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Blood in the Rain: Seventeen Stories of Vampire Erotica
In this collection of erotic vampire tales from authors Northwestern and Northwestern at heart, the creatures range from classic to alien, from dom to sub, from blood-drinking to soul-sucking. In Jeff Mann’s “Summer Solstice Sacrifice,” a burly, kilted vampire faces losing a lover or turning him before it’s too late. Colleen Anderson’s “Hold Back the Night” explores how cultural norms divide two very different women in Mumbai—one of them undead. A male vampire watches his wife solve his murder in Joscelyne Gray’s “The Longest Death of the Year.” And Sara Dobie Bauer in “Forever Dead” brings us a muscular, vamp-hunting detective with an uncomfortable hankering for a blood-sucking guy. Whatever your sexual orientation, you’ll find something here for you.
212 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 26, 2015
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October 29, 2017
These are not even stories. Some were just chapter one. Every single one I read was not even complete. Some were more introductory style. All were incomplete not finished stories. This is just a hook to try to get you to read entire books ~ and these were like amazon samples is the best way to describe these 17 introductions . I feel no need to even discuss these 17 so called stories as none!!!! Had no beginning middle or end just a beginning ~ I won’t even waste my time now on any author in this set as this was extremely misleading a dirty trick to hook line and sinker potential buyers ~ I say do not bother and what I read was sub par ~ just my opinion. Complete waste of my time maybe if it was listed honestly as all non finished and NOT described as actual stories I’d respect more however all respect lost misleading. Shame
April 12, 2016
note: I really wish there was an easy alternative to the straight-star review for anthologies because as with most, this was a mixed bag for me; a few stories I really liked, a few that were okay, a couple I just skimmed through as they weren't my taste. As the foreword suggests, there are a few non-consensual scenes in the anthology; I found they were telegraphed sufficiently that I could tell which stories were going in that direction, which I appreciated.
C Paige Foster's the Flavor of Fear was interesting - it was a neat take on both ghosts and vampires, and it was a good slice of both a self-contained story and a wider world.
I also liked Sara Dobie Bauer's Forever Dead - it read like a slice out of a solid genre novel, and I liked the relationship between Zach and Dario.
Marguerite Monroe's Bound took a twist on what I thought it was going to do and was one of my favourites in the anthology; great POV character and interesting world-building.
Sean Eads' When April Comes Around was also interesting; not quite what I'd usually read but definitely a fresh take.
Iskra Ryder's Better than Food was my other favourite from this antho; a really neat take on the vampire mythology, interesting characters who I'd happily read more of, and it does a good job of melding world building while being a complete story.
V Hummingbird's Palladian Excursions was an interesting concept, and a decent story, but didn't quite land all the way for me; I think I wanted it to be longer or take in more of the worldbuilding that's hinted at.
Midnight Lunch by Bruce Lee Bond was another one of the standouts; takes a really great logical point -- how WOULD night-active vampires work in the Arctic -- and does a good spin on it.
Colleen Anderson's Hold Back the Night was also really good - vivid and very engaging. (Note: warning for violence against women in this one, and the ending is justifiably sad.)
Also really enjoyed Mary Trepanier's Our Bower Red with Blood; really interesting take on the vampire trope, interesting characters and a story that you read and then think, "oh yeah, humans would totally do this".
C Paige Foster's the Flavor of Fear was interesting - it was a neat take on both ghosts and vampires, and it was a good slice of both a self-contained story and a wider world.
I also liked Sara Dobie Bauer's Forever Dead - it read like a slice out of a solid genre novel, and I liked the relationship between Zach and Dario.
Marguerite Monroe's Bound took a twist on what I thought it was going to do and was one of my favourites in the anthology; great POV character and interesting world-building.
Sean Eads' When April Comes Around was also interesting; not quite what I'd usually read but definitely a fresh take.
Iskra Ryder's Better than Food was my other favourite from this antho; a really neat take on the vampire mythology, interesting characters who I'd happily read more of, and it does a good job of melding world building while being a complete story.
V Hummingbird's Palladian Excursions was an interesting concept, and a decent story, but didn't quite land all the way for me; I think I wanted it to be longer or take in more of the worldbuilding that's hinted at.
Midnight Lunch by Bruce Lee Bond was another one of the standouts; takes a really great logical point -- how WOULD night-active vampires work in the Arctic -- and does a good spin on it.
Colleen Anderson's Hold Back the Night was also really good - vivid and very engaging. (Note: warning for violence against women in this one, and the ending is justifiably sad.)
Also really enjoyed Mary Trepanier's Our Bower Red with Blood; really interesting take on the vampire trope, interesting characters and a story that you read and then think, "oh yeah, humans would totally do this".
December 1, 2018
Anthologies are always a mixed bag for every reader. But if you like Vampires, you'll find something to like my favorite story was Forever Dead by Sarah Dobie Bauer in which we see the unlikely pairing of a vampire hunter and a vampire rights activist.
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