Cruising Las Vegas - En aguas profundas II (Salir del armario nº 190)

In Deep Waters #2

by Radclyffe, Karin Kallmaker

Juegos de azar, juegos de pasión, juegos de amor. Haz que rueden los dados durante una semana en Las Vegas con las reinas del juego, Radclyffe y Karin Kallmaker. Allí donde esté una mesa de juego o un cuartito interior que invite a ello, las jugadoras desean anotar puntos, y nadie puede esperar a apostarse el resto. Una supervisora de casino que cree haberlo visto todo se da cuenta de que no es así. Una organizadora de congresos descubre que la hospitalidad del hotel corre por cuenta de la casa. Escritoras de novela romántica encuentran que las apuestas altas pueden conducir a pasiones extremas, si están dispuestas a descubrir sus respectivos faroles. Los riesgos y las recompensas de Las Vegas inspiran a más de una pareja a dejar que rueden los dados. ¿Doblar la apuesta? ¿Apuesta sencilla? ¿Qué tal una segura, cuando el crupier posee la mano más alta? Escoge tu juego, haz la apuesta inicial y disfruta del espectáculo en vivo. Todas las apuestas quedan en el aire cuando estas dos escritoras reparten las cartas, y todas las manos resultan ganadoras.

«Kallmaker no decepciona a nadie que espere encontrar sexo en cada página. Está ahí; es de alto voltaje; es imaginativo; y encima está bien escrito y es muy entretenido.»

Lambda Book Report

«Radclyffe no escribe solamente de sexo, sino también de amor, de deseo, de lujuria, de sorpresas, de encuentros fortuitos, de encuentros planeados, de locas fantasías hechas realidad y de confianza.»

Midwest Book Review

Genres: Erotica, Lesbian, Lesbian Fiction, Anthologies, LGBT, Romance, Lesbian Romance

300 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2007

About the author

Radclyffe has written over forty-five romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and, writing as L.L. Raand, has authored a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters. She has also edited Best Lesbian Romance 2009 through 2015 as well as multiple other anthologies. She is an eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist in romance, mystery, and erotica—winning in both romance and erotica. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also an RWA Prism, Lories, Beanpot, Aspen Gold, and Laurel Wreath winner in multiple mainstream romance categories. In 2014, she received the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. In 2004, she founded Bold Strokes Books, an independent LGBTQ publishing company, and in 2013, she founded the Flax Mill Creek Writers Retreat offering writing workshops to authors in all stages of their careers.

She states, “I began reading lesbian fiction at the age of twelve when I found a copy of Ann Bannon’s Beebo Brinker. That book and others like it convinced me that I was not alone, that there were other women who felt like I did. Our literature provides support and validation and very often, a lifeline, for members of our community throughout the world. I am proud and honored to be able to publish the many fine authors at Bold Strokes Books and to contribute in some small way to the words that celebrate the LGBTQ experience.”

Radclyffe lives with her partner, Lee, in New York state.

Reviews

[Joc · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good collection of erotic shorts from Radclyffe and Kallmaker. In the first installment they were set on a cruise ship, this time they're set in Las Vegas, a conference destination. The hotel is hosting conference for escorts, librarians and romance novelists as well as a poker tournament mixed in with holiday makers.

I'm a fan of short stories, erotica, Radclyffe and Kallmaker so it was a fairly good bet that I would like this. There are quite a few established relationships mixed in with casual hook-ups and even one story featuring Dr Saxon Sinclair and Jude Castle from Passion's Bright Fury (which is probably my favourite of Radclyffe's books).

[Kathryn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is definitely butch erotica. Told entirely from a butch perspective with most characters wearing fake dicks in their pants. I love feminine women. There is nothing hotter than a woman in a skirt and blouse with a little cleavage showing...Mmmm. I am a fem myself so I don't understand the need for fake dicks. To each her own, I guess.

[Jo Ben-What · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most of the stories are really great.

[La Tricia Ransom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. But you’d think such creative writers would be a little more creative with the size, age and color of women encountered in this setting: conventions in Las Vegas. Fit, able-bodied, youngish (25-40ish) white women got real old, real fast.

[Gertrudis Fortinbras · Rating 4 out of 5]

La verdad es que me gusto mucho más el primer volumen. Y en algunas ocasiones me ha parecido un poco aburridillo. Aunque claro no es un libro como para leértelo de una sentada (o por lo menos yo no podría). En general, cumple con las expectativas. Es entretenido y disfruton. punch🥸

[Mónica Carra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tan explícito como el primero. Emocionante.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another steamy book of short stories.. Cold shower please!

[Judy Folger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Radclyffe & Karin Kallmaker have scored another winner. I enjoyed the writing and the setting for this story.

[Acbabry · Rating 3 out of 5]

part of my 'must read everything that kallmaker has ever written' list