Guilty Pleasures
Maria Isabel PitaHistorical erotic romance
Available from Magic Carpet Books
ISBN: 0-9775531-5-0
July 2005
| Reaching across the continuum of time, space and history,
the stories in this collection of “guilty pleasures”
will sear into your consciousness and can’t help but
arouse within you an intensity of emotional and physical
reactions. The rending of unusual characters and settings,
whether it is the wistful gaze of a slave girl watching a
setting sun in ancient Greece as her lover leaves, to the
loneliness of rain swept Dorchester street in early morning,
or the ghostly touch of a hologram in a Toronto kitchen in
2015, is wrought so skillfully that you are instantly
transported there, tasting and feeling every sensation, from
the hardening of a nipple to the cut of a sword.
Maria Isabel Pita is masterful in her art, pulling out a profound collection of intimacies, from love to rape, tenderness to sadistic-masochistic violence, yet, all exquisitely reflecting the woman’s need to totally surrendered to the forces of love. Each tale from a different culture and time then serves as a different facet to reflect this need to live or die for love. These stories can be read from cover to cover or dipped into in any order depending on your mood. While most of the stories are gripping, not all are satisfying; especially some of those set in the future or recent times, and were at least to me, a tad too perplexing. Given that, each story is unique in its orientation and endings are very unexpected. The author’s research and knowledge is highlighted in the fine details and her use of imagery, frequently religious in nature, is very effective, especially in stories, such as “The Bride of Christ” where Sister Maria finds herself desiring the brother of a novice. Anyone who relishes literary erotica will thoroughly enjoy this book!
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Reviewer: Audrey Lawrence |
