This is my second attempt at reading the currently trending genre of "reverse harem", which apparently now gets perforce blended into high scho [image]
This is my second attempt at reading the currently trending genre of "reverse harem", which apparently now gets perforce blended into high school/boarding school settings and "bully" romance. So I was intrigued enough to try reading a few books.
Good grief. I shouldn't have bothered.
Apart from the fact, that the writing is extremely poor, and apart from the fact, that this author seems to have a major problem writing ethnicities without coming across as having prejudices, and apart from the fact, that there's no real story or plot, I came away with one major question:
Why do so many women find ANY of this even remotely sexy or attractive?
I can't wrap my brain around this.
Now, the least of what I expected was that the unsympathetic guys would get their comeuppance. Nope. We are supposed to root for them. Actually we are supposed to find boys sexy who tell us, that they are manwhores and fuck just about any pussy, whether tight or loose.
Hello author? I mean, apart from the fact there are no "tight" vs "loose" pussies unless someone suffers from one or the other disease, why the hell should anyone find such an arsehole sexy? Why all that misogyny? As a woman you get to meet a variety of such idiots IRL, why would anyone put them on a pedestal in romance novels?
What is this preoccupation with skeevy idiots who harm and bully others about?
Whatever.
Someone rec me a couple of romances which have adorable guys I can dream of, rather than men that I want to drown in vats of sulphuric acid....more
My second attempt at reading an Addison Cain novel...
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Oookay, this was just as bad as the first one I tried. Horrid, stream of consciousness-sty
My second attempt at reading an Addison Cain novel...
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Oookay, this was just as bad as the first one I tried. Horrid, stream of consciousness-style prose without descriptions, settings, any sort of world-building, nothing. Just a haphazard recounting of action sequences with "explained" behaviour. Nothing is shown, no emotions anywhere, no lust, pain, fear, nothing. About as interesting as listening to the weather report of two weeks ago. Well, not even that, as that would be more structured.
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Yep. THAT is how erotic this BS was. I have to say, that I'm kinky enough to love knotting. But fuck me sideways, it would really be helpful, Ms Cain, if you knew a few facts about knotting in animals in the first place. Seriously.
I read until 24% and skimmed to roughly 70% when I gave up after being bored to distraction. The horrible meh prose never changed, by now I think I have to acknowledge that this is Ms Cain's writing style. What I do not understand are all these readers swooning over how "filthy" and "dark" this is. It didn't even tickle me, and I don't think I'm the harshest of all sadists out there.
I think I'll give it a while before I try strike #3. If ever....more
This is unmitigated shice wank-off material for the needy BDSMer. Or people who think they are BDSMers. I'm afraid the newsflash here is, tha [image]
This is unmitigated shice wank-off material for the needy BDSMer. Or people who think they are BDSMers. I'm afraid the newsflash here is, that this is not how BDSM takes place, it's abuse instead, and no, this isn't either how poly takes place, it's instead a form of rape by proxy. Indeed, it is a sort of de-fanged rape-fiction, which fails to deliver the full quid.
Mind, I'm not against rape-fiction, nor against tortureporn, I love to wank off as much as the next woman. What I cannot abide is rape-fiction being sold to an unsuspecting public as BDSM.
What I also hate is that this kind of book has killed erudite BDSM stories for good in the past decade or so. Which means I lack reading matter. And that's not something I forgive easily.
And gosh am I tired of these silly tropes here... ...more
Interestingly my former, quite elaborate and scathing, review is gone. So let me just reiterate that I have rarely read such an epitome of a misandrisInterestingly my former, quite elaborate and scathing, review is gone. So let me just reiterate that I have rarely read such an epitome of a misandrist, sexist story written by a woman as this one. Something is very awry between American men and women, and it most assuredly is not what the author allows her heroine to lament in her stead.
The female protagonist is a sexist, fat-shaming pig, and the male protagonist has so much of no clue at all, that his intelligence seems to stay within reach of room temperature. Unfortunately the author doesn't write well enough to divorce her own narrative voice, and thus herself, from the story and its protagonists, so she will have to own up to their behaviour. Which is disgusting, especially the woman's.
Blech.
Oh, and the story itself makes no sense at all. We live in the 21st century, not in an age of impeccable manners. All the female protagonist would have needed to do was say "no" and leave. That is all, and it is extremely hard to - realistically - conjure such an arsehole before my reading self who'd rather fuck someone for manners than simply shrug and leave....more
I thought it could while away a few hours while I had to wait for an appointment, but alas, nope. Nope-nope. So not.
Unfortunately Godwin hasn't changeI thought it could while away a few hours while I had to wait for an appointment, but alas, nope. Nope-nope. So not.
Unfortunately Godwin hasn't changed her ways over the last years. She still writes non-con/dub-con on mostly severely psychologically impacted (read PTSD) victims as BDSM (it truly makes me livid that I have to read reviews here on GR in which people consider this to be regular BDSM!). She still writes juvenile and badly written present tense. And unfortunately the sex still is as boring and as unrealistic as ever.
A pretty awful riff on "Sabrina". Gosh, even good, old-fashioned Bogie is the epitome of a male feminist compared to this.
If someone can explain what A pretty awful riff on "Sabrina". Gosh, even good, old-fashioned Bogie is the epitome of a male feminist compared to this.
If someone can explain what people find attractive about these arsehole men and stupid women I maybe could finally cease trying to understand. Duh....more
Nope, the Marquis still has it on this sorry sordid little and oh-so strained tale. There I thought I might stretch my horizon a bit. Alas, it wasn't Nope, the Marquis still has it on this sorry sordid little and oh-so strained tale. There I thought I might stretch my horizon a bit. Alas, it wasn't to be. Just tired twists which are so old that Hitchcock would have laughed and an author glorifying drugs and doing his best to offend. Which - closely looked at - was just childish and repetitive like a game of dare amongst brattish little boys.
This is clearly fanfiction or has been inspired by fanfiction, namely either Snape/Draco...
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...or Snape/Ron.
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The prose is1.25* rated down.
This is clearly fanfiction or has been inspired by fanfiction, namely either Snape/Draco...
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...or Snape/Ron.
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The prose is facile, the instalust sex scenes mechanical and often unwillingly laughable for lack of insight into gay sex and bi/gay psychology, and I never grasped what Snape, errm, Rutledge actually saw in Shawn. The girls were sugary sweet gadgets to show off the professor's humanity and all other characters were cardboard cutouts.
However and alas, there could have been a good story in this, and if more had been made of it, I would have given it 2 or 3 stars even....more
I'm fed up to my gills with "special people who're particularly beautiful and accomplished".1.5* rounded up.
Not really my thing for several reasons...
I'm fed up to my gills with "special people who're particularly beautiful and accomplished". One is that super-blond norse god with the chiselled body of a skier (am I supposed to think Thor? ), an Olympic winner, no less. The other is that super-special detective, the bad ass among the bad asses with that speshul snowflake "hot" panther tattoo (scars would have been hot, and a man facing those scars would have been so). Which he has because someone whupped him one with a bicycle chain - which of course never bothered him. Clash of the titans? Superhero fanfiction?
Whatever, I am fed up with special Alphas straight out of the US male box. Both men didn't feel human to me, they felt like plastic tropes. I couldn't connect with either of them, and to enjoy BDSM or erotica I have to be and stay connected.
The writing was unfortunately overwrought, gimmicky, breathy (the "I am fanning myself so hot am I"-type) and very much in the style of current fanfics. I didn't like that all one bit. Instead I prefer reticent and precise prose, which doesn't tell me what to feel and instead allows me to feel and think for myself.
There was far too much and entirely needless sex in this, and not enough painplay. What sex there was, was rape, never mind that the author later tried to do away with that. It legally and technically is rape. When Hunter told Camden to get off, Camden should have gotten off.
An aside: Firstly, no one needs a safeword. People can play without safewords all day long - as long as the top stops whatever they do the moment the bottom says "stop that". Meta-consensual play (play during which nothing will stop what happens) is indeed a (very rare) thing. However, it is halfway healthily and securely done only between longterm partners (which these two absolutely weren't), who are sure of each other and know each other's limits to the nth point (which these two absolutely didn't, either) and lastly, even then it still is a crime, even where BDSM is legal.
I did like one or two short sensual passages, but on the whole the story didn't give me much. There wasn't enough pain play. The little pain play which was there, was half-heartedly written, and, so sorry, but "pain by pegging/fucking" is so not my kink. Fucking someone into submission is neither. Not if you set this up as some sort of BDSM play. This came across as highly off to me. All the security gadgets and leather guards and what-not felt completely overblown on the other side. What happened to simply stringing up a guy by his wrists and having a go? Do American authors currently have this "curious household implements" fetish? What is this about wet towels and belts as percussion instruments lately?
I by the way disliked the allegation that women can't break men down, pain wise. I do that regularly, there is no need for superior muscle power to do that. All you need are the right implements and technique. The funny thing is that the human body is much more fragile than people think.
And I hated the notion that Cam forced himself on Hunter knowing full well that Hunter isn't gay. That's saying something I really don't much like as a statement.
The author has potential, but she needs a ruthless editor who not only helps her contain her purple prose, but also where she enters fanfiction self-service....more
... even the slightest bit erotic. No, not even darkly erotic. ... any sort of BDSM I would recognise. ... even the tiniest bit intelligen This wasn't...
... even the slightest bit erotic. No, not even darkly erotic. ... any sort of BDSM I would recognise. ... even the tiniest bit intelligent or intriguing. ... well-written in any shape, way or form. ... interesting as a story. And the characters sucked.
This was...
... totally superfluous. ... US-centric in a bad way. ... so boring I started to skimread. ... an exercise in futility like so many lately written dark erotica. ... a typical cliffhanger geared to rake in the dough from readers too stupid to notice the spiel....more
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