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Summary: 5 STARS FOR ROBIN SCHONE! ZERO STARS FOR THE REST!
Review: Robin Schone's story was the only story in this book that fit the description of "Romantic Erotica". It's worth the price of the book to get her story. She weaves a great story about real people you can identify with. You care for the characters and you understand why they fall in love. Ms. Schone's characters have substance. Her love scenes are very erotic, but at the same time you feel the emotions as well. The other three stories left me cold. By far the worst story in the book was by Bertrice Small. I don't understand how she can claim to be a romance writer. I found nothing romantic about her characters or her story. Oh, well different strokes for different folks. Buy this book for Robin Schone, she is terrific!
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Summary: This was far from one of my favorites. No romance.
Review: If you want to read a book that goes straight to your heart, read Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher. . .It is a beautiful story of unrequited love. . .for certain the love story of the nineties. I intended to give the book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful. Stolen Moments is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. It is a spellbinder. What terrific writing. Barbara does have an exceptional gift! This book was edited by Lupus specialist Dr. Matt Morrow too, and has the latest information on that disease. ..A perfect gift for someone who started college late in life, fell in love too late in life, is living with any illness, or trying to understand a loved one who is. . .A gift to be cherished forever.
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Summary: For people who enjoy erotic stories
Review: This book has many stories from bondage, romance, damsels in distress,and the forbidden. Betrice Small once again surprizes us with her Erotic writing. An coupled with the other writers, this book is a great bedtime story. Just make sure you have someone to share it with, or a good battery ran ear cleaner. ;p
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Summary: Not particularly erotic!
Review: Out of the 4 stories, only Small's was what I would call erotic. And, there was certainly no romance in the story! Johnson's section was just boring, and not worth reading and I didn't finish it. Devine's story might have been sexy, had there been some romance to it. Schone's story was somewhat slow and not what I would call erotic. An unusal sex act for a male and female pair of lovers, is a far cry from eroticism to me! However, the story made the best stab at being a romantic tale. All four authors are talented enough to have done better.
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Summary: Schone is the Star -- Forget the others
Review: Robin Schone will now be placed on my automatic buy list. She's wonderful. Her story was by far the steamiest because we actually got to care about her characters. Bertrice Small's story was boring at best and laughable in that she focused entirely on the hero's "Love lance," Susan Johnson's characters couldn't seem to make up their minds if they loved or hated each other -- which means I coudn't make up my mind if they did either! And Thea Devine's -- shudder. How revolting. I've read bondage porn with more feeling and more sensuality. I think it's sad that anyone might consider mental abuse arousing. Read Robin Schone. Her story alone makes the price of the anthology worthwhile.
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Summary: liked it very much
Review: This was what I was looking for...erotic romance! Great for a lonely night or to read aloud to your mate. Hot, sexy and happy endings. Beatrice Small leads off with one of the hotest stories I've read from her, and that means it is really hot!
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Summary: 4 hot and steamy stories for your pleasure.
Review: Bertrice Small was already one of my all-time favorite authors. Now I am snatching up everything that has ever been written by Thea Devine, Susan Johnson, and Robin Schone. These women are great writers and these short stories are very naughty and steamy. So fill up your tub with your favorite bubble bath, pour yourself a glass of wine, and lay back with this wickedly wonderful book.
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Summary: Only Schone shines, the rest is pretty bad
Review: In reading other reviews of this book, I see a lot of people giving it five stars for Robin Schone's story alone. Me, I have to judge the ENTIRE book, and when I do that, I only get one star, which goes to Schone. Bertrice Small's prose is, I'm sorry to say, among the worst published writing I've ever read. This story COULD have been good with some polish and emotion, simply some better writing, but alas, it was not to be. Susan Johnson's story, for me, was neither here nor there - I didn't hate it, but also was not particularly compelled by it. Thea Divine's story was at once arousing yet offensive. I hope women have come farther than REALLY wanting to be treated as her character is this novella. I liked some of her ideas, some of the sexual situations, but could not get past the abusiveness in the relationship, or the paltry mention of love on the last page which did not ring at all true. Then finally, there is Robin Schone's story - the only story of the four with any true emotional depth. Both characters were real and worth caring about. I cared about their sex because I cared about THEM. Even in this story, however, I thought the ending dragged out a bit long and I did not care for the hero's way of resolving their issues in the end. Still, this story is the best of the bunch and worth reading. The greatest offense I find in this book is that it is labeled as "romantic erotica." All the stories besides Schone's are FAR from romantic in any sense of the word. Erotic, maybe. But then again, the word porn comes to mind, too. To me there is a huge difference, but the line was pretty thin in this collection of stories.
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Summary: New daring erotica written for women for women
Review: The "Tales of Erotic Romance" is more erotica than fluffy "romance". WOW! I loved it.For sweet and hot romance the author Robin Schone is a wonderful new find. Her story "A Lady's Pleasure" had me hunting down her new book "A Ladys Tutor". The other 3 authors are old favorites that I've collected for years. I enjoyed a chance to buy something of theirs that was HOTTER and more DARING. I was willing to pay FULL price at the first store I found it in. I'd love to see more of this. The title is correct on erotica. It is definitely for those over 18 yr old.
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Summary: Schone shines alone.
Review: Robin Schone's story is captivating for its sexy, straightforward dialogue and well-developed characters--who, lo and behold, actually have personalities! This is a story of healing, caring and sexual awakening in an era when women's sexuality was as tightly constrained as their corsets. Schone alone delivers romantic erotica. The other stories in this anthology are devoid of any emotional depth and feature childish characters. Completely lacking in substance, these stories offer only sex and frankly the sex is boring to silly. Small's ridiculous prose, which is rife with euphemisms like "love lance," is actually painful to read. Read Schone, burn the rest.
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