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    Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray: A Novel

    By Mitzi Szereto

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    Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mitzi Szereto’s Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray continues where Wilde left off with the Faustian tale of a man of eternal youth and great physical beauty who lives a life of corruption, decadence and hedonism. The story begins in the bordellos of Jazz-Age Paris, moving to the opium dens of Marrakesh and the alluring anonymity of South America. In his pursuit of sensation and carnal thrills, Dorian’s desires turn increasingly extreme and he leaves behind yet more devastation and death. He ultimately settles in present-day New Orleans, joining with a group of like-minded beings known as The Night People. They inadvertently return to Dorian his humanity when he falls in love with a young woman he rescues from becoming their victim. She will be his redemption, but she will also be his final curse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCleis Press
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781573449847
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    Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray: A Novel
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    Mitzi Szereto

    Mitzi Szereto is an internationally acclaimed author and anthology editor of fiction and nonfiction books spanning multiple genres. She has written numerous novels within her The Best True Crime Stories series. She's also written crime fiction, gothic fiction, horror, cozy mystery, satire, sci-fi/fantasy, and general fiction and nonfiction. Her anthology, Erotic Travel Tales 2, is the first anthology of erotic fiction to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mitzi's Web TV channel "Mitzi TV" has attracted an international audience. The Web series segments have ranged from chats with Tiff Needell, Jimmy Choo, and her ursine sidekick, Teddy Tedaloo. Other on-screen credits include Mitzi portraying herself in the pseudo-documentary British film, "Lint: The Movie." She maintains a blog of personal essays at "Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog." To learn more about Mitzi follow her on Twitter and Instagram @mitziszereto or visit her website at mitziszereto.com.

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    Reviews for Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray

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    • 1/5
      Though I am not a fan of erotica but I am a fan of good writing and this was not it. I gave up half way through the first chapter.
    • 3/5
      I've been referring to this book among my friends as "50 Shades of Dorian Gray." I wasn't aware that this was erotica when I requested it from the Early Reviewers program; the blurb on the back of the book does not make that clear. That being said, it is an interesting take on the story of Dorian Gray. Debauched, graphic sex scenes aside, I liked the references to other literary figures, particularly the chapters about 1920s Paris. The (implied) scenes with Hemingway & the Fitzgeralds and Dali made me chuckle. However, erotica is not something I typically read. I will say, though, that it is well-written and not cheesy like most books in this genre (*cough* 50 Shades of Grey *cough*)...hence the 3 stars. Unfortunately, I can't put this book in my classroom library or recommend it to my students due to its genre (which is my main purpose for participating in the Early Reviewers program).
    • 2/5
      Szereto's The Wild Passions of Dorian Gray was a surprising "sequel" to Oscar Wilde's classic. I was not expecting erotica. I was certainly not expecting such violent erotica. Of course I can see where the author was coming from with this idea, and I can see how it could be a logical continuation of Dorian Gray's story. I'm not sure it made for a great story, and the violence made me extremely uncomfortable through the entire book. I appreciated the different locations Dorian has to run to to escape anyone noticing his eternal youth (Paris, Marrakesh, Brazil, etc.) and how quickly the decades seem to pass for him. I did find the ending rather abrupt and less than convincing. It seemed a rather forced end, as though the author simply did not know how to wrap up Dorian Gray's escapades.
    • 2/5
      Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray by Mitzi Szereto is purported to follow the adventures of an iconic character, but I think this novel suffered from a bit of misrepresentation. It was presented as a follow-up to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, so cleverly alluded to in the title, and that's a workable idea for a novel. I would be interested in what happened to Dorian - what happened to Dorian? What happened to the portrait? What would you do if you were assured that you would never grow old and never have to pay for those sins? But this is really soft-core porn. Not that there is anything wrong with that - I like a bit of raunch now and then. It just wasn't what I was expecting when I agreed to review it.Basically, this book follows Dorian Gray as he leaves England in search of new "sensations." First, he goes to Paris where he frequents brothels and stages elaborate orgies in his apartments. But Paris is a little too close to England and he begins to run into reminders of his past. He travels to Marrakesh and dabbles in a bit of brutality - on the receiving end. Eventually, he has to dispose of his lover and find a new playground.That's really the gist of the book - Dorian travels from city to city, fucking and killing people. (More of the former than the latter.) Eventually, he lands in New Orleans and takes up with some vampire wannabes. It's a pleasant enough erotic romp, but it doesn't really work for me. This kind of novel, with its Victorian language, is not explicit enough to really be erotic for me, but isn't meaty enough from a literature standpoint to really satisfy my reading appetite. An amuse-bouche, perhaps, but definitely not a main course.
    • 1/5
      I tried to read this book. I really did. I have no idea why I didn't realize it was hardcore erotica when I requested it, but I didn't. I couldn't get through it, due to its nature. It was not quite what I was expecting.
    • 1/5
      If you've read the original "The Picture of Dorian Grey" the theme of this book shouldn't come as a surprise. I assumed it was a vehicle for some scandalous tales, continuing the debauchery and treachery of the Oscar Wilde story. There was a hint of it in the introduction. I had hopes for more. My hopes were dashed.I gave up reading the story about midway through Marrakesh. This book completely failed to catch or hold my interest. Pity.
    • 1/5
      I received this book as an Early Reviewer through LibraryThing's program. When I requested a copy it was based on the presentation being a 'spin-off' of the Picture of Dorian Gray (one of my favorite books). I thought, well I will give this a try because I love Oscar Wilde's work and perhaps Szereto has an interesting spin on this character!No.I fully understand that if I'd done any research before I started reading I would have found out this book was erotica - I just wish that it had been advertised that way in the Early Reviewer program. And honestly, I do not have a problem with erotica, but this book just went beyond the pale.Even if we put aside the extremely problematic use as violence as sexual device, there is so much abject harassment and rape in this book that it actually made me sick at times. It could be argued that this was the point, for us to see how horrible Dorian has become, except that this is an erotica novel - not literary fiction - and therefore it's purpose is to arouse and excite. If I had any such power I would strip the title 'erotica' or 'erotic romance' from any published book that includes rape. Even looking beyond all of the problematic sexual violence in this book, one finds that it is purely coincidental that the name of the character is Dorian Gray. The author clearly had a desire to write a few debased "erotic" short stories set in multiple time periods and used the literary character of Dorian Gray as a plot device to connect them all together. While discussion of the events of Oscar Wilde's book do occur, they have little to do with the storyline until the very last page, where we are left with one of the laziest and most disappointing endings ever conceived.I do not recommend this book to anyone, but least of all anyone with sexual violence triggers and lovers of Wilde's original work.