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Weight Of A Gun (2011)

by Elizabeth Hyder(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Storm Moon Press

review 1: All the stories revolve around using gunplay (if you hadn't already picked that up from the title). The first few stories really weren't what I was expecting when I started out reading this and I should have read the blurb before purchasing the anthology (damn me for never doing so when it comes to anthologies). But the last few finally showcased what I was looking forward to reading and it turned the tide and I started to really enjoy the anthology.
review 2: The short version: if gun kink is your thing, you'll find stories you enjoy in this collection. If you're indifferent about guns but power play is your thing, you'll probably also find something tasty here. The general standard of writing is high, and the sex scenes are mostly damn hot. Still, if neither ... moreguns nor power play rev your engine, this one is probably not for you.Anthologies are always kind of a mixed bag, even with a theme to focus on -- going for different takes on the same idea means some of them push buttons better than others. Here, also, we have a few stories that are taking a straightforward approach to the kink, and a few that are trying to get creative with it, which is always a risk.Overall? I think it's a solid collection. My favorites were Cornelia Grey's "Bounty Hunter," an established-angsty-relationship cowboy piece with wonderful physical detail, and Penny K. Moss's "Compromised Judgment," an imperial-steampunk mystery with a lot of smoldering tension and delicious attention paid to the intricacies of power. By the time the characters actually get it on, the payoff feels great. "Changing the Guard," by Peter Hansen, is also really solid on the kink front, though it didn't engage me as much with the characters. "My Rifle is Human," by Sumi, is the most experimental take on the theme; it winds up more sweet than scorching but still enjoyable. "In the Pines," by Lydia Nyx, is a dark, supernatural-tinged mystery surrounding a gun -- it winds up more a story about a gun that also has sex scenes, rather than a story about gun kink, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who finds suicide themes upsetting, but with those caveats it's still good. Gryvon's "The Machinist" suffers most from its length (or lack thereof); the sex scene feels rushed and implausibly consensual, given the real and severe antagonism between the characters.I won't come back to re-read everything in this anthology, but there are definitely a few that I'll come back to multiple times. And I'll be looking into more of Storm Moon's collections! More m/m to this standard is definitely something I'm looking for. less

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