Romance for the Intelligent Reader: Alison Tyler Featured for Her Realistic and Nuanced Fiction
(PRWEB) January 24, 2014 -- Alison Tyler's The Delicious Torment: A Story of Submission was recently featured on Romantic Times Book Reviews as a "delightful return to old-school" romance. Romantic Times also spotlighted a teaser from the story that explores the effects saying "I love you" can have on a relationship. What does love actually mean in the context of a kinky relationship? Alison Tyler explores the nuance in a realistic, gripping, and semi-autobiographical tale. The Delicious Torment is the second in Tyler's A Story of Submission series, preceded by the critically acclaimed Dark Secret Love.
What People Are Saying about The Delicious Torment:
"Finally, we have an erotic novel that steers clear of the ingenue-to-goddess trope in a delightful return to old-school erotica."
—Romantic Times
"An excellent read for anyone looking to discover the intensity of a full-time kinky relationship that goes beyond the bedroom, beyond the body, even, into the heart and soul of submission."
—Heroes and Heartbreakers, Rachel Kramer Bussel
The Delicious Torment: A Story of Submission
Alison Tyler has been hailed as the best BDSM fiction writer of today. But wait a minute—is her work really purely fictional? Blurring lines between memoir and meta in The Delicious Torment, Tyler dares to expose in prose that pulsates off the page. Raising all bets that began in the critically acclaimed Dark Secret Love, this coming-of-age story sees Samantha entwined with an older man, a bondage connoisseur and her equal in every way, as she explores the deepest recesses of her master’s desires and her heart.
A Story of O meets 9 1/2 Weeks, The Delicious Torment is fueled by lust, longing and need.
Alison Tyler has made being naughty a full-time job. Her sultry short stories appear in more than 100 anthologies, and she is a prolific editor of bestselling anthologies like The Big Book of Bondage, Twisted, and Down and Dirty. In all things important, she remains faithful to her husband of 15 years, but she still can’t choose just one perfume. Find her at alisontyler.com and alisontyler.blogspot.com
Brenda Knight, Cleis Press, INC, http://www.cleispress.com, +1 (510) 845-8000, [email protected]
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