Fans of the steamy television series The Tudors will be thrilled. Sibling rivalry, political power struggles, games of sexual intrigue, as well as titillating sex scenes propel this bodice ripper forward. The affair results in two children and a measure of happiness, until her cunning sister Anne pushes herself into Henry’s good graces, eventually becoming queen of England.
Mary Boleyn is given by the Boleyn family as mistress to Henry VIII. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory Playboy called it “articulate, baroque and fashionably pornographic.” To reward him for ending the 100 years of enchantment, Beauty becomes enslaved to the prince, mind, body and soul. In Anne Rice’s retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale, the prince awakens Beauty not with a kiss, but with a sexual initiation. Do we have to let ourselves read only serious things?”įor those who want their erotica and their literature too, here’s a primer of naughty novels to rev your engines: A lot of women might be reading it because it actually is schlock.
“You know it’s schlock, you know you shouldn’t be watching it, but you can’t help but get sucked in. “It’s like a soap opera,” says one Fifty Shades reader, Mary Brierley. The books have whipped up sales at the 31 million mark in the English-speaking world (surpassing The Da Vinci Code, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and even the Hunger Games series), but have been defrocked as schlock in literary reviews. James’ BDSM series follows virginal English lit major Anastasia Steel, who falls for Christian Grey, a handsome young zillionaire businessman with a penchant for sex games.
If the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon has achieved nothing else, it’s awoken a desire, so to speak, for erotic novels and a demand for new “oh” factor books.Īnd while new books riding on the lingerie of the Fifty Shades trilogy are hitting book stores and e-readers by the truckload, there are better - and sexier - reads to be found between the covers of famous (and infamous) literary erotic novels, books that combine steamy sex with sensual and sensitive writing.Į.L.
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