Where The Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica by D.L. King

Where The Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica Reviews

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  Ameliah Faith

  Super Sexy
  Where the Girls are is a very erotic anthology featuring nineteen wonderful stories by nineteen amazing writers.
  
  There were too many tales for me to read at one sitting. I just couldn't handle all that sexy goodness all at once. It took me several days but they made great bedtime stories. Some of these shorts were sweet and gentle with a hint of romance, such as Sophie Mouette's On Display. A young black museum employee sets up a display of lesbian erotic photos. There is a private showing where the older silver haired white woman seduces the curator. I mention race because the story does. The visual of dark with light adds to the eroticism.
  
  The majority of the stories involved Power Play or BDSM. For Power Play look no further than Urban Fantasy by A.D.R. Forte. This is a story of a woman who bumps into another woman and can not get the blue eyed stranger out of her mind. When she finally finds Blue Eyes she takes her home where they get to know each other....
  For light BDSM try Rachel Kramer Bussel's My first Play Party. A woman moves to San Francisco to attend school. There she meets a Domme. The Domme takes her to a party where she is touched my many but only taken by her Domme. They end up as a couple so there is BDSM and romance in this one.
  A is for Apple by Jessica Lennox is a more erotic and stronger BDSM tale. Here country mouse, Hailey, moves to the city and sees bartender Ciara. She is smitten and determined to get Ciara to notice her. Ciara does and takes her home to her dungeon. There Hailey is given a simple task while she is tied to a spanking bench. Name a fruit or veggie that starts with each letter of the alphabet or be punished. That punishment is WAY too hot!
  
  There are so many good stories that it is hard to pick a favourite. I dare you to find just one.
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  Elevate Difference

  When I first began reading Where the Girls Are, I thought I had made a mistake. As I turned the pages of the first short story, Charlotte Dare’s “The Critic,” I thought, “This must be doing nothing for me because I’m not a lesbian.” Oh-oh. Fortunately, things changed as I moved on to the following stories. It turns out “The Critic” just wasn’t very good.
  
  This compilation of short stories is satisfying on numerous levels—there is variety of length, fetish, pace, style, and even talent. We cruise through night clubs, BDSM initiations, taxis, butt plugs, whips, cityscapes, cocktails, and a rushed stint through the backstage of a fashion show. We’re even introduced to a ‘50s pinup lookalike in these pieces of “true tales and explicit fiction.”
  
  Lisabet Sarai’s “Rush Hour” is my favorite. Unpredictable from start to finish, riveting and fun, it’s a non-cheesy tale of opposites attracting that puts you right in the cab with Ruth and Mina. Both characters are bold, independent, and snarky—just the way I like them.
  
  Kathleen Bradean’s “Don’t Fuck with Country Girls” also positively stands out. From the very first sentence, I was drawn in with a smile on my face. I mean, how could you not love a story that begins, “My clit is fat and sassy.”—impossible. Plus, it’s (sort of) a story about two people who meet on the internet. Story of my life.
  
  Of course, I also have complaints. I was positively appalled as I sat on the toilet reading “The City Pony” by Roxy Katt. Granted, there are no actual ponies in the story, but this is the closest thing to zoophilia I have ever read (not that I have searched). Apart from that, it is a long, dull story filled with dialogue both corny and forced, and it ends exactly how you think it will. Feel free to skip it, if only because it just can’t be healthy to roll your eyes for seventeen straight pages.
  
  Other than that, Where the Girls Are overflows with tantalizing tales of both rural and urban girls gone wild in the city—but not in the raunchy sense. Okay, yes, in the raunchy sense. But I don’t think I read anything about cameras.
  
  Review by Natalia Real
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  Emily

  3.5 stars
  
  This anthology is a good mix of stories that focus on the dynamics that exist between “city” girls and “country” girls. On the surface they may appear to be exact opposites, but at the heart of the matter, they are searching for the same thing. Each of the stories in this collection looks at a situation where women from two very different worlds collide.
  
  “The Critic” by Charlotte Dare ~ A food critic gets a chance to exact revenge on a childhood nemesis who has become a chef, and finds old habits are hard to break.
  “Urban Fairy Tale” by A.D. R. Forte ~ Our heroine toys with the beautiful Blue Eyes who has been caught in her web.
  “Grey Ice” by Evecho ~ Jacquie is entranced by the beautiful woman who takes her mind off her boring male dinner companion.
  “Old London Town” by Jacqueline Applebee ~ London city gal Lesley agrees to show country girl Mae the sights in her town, and finds her desires for her beloved city changing.
  “Not in Kansas Anymore” by Cari Z ~ Caitlin has moved from Kansas to Colorado and gets a job as hostess for a dinner theatre type establishment where her new boss, Ms. Rose, makes her quite aroused.
  “Electricity” by Evan Mora ~ Clare attends a bar in an old Victorian house and is captivated and educated by butch bartender Al.
  “In the Dressing Room” by Crystal Barela ~ A dresser for a Versace fashion show has a steamy reunion with her ex, model Danielle.
  “Don’t Fuck with Country Girls” by Kathleen Bradean ~ A country gal is an unwilling pawn in a city gal’s game when they meet at a bar, but turns it around and shows how tough country gals can be.
  “My First Play Party” by Rachel Kramer Bussel ~ Beth has moved from Minneapolis to San Francisco and accepts an invitation to attend a play party, a decision that changes her life.
  “Come to My Window” by Andrea Dale ~ Katy becomes a personal assistant to Emilie who is 10 years her senior and helps her become part of the city.
  “You’re the Boss” by Stella Sandberg ~ Devoted employee Jackie has an unexpected encounter with her new boss, Miss Landon.
  “Just One Night” by Dalia Craig ~ Eve has possibly met her match when she picks up Lacey in the cocktail bar of a five-star hotel as her weekly one night stand.
  “The City Pony” by Roxy Katt ~ A woman from Alberta gives a Toronto city girl just what she most desires.
  “Afraid of Jumping” by Nan Andrews ~ Sydney guides Beth to MOMA, where she faces her fear with Sydney’s help providing a distraction.
  “A is for Apple” by Jessica Lennox ~ Hailey catches the attention of a woman she has been obsessing over and submits to Ciara’s control.
  “Rush Hour” by Lisabet Sarai ~ Two women who couldn’t be more different fight over a cab on a rainy evening.
  “A Window to the City” by Victoria Oldham ~ A coffee mishap helps introduce two women who have been admiring one another from afar.
  “On Display” by Sophie Mouette ~ A gallery employee lusts after a wealthy benefactor.
  “Hot Child in the City” by Sommer Marsden ~ Laura finds some relief from the hot summer night with the exotic, ebony woman Jeddah.
  
  There is good variety with the stories in this anthology. Several are scorching hot and many are not really romantic but are single encounters between women. Often the country girl is the naïve one, but in other stories that is turned on its head such as in “Don’t Fuck with Country Girls,” which was one of my favorite stories, and “The City Pony.” The city girl is often the sophisticated, experienced one, yet she is looking for something that only a country girl can provide.
  
  The stories also encompass a range of kinks and sexual activity, so any reader can find something here to enjoy. Another of my favorites within this collection was “A is for Apple” where a woman seeks the mistress of her dreams. The story is a woman’s introduction into a D/s lifestyle and it is quite steamy and erotic. “The City Pony” explores a kink that few attempt to portray in a short story, and the expression of the kink, as well as the underlying draw to it for the characters, was quite intriguing.
  
  This is another lesbian anthology from Cleis that I recommend for anyone looking for satisfying short stories about attraction, and sex, between women.