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Best of Best Women's Erotica

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Save your money, seriously. Most of these stories are mediocre at best. Some are written so horridly, I can't believe they actually got into a book titled "The Best". You'll find better erotica on AFF. net or Mediaminer (dig around, good fic exists). For free.

More than half of these little tales, are angsty and depressing. Which is fine, if you're doing a "Best of Womens Angst" book. Erotica? Where??? Just because theres a minimum of one sex scene in each story, does not make it erotic. There's no seduction to the reader, no introspection, and hell, not even the smut scenes are that hot.

I was incredibly disappointed with this book, I do not recommend it at all.

For me, nothing's worse than ending a story feeling down and depressed, and at least 80% of the stories had that effect on me. Oh, yes, they used all of the "words" you expect in erotic writing, but oddly enough that's all they were...just words without a real feeling of heat or arousal. I actually tore the book up and threw it away.

i love to read erotica. and i've enjoyed other collections edited by marcy sheiner. but this book is such a disappointment. the stories are mostly fine stories. but i don't buy collections of erotica for "a" story. usually women's erotica offers stories that are exciting from psychological, intellectual, and sexual angles. sadly, most of the stories in this book have none of these qualities to offer.

i enjoyed all of the stories except for cal's party; riding the rails; contented clients; doing the dishes.

It must have been incredibly difficult to choose the best stories from Marcy Sheiner's six years of editing this series, but this book provides a wonderfully varied sampling of the skills and passions of women writing erotica in this decade.