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Passion
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Cleis Press Inc.
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Passion is the best erotica anthology I've read in a long time. All the stories are carefully selected, each showing a different facet of all the elements and variations that make up the essence of passion. It's not your frustrated housewife's $4 supermarket romance novel, and I bet they'd do well with a copy of Passion!
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Catalog ID: 1573444156
UPC: 9781573444156
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Content / Style / Audience
- Publisher:
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Cleis Press Inc.
- Publication date:
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2010 year
- ISBN:
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978-1-57344-415-6
- –TacoODoom's opinion
- Passion: Erotic Romance for Women, is indeed a very female-centric erotica anthology, but this shouldn't dissuade male readers. The anthology features 20 tales, predominantly narrated from the female point of view and all with hetero pairings. All of the stories featured are extremely well written. The narrators musings in "The Autumn Suite" are so vivid you can almost hear the soulful notes of the cello rising from the pages. The steamy scenes of "Five Senses" make you wish you the character Kelly, experiencing the pure, molten sensuality the breaks the monotony of her marriage. You experience Valerie's turmoil in "If" when faced with the overwhelming attraction to a new man, while still being in love with her boyfriend.
Rachel Kramer Bussel did an excellent job editing this anthology. All the stories really do convey the fire, and want of Passion. Each story conveys a different aspect of passion; from a fiery first encounter, to a long standing love being reawakened, to forbidden desire, and the slow burning ache of a the unrequited.
Even if it's an anthology geared towards woman, the writing is so good, so real, that anyone with a pulse and a grasp of the English language could find pleasure in this book.
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Design
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Paperback
- Number of Pages:
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240
- Length:
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8"
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5 1/2"
- –TacoODoom's opinion
- There didn't seem to be a progression of the tales in the anthology, no two stories seemed to have the same theme. Each tale stands alone, a specific glimpse in the the lives, minds, and beds of the characters there in.
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Personal comments
- –TacoODoom's opinion
- As an avid reader of erotica (and a half assed writer), I found this anthology to be very refreshing. The stories never jump straight into the sack, as it were, they build. They draw out the moment, they are all written in such a manner that when the stories climax (heh, pun) is reached you really understand what it means to the characters; regardless if for the character it's a stagnant marriage re-kindled, or a long unspoken attraction fulfilled, or the fear of intimacy overcome, the writers make you believe the characters, and the characters make you FEEL the moment.
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Rachel Kramer Bussel
Reviews(26)
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Writer, rank
5.7/10
'Passion: Erotic Romance for Women' is a thoughtful collection of twenty couple-based erotic short stories. This anthology is mainly centered around heterosexual, non-BDSM sexual encounters. 'Passion' contains a number of ethnically and racially diverse characters, which I find unexpected in erotica collections.
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Advanced reviewer, rank
8/10
"Passion" ends up being a good erotica novel in which each story is centered around the idea of the male doing something romantic for the female.
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Advanced reviewer, rank
8.8/10
This is a great little book for the romantic passionate side in all of us. While it is all heterosexual couples in the stories they are still worth reading. There is very little in the way of kink play but at the same time the stories didn't really need it.
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Advanced reviewer, rank
7.7/10
If you enjoy erotica about heterosexual couples, Passion is a great choice. Most of the stories are quite hot, and even inspire ways to add some extra passion in your own relationship. Whether in big hotel beds or apartments, on cars or in elevators, the couples in these stories light up their relationships in a big way.
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Advanced reviewer, rank
6.1/10
Sensual, desire driven, passionate stories full of raw emotion. If you are bored with Mills & Boons I suggest you try something a little bit more upmarket. Get your emotions ravaged with some decent erotica in delivered to you in one little book called 'Passion'
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Advanced reviewer, rank
6.3/10
Passion is without a doubt one of the best collection of erotic short stories I've had the chance to read. It's not just about raw sexual passion, it's more about loving and yearning for someone in original ways. This book is like a chicken soup for the romantic single woman, it made me smile and even made me teary.
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Advanced reviewer, rank
6.1/10
This is definitely an anthology for romantic couples, or the more cerebral consumer who is looking to stimulate their brain as well as all their other erogenous zones.
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