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Summary: Erotica Vampirica: a Valiant Sophomore Effort
Review: Erotica Vampirica is a better collection of stories than contained in Blood Kiss, also edited by Ms Tan. She has done a better job in this book at providing books that are both sensual and have a story to them.Mist Kisses by Renee M. Charles is far and away the best story in the anthology, but there are worthy contributions by other authors that round out a much better collection this time around. I would recommend this to anyone who owns Blood Kiss as it may renew your faith in Ms Tan's ability as an editor. Additionally, it is a well written collection of stories, so anyone with even a passing interest in erotic vampire stories would enjoy this book.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Many stories in this collection are just ... or disturbing for the sake of being so. Several didn't even really have any plot to speak of. There were a few gems, some whose basic plot had potential to graduate to full books, but many lacked originality or taste. If I simply want erotica without much story I can frankly read ... forums. C. Tan should have read some more L.K. Hamilton's work and only let shorts that had somewhere close to that level of plot in to this collection (as I said there were a couple that really had potential). All in all, if you can find it cheap enough it would be worth it just for the few shorts that make the rest of the muck bearable. And don't forget that in short story collections you can always just skip 10 pages or so and read a totally new and unconnected story, as I often had to (something very unusual for me).
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Many stories in this collection are just ... or disturbing for the sake of being so. Several didn't even really have any plot to speak of. There were a few gems, some whose basic plot had potential to graduate to full books, but many lacked originality or taste. If I simply want erotica without much story I can frankly read ... forums. C. Tan should have read some more L.K. Hamilton's work and only let shorts that had somewhere close to that level of plot in to this collection (as I said there were a couple that really had potential). All in all, if you can find it cheap enough it would be worth it just for the few shorts that make the rest of the muck bearable. And don't forget that in short story collections you can always just skip 10 pages or so and read a totally new and unconnected story, as I often had to (something very unusual for me).
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