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Obsessed

Obsessed, August 2011
by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Cleis Press
248 pages
ISBN: 1573447188
EAN: 9781573447188
Kindle: B005EU7JY6
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"Light some candles, put on some sexy music, and read OBSESSED to heat up your night."

Fresh Fiction Review

Obsessed
Rachel Kramer Bussel

Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted September 22, 2011

Romance Erotica Sensual | Erotic

Women are turned on by different things than men when it comes to sex. Some women like it hot, some like it rough, some like it slow, sweet, and easy and some women just like it however they can get it. OBSESSED is an anthology of erotica that was written especially for women and it covers a little bit of everything.

Silent Treatment gives a couple a second chance at love when they both attend a Silent Retreat. They let their bodies do the talking when it comes to reuniting.

One Night in Paris tells the story of a woman living her fantasy of enjoying just one sexually charged night with her boss.

Concubine shares a naughty story that a woman tells her man while he's recovering from an injured foot.

Love and Demotion is a sassy little tale of a woman juggling two jobs. It's her second job that gives her what she wants, which is her boss from her first job.

Mephisto Waltz takes a young woman on the most important journey in her life as she learns to find her passion.

Then is the story of a married couple exploring some new avenues of pleasure in ways that neither of them would have ever thought possible.

It's Gotta Be Fate introduces a woman that wanted more in her relationship so she ended it, only to find that sometimes fate has other ideas.

Hooked shows how easy it is for objects to send the mind into all sorts of different directions when it comes to pleasure.

Aftershocks turns an earthquake into just the impetus that a divorcing couple needs to be completely honest with each other.

Secret Places shares the connection of two misunderstood people as they discover what they need in each other.

Loser explains that there can be a totally new meaning to the word when two people that may be considered "losers" connect with each other and prove that loser is only in the eye of the beholder.

Here In Between takes a flat tire and turns it into one hot and sexy encounter in the middle of nowhere.

Spellbound sends a Haitian beauty back to her roots and brings her to the best lover she's ever had.

Raven's Flight turns an encounter with a sexy tattooed Irishman into a smoking relationship for one lucky woman.

And that is just PART of the excitement that you get in this book. Whatever you desire, you'll find a story to turn the heat up a notch, or several. These are finger nibbling, leg crossing tales of romantic sex, fast sex, slow sex, kinky sex, and kinkier sex. While these stories are written specifically for women, chances are excellent that if you read some of them aloud to your man, things will heat up for the two of you surprisingly fast. This isn't a book that you want to miss if you're a woman in touch with her sexuality, wants to be, or just likes reading sexy stories.

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SUMMARY

The women in Obsessed show their passion for their lovers in all kinds of ways. For some it’s about indulging in an act of daring, for others it’s about letting go of their preconceived notions of propriety and going where their body tells them. In many of these stories, communication, the touchstone of advice about good relationships, is missing in some key way, whether it’s the almost-divorced couple in “Aftershocks” by Bella Andre who finally, during an earthquake, confess their deepest desires, or the chef and client in “Silent Treatment” by Donna George Storey who tease each other with the promise of a very special recipe. In “Then,” Emerald explores what happens after a woman confesses to her boyfriend just how much she lusts after another man. They push the boundaries of their relationship and the boundaries of their trust in each other, another theme of this book.Charlotte Stein paints a portrait of a “Loser” who manages to capture the attention of the narratoræand keep it by impressing her with his ardent desire. Stein writes, “He does little things, like when I stop him saying words like those with my mouth on his, he brings his hands up to cup my face. Other guys don’t cup my face. And he does it as though he wants to keep me as close as possible, so he can fully concentrate on my mouth and the way it moves and how much tongue I’m giving him at any given time.” Obsessed is not about obsession for a new purse or a new car or a new perfume. It’s not even about the obsessiveness of a crush, the kind of panting lust that cycles over and over itself with no end in sight. Instead, Obsessed is about the way a lover can get under your skin, can drive you crazy with lust as well as so many other emotions - love, longing, hunger, anger, confusion. Are there happy endings here? Yes, there are, but they are not always the happy endings you’d expect. These stories sizzle with the kind of obsession that is fueled by our deepest desires, the ones that hold couples together, the ones that haunt us and don’t let go. Whether just-blooming passions, rekindled sparks or reinventing relationships, these lovers put the object of their obsession first. They don’t always do what’s rational or proper; instead, they chase their dreams, such as in Kayla Perrin’s “One Night in Paris,” across the world and across the landscape of their lovers’ bodies.


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