Betty And The Beast By S L Carpenter Take one highly sexed blonde virgin, show her the joys of passion and stand back while her hormones overload. Fate has plans for the eager Betty, and when her father stumbles into a dark and secluded mansion, strange events unfold. While saving him from the consequences of his actions, Betty finds her freedom, her sexuality, and what every woman secretly desires a beast in her bed. This lusty blonde will have to tame the wild creature and free the desires buried beneath his fur. It's going to take more than flea powder and industrial-strength hair remover to get him where she wants him. It's going to take her heart. You may think you know the story, but you're wrong.Fairy tales were never this HOT! The Frog Prince from Planet Marecage By Samantha Winston Once upon a time, in a time not yet come, there lived a beautiful, young princess. The princess, named Shari, lived in a beautiful castle on a beautiful world and had beautiful things and beautiful places to visit. But Princess Shari's fondest wishes to leave her world and do exciting, useful things, and to marry a handsome prince would never come true. Her father, the king, and his fathers before him, had decreed that no Princess Royal of the House of Teres should see a male before her one hundred and fiftieth birthday! Poor Shari! When a game of space chase goes awry, Princess Shari finds herself searching for her beloved golden ball in the vile muck of Planet Marécage. Despondent, she promises a wide-mouthed, primitively dressed frog, that she'll do anything if it fetches her ball, and the frog, along with her spaceship the SS Marissa and her father, the king, hold her to that promise. The frog is not what it appears, and that "anything" turns out to be better than lucky Princess Shari ever dreamed...
S.L. Carpenter is a born and raised California man. He does both writing and cover art for novels as outlets for his overactive libido and twisted mind. His inspiration is his wife, who keeps him well trained. Writing is his true joy. It gives him freedom and expression for both his sensual and humorous sides.
Six stories: one of them 4 stars, the rest 2.5 stars to 1 star.
4 stars for THE PHALLUS FROM DALLAS by Samantha Winston & Ciarra Sims.
Story Brief: Mitch has a large appendage which scares off women. He dreams of finding a woman who is a good match for him. Hannah has desired Mitch from afar and decides on a plan of action to meet him. Mitch is a cowboy who rides bulls in the rodeo. She sneaks into the cowboys’ area to meet him.
Reviewer’s Opinion: Fun, sexy, erotic story, very short, but well done. It’s mostly sex scenes. They were entertaining and had some humor. I was chuckling a few times.
Data: Story length: 36 pages. Sexual language: strong. Total number of sex scene pages: 20. Setting: current day Texas. Copyright: 2003. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.
2.5 stars for FROG PRINCE FROM PLANET MARECARE by Samantha Winston.
Story Brief: Shari is a princess on the planet Teres. All female offspring of the king must live in seclusion and never see men until after they are too old to get pregnant. She’s allowed to drive her spaceship to other planets as long as she sees no men. She is chasing a space ball which lands in the marsh on planet Marecare. She meets a frog who gets the ball for her and wants to visit her planet. She takes him home. The king allows the frog to stay for 3 days. The frog is really a man in disguise.
Reviewer’s Opinion: A little too silly for me, but ok.
Data: Story length: 66 pages. Sexual language: strong. Total number of sex scene pages: 25. Setting: two planets. Copyright: 2003. Genre: erotic fantasy romance.
Other Books: For a list of my reviews of other books by this author, see my 5 star review for The Argentine Lover posted 12/19/08.
2 stars for DEADLINE by Marly Chance.
Story Brief: Ryan is editor of a small town newspaper. Alex is a reporter working for him. They have been attracted to each other for awhile. One day she expresses her interest, and they get together.
Reviewer’s Opinion: This was an ok story. Nothing special caught my eye. It felt like most of the story consisted of two long sex scenes. I skimmed parts of them.
Data: Story length: 40 pages. Sexual language: strong. Total number of sex scene pages: 21. Setting: current day small town. Copyright: 2004. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.
2 stars for REDIAL 1-800-SEX4YOU by Chris Tanglen & Michele Bardsley.
Story Brief: Drae hasn’t had a date in ages. Kevin’s wife died of cancer 3 years earlier and he hasn’t been with another woman since. Their friends set them up with the Sex4You place, where they would have anonymous sex with a compatible stranger. Each person pays a fee for the evening. Drae and Kevin meet for the first time in the room assigned to them for the night.
Reviewer’s Opinion: I liked the characters and their back stories. I liked their night together at the Sex4You place. But, I did not like the writing style. Drae tells her view of the first 10 minutes. Then Kevin tells his view of those same 10 minutes plus the next 5 minutes. He contradicts some of her statements. Then Drae talks about those 5 minutes, disagreeing with Kevin again. This back and forth narration continues throughout the story and causes uninteresting repetition and interruption of the evening. If the authors had stuck with traditional storytelling I would have given this more stars.
Data: Story length: 50 pages. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scene pages: more than 50%. Setting: current day. Copyright: 2005. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.
2 stars for 1-800-SEX4YOU by Chris Tanglen & Michele Bardsley.
Story Brief: Derek owns a PR firm. He works long hours with no time for relationships. Therefore, he is a regular customer at the SEX4You place where he pays a fee to have anonymous sex with compatible strangers. The other person also pays a fee. Participants fill out questionnaires and do taped interviews before being matched up. Because he is a regular, they let him see potential female partners. He recognizes Arissa and tells them he wants her for a night. They match them up. Arissa doesn’t know the guy is Derek, who is her boss. She was engaged to Jeremy who dumped her in front of everyone at the office a few months earlier. She’s been feeling down. Her best friend set her up to go to this place for a night. Arissa is told to wear a hood that covers her eyes for anonymity.
Reviewer’s Opinion: I loved the two characters, how they related and how they interacted during this paid for night of sex. But, I was annoyed with the writing style. See the review above for “Redial 1-800-SEX4YOU,” which was done in the same manner. Arissa and Derek tell their versions of events, pointing out inconsistencies with each other’s version and being repetitive. The effect was to interrupt the story too much. I would have rated this higher if the authors used a more traditional storytelling style.
Data: Story length: 46 pages. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scene pages: more than 50%. Setting: current day. Copyright: 2004. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.
1 star for BETTY AND THE BEAST by S. L. Carpenter.
Story Brief: Betty’s father gets drunk and ends up at a castle owned by a beast (formerly a man). He had been cursed by a witch into beast form. Betty went searching for her father. When she arrives at the castle she learns the beast plans to kill the father. She offers to stay with the beast if he will let her father go free. The beast agrees if she stays for one year.
Reviewer’s Opinion: I didn’t care for it. This type of bathroom humor and slapstick was not funny for me.
Data: Story length: 39 pages. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scene pages: 15. Setting: unknown. Copyright: 2004. Genre: erotic fantasy romance.
OK. "Lady Jaided's Sexy Smiles" is an anthology of six stories from six authors doing erotic humor. Some were a hit, some were OK, and some totally missed for me. All of these were originally e-published as 'Quickies' so you may (as I was) be bummed to find you've already read a couple.
Betty and the Beast by S.L. Carpenter. A very different, and erotic, take on Beauty and the Beast.
Deadline by Marly Chance. Co-workers who 'go for it' and get more than they bargained for.
The Phallus from Dallas by Samantha Winston & Ciarra Sims. Do I really need to explain this one?
1-800-SEX4YOU by Chris Tanglen & Michelle Bardsley. Written from alternating points of view and one of the funniest for me.
Redial 1-800-SEX4YOU by Chris Tanglen & Michelle Bardsley. Stars a friend from the previous story finding her happily ever after.
The Frog Prince of Planet Marecage by Samantha Winston. Ummm, I bet you can figure this one out.
All of them were erotic. But for me only some were funny...the rest were more, well, stupid. It's hard to write short erotic stories and I get that...or maybe it's my sense of humor that's faulty.