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Best Women's Erotica 2008 Edited by Violet Blue

From the cover: Best Women's Erotica 2008 delivers risky, romantic, heart-pounding thrills. Joyful and authentic, these 21 steamy stories revel in erotic adventure, from the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of long-time lovers. In “Penalty Fare,” a Londoner rides train after train without a valid ticket, until, on an early morning journey to Bristol she finds the conductor who knows just how to punish her for trying to skip the fare. In “Winter Heat,” a woman finds that each year, the winter's first snowfall reminds her of a cold night when she was 18 and the stranger who taught her that “passion can be found and shared in the most unusual of places.” And in “You Can Do Mine,” Céline finally gets to try out her purple dildo and leather harness with her new lover Leo, the first man to give the right answer when she tells him “you can do mine if I can do yours.”

Review written by Daemon Grendl

This is a fair collection of short stories, some are good but many are not. Most of the stories weren't very exciting and several were just plain bad. I understand that they are written for women and, as a man, maybe I just don't get it, but several like: Lost at Sea were total gibberish and I have no idea how they could be included in a book of erotica.

Several stories were male-male and I know that this image appeals to many women. So I can understand why a story like Rear Window about a woman watching voyeuristically as two gay men have sex was in this book. It didn't do anything for me but at least it was well written.

There were also several lesbian stories included which is common for collections of this nature. Usually I like these stories but many of these were just not well written. Getting Sorted and Blowjobs were notably exceptions and stand-out as very good stories.

Overall, I can't really recommend buying this book but it is worth reading for the variety of the topics introduced.

• Penalty Fare by Jacqueline Applebee - A woman doesn't buy a train ticket hoping the conductor will make her provide an alternate payment (sex on a train, forced sex, public sex)
• Getting Sorted by Morticia Catherine - Kate is having a personal crisis and doesn't know which direction her life should take. While caught in a rain storm she takes refuge in a phone both where she impulsively calls the number of a female escort advertised there. Kate's sexual encounter with Ketha provides her with both a job and the needed life direction. (lesbian, prostitution)
• Mercy by A. D. R. Forte - Lauren, Kyle and Rhys try a threesome (Ménage à trois)
• Peekaboo by Jordana Winters - Shy, reserved and plain Beth goes to a bizarre club where she watches and masturbates as a couple has sex in the bathroom. (Costumes, sex in public, voyeurism)
• Strangers in the Water by R. Gay - A sad thought poignant story as a woman recounts how her mother was conceived by two strangers (her grandparents) hiding during the massacres in Haiti. (sex between strangers, sex in the water)
• Unicorn Sighting by Lola David - A couple goes to an x-rated movie theater for an adventure where she becomes the main attraction (Sex in public, exhibitionism, Masturbation)
• All the Flood Gates Ever Made by Miel Rose - A femme lesbian takes a job helping her dyke lover at a gardening assignment and they hook up in the barn (Public sex, strap-on, lesbian)
• Vienna by Kell Brandon - Lena has a foreign adventure with Stefan and he loans her out (Sex with strangers)
• Wet by Donna George Storey - An American woman teaching English in Kyoto Japan fantasizes about having sex in the public baths. Fortunately Mr Yamada can oblige her. (sex in public, sex in the water)
• Please by Xan West - Jaime meets Christian and they have sex in the bathroom of the pool hall. (sex with strangers, sex in public, rough sex, biting, oral sex)
• Winter heat by Saskia Walker - A woman at a cold bus stop has sex with a stranger in the alley to get warm (Anonymous sex, sex in public)
• You Can Do Mine by Cerise Noire - When Cèline's new male lover Leo asks to try anal play she expects reciprocity (Anal, Strap-On)
• Blame by Amy Wadhams - A young woman moves in to the house of her mom's friend to job hunt in the big city but is seduced by the friend's son with disastrous consequences (Young love)
• Blowjob by Jessica Lennox - A women goes to a sex club to explore what it's like to get a blowjob while wearing a strap-on. (Strap-On, Oral sex, lesbian, domination/submission)
• The Bad Poet by Kay Jaybee - A couple uses a badly written poem as a set of instructions for a night of fantasy S&M play (Whipping, Bondage, Domination/Submission)
• Flowergirl meets Bomb by MsPrism - A woman takes a test drive with a potential slave by whipping and sexually using her. Very intense and hot! (Serious S/M, Slavery, Whipping, lesbian)
• Her(His)Story by K. L. Gillespie - A woman who always had serious penis envy mysteriously grows a penis (Hermaphrodite, transgender)
• The Lonely Onanista by EllaRegina - A woman living the George Washington arch masturbates regularly and is visited by various men who fuck her. Onanista (Masturbation, many partners)
• Lost at Sea by Peony - Horrible gibberish (nothing)
• Rear Window by Scarlett French - A woman moves into a high rise apartment and discovers she has a view of gay lovers (Voyeurism, Homosexuality, Masturbation)
• Matthew, Mark, Luke and John by Allison Tyler - A woman taking a religious symbolism class is seduced and loved by four men (Multiple partners)

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