Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales

by Carol Taylor (Editor)

From the editor of the award-winning and bestselling anthology Brown Sugar comes a sultry and sophisticated new collection of erotic adventures from around the world

More than an erotic travelogue, these edgy, atmospheric and sexually charged stories explore what new desires and personas are unlocked while one is away from home, each one more wildly exotic and adventurous than the next. Contemporary, enlightening, and deeply sensual, these stories take you to new lovers, trysts, and rendezvous around the globe, from the streets of Paris, wet with rain, to the sun-kissed beaches of Jamaica, from the hidden verandas of the Mediterranean to the forbidden banks of the Nile.

Praise for Brown Sugar
“Audaciously refreshing.”—Essence
“As smart as it is sexy.”—Honey
“Particularly intelligent, varied, and sexy.” —Publishers Weekly

Genres: Erotica

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Carol Taylor, a former Random House book editor, has been in book publishing for over 18 years and has worked with many of today's top black writers. The author of 8 books, among them the best-selling, BROWN SUGAR erotic series: BROWN SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR 2: GREAT ONE NIGHT STANDS, BROWN SUGAR 3: WHEN OPPOSITES ATTRACT, BROWN SUGAR 4: SECRET DESIRES and WANDERLUST: EROTIC TRAVEL TALES Her debut novel, THE EX CHRONICLES, was published in 2010, the sequel THE EX CHRONICLES: PLAN B (May 2013), and THE EX CHRONICLES: EVERYTHING CHANGES (February 2014) was published in INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS, a 4-book novella series, featuring a new book every 6 months. She also teaches Writing and Editing at New York University and City College. She lives in New York. Find her at insignificantothersbooks.blogspot.com or on twitter.com/iobooks

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm torn as to whether to give three or four stars to this anthology of erotic short fiction, all related to travel and featuring persons of color. Of the dozen-odd stories, a few were truly outstanding, with the bulk divided between "nice enough" and "eh".

As one would expect, the fic's mostly het, with one MMF threesome (Preston L. Allen's "Southernmost Triangle") and one holy-fuck-hot queer threesome (Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackberries") that's going to make me seek out everything Hopkinson has ever written in ever. Yespleasethanks.

But aside from a few standouts, Wanderlust suffers from the perennial problem of the erotic anthology: the underlying quality of the writing. When there's a limited amount of submissions from a limited pool of writers, subject and theme are more important than the quality of the writing; because of the stigma associated with the genre, those willing to produce and market smut aren't always the best writers.

And that's a shame for those truly excellent pornographers out there -- and in this anthology.

[wordLife · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice compilation of well-written short stories with an erotic twist. Check for Deep Bronze's jawn, as well as Glenville Lovell's, as well as the stories called "Angela" and "The Grim Gumbo of Love".