Review: Wanton Wives: An Anthology of Regency Erotic Short Stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
I've been reading these tantalizing erotic Regency short stories over the course of a month, in between novels and novellas. Jane Austen would be shocked, right? Regency-era erotica? Somehow, I don’t think so. The Regency era in which Austen lived was pretty wild and daring and featured a dissolute Prince Regent who freely flaunted his outrageous lifestyle. While Austen greatly disliked him, he was a fan of her stories and had copies of her works in all of his houses. He pretty much commanded, by way of his librarian, that her book, Emma, be dedicated to him.Wanton Wives was a digital-only anthology of five erotic short stories by Catherine Gayle, an author I’ve been wanting to read for awhile now ever since I read some lovely and enticing samples of her writing on my nook.For my full review: [...]