Selena Kitt is one of my favorite erotic writers, so it was with baited breath when I picked up this collection of erotic stories. What I got were erotic stories, and I will stress that, these are STORIES with erotic elements, not spank stories.
You have twenty-five stories, all of them with erotic moments, tension and a good helping of sex. But you also have stories with plot, with characters dying, betraying, etc. Some of them are stories first and erotic second, which I think will throw some of the readers that pick this up for just another, well, 'quicky'.
The writing itself is pretty well done, which I expected from Kitt. The plots are for the most part well done, though in one or two of the stories the plot kills any and all eroticism in the story. "Road To Nowhere" being the first that comes to mind.
I agree with some of the other reviews that some of the stories are slow and rather uninteresting, but that's personal taste rather than anything to do with Kitt's writing. The characters are often believeable, there are very little writing mistakes I could make out, and all in all, it's a good collection of stories with erotic elements.
The only other problem with this collection is that the way it is marketed, it comes across like it WILL be a collection of straight up stories about sex. That you could pick it up, read one to get all hot and horny, and go about doing whatever you will afterwards. This collection is not that. As mentioned above, it's a collection of stories with erotic elements. I feel the collection could have been marketed a bit better and more in line with the contents of the twenty-five stories within so customers understood what they were purchasing.
So if you enjoy Kitt's work, and are interested in reading short stories with plot and sex, then pick this up. If you are looking for simple spank stories, pass this one by. That's not to say you won't find erotism in this collection, just that some of the stories will take away from it rather than contribute.