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Bedtime Erotica Collections #2
Bedtime Erotica for Freaks
In Bedtime Erotica, Lexy Harper exposed her softer side and demonstrated her ability to write imaginative romantic erotica. Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (like me) verves off in a completely different direction. Lexy turns up the heat considerably, revealing her darker, freakier, unromantic side in these short stories. Seven women who follow their sexual destinies, taking pleasure where they find it - damn the consequences and everyone else! Vanessa lives out her sexual fantasies. Amanda gets the man she wants while in disguise. Geraldine hates being a prostitute but is very good at it. Indra’s job as a chatline operator gives her the opportunity to experience her fisting fantasy. Nectar takes the term ‘breast-feeding is best’ very literally. Antonia lives a completely hedonistic life. Samantha is bent on wrecking homes with her special friend The Home Wrecker.
240 pages, Paperback
First published November 6, 2006
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Lexy Harper
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Like a coin, I have two faces: my soft, romantic side and my freaky, erotic side. All my writing falls somewhere in between, so please read the blurb before purchasing any of my works. My romance novels can be identified by the gold stripe on the left, erotica a black and transgender a cerise.
I'm currently working on The Montgomerys, a series of six standalone novellas which follow the highs and lows of five siblings and their widowed mother as they each find their happy ever after.
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Like a coin, I have two faces: my soft, romantic side and my freaky, erotic side. All my writing falls somewhere in between, so please read the blurb before purchasing any of my works. My romance novels can be identified by the gold stripe on the left, erotica a black and transgender a cerise.
I'm currently working on The Montgomerys, a series of six standalone novellas which follow the highs and lows of five siblings and their widowed mother as they each find their happy ever after.
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February 28, 2016I wrote these stories before I had even published the first of the series, Bedtime Erotica. They were written in part because a friend told me that the first collection was too tame, and because I felt the need to share my naughtier side.
June 24, 2015
Every so often a book comes along that I rate highly, because I can appreciate the style, even while I don't particularly like the book for whatever reason. Bedtime Erotica for Freaks is one of those books. For the most part, neither the subject matter nor the characters are to my taste (though I didn't know that before I picked it up; reading books I know I'll dislike and then skewering them is not my thing). Yet from a writer's point of view I can absolutely appreciate Lexy Harper's writing style - the stories are beautifully crafted with strong, compelling voices.
Vanessa I was initially unimpressed with - I found her character abrasive and her scathing thoughts about cock size both irritating and baffling. Comments about Black men only dating outside their race because they don't realise how great Black women are at giving head further alienated me, as such stereotypes often do when I encounter them in books or conversations. (This is my own personal bug-a-boo - being a mixed-race but White-looking woman in a relationship with a Black man, both the Man and I encounter people quite often who assume that we're together either because we fetishise each other or because we don't understand the glories of our own race, and it never fails to drive me mad - so I am perhaps oversensitive to any sort of implications like these.)
That all said, at about the halfway point, I started to appreciate Vanessa, and by the end I was laughing out loud at her ballsiness, as I rooted for her.
I enjoyed Amanda a lot, and found Amanda's character a lot easier to empathise with than Vanessa's. If you could have seen my face while I was reading the story of how Freaknight came to be, you'd have seen the emotions fly across my face at the speed of light - confusion, realisation, outrage and then utter mirth. I found the story both hot and extremely funny, and was glad that Jeremy seemed like such a nice man and the two of them got a happy ending (or happy beginning, if you prefer).
I wasn't a fan of Geraldine - though I consider myself moderately open-minded, the adult baby thing has always been a bit of a squick for me, and knowing from the beginning that Geraldine had stolen such a huge sum of money and felt no remorse for it made it hard for my chronic goody-two-shoes self to sympathise with her. But I've never read a story like it before, and though I didn't really enjoy it I appreciated the chance to learn about new things.
Indra I really disliked - I found Indra herself to be vicious and nasty with a grotesque sense of entitlement, and I couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to her.
Nectar I enjoyed a lot. Her kinks, not quite match, but tone well, with my own, so I found the story both amusing and arousing, and my surprised and slightly outraged laughter as she regaled us with tales of her and her sisters' antics was probably heard by the whole house for a couple nights running.
Antonia was probably my favourite story, both for the sex and for Toni herself. Based on the back cover, I was expecting "a completely hedonistic life" to mean that she plays all the time and lets someone else worry about things like bills and chores, but it didn't work out that way - she works hard and plays hard and I really appreciated that, especially after the idleness of the last few protagonists. I also enjoyed reading about someone who slides up and down the sexual orientation scale - male or female, if what they do feels good, that's all that matters to her.
I wasn't a fan of Samantha. I couldn't understand where she was coming from at all - despite my own share of heartbreak and people who've treated me like shit, I've never wanted to hurt others or wreck relationships. I'm trying not to judge, but the idea that someone would want to cause pain to people who've never hurt them is just totally alien to me, and I can't wrap my head around it. Also, anything that smacks of non-consent - which I felt several of Samantha's actions did - upsets me, due to issues in my own past, and the fact that Sam is a woman doesn't make it any easier to read. On the whole, I found her as unpleasant as Indra, and I'm not terribly sorry that she got her comeuppance. (Well, maybe a bit sorry.) I did enjoy the fact that Valerie and Celeste, who she tried to ruin, were actually made stronger by it. Poetic justice of a sort, I guess.
Overall, I can't say that I actually liked this book. I found it pretty cold emotionally, even while the sex was hot. (This is likely to be more my issue than the book's - I normally gravitate towards sugary romance novels.) Even so, I'm impressed with Lexy Harper's writing style, particularly her characterisations. There is no melodrama or Hollywood glitz here - these women are written in such a way that they seem real. They could be your sister, your neighbour, yourself. They are brash, blunt, flawed - and all the more compelling for it.
Vanessa I was initially unimpressed with - I found her character abrasive and her scathing thoughts about cock size both irritating and baffling. Comments about Black men only dating outside their race because they don't realise how great Black women are at giving head further alienated me, as such stereotypes often do when I encounter them in books or conversations. (This is my own personal bug-a-boo - being a mixed-race but White-looking woman in a relationship with a Black man, both the Man and I encounter people quite often who assume that we're together either because we fetishise each other or because we don't understand the glories of our own race, and it never fails to drive me mad - so I am perhaps oversensitive to any sort of implications like these.)
That all said, at about the halfway point, I started to appreciate Vanessa, and by the end I was laughing out loud at her ballsiness, as I rooted for her.
I enjoyed Amanda a lot, and found Amanda's character a lot easier to empathise with than Vanessa's. If you could have seen my face while I was reading the story of how Freaknight came to be, you'd have seen the emotions fly across my face at the speed of light - confusion, realisation, outrage and then utter mirth. I found the story both hot and extremely funny, and was glad that Jeremy seemed like such a nice man and the two of them got a happy ending (or happy beginning, if you prefer).
I wasn't a fan of Geraldine - though I consider myself moderately open-minded, the adult baby thing has always been a bit of a squick for me, and knowing from the beginning that Geraldine had stolen such a huge sum of money and felt no remorse for it made it hard for my chronic goody-two-shoes self to sympathise with her. But I've never read a story like it before, and though I didn't really enjoy it I appreciated the chance to learn about new things.
Indra I really disliked - I found Indra herself to be vicious and nasty with a grotesque sense of entitlement, and I couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to her.
Nectar I enjoyed a lot. Her kinks, not quite match, but tone well, with my own, so I found the story both amusing and arousing, and my surprised and slightly outraged laughter as she regaled us with tales of her and her sisters' antics was probably heard by the whole house for a couple nights running.
Antonia was probably my favourite story, both for the sex and for Toni herself. Based on the back cover, I was expecting "a completely hedonistic life" to mean that she plays all the time and lets someone else worry about things like bills and chores, but it didn't work out that way - she works hard and plays hard and I really appreciated that, especially after the idleness of the last few protagonists. I also enjoyed reading about someone who slides up and down the sexual orientation scale - male or female, if what they do feels good, that's all that matters to her.
I wasn't a fan of Samantha. I couldn't understand where she was coming from at all - despite my own share of heartbreak and people who've treated me like shit, I've never wanted to hurt others or wreck relationships. I'm trying not to judge, but the idea that someone would want to cause pain to people who've never hurt them is just totally alien to me, and I can't wrap my head around it. Also, anything that smacks of non-consent - which I felt several of Samantha's actions did - upsets me, due to issues in my own past, and the fact that Sam is a woman doesn't make it any easier to read. On the whole, I found her as unpleasant as Indra, and I'm not terribly sorry that she got her comeuppance. (Well, maybe a bit sorry.) I did enjoy the fact that Valerie and Celeste, who she tried to ruin, were actually made stronger by it. Poetic justice of a sort, I guess.
Overall, I can't say that I actually liked this book. I found it pretty cold emotionally, even while the sex was hot. (This is likely to be more my issue than the book's - I normally gravitate towards sugary romance novels.) Even so, I'm impressed with Lexy Harper's writing style, particularly her characterisations. There is no melodrama or Hollywood glitz here - these women are written in such a way that they seem real. They could be your sister, your neighbour, yourself. They are brash, blunt, flawed - and all the more compelling for it.
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