Like a Prince: Gay Erotic Fairy Tales

by Cecilia Tan (Editor), Rachel Kincaid (Editor), Julie Cox

Five gay fairy tales that feature classic stories like "The Beauty and the Beast" and "Cinderella" with a queer twist. What are the erotic possibilities of the dashing princes and dark forbidden forests that we learned about as children? Stories range from the charming tale of a mischievous Cinderella to the deliciously dark story of a modern-day Little Red Riding Hood complete with a real-life wolf. A mysterious young prince needs help from a beautiful young king in "The Goose Boy," and Beauty and the Beast gets a sexy retelling in "Captivated." Includes stories by Elizabeth Schechter, Julie Cox, Kiernan Kelly, Alexandra Erin, and Monique Poirier.

Genres: Anthologies, M M Romance, Romance, Gay, Fantasy

89 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Susie Bright says, "Cecilia Tan is simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Since the publication of Telepaths Don't Need Safewords in 1992, she has been on the cutting edge of the erotic form, often combining elements of fantasy and science fiction in her work. She is also founder and editor of Circlet Press.

RT Book Reviews awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015 and her novel Slow Surrender (Hachette/Forever, 2013) won the RT Reviewers Choice Award and the Maggie Award for Excellence from GRW in 2013. She has been publishing Daron's Guitar Chronicles as a web serial since 2009 and her Secrets of a Rock Star series (Taking the Lead, Wild Licks, Hard Rhythm) is published by Hachette/Forever. In 2018 Tor Books will launch her urban fantasy/paranormal series, The Vanished Chronicles. In her other life, Cecilia is also the editor of the Baseball Research Journal and publications director for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.

Reviews

[Serena Yates]

Captivated by Julie Cox: 3 stars

Two Balls by Alexandra Erin: 4 stars

Le Petit String Rouge by Kiernan Kelly: 1 star (hated the bad ending)

Goose Boy by Monique Pourier: 4 stars

To Market by Elizabeth Schechter: 4 stars

[Mati]

Take fairytale, take out girls and insert boys instead and you got lovely stories for good night reading. Classical themes were well handled and the book was pleasant. My personal best is beauty and the beast.

[Lada]

All the stories are good and a successful retelling of the original fairy tales.

Captivated is such a darling. Two Balls doesn't get far from the original Cinderella but still worth the read. Le Petit String Rouge is deliciously dark and wicked. Goose Boy is sweet and dreamy. To Market has such a romantic, knight-in-the-shining-armor goblin.

[Jenn (not Lily)]

5 stars each for To Market, Goose Boy, and Two Balls, 4.25 stars each for Captivated and Le Petit String Rouge, making a solid 4.7 for the whole.

I gotta find some of these authors, see if they're still writing...

[Carly]

I like re-tellings of fairy tales. And these stories were rather imaginative and pretty damn steamy.

I liked the one about Cindarella's balls the most. The voice of the narrator was cheeky yet poetic still.

The little Red Riding Hood one was not exactly my cup of tea but there was something entralling in its cruelty.

The Beauty adn the Beast is one of my favorite stories and this version was pretty interesting even though I am not sure I like the Beauty that much. But by the time it ended I didn't care very much about my first impression of him being that of an obnoxious brat.

The last two stories I have no reference to but I liked both quite well.

The Goose Boy one had a rather bittersweet undertone and the goblin one was just sweet all over.

[Tam]

You can read my reveiw HERE.

[Mara Ismine]

Entertaining and enjoyable collection.

[Izzy Anderson]

I started this forever ago. I finished by force of will!