I am severely addicted to erotica and often enjoy reading it in public places. There’s an excitement in knowing others don’t know what my body and mind are doing as I devour a hot story. Marilyn Jaye Lewis’ Lust|Marilyn Jaye Lewis’ Lust provided me with plenty of action to play out in my mind, while unsuspecting people passed by.

For me, Lust is not your typical erotica novel. Each story is unique and that kept my interest piqued throughout. Every time I picked it up, I was transported to a new and exciting place. Lewis would range from palace ladies being punished in The Emperor of Night to skinny Giselle shoving fresh strawberries into her unsuspecting, newly acquired female friend in Anal. I never knew where Lewis would take me next.

Lewis offers us many tantalizing short stories in Lust, but my favorite was The Birthday Party. In this story, Layla’s long-time fantasy of being tied up, face down and penetrated roughly by a stranger is being fulfilled by her boyfriend, Danny, who solicited a throbbing male from the bar they visited earlier that evening.

“I know exactly what you want. Danny told me all the details, right down to keeping the lights off.”

Lewis, an award-winning writer, is magnificent in her ability to put me right into the same room with Danny, Layla and boy wonder. I could envision Layla being shyly uncomfortable and her erotic enthusiasm in the same breath.

While this compilation claims to be “bisexual erotica,” there are only a handful of stories that feature women only and not a single m/m story, so I would not race to buy it if you’re looking exclusively for bi material. Not that I did not enjoy it, it is a diverse collection of hot stories, but this bisexual was hoping for a more queer collection.