Heatwave: Women in Love and Lust

by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Editor)

Crisp, clean pages; like new.

Genres: LGBT

232 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2000

About the author

Preorder Lucy's new novel, TELL THE REST, about love, rage, and redemption, at https://amzn.to/3QRyHXD. The New York Times says Lucy Jane Bledsoe's novel, A THIN BRIGHT LINE, "triumphs." Ms. Magazine calls her novel, THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE, "fabulous feminist fiction." Her 2018 collection of stories, LAVA FALLS, won the Devil's Kitchen Fiction Award. Bledsoe played basketball in both high school and college. As a social justice activist, she's passionate about working for voting rights.

Reviews

[Freyja Vanadis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yet another in a long line of lesbian erotica books I own. Overall it's better than the books I've read so far this last week or two, but it's still full of '90s politics. My eyes glazed over during the few stories where the women use "safe sex"; nothing's a bigger turnoff than to read about a woman slapping a piece of latex or saran wrap or a dental dam over the other woman's genitalia before she goes down. But the stories that cracked me up most of all were the butch/femme ones. Those poor gals take that roleplay stuff so seriously. In one story, called "After The Bath" by Jenifer Levin, the butch narrator is describing two femme women who were interested in each other. She said, and I quote, "I couldn't figure out what she and Cassie would ever possible do with each other in bed, assuming they made it that far, except lie side by side, full of wishes and unfulfilled desire." Really?? Most lesbians don't play into that butch/femme thing, and we can figure out what to do with each other just fine.