The Flesh Constrained [Mass Market Paperback]

Cleo Cordell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 6, 1998

The travels of Lord Rakka and Garnetta continue in this dark erotic fantasy from the bestselling author and winner of the Erotic Writer of the Year Award.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf (August 6, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786706023
• ISBN-13: 978-0786706020
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,098,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Medieval plot with lots of sex, gore and bad guys....., February 14, 2000

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Minnesota Raven "Viking Vixen" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Flesh Constrained (Mass Market Paperback)

I actually didn't find this boring which is why it got 3 stars. I have to admit it. I got the book because I thought it would be sexually graphic. What can I say. I bought it because I was traveling and you need something to keep you entertained in an airport. Well it did. It won't win any literary prizes but it had a story line, well developed characters and plenty of sex. All kinds of sex so it should please anybody. Only at the end did it seem like the author got a little rushed and the lead female's sudden attraction to another female character is never fully written out and so you are left feeling confused because her actions make no sense. But all in all it was entertaining.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If there was such a thing as hard core erotic lit this is it, July 16, 2001

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Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Flesh Constrained (Mass Market Paperback)

If you enjoy fantasy type of books that contain more than the noraml measure of bodily fluids, agressive homosexuality, violence, satan worship and last, but certainly not least, sadism and cruelty, then babe, this is the book is for you!

The book verily slaps you into it's reality right from the get go as we are introduced to Heinrich, one of the main characters, a true blue homosexual sadist, and Arnoul, the captian of his troop of bodyguards, who really isn't much better than his boss. Can't get into what they do in this review but, suffice it to say it ain't pretty, and it's not erotic for this reader.

Heinrich of course is a crazy sadist who is awaiting a delgate from the devil himself, in the form of a couple of supposed magicians that I think are over 250 years old, Karolan and Garnetta, so he can I guess be validated as one of the devils leaders on earth...

By the time I hit page 84 we get introduced to another, of numerous characters, Adalberta, the wife of Baron Otto. To give you a flaour of the book the first sentences of Chapter 5 go something like this:"She wrinkled her nose in disgust. The sheets smelt of her husband's sour body and were blotched with patches of drying semen, evidence of his renowned sexual prowess."

That did it for me .. sorry ... had enough .. the book up to this point made ample use of words such as rotten, putrid, sour, puss filled, transmuted flesh, burnt meat, etc etc that I really couldn't take it any more and this is one book I am probably never going to finish it ...

Why the 5 star rating? Even though this IS NOT my idea of eroticism it is an excellent hard core book for those readers that enjoy this kind of putrid imagry.