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Playing With Fire: Taboo Erotica

Playing With Fire: Taboo Erotica
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Includes my story "Where There's Smoke..."

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Why should you play hard to get when you can play with fire? The forbidden has never been so appealing as it is in Alison Tyler's latest collection. In these incendiary stories that explore the taboo side of erotica, couples go about setting their boundaries aflame. Committed to each other without question, they play out their naughtiest fantasies, pushing the limits of sex, lust, and the imagination as far as they can to please each other. Playing it a bit riskier and playing it a bit more daring will send readers and their partners steaming towards the next step in sexual exploration. Featuring new work from ADR Forte, Jolene Hui, Sommer Marsden, Shanna Germain, and others, Playing With Fire delivers enough heat to inspire readers to burn their own erotic bridges.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #138188 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-04-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 230 pages

Customer Reviews

Flaming4
'Playing With Fire' opens with an explosive couple of pieces that prove the book true to its title: hot.

Nicky Magennis' humbling and beautifully poetic flash opening leads into 'Fire Woman' by Sommer Marsden, a story that is sublime in its energy, power and gorgeous dirtiness. It leaves you panting, scorched. To be honest, you could buy the book for these two stories alone. I was wowed before I'd hardly started.

I won't pretend all the stories are to my taste. Some are darker, like 'One Hot Slut' by NT Morley, or 'Burned' by Michael Hemmingson. But that means there is something for everyone, and the premise of the collection is an edgy one.

'Scorched' by Janine Ashbless balances on that edge perfectly, dealing with adultery, threesomes, jealousy. Shanna Germaine's 'White Heat White Light' is another poetic, raw piece, honest and emotional as it is erotic.

These pieces are, in the main, serious fiction. Ones to go back to.

Let the Flames Devour You!5
Alison Tyler is a firebrand! Her latest anthology, Playing with Fire, is sure to ignite a few burning desires. The 22 stories of "Taboo Erotica" are scorching -- more like a big blazing bonfire than a nice cozy fireplace. As always, Tyler has featured the hottest erotica writers, all hellbent on inflaming the reader's passions.

Here are just a few little sparks about a few of my favorites:

Sommer Marsden's "Fire Woman" - There's a fireman involved, too, who is good at following instructions.

P.S. Haven's "Out of the Frying Pan" - Getting even takes exactly seventeen minutes and thirty-seven seconds.

Jeremy Edwards' "Three on a Match" - He falls for another guy's girl, and she gets licked.

Kristina Wright's "Where There's Smoke" - He finds out about her, and then they find out some things about each other.

Andrea Dale's "Fanning the Flames" - The bodyguard is "silent and menacing and undeniably sexy."

Alison Tyler's own "Some Like It Hot" - She likes a good boy and a bad boy. Someone's gonna get burned.

M. Murphy's "Just Add Water" - It's good, clean fun -- but it's awfully steamy in that shower!

Perhaps my favorite in this collection is Teresa Noelle Roberts' "One Hundred Degress in the Shade." A violent thunderstorm finally breaks the heat. One of my favorite lines is, "Rain whipped sideways onto the porch, slicking our skin, cooling us enough so we could heat from lust." You can just feel the electricity!

All of the stories are hot, hot, hot! Keep an icy beverage or a fire extinguisher nearby as you read. You might just spontaniously combust!

She's a firestarter...5
Alison Tyler has an amazing ability to seek out those stories that not only arouse but also bring a literary excellence to the genre. This latest anthology is no different. These stories, from Sommer Marsden's Fire woman to Christopher Tolian's Fireboy, pack a literal and figurative heat that will leave you with singed fingertips.