Goldilocks and His Three Bears by A.M. Riley

Goldilocks and His Three Bears
by A.M. Riley
Pages: 95
Publish Date: July 5th 2011
Publisher: Loose Id

Review:
Rating: 2.0 out of 5.0 stars.
Read: December 8 2013


Goldilocks and His Three Bears was my first erotic m/m book. As expected, I did not find it erotically stimulating. There was some humor, and it was an interesting little dynamic. I've no real idea how to rate something like this. There was too much sex for me to rate it as I would rate a non-sexually graphic book. I can't rate the sex scenes for technical competence, pleasure to read, or anything like that. So, I'm left just marking the book "read".


Men on men action isn't really exciting for me. Why read? I was curious. I've read straight male-female erotic fiction. I've read lesbian erotic fiction. I've read bisexual erotic fiction. But I had never read male-male erotic fiction.


I would probably rate it, using GoodRead's little hints (ie, 2 = ok; 3 = like), two stars, but that doesn't really seam fair. As I would only rate it a 2 because I just found it ok. If I liked m/m fiction, I'd be able to fully rate the book.

Alice by Selena Kitt

Alice
by Selena Kitt
Pages: 57
Date: April 1 2011
Publisher: Author

Review
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Read: December 2 2013

A toss up on whether to rate it 3 or 4 stars, answered by thinking harder about it.  I tend to skip sections where men are treated submissively, as it doesn't really interest me.  The submissive male part was interesting enough to keep me reading, so I bump it up to 4 stars.

I rate short stories somewhat differently than longer works.  I expect longer works to have depth, and etc. etc.  I read shorter works for a quick fun read, and actually can penalize if I get too bogged down.  bah, confused why I mention all that.

Ok, then. As you would expect from an Alice in Wonderland tale, this Alice was wacky strange ball of weird.  Nice elements of BDSM. Kinda expected some play on "bigger" "smaller" to occur from eating/drinking, based on some other adult retellings of Alice, but it actually works better to not see the same thing repeated in a new version of the tale.

The female submissive parts were 3 or 4 stars, toss in submissive male part and I'd probably have rated this worse since I tend to skip. Don't care about that.  Kept reading, wasn't bad, was even somewhat interesting, so that settles the rating on 4 stars.

Overall a wacky weird tale, but then Alice in Wonderland and derivatives almost always are.