Women of the Bite: A Lesbian Vampire Anthology

by Cecilia Tan

Sink your teeth into these stories of lesbian vampire lust!

This anthology has tales for all tastes- with stories of blind dates with werewolves, gypsy girls and mysterious spirits, and an international vampiress beauty pageant judged by a silent film actress known as “The Vamp”.! Don't miss this collection of bite-sized stories of girl-on-girl-with-fangs!

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Genres: Erotica, Anthologies, Vampires, Romance, Lesbian

154 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2009

About the author

Susie Bright says, "Cecilia Tan is simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Since the publication of Telepaths Don't Need Safewords in 1992, she has been on the cutting edge of the erotic form, often combining elements of fantasy and science fiction in her work. She is also founder and editor of Circlet Press.

RT Book Reviews awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015 and her novel Slow Surrender (Hachette/Forever, 2013) won the RT Reviewers Choice Award and the Maggie Award for Excellence from GRW in 2013. She has been publishing Daron's Guitar Chronicles as a web serial since 2009 and her Secrets of a Rock Star series (Taking the Lead, Wild Licks, Hard Rhythm) is published by Hachette/Forever. In 2018 Tor Books will launch her urban fantasy/paranormal series, The Vanished Chronicles. In her other life, Cecilia is also the editor of the Baseball Research Journal and publications director for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.

Reviews

[Netanella]

Purchased for the Gilda story by Jewell Gomez. So far the first two stories have been good.

Cat Rambo's story features an abused wife who's rescued by a vampiress. And Fran Walker's "Til Death" is a true love story of two vampires with opposite personalities who find true communication in the end. With the aid of a red hot dildo and a wooden stake sex toy. I was disappointed in "How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth" by Nghi Vo, which seemed to me straight up porn with fangs as window dressing. I wanted more from Nghi Vo.

"Guardian Spirit" by Tammy Jo Eckhart, about a gypsy girl and a vampiric Calypso, was pretty neat, only because there was more story than sex. And "When Not To Be Receives Reproach..." by Elizabeth Thorne was simply amazing - Moira, after 500 years of vampiric life with her lover Celia, decides to become mortal, see the sunlight, and die a mortal life. It had really touching moments, especially as Celia can't help but feel abandoned by her lifelong friend and lover who choses a life without her. I'm strongly reminded of the Aragon and Arwen story from LOTR, wherein Arwen choses to give up immortality and die to be with her lover. Here, Moira gives up immortality, but she leaves behind a grieving lover.

The next two stories are straight up lesbian porn, so I skimmed them, in case anything of interest emerged. I liked Moondancer Drake's story next, and that was about it. The last two stories of the anthology were not included in my copy, which is a shame, because the Jewelle Gomez story on Gilda was the entire reason I picked this book up.

A few good stories buried in here, but nothing I would look at again.

[Dalia ;)*]

1. I Liked The Queen of Goth and Sugar by Cat Rambo

2. I Liked Till Death by Fran Walker

3. I Liked How sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

4. I Liked At the pageant, the Vamp

5. I Liked Guardian Spirit by Tammy Jo Eckhart

6. When Not To Be Receives Reproach WAS OK AT BEST!

7. Graced by Kierstin Cherry WAS INTERESTING!

8. I Really Liked A Sunny Sky by M. Johnston

9. The Heiress WAS OK

10. I Really LOVED Steak Tartare by Jen Bluekissed

11. Keeping Score by Kaysee Renee Robichaud WAS OK!

12. I REALLY LIKED Jessabel by Sacchi Green

13. I REALLY LOVED Strange Bedfellows by Moondancer Drake

[RD]

The actual short stories are okay for erotica, but they really could've stood a round of tighter editing; there are punctuation and spelling problems in some stories, and I'm still wondering why "Somalia-skinny" was actually used in one story to describe a thin character.

[I]

a couple were great, a few were terrible, and a whole lot more were mediocre. in true lesbian fashion, most of these were plot more than porn

[Guillaume]

Trop de porn, pas assez de vampire

[Janine]

I didn’t realise it was short stories.

I hate short stories. And they’re poorly written.

[Melinda]

I only read one story in this anthology because I wanted to know what happened to Gilda from the Gilda Stories. I enjoyed another look into Gilda's life and struggles as she gets older and experiences innovations and challenges to humanity.

[Moondancer Drake]

It was great to be part of such an amazing project with so many talented authors

[Stu Fellows]

Just another rip off of 50 shades

[TammyJo Eckhart]

One of my short stories appears in this book.

[Dide]

All of these stories were good....some even better but one in particular still holds in memory and that was by Elizabeth Thorne - When not to be receives reproach.

I believe I spent my time and money satiated after reading and now I might just relax, sip my tea and listen to some great tunes