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The MILF Anthology: Twenty-One Steamy Stories (Blue Moon)

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Call me shallow or easily manipulated, but the cover of this book hooked me like a bass on a popping frog. The subject is a longtime personal favorite (thanks, M.E.M.), but that photo had me clicking to buy before I'd even read the abstracts and editorial reviews. That being said, it's a mystery what this photo is really about, and why it affects me so. The nails, lipstick and eye makeup don't match, but somehow they all work together, inexplicably trashy and classy at the same time. There's a maybe-faux, maybe real knot of diamonds on the right hand, but the left is an unseen mystery; I like that touch. There's the clear hint of age in her lips, eyes and neck, but she could be thirty or fifty. And the tight pearls across the open mouth and subtly uneven bottom teeth, the eyes clinched in rapture or pain or maybe even regret. Maybe it's ecstasy, maybe she's checking to see if they're real. I guess it's this range of possibilities which has got me.

Okay, enough obsession with the MILF on the cover. Overall, it's a good read, easy and quick. Of course, the stories move very quickly, with character development at an, ahem, bare minimum. We have to know the relative MILFy angle on each protagonette, of course, married, divorced, widowed or engaged, and that is provided quickly enough. And character motivation: I mean, really, as if a book like this has to have any character motivation whatsoever.

The overall content disappointed me a bit. When I think "MILF," my mental picture is the repressed 30- or 40-something, the cougar on the cover, just back from the morning tennis lesson at the club, who's got a couple of wicked hours to kill with the FedEx guy before the crew arrives to clean the Persian rugs and before she's got to go out for two hours of volunteer time at the assisted living facility. But the MILFs in this collection get a broader interpretation. A number of them are recent or not-so-recent divorcees, DILFs, I guess. Yeah, the authors check the block with a passing mention of a kid at college, and that checks the block. They're moms, then, so it's okay to move the story on down its road.

The fantasy, of course, is that the MILF/DILF is the one more or less in charge, and I guess that is the allure. That's the expected equation, and for the most part in these stories, it works. I did like "CATRR" in particular, because it took this premise and worked it very cleverly with a couple of good, ahem, twists, and some welcome deviation from the narrative coital norm. In the rest of the stories there's a bit of lesbian sex, a bit of power play, a bit of multiple partner, just enough to cover the bases, but disappointingly nothing really off the wall or unexpected.

Bottom line: This is a fun, distractive read which certainly delivers on its promise of MILFy smut. You can blow through these 21 stories in an evening if you'd like, or you can savor them before bed each night for three weeks. Let your partner put on a string of nice pearls and decide on your schedule.

I must say that most of these stories were pretty good overall, but some were not. The best part of reading this anthology of steamy milf stories was the variety of the stories and scenarios represented in this book.