Review: Eh...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2013
Like all the other books I've read by Excite, this wasn't all that great. There were a few mildly interesting stories but none that I truly loved and there were others that were just downright awful. Revenge of the Dixie Devil by Sylvia Lowry for instance, was particularly bad. If you're going to write something historical, wether it be erotica or not, it should actually fit into the time period its being set in. Characters in a story that takes place in the Civil War era south shouldn't talk like people in a modern day porno. Its just ridiculous.A lot of these stories used sexual words and slang that didn't exist in the time period in which they took place and that just bugs me to no end. I am beginning to notice a trend in erotica. These so called authors seem to think that if they label something as erotica the story doesn't have to be up to the same sort of standards as other written works, as if all the graphic sex somehow gives them a free pass from realism and accuracy.Not all erotica writers do that but after reading several of the Excite collections, I can objectively tell you that if you're looking for quality, Excite is not the way to go. Their collections are more comparative to badly done pronos that you would find behind a certain in the back of some seedy rental place. I personally expect a bit more.