Book Review: Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, editors, Hottest Blood
I promise to start a different book journal someday.
59) Hottest Blood, edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, 249 pages
Third in a series of erotic horror anthologies, Hottest Blood leans much further toward horror than erotica. There was a lot of sexual content here, but very little that I would term actually arousing. This isn't a condemnation, just a clarification. Sex is used here as just another way of terrifying, of getting under the reader's skin.
I don't read a tremendous amount of horror, so I will withhold tight judgement on that aspect of this book since I do not feel competent to critique it. A lot of the writing was solid, but much of it didn't grab me, possibly because gory horror really isn't my thing no matter how much respect I have for the genre and those who write it. So. Not a bad book, and probably good for those who like their erotic horror a little less sexy and a little more splatter.
59) Hottest Blood, edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, 249 pages
Third in a series of erotic horror anthologies, Hottest Blood leans much further toward horror than erotica. There was a lot of sexual content here, but very little that I would term actually arousing. This isn't a condemnation, just a clarification. Sex is used here as just another way of terrifying, of getting under the reader's skin.
I don't read a tremendous amount of horror, so I will withhold tight judgement on that aspect of this book since I do not feel competent to critique it. A lot of the writing was solid, but much of it didn't grab me, possibly because gory horror really isn't my thing no matter how much respect I have for the genre and those who write it. So. Not a bad book, and probably good for those who like their erotic horror a little less sexy and a little more splatter.