Customer Reviews

Black Feathers

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

WOW - This is one that you want to save for bedtime stories...and since there are several short stories it works out very well - This book is a little to hot to read if you take public transportation to work (i.e. bus, subway)!!!

Cecilia Tan is an excellent writer with a great imagination, which is a wonderful combination in a genre where I find too many writers focus on the erotic, and less on the story-- the art and craft of fiction. That is not to say that this book is not erotic-- it most certainly is sexy. But it is on the fringe of the sexual experience in many ways: often kinky, set in surreal, imaginative places, with a hint of sci-fi and a bit of horror. Read this book with an open mind and you won't be sorry, you may even read it over again. I have enjoyed many of the stories more than once. I hope you will, too.

P.S. Don't expect "Letters to Penthouse" This is *literary* erotica at its finest.

I'm daydreaming of a better book. I started reading with high hopes, and ended up skimming past all the mystical tea-drinking madams looking for something magical and kinky... So, if you like tea and tea-leaves and are curious, then go for it.

Had to share my experience reading this book. I take the subway into Boston for work and like to get in some pages. Well, thank goodness I had my large gym bag with me one day, as I read one story I became so flushed and began getting very warm and tingly down there, it began to pulse, and eventually I had to release my tension in a huge O. So glad I didn't wear hose that day as well. Get this book, and try not to look at the people sitting across from you, or the man looking over your shoulder next to you as you read this. Oh god!

With every page, Ms. Tan drew me further into her creative and exciting realm. The words are like music to my eyes, and I found myself truly enchanted by these wonderful tales of love, obsession and the taboo world of D/s.

Thank you Ms. Tan for such fantasticly real experiences. You are to be commended for editing a book about S & M that does not insult the intelligence of the reader.

I was very impressed with the variety of situations Cecilia Tan described in the short stories presented in "Black Feathers." This is the first time I have read much related to erotic science fiction, and although science fiction is not my usual genre of choice, Tan convinced me that I want to check out more of "out there" erotica. "Pearl Diver," I thought, was especially creative and pregnant with meaning.

As someone who has only read about BDSM, I found her stories that deal with that subject, well, exciting. Yet she gives us a little of the philosophy behind pain-as-pleasure, making this book stimulating for the intellectual parts of the brain as well as the erotic. I would definitely read more of her work.

Please! This book is about as erotic as a bowling ball. Perhaps I have not been schooled in this "genre", but sadism in space is certainly a little out there. Notwithstanding this slight weakness, why write a bunch of boring stories to go with it? It makes no sense. The cover's neat, I suppose. That's why you got a star from me, Cecilia.

This is an intelligent collection of erotic tales. Not all of the tales involve genital sex or a partner, but they take the term Erotic to a new dimension. One of my favorites was "Pearl Diver." The stories can take the reader beyond gender, sexual orientation and reality, but celebrates all three at the same time. I would highly recommend this collection to an open-minded, sexual being.

This isn't going to be for everyone, but if you have any interest in the BDSM world, this collection is an incredibly intelligent slice through a dozen different varieties of that flavor. There are stories here for hets, bi's, and gays, each with a unique touch.

While the writing was definately talented, and the stories unique... I was terribly disappointed with the quality of the "erotic" material. There simply isn't much sex! A lot of whipping people and thinking about sex, but very little actual sexual material. It's an interesting collection of relationships, but I was looking for something [more] too!