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Guilty Pleasures - Historical Erotic Romances

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Pita's characters take us on an all consuming, passionate exploration of love and sexual desire from around the world, utilising cultures and centuries we can only imagine.

Maria Isabel Pita takes us through a collection of 18 erotic stories which capture the enthusiasm and passion of different women throughout the ages, with astounding precision. The author displays an unusual, albeit ingenious, imagination that opens the book with Out of Control, a short story set in futuristic Canada 2015. It's difficult to suggest favourite as I enjoyed them all, however, the stories which stand out the most include my literary trip to 1636 Transylvania, in Song of Blood, reading of the Secret Societies in Italy, 1500's, through to the year 3000 B.C, Crete in The Double Axe. Oh yes, then another solar system, Star Crossed and then a final pit stop in a parallel universe, Light After Breath. Should you wish to read from the last tale to first you can, as they are standalone stories, and can be read in any order.

What I liked about Guilty Pleasures is that with each tale comes a new premise, amalgamated with historical facts and wonderful, descriptive exposition. Every character is written with a fresh, unique outlook on love and life appropriate to the chosen historical era. This fact alone, hooked me from the first sentence, or at least the opening paragraph of each story. Ms Pita varies the pace of her writing, in a well-planned effort to intrigue and arouse the reader. All in all, Maria's ability to mix the erotic pursuits of her characters with entertaining, sometimes shocking twists and turns, ensures a believable, dynamic ending to each self-contained story. Out of the whole collection, there was only one story where the denouement wasn't quite as surprising (or perhaps interesting) as the rest, but that's not a problem, just a different style.

It is clear from Maria's writing, she a talented erotic writer who holds a passionate interest in history and their correlating cultures. Some of her stories are slightly peppered with an S&M flavour, but more often than not, the true sadistic behaviour of her characters are indeed the main source of nourishment and sexual satisfaction. These stories capture a mixture of cruel, sensual overriding power, and exotic scenes; intensifying the creative suspense of an exhilarating read and all consuming passions, not to be missed.

Maria Isabel outdid herself with this anthology of erotic short stories that span the world, time, and those oh so so naughty thoughts and deeds that make erotica so much fun to read .....


The 18 stories covering the authors musings' over the years from Toronto in 2015, Zanzibar in the 1800 to Egypt in 1000 BC are also so varied,from the gentlest of stories such as 'The Bride of Christ' where the author totally captures the sweet innocence of the erotic daydreams of a young nun in Portugal in the 17 hundreds, to 'Song of The Blood' a HOT 'no holds barred' erotic, deadly and blood filled sexual perversion of a warrior prince and his 'pit bull on steroids' wife, in Transylvania in 1636.


For my particular tastes, 'Secret Societies' from Italy in 1500's is probably some of the best erotica that the author has written.....very much on par, if not better than the best of Eururopen erotica authors over the years....


Avery very enjoyable diversion for any mood .... WOW

Though some of the works here are better than others, such as "Milagro", and "The Integral", Ms. Pita offers enough of a variety with a master's stroke that most tastes will be satisfied.

After reading Whips & Whispers by Pita (a truly fantastic book that I strongly recommend to anyone interested in BDSM romance/erotica), I was extremely anxious to read more by her. To my shock, as wonderful as Whips & Whispers was, this book was absolutely awful. The stories are extremely short and barely erotic. On average, they contain about 90% set up (bland discussion of the characters, scene, etc) and 10% "action" - sexual or otherwise. The interactions between the characters are minimal and superficial, left almost entirely to the reader's imagination. When a story begins to show promise, it ends - leaving the reader to tell any actual story (a task typically assumed by the author).

After reading Whips & Whispers, I am beyond shocked by how disappointing this book is. I also purchased Angela's Wolves, figuring that I could take a chance for $0.99. Sadly, Angela's Wolves shared the same flaws as this book: all set up and detail, minimal story that ends after the very first page that finally shows promise. Literally, my responses to the final pages (in Angela's Wolves; the final paragraphs of each story in this book) were "okay, this is finally going somewhere good, I will continue reading after all," and then, less than one minute later, "or it's just stopping, before actually telling a story." Again, beyond disappointing.

I strongly advise that you do NOT buy this book. Based on Angela's Wolves, I strongly recommend that you not buy ANY of Pita's cheap books ($3 or less). I suggest you proceed with caution before buying anything from Pita, with the exception of Whips & Whispers, which I recommend as one of the better books in this genre.

I love historical novels, and that's what I thought this book was, with the added bonus of naughtiness. What I got was a book with stories (I read 3 of them before I gave up)that had to be written by horney 13 year olds. This single purchase has me rethinking my loyalty to Amazon.