reviews

The Age Old Question: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People C.S. Lewis Why do bad things happen to good people? If God is so loving, so good, why does he allow us to suffer? He created this world and everything within it – doesn’t it necessarily follow then that he created evil? Is God truly good? Is he just neutral? Why would a being supposedly composed of all compassion and goodness create Hell – an everlasting place of torture? Does anyone really deserve to go to Hell? Does the worm really never die there; is it all flames [...]

13 Adult Fairy Tales Author: Nancy Madore Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women is a collection of 13 classic fairytales (Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Bluebeard, Cinderella, Goldilocks, and more) retold with an erotic twist that centers on gentleness, love, and empowering women. Having read several erotic story collections in my time, this is one of the few that I ever actually finished and the only one I found myself enjoying. The tales don’t support the usual weird vileness that infiltrates the erotic genre, like one collection I once read where the prime character killed women and beheaded them [...]

How Far Are You Willing to Go to Survive? Author: Stephen King Jessie Burlingame is a good wife, an unobtrusive woman who caters to her husband’s waning desires and, at least on the outside, leads a normal life. Except really, does she? Taking a day off work to drive to their remote Summer House on Dark Score Lake, her kinky attorney husband once again takes Jesse’s handcuffs, restrained against their bed. This is when the good wife dies and Jesse, awakening to the control and manipulation of her husband correlates the darkness in him with a long ago incident she [...]