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quote[0] = "Michael Rowe (Writing Below the Belt):
\"Queens-born Laura Antoniou is heiress presumptive to some of the erotic territory staked out by Pat Califia and John Preston… (Her) writing moves with assurance between genders and sexual orientations, relentlessly exploring the dark side of sexuality.\"";
quote[1] = "Pat Califia:
\"Antoniou is an elegant stylist of erotica….\"";
quote[2] = "Miss Abernathy (Miss Abernathy's Concise Slave Training Manual):
\"… Antoniou is a strong writer. Her books have engaging storylines, developed characters, and startlingly realistic descriptions of BDSM relationships.\"";
quote[3] = "The Eckhart Reviews, by TammyJo Eckhart:
\"The Marketplace has become more than a series of books in the few years since it was first published. Rather unique in erotica in that it is pansexual and involves a well-designed and realistic world... I would say that no other series about a world of real yet consensual slavery has ever come close to the quality of Antoniou's work.\"";
quote[4] = "Checkmate, review by Victor Terry:
\"If you've not read the [the Marketplace series], I urge you to do so. [T]hey deal with themes many CM readers are intensely interested in: what constitutes gender, the duties of slaves and of masters, philosophies of SM and of slavery.\"";
quote[5] = "Skin Two, Autumn 2000:
\"Fans of Author Laura Antoniou's excellent Marketplace novels will be pleased to know that she intends to indulge their depraved lust for her unique mix of scorchingly hot kinky sex and satisfyingly intelligent writing for the foreseeable future.\"";
quote[6] = "Libido:
\"With her creation of the fictitious Marketplace, an elite and secretive world organizations, dedicated to the auctioning and overseeing of the world's finest lifestyle slaves, Antoniou has achieved a feat of which few writers are capable: she has constructed a world so vivid in sequel after sequel, it takes on a reality of its own, one that's visually hard to let go of once the reader has put down the book.\"";
quote[7] = "Lambda Book Report:
\". . . polymorpheusly perverse SM Erotica, mixing hetero and homosexuality in the tradition of Anne Rice's Beauty series.\"";
quote[8] = "Lambda Book Report:
\"an excellent read! (The author) creates a wonderfully diverse world of lesbian, gay, straight, bi and transgendered characters, all mixing in the melting pot of sadomasochism.\"";
quote[9] = "Kate Bornstein (author, My Gender Workbook):
\"Laura Antoniou . . . elevates the genre of SM erotica, surpassing both Anne Rice and Pat Califia in storyline, character development, passion and humor. The tales ring true, the dialogue achingly real, and the sex is as hot as you'd ever hope for. For the novice SM player, the well-seasoned old timer, and the simply curious alike, these books are the next best thing to being there.\"";
quote[10] = "Claire Thompson (author, Sarah's Surrender):
\"I think the books in the Marketplace series will become, if they aren't already, basic texts -- the ABC's of BDSM for fiction -- much like Capote's In Cold Blood is the classic for that genre of crime novel.\"";
quote[11] = "Miss Abernathy (author, Miss Abernathy's Concise Slave Training Manual):
\"Antoniou's novels -- The Marketplace, The Slave, and The Trainer -- represent some of the finest BDSM erotica today.\"";
quote[12] = "William A. Henkin, co-author \"Consensual Sadomasochism: How To Talk About It and How to Do It Safely\":
\"John Preston's \"Mr. Benson\" and Laura Antoniou's \"Marketplace\" trilogy have defined the boundaries (of SM fiction).\"";
quote[13] = "Claire Thompson (author, Sara's Surrender):
\"The Marketplace series was like water to a thirsty woman. I drank them. I inhaled them. I think they will become, if they aren't already, basic texts.\"";
quote[14] = "Susan Wright (editor, SM Classics):
\"Author and editor Laura Antoniou has created a permanently parallel world in The Marketplace, offering those with the proper dedication to service a lifetime of fulfilling SM. . . . The Marketplace trilogy is certainly the SM fiction of choice among pansexuals.\"";
quote[15] = "Blowfish:
\"A wonderful set of fantasy lifestyle books.\"";
quote[16] = "Girlfriends:
\"If you haven't read the . . . Marketplace series, you have been missing out20on some of the best S/M erotica around.\" \"(Antoniou) gives her characters an incredible depth and provides them with unique individual voices. I believe in them. In fact, I expect to run into them on the street.\"";
quote[17] = "The Servant's Quarters:
\"If you like smut with a plot, engaging characters and snappy dialogue, this (series) is for you.\"";
quote[18] = "Shiny International:
\"This is domination and submission at its best -- a very well-written work that holds from page to page...\"";
quote[19] = "Cuir Underground:
\". . quite simply, the best SM novels in decades.\"";
quote[20] = "On Our Backs, Oct/November 2000:
\"Antoniou's writing is full of vividly drawn pansexual characters, quick-witted dialogue, real suspense, and scenarios so intense, colorful, and detailed, you'd swear she was really there. If you're into SM, you'll want to be there too.\"";
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