Here is book eight of the Hot Blood series, a little reading project to go through a 13-book series of erotic horror short stories. Here are links to my previous reviews:
Reviews for book 8 will be divided into two parts. I will briefly review every short story, and also include the length, the level of the sex of each story and then a rating for the story. At the end of part 2, there will be a summary of the whole book. Let’s continue with part 1 for book 8 – Kiss and Kill.
“Sixteen erotic horror stories include the tales of fantasy-fulfilling cheerleaders, a modern den of sin and its centuries-old acts of debauchery, and a competition over sexual conquest by two wives.” – Goodreads
Heroine
Graham Masterton
And let’s start with a bang! The first story in book 8 of the Hot Blood series is a rather chilling tale from the time of war, about using sex as a desperate escape. Although it packed some supernatural elements, it does lean towards sad more than creepy. The sex was also surprisingly plentiful and also quite dirty. Not a bad start.
Length: 29 pages
Level of Sex: 4/5
My rating: 7 out of 10
Players
Deidra Cox
Written in an unnecessarily cryptic way about supernatural so-called filth-eater, a creature that purges men from their sins with sex. The ending has a nice little twist to it, if only the rest of the story can be as gruesome as the ending.
Length: 11 pages
Level of Sex: 3/5
My rating: 6 out of 10
The 121st Day of Sodom
Brian Hodge
A nod to Marquis de Sade, the title sure is interesting. The 120 days of Sodom has a big reputation of its own in the kinky community, although I don’t think it’s that well-written. Anyways, this one is about putting torturing and unwilling slaves and their masters into the same category as consenting BDSM but I don’t judge it that much since it is a horror story after all. The short story doesn’t work as a stand-alone at all, I think it ended prematurely and this is just a premise for the real story but it ended when the story only just began.
Length: 22 pages
Level of Sex: 5/5 for its explicit nature
My rating: 6 out of 10
Comeback
Graham Watkins
It’s actually a pretty entertaining story, albeit a little predictable. It’s about a male porn star looking to make a comeback so he went to an audition in a shady little factory like place that specilized in high-end sex dolls and does porn as a side-gig. Needless to say, he got sucked into some shady business (‘sucked in, heheh, get it? :P).
Length: 15 pages
Level of Sex: 3/5
My rating: 7 out of 10
Razorblade Valentines
Thomas S. Roche
The writing style was a little bit fancypants without the proper impact, the story is rather flimsy to warrant this style of writing. It’s almost soap-opera-y, with all the suicide-revenge-curse plot with a tiny bit of sexy times sprinkled in it. Nothing worth writing home about.
Length: 11 pages
Level of Sex: 2/5
My rating: 5 out of 10
Vampires of London
Rex Miller and Lynne Gauger
Well, the only saving grace was that at least it had the decency to be short, only 9 pages. Rather than an actual vampire, it was more like a vampire wannabe, with a side-portion of rough sex that was boring and blood drinking. The story, however, was all but destroyed by confusing metaphors and odd phrases.
Length: 9 pages
Level of Sex: 1/5
My rating: 3 out of 10
Trophies
John B. Rosenman
This one I liked a lot! It’s about these succubus-like women who like to enslave men. It works almost like possession and the story did a great job capturing the process of it and also the exact moment when a possession took effect. I wish there would be more!
Length: 19 pages
Level of Sex: 3/5
My rating: 8 out of 10
Interstate 666
Max Allan Collins
I’m pretty fond of urban legends but this might just be one of the most uninteresting ones I’ve ever read. And also, the boring story really doesn’t warrant a multi-character story-telling style and so many goddamned pages, and there wasn’t even proper sex.
Length: 37 pages
Level of Sex: 1/5
My rating: 4 out of 10
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Stay tuned for part 2 next week!
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