-packed with unpredictable, unbelievable, and just downright crazy situations with a few surprising twists thrown in for good measure, Shame on It All is as wild as they come.

Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

This one's pretty hit-or-miss... 3 out of 5 stars.
26 of 29 people found this review helpful.

So I had really high hopes for this compilation, especially due to the involvement of Stacy Bias, girl wonder. However, some of the stories were simply poorly written. Cliches abounded, and I found myself distracted from what would otherwise be a perfectly hot story with an interesting enough plot by the sophomorish writing.

Don't get me wrong, there are some really great stories with wonderful writing, and some are truly outstanding. It's worth getting. Just not as totally fabulous as I'd hoped.

Editorial Review:

In the tradition of the erotic bestsellers Skin Deep and Early Embraces, Up All Night presents the uncensored sizzling words of real women describing their hottest, wildest erotic adventures.

Stacy Bias is the founder of Technodyke.com, the gathering place for the web-savvy dyke. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Rachel Kramer Bussel is an editorial assistant at On Our Backs and has contributed writings to Starf*cker, Best Lesbian Erotica 2001, and Hot & Bothered 3. She lives in New York City.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2008

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 1.5 of 5

not my idea of hot 2 out of 5 stars.
19 of 23 people found this review helpful.

I know everyone has different ideas of hot but this book left me feeling icky. I am not into most of what they write about and this is really a lot of semi violent woman on woman behavior which is not my idea of erotic. Seems like instead of using intelligence and wit they just came up with various objects to use. Kind of debasing. Skip this if you want hot steamy romance and passion.

Lesbian-free Porn 1 out of 5 stars.
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If you like lesbian erotica thickly strewn with words like cock, boy, and Daddy, and devoid of any human warmth, you'll love this book.

If you're looking for stories of women loving women, keep looking!

Reading this book left me feeling soiled and distressed. I tossed it without even finishing it.

Perhaps even worse, considering its goal, is that it entirely failed to be steamy.

It takes huge "poetic license" to call this lesbian erotica. It's neither.

Save your money. I'd give it "zero stars" if the form allowed it.

Editorial Review:

Best Lesbian Erotica 2008 journeys into the world of lesbian sex with uncommon, edgy stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. Edited by bestselling author Tristan Taormino and selected and introduced by the dynamic Sister Spit performer Ali Liebegott, this latest edition of the best-selling lesbian erotica series in America is sensual, inventive, and breathtaking.

Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Mildly Erotic, mostly vanilla 2 out of 5 stars.
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I expected some steamy, erotic stories of edgy, passionate lust with a bondage twist. Maybe even some interesting S/M for spice. Instead, it is lukewarm, generally uninspired tales of routine or tried and true bondage-themed lovemaking. Mildly interesting if you need something to pass the time and the people sitting next to you on the plane do not mind. I gave up about half way through and discretely tossed it away. Unless you are new to the genre or new generally, look elsewhere for your prurient interests.

Editorial Review:

Tristan Taormino presents a cornucopia of lesbian kink — tantalizing tales rich in variety and saucy details of girls put in their place — and held there firmly. In Skian McGuire’s “Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage,” a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she — a real cop — goes undercover. In Elaine Miller’s “Fee Fie Foe Femme,” a girly-girl reaps a sweet punishment for refusing to mess up her raspberry pink lipstick. Whether readers dream of surrendering to a lover or of taking control, Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica offers plenty of erotic inspiration.

In Deep Waters: Cruising the Seas

Karin Kallmaker, Radclyffe

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Who needs plot? 4 out of 5 stars.
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I will give this book 4 stars because it succeeds admirably at being what it wanted: pure "plot what plot" escapism. I don't generally read anthologies or collections of short stories because I always want to dig deeper, and often end up unsatisfied, but I picked this up on the strength of the authors' bodies of work, and it was fun.

It clearly contains lots of sex, in a variety of ways, using a variety of techniques and tools, with a variety of partners. I was very entertained at the descriptions of Radclyffe's spreadsheet, constructed to keep everything straight (as it were). It got a little old to read the book straight through as there isn't much variation to build in to a girl-meets-girl(s)/girls-have-sex scenario, making a one-seating read border on tiresome, but picking it up to read a story or two a day was fun, and it was delightful to meet some old characters from other books again, which helped lend some depth. In addition there were enough spot-on observations about human psychology, and moments of true emotion, that on the whole it succeeds, and I'm curious about what the next vacation scenario (reportedly on the Las Vegas Strip) will give us.

If you're looking for plot or character development, this book will not meet your requirements. But if you're looking for a book that doesn't require much thought as it romps through numerous bedrooms, you should be satisfied (no pun intended).

Editorial Review:

Book passage on a deliciously sensual Mediterranean cruise with tour guides Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Poolside, topside, below deck and ship-to-shore--grab a deck chair and feel the temperature climb.

From honeymooning couples to strangers with mutual desires, there are no secrets about what goes on between embarkation, midnight buffets and ports-of-call. Passengers, entertainers, ship's crew and tour staff explore every inch of each other and their floating paradise. The lounge. The ex's stateroom. The casino. The little room no one else has realized is so handy, and so private.

It's like no vacation you've ever experienced before when these two adventurous authors lure you into the deep waters where everyone gets wet.

Desert of the Heart

Jane Rule

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On the boundary 4 out of 5 stars.
6 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Evelyn travels to a small Nevada town to finalize her divorce, and there encounters Ann. The two slowly ease into a love affair, and as Evelyn's court appearance and scheduled departure loom ahead, the two struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women could possibly last. Rule's writing is a bit dated for modern audiences, but the potency of Ann and Evelyn's love burns through the later parts of the novel. I think the movie adaption "Desert Hearts" beautifully captures the essentials of the book, but like the other reviewers have mentioned, it's almost a different story in places.

An Emotional Landscape 5 out of 5 stars.
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I just finished re-reading Desert of the Heart, written by Jane Rule, for about the twentieth time. It is a remarkable, perfect little book. I have almost memorized certain lines and phrases, and I am certain that this work, all Jane Rule's work, has influenced my own. It says what it has to say, in the first paragraph, and it says it again in the rest of the book, and it ends just as it should.
"Conventions, like cliches, have a way of surviving their own usefulness. They are then defended or excused as the idioms of living." This is a book about the conventions we accept as the medium of our lives, most of us without questioning their real value to us. For some people, this makes life an absurdity devoid of meaning. People are born, grow up, go to school, get married, get jobs, raise children, and die. This book examines the absurdity of this idiom for some people. The convention of marriage, for homosexual people, is absurd. The cliche of fidelity and forsaking all others, for some, is meaningless, a promise impossible for humans to keep.

The story involves a woman who lived within these conventions all her life, even while feeling emotionally detached, outside them, as if she were speaking a foreign language. She meets another woman who has spent her life deliberately, consciously, living outside these conventions, even though studying them and the effects of trying to live within their boundaries. When these two women begin a relationship, one in defiance of those idioms of Iife, one accepting that their relationship may just be a visit outside the lines for her partner, the tension comes when each must acknowledge that what she thought about Iiving inside and outside those boundaries may not be true.
For Evelyn Hall, respectable college professor, stepping outside the conventions of her life forces her to examine them and question what she never before doubted, that women are supposed to marry, have children, and that she has failed because she played poorly at this game. She is forced to examine the basis for her assumptions about morality and love.
Ann Childs is forced to explore whether the cliches about love, the ones she has defied and dismissed all her life, might not hold some truth. If she accepts that she does love Evelyn, does that mean then that she must accept the other cliches about love that she has denied, that some of them might indeed be real and achievable, like fidelity, like "forsaking all others?"
There is an argument posed in the book about whether the human will or its nature influences us to choose or deny love. Is it our nature to marry men, bear children, and is it unnatural to seek love outside those accepted parameters? Is it our will, our intellect, that allows us to explore love outside the accepted convention of heterosexuality? Is it the will that bends us into the conventions of life, subduing our nature, which seeks out love wherever it may? Are those established conventions, old and worn, there to protect us from our nature or to bend our will away from our natural inclinations? If, in admitting and accepting her love for Ann, Evelyn is responding to her own nature, long denied, what does that say about the foundations on which her life was lived?

This is a small, short book, so well put together that I could not remove one line, one sentence, without unbalancing the whole. The movie that was based upon this book left out a great deal and added elements that are not there. Movies do that. Trying to remain true to the "theme" of the book, it completely re-routes characters, leaves out the very best lines, and substitutes some fine images and atmosphere. It is set in the early 1960's, and does a fine job of conveying the flavor of that period with the music and the fashions and the automobiles. Instead of portraying Ann Childs as an intellectual, in order to define her character as one who defies conventions, she is shown as rebellious and wild, promiscuous, and unaware of herself until she falls in love with Evelyn. Evelyn is shown as reserved and appalled at Ann's wildness, shocked, until she gives in to her own inner nature and makes love with Ann. This is not exactly how it played in the book, but the movie is also a short, fast story, and movies use shorthand methods. Movies can show us a person's character. Movies are defended by their makers by saying they remain true to the author's intent while engaging in wholesale restructuring. Movies can show us, in a single frame, what it takes a writer pages and pages to tell. So their defenders say.
I have no idea what Miss Rule thought of the movie they made from her first book. I believe she thought it was important, significant, that it get made. I believe she had no interest in assisting the makers. And the movie does hold true to the theme of accepting love in whatever form you find it, for its own sake. I find almost none of the original, beautiful lines from the book in the dialogue of the movie. I find none of the depth and elegance and artistry. Yet, on its own terms, the movie avoids some of the cliches one expects to find in a movie concerned with this topic. It does a good job of that. Even if some characters are made into caricatures, grotesque imitations of themselves, it can be forgiven because it is a movie. It has color and sound and movement. It can show us two women making love, something the author saw no reason to detail. It can show us Evelyn's transformation. It shows us things. That is what movies do.

I love this small, tight book. Jane Rule is a remarkable writer. If my own writing has been influenced by hers, consciously or unconsciously, I could find no other guide that would better suit me.

Editorial Review:

The book that launched the ground-breaking and single most popular lesbian movie of all time is back.

In this romantic classic by Jane Rule, readers can discover how Ann and Evelyn’s relationship originally came to pass.

DESERT OF THE HEART is THE definitive lesbian classic.

Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Erotica

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If the vampire is both scary and seductive, the lesbian vampire, who lives at the farthest fringes of society, is doubly so. The appeal of this quintessential bad girl is unmistakable and irresistible: the hypnotic eyes, fetishy garb and make-up, lips that can kiss or open to reveal gleaming fangs that lovingly pierce flesh. These are some of the weapons she employs to lure and enslave her victims, willing and otherwise. Edited by noted vampire aficionado Pam Keesey, Dark Angels showcases the lesbian vampire in all her glory.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2007

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

eh... kind of creepy 3 out of 5 stars.
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if you're looking for a book without penises, then this one isn't it. there's lots of strap-on action, but nothing really "romantic." and there's creepy bum-action... i was slightly disappointed.

Editorial Review:

A fire-eater, a voluptuous masseuse, and a naked game of tag in a forest at twilight — it could only be Best Lesbian Erotica 2007, the latest, boldest edition of the hottest lesbian erotica series in America. In Andrea Miller’s “Heavenly Bodies,” an adventurous woman sleeps her way through the zodiac, her twelve lovers including romantic Cancer, exhibitionist Leo, and an unforgettably raw, dominant Scorpio. Peggy Munson twists and teases the canon in “Subtexts,” a hardcore butch-femme re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, Moby-Dick, and other tales that already sound dirty. Edited by award-winning author, adult film director, and sex educator Tristan Taormino, and selected and introduced by Emma Donoghue, these fearless stories will stir your senses and test your erotic boundaries.