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Frosting on the Cake | 
 enlarge | Author: Karin Kallmaker
Publisher: Naiad Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $40.52
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 1049120
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1562802666
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781562802660
ASIN: 1562802666
Publication Date: May 1, 2001
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Product Description
Every woman with a taste for great fiction knows that Karin Kallmaker cooks up the world`s most delicious lesbian romances. The only problem is, her mouth-watering novels always leave you hungry for more. So, because you asked for it, more is exactly what`s on the menu today! As a special treat, our gal-loving gourmet has whipped up a baker`s dozen of scrumptious short stories - each one filled with your favorite characters and settings from her critically acclaimed bestsellers, In Every Port, Touchwood, Paperback Romance, Car Pool, Painted Moon, Wild Things, Embrace in Motion, Watermark, Making Up for Lost Time, and Unforgettable. Stories so rich with romance, we bet you can`t read just one!
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An Author's gift to her readers February 20, 2006
E. B. MULLIGAN (Tampa, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This wonderful book contains follow-up stories to Karin Kallmaker's first 10 novels and reads like a labor of love for all her readers, and probably the author too.
This book is worth the price of admission if only for one beautifully written story that I re-read on a regular basis. `Wild Things Are Free' is a jewel. It is the most perfect short story I have ever read (and I minored in English is college and have been reading for 30 years). Not to give any of the story away it takes place 5 years after the last page of `Wild Things'. Each paragraph and each sentence is perfect. The emotions are so strong it is as if the reader were in the bodies of the characters.
In Every Port's story starts 23 years after the novel ended and is a real delight, I picked up so many special moments when reading it a second time.
Touchwood is my favorite Kallmaker novel and the story takes up 5 months in Louisa and Rayann's most happy future.
Paperback Romance picks up 9 years after the novel ended , I enjoyed the short story more the second time I read it. I think I needed more Carolyn and Alison when I first read it.
Car Pool takes place 10 years later and gives a nice dose of the humor and love that is shared by Shay & Anthea.
Painted Moon picks up 8 years after the last page and gives the reader a nice POV from Lee.
Embrace in Motion takes place 3 months after that story closed and gives us all the payoff (laughs and all) that we knew these characters deserved.
Making Up for Lost Time's story I enjoyed reading more the second time, I don't know what my expectations were but the story was a surprise and I liked it tremendously when I read it again.
Watermark's story was terrific - a real WOW. It picks up one year after the close of the book and really packs a punch.
We get a double story for Unforgettable. Cinny and Natalie were very strong in my mind at the end of the novel. Their story is picked up from Natalie's POV and had tremendous impact for me. We also have Angel & Rett 2 years later showing how perfect they are for each other.
Sigh ... just a wonderful collection that can easily be read without re-reading the novels.
The stories are a delight and the prose wonderfully fulfilling, no surprise there, it had been like this at the first.
Kallmaker's continuations August 11, 2003
constantread (NM)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
These stories are not really sequels, but continuations of and additions to all of Kallmaker's novels published to this point.Most of them give more information about what happened to the lead characters in the novels. The first exception is Come Here
which expands on the characters of Judy and Dedric who are adjunct characters in Touchwood and Watermark. An excellent piece of erotica. The other is Unforgettable, That's What You Are which fills in and continues the stories of Cinny and Natalie from Unforgettable. All of the stories give us information about events that follow the end of the novels. A second piece of erotica (different from the well written sex scenes in most of the pieces) is Smudges which helps us explore the continuing physicality of the relationship between Lee and Jackie. If you've ever wanted to know "What's next?" after you've finished a novel, this is a book for you.
What a Treat! April 24, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
For those of you out there who are fans of Kallmaker's, you MUST read this book. It's so much fun to see where your favorite characters end up. If you haven't read any of Kallmaker's books yet, read the other ones first and then get this one.
unbelievable wonderful January 23, 2003
Ms. Kellyanne Havey (holmes pa)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
karin kallmaker could not have picked a more appropriate title. as a huge fan of hers this book just made me want to reread all her other wonderful books. if you are a fan of hers this book is a must have or must read.
The range of happiness! February 27, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved all of these stories. They're so well-plotted and written, and Karin does such a great job of conveying laughter and tears. There was tenderness and anguish and just the whole range of emotions. As a woman of increasing years, my favorite was "Hot Flash." Hate them during, but after...things can be good.
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