The Flesh Cartel: It's OK, but...
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In the past year I attempted to read gay erotica. I found a few books that sounded interesting enough, but when I actually started to read them, I quickly found out how generic and predictable they were.
I specifically look for titles that are written by men, and also, I judge a book by its cover (It's a must when reading erotica at least), and of course I read those that I find the plot interesting to me.
Recently I started to ready The Flesh Cartel series. I finished book 1 and I am currently in the middle of book 2.
This series, however, is written by 2 women. The series thus far is quite good. It has its generic and boring parts as the plot progresses, but for now, it's interesting enough for me to keep going with it.What annoys me quite a bit is that the only one book that I was able to actually finish is written by women. I mean, it's not at all an attack against women. But why is it that it takes a woman's perspective to properly tell a gay erotica story?!
What does it say about male writing?
Now, I haven't read all the gay erotica books ever, but when all the ones I read prior were written by men, and for all of them I barely made it to half a book, WHY is it that the one time that I read a book by women, I find it more interesting?
Sorry guys, had to get it out of my system.
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You sure it's not being written under a pseudonym? Can't think of a reason why, but you never know...
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@Kekkaishi one thing that I encourage you to do is to put a little more effort into understanding why something is appealing to you and why it isn't, instead of just calling it generic and boring, because calling something generic/boring means literally nothing, it say's nothing about neither the story, the author or you.
If you liked The Flesh Cartel, the reason sure isn't because it was writen by women, how exactly does it compare to other stories that you didn't quite enjoy? Is it more slow-paced, more subjective from an emotional standpoint, perhaps the characters are more flawed and relatable? Or the opposite of all that perhaps?
If you're looking for something specific and it's not there, instead on focusing on what you're reading you'll simply try to predict where it'll go, and having it go where you're thinking only makes it more frustrating.
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@ianfontinell-0
I respect your feedback. You are making some valid points. But I would like to say that it is "generic and boring" in the sense that it is an erotica and therefore predictable. You want to get to the good stuff.I see it much like porn, you can create as much plot as you want around it, but what you care about is the sex.
So, every erotica book, at least that I had read so far, is generic and boring (again my opinion and I stand by it), because the focus is the sex scenes, and everything around it eventually leads to that.My point in bringing up that the book was written by women is to say that I expect more to be entertained in the subject of gay erotica by men (gay men). I am much more interested in reading erotica from the perspective of men, or to be more precise, I am interested only in the perspective of men. In the world of sex and erotica, I don't care for women, and I don't think about them. Therefore, I was expressing a frustration when I was most entertained through the perspective of women
