Best Bondage Erotica edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Link to buy Best Bondage Erotica 2013

ISBN-10:1573448974

ISBN-13: 978-1573448970

Story Rating: 5 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 5 out of 5

Review:

This is a must read bondage collection. Each short story in this book is a winner. They can all be hot standalones but when bound together, it’s a five star sizzling book. There are so many different varieties of how people are restrained; it’s fabulous. There are even a couple of non-consensual ones which kicked this erotic book up a notch. This book will gave a taste of several different authors’ writing style. It’s all titillating. Every single one of them helped make this the best collection for this year. It will be hard to top this bondage book.

There are some popular and well known authors as well as a few lesser known ones. It’s really difficult to pick a favorite tale in this book because they are all unique and well written. Each is tightly woven with concise storylines, hot arousing scenes and concluding with a beautiful afterglow. The one to pick for the most surprising and new to me author would be Logan Zachary and his Passion Party Purgatory. This deviant m/m non-con story explores what happens to the husbands who accompany their wives to a Passion Party. It makes one wonder what happens to the wives during the sales pitch.

What is really appealing about this book is the creative ways people are bound. The ones where there is a treat of exposure outside are exhilarating. The reader can feel both the excitement and the anxiety of being caught. One of the bondage stories includes walking through a hotel where others could see their sexy restraints before the Domme and her female submissive retires to a lush hotel room. Each one of these stories will appeal to many reader’s fantasies.

Irrestible edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

http://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Romance-Rachel-Kramer-Bussel/dp/1573447625/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344400016&sr=8-1&keywords=irresistible+cleis+press 

ISBN-10:1573447625

ISBN-13: 978-1573447621

Story Rating: 2 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 2 out of 5

This book is a compilation of 16 very short stories, some more erotic than others, and as expected in such an anthology, some much better than others. Since there are fewer than 200 pages in the book, it is obvious how short these pieces really are.

Because there are so many stories, I’m not going to review each separate story, but will pick out of a few that represent the whole.

The only two stories with BDSM content are Renewal by Delilah Night and The Netherlands by Justine Elyot.  Renewal involves a woman who has found her husband estranged after her two children are born, and takes steps to reignite the passion in their marriage.  The Netherlands is about a sub who ventures out into activities with people other than her master for the first time. The problem with both these stories, as with most of the stories in the book, is that there is no time for character development.  We don’t know these people and the brevity of the works keeps us from knowing them.  It is more like reading letters to one of the pornographic magazines than erotica.

There are a few exceptions.  Warrior, by Kate Pearce, gives us a peak into the life of a female soldier fighting in the dessert. And The Pact, by Elizabeth Coldwell, provides much more detail about the two people involved and much less detail about their sexual activity. These are the two  most “feel good” stories in the bunch.