Five Erotic Novels That I Love By Evie Blake
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
My favourite contemporary erotic novel The Bride Stripped Bare is a finely crafted tale of a young wife and her sexual awakening. Suspecting her husband of infidelity she finds herself drawn to behaving in ways she never would have thought possible before. The book exposes her sexual needs and fantasies right down to the very core of her essence….thus stripping her bare. I love Nikki Gemmell’s pared down yet evocative writing style. She is also a journalist and the author of several fine literary novels. Interestingly when she first published The Bride Stripped Bare she did not reveal her identity. It is not so much the explicitness but the open and honest declarations of what a woman wants and needs sexually that at times comes across as shocking but rings so true. At the same time the novel is a love story as a new bride struggles to settle in her marriage. Since the book is written in the second person narrative it creates an intimate read.
The Bride Stripped Bare is the first in a trilogy, and is followed by With My Body and I Take You.