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Summary: Finally! Riveting, smart and steamy.
Review: A good friend purchased a "gift box" of six lesbian erotica books for me for my birthday. I read them all with some interest but wasn't "won over" until I began "Exotica." God, what a read. The stories are based on real events in the authors life and the lives of her friends... it's true what they say that fact is hotter than fiction. The stories were excellently written and engaging -- I could not put the book down even to eat or sleep --seriously. If you're looking for heavy scene playing or heavy kinky, look elsewhere. But if you're in the mood for something beyond vanilla to get your brain thinking, your heart thumping and your body jumping, I suggest Exotica. It gets my first "two thumbs up" of the year.
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Summary: Finally! Riveting, smart and steamy.
Review: A good friend purchased a "gift box" of six lesbian erotica books for me for my birthday. I read them all with some interest but wasn't "won over" until I began "Exotica." God, what a read. The stories are based on real events in the authors life and the lives of her friends... it's true what they say that fact is hotter than fiction. The stories were excellently written and engaging -- I could not put the book down even to eat or sleep --seriously. If you're looking for heavy scene playing or heavy kinky, look elsewhere. But if you're in the mood for something beyond vanilla to get your brain thinking, your heart thumping and your body jumping, I suggest Exotica. It gets my first "two thumbs up" of the year.
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Summary: Just what the doc ordered....
Review: A sexy, smart book packed with stories with depth and heat. Kind of like what I look for in a girlfriend. Seriously, though, this was the best read I've had this year. Great book. I liked the mix of characters and genres more than anything. None of the standard boring read-it-all-before-in-a-Naiad-book fair.
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Summary: Hot! Hot! Hot!
Review: Amazing collection. Not only are the stories incredibly hot, but they're about real people who are three dimensional. Most erotica collections I've read may feature explicit sex, but most are pretty boring otherwise. This one's different.The stories are funny, unusual and really unique. Cris Newport just gets better and better as a writer and this collection is great. The artwork is also very cool.
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Summary: Review from The Brilliant Review
Review: Crackling with energy and heat, here is the first collection of lesbian erotica in several years to offer creative, intelligent erotica that still raises the temperature in the room. Newport offers tantalizing morsels here that, together, make an exquisite feast. A+
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I didn't think erotica like this exisited. The stories are powerful, full of twists and very honest. I can only think to say that the stories were raw and polished at the same time. I never felt cheated or cliched like with a lot of erotica these days. The "Stories Behind the Stories" section is a very interesting treat -- I was curious to know so many of the stories were true.
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Summary: The best erotica I've found
Review: I've followed Newport's work since the early '80s and her style never ceases to please me. Her characters embrace an economy of emotion that leaves so much just beyond their words. The simplest phrase can mean ten different things. Her plots are unique, full of welcome turns and never devoid of meaning -- be it spirital, sexual or emotional. I *feel* more when I read her work than when I read any other author. I'm there. I'm in her world. "1001 Nights" is a top ten -- a top five on my list.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: It was so real. Definitely the best erotica I've read. The emotions, people, atmosphere and textures -- I was there in the stories.
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Summary: Doesn't really live up to the title
Review: Ok, maybe I was looking for something a bit more steamy...but come on! This book has wonderful short stories about Lesbians...but calling the book Exotica and classifying it as such is close to false advertising.
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Summary: Almost exotica
Review: Okay, I was blown away by this book. I didn't want to be. I've never liked erotica before because it was too silly, all the situations unbelievable or strange. But these stories were brilliantly set up. I fell into the book and lost track of time. I started to forget that these weren't real people (though I suppose many of them are according to the author). The title sums the book up for me: The stories were *exotic*
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