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Agent Provocateur Secrets
'Secrets' is a collection of sexually provocative stories. Intelligent, sexually frank and stimulatingly revealing, the stories cover the secret affairs, thoughts and fantasies which turn women on. Each carefully commissioned story is written by strong new talent. They are chosen for their literary merit as much as their erotic content.
Subjects covered in this collection range from hidden passion in a restaurant kitchen in 'The Quiet One" through abrupt reprimands from the 'master' in 'Your Smell Like Chocolate' to the initiation of young and very keen girl to the delights of fantasy and phone sex by an older man in 'Our favourite Game'.
A heady blend of fantasy and reality bangs the drum for yet another twist in the development of the Agent Provocateur branded books keying in to the trend for memoirs of sexually license (following in the high-heeled footsteps of The Story of O; Anais Nin's short stories and 'Belle De the Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl' (Weidenfeld).
Subjects covered in this collection range from hidden passion in a restaurant kitchen in 'The Quiet One" through abrupt reprimands from the 'master' in 'Your Smell Like Chocolate' to the initiation of young and very keen girl to the delights of fantasy and phone sex by an older man in 'Our favourite Game'.
A heady blend of fantasy and reality bangs the drum for yet another twist in the development of the Agent Provocateur branded books keying in to the trend for memoirs of sexually license (following in the high-heeled footsteps of The Story of O; Anais Nin's short stories and 'Belle De the Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl' (Weidenfeld).
133 pages, Hardcover
First published January 10, 2006
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Agent Provocateur
23 books3 followersAgent Provocateur is a company founded by Joseph Corré and Serena Rees. It specializes in lingerie, but also edits and sells erotic literature collections.
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August 4, 2011made me laugh rather than turn me on, one of them was ok, but generally verrrrry cheesy and very predictable, which is what I found amusing in a way but for serious erotic fiction this gets a thumbs down. Am tempted to read the others to compare and at some point I probably will but I really think that A.P should stick to what they do best. Aimed at women this writing seemed to be more concerned with the male ego.
October 2, 2024
Ömsom bra ömsom dålig. Jag tror att översättningen emellanåt pajar några historier. Bra spridning i innehåll och berättarstil, vilket är kul.
Vill lyfta tre historier lite extra: Du luktar choklad - rolig och annorlunda bdsm-historia. Övertid - klassisk otrohetsaffär, men bra. Honungsgömman - man följer dagboksnoteringar, sms och tankar kring en flört. kul idé men här pajar översättning lite, om man ser bortom det var den rolig att läsa.
Vill lyfta tre historier lite extra: Du luktar choklad - rolig och annorlunda bdsm-historia. Övertid - klassisk otrohetsaffär, men bra. Honungsgömman - man följer dagboksnoteringar, sms och tankar kring en flört. kul idé men här pajar översättning lite, om man ser bortom det var den rolig att läsa.
August 7, 2024
This reads like it was written only by male authors, and only for the male gaze. 1 star however for the very pretty, aesthetic cover.
January 20, 2012
[2.5] I only read this because I'd owned it and ignored it for years and decided it was time to work through some of these unread books.
And I was - eventually - pleasantly surprised.
It was odd that the first two stories had male narrators who were a bit grubby and not particularly nice people; it didn't set a good tone, but the subsequent pieces were mostly more female focused.
However, the collection is sadly lacking in female protagonists who take the lead in a vanilla sense or are dominant in a kinky sense. Whilst there are first-person narratives about female submissives who are actively desiring subjects enjoying themselves, for a general - rather than themed - collection, this book needed to have more of a balance.
Most of the stories take place in rather cliched scenarios such as work based affairs and first dates. Considered simply as pieces of writing they don't really rise above them and are not of a particularly high quality, but several work well as erotica. "A Taste of Honey" displayed the greatest such contrasts for me: the structure was woefully uneven and needed a full redraft, yet it swept me along as its beginning found the point where reality can tip into fantasy and the story was hot, somewhat suspenseful and stirring of emotions and memories.
Inevitably, as with many erotica collections, there were a couple of stories that were a little creepy or icky, but the majority are the sort of thing I would expect from Agent Provocateur: the sex was nothing too out of the ordinary by the standards of modern mainstream media, with some kink, and mostly tales of people with comfortable lives.
And I was - eventually - pleasantly surprised.
It was odd that the first two stories had male narrators who were a bit grubby and not particularly nice people; it didn't set a good tone, but the subsequent pieces were mostly more female focused.
However, the collection is sadly lacking in female protagonists who take the lead in a vanilla sense or are dominant in a kinky sense. Whilst there are first-person narratives about female submissives who are actively desiring subjects enjoying themselves, for a general - rather than themed - collection, this book needed to have more of a balance.
Most of the stories take place in rather cliched scenarios such as work based affairs and first dates. Considered simply as pieces of writing they don't really rise above them and are not of a particularly high quality, but several work well as erotica. "A Taste of Honey" displayed the greatest such contrasts for me: the structure was woefully uneven and needed a full redraft, yet it swept me along as its beginning found the point where reality can tip into fantasy and the story was hot, somewhat suspenseful and stirring of emotions and memories.
Inevitably, as with many erotica collections, there were a couple of stories that were a little creepy or icky, but the majority are the sort of thing I would expect from Agent Provocateur: the sex was nothing too out of the ordinary by the standards of modern mainstream media, with some kink, and mostly tales of people with comfortable lives.
April 23, 2009
and they didn't change much either!
yaaa!
yaaa!
February 19, 2011
These stories suck you in, no pun intended. I think I like erotic fiction now.
November 22, 2014
I love when someone can describe the tension between two people who want each other and I think this book cant do it! What a pity!
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