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New York Times bestselling author Zane presents a tantalizing short story collection, Zane’s Sex Chronicles, which is now the basis of the Cinemax series Zane’s Sex Chronicles — the first urban erotic series on televisi… More >>
Zane’s Sex Chronicles
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A variety of women, mostly women of color, lack something from the sexual parts of their relationships. Unfaithful men, men who don’t bother checking to see if the woman is enjoying sex as much as they are, or simply women who need more than their men are willing to provide fill these stories by Zane.
Zane’s goal, throughout the twenty stories included in the ZANE’S SEX CHRONICLES collection, seems to be a combination of sex advice (take responsibility for your own pleasure and practice safe sex), and a variety of situations where characters don’t bother taking that advice. Women find one-night stands in bus stations, laundromats, at parties with others watching, with male prostitutes, even, briefly, with another woman. In Zane’s world, sex is commercialized (she deals with both male and female prostitutes), but also sometimes rare as her female characters must sometimes do without for long periods of time.
Zane uses dialect enough to provide a genuine feel for these stories, but not to the extent that they become hard to read (who knew that fine was spelled F-O-I-N-E?). Intriguingly, the sex itself is mostly fairly vanilla–although Zane seems to prefer woman-on-top or doggy-style to missionary positions. It’s the surprise factor, the sudden decision to liberate oneself from convention, and the willingness to recognize the role of sex as a key factor in happiness that makes these stories work.
In the short story format, it’s always difficult to show much character growth and character is certainly not the focus of these stories. Perhaps that’s the point, however. Rather than look at how other women deal with sex and love, Zane allows the reader to put themselves in the place of a fairly generic female character–one surrounded by supernaturally hung and ready males.
Rating: 3 / 5
I love this book because it gives you the history of every girls life of what the series doesnt show on tv so we can get a better understanding of each character
Rating: 5 / 5
I am no fan of Lora Leigh but Zane should take note of the way she describes her sex scenes, they are very lurid without being overly vulgar. Zanes stories are more realistic than Lora Leighs but Lora’s descriptions are more vivid.
If Zane can find a way to marry these two aspects I think she can create an even better erotic novel for black readers.
Rating: 2 / 5