This erotic romance set in the Regency period caught my attention as one of the suggestions in the sex-positive romances post comments. While to the uninitiated, “sex-positive” may seem like a given in romance and particularly in erotica, these books were suggested by the more feminist, “rigorous” standards that these books not only contain sex between the leads, but that they don’t slut-shame other women who also have the audacity to have sex. Again, for the uninitiated, this doesn’t seem like a high bar to […]
A giffy live-blog of a wet turd
When I started Stranded with a Billionaire, I knew it was going to be a silly read. The title gave it away, as did the whole billionaire premise to begin with. What I didn’t know was that I was already going to be shaking my head incredulously inside of the first five pages. So, I decided to do something I haven’t quite done before in a review, which is something of a live-blog of this book. -> 3% Wasting no time at all, our hero […]
And for today’s selection of menage pr0n…
I’d been curious about the rest of Alisha Rai’s oeuvre since reading A Gentleman in the Street, a book that was funny and declaratively feminist. It’s also, you know, erotica — and quite an adventurous one at that — so its focus was much more on physical couplings than an emotional connection. Still, I liked Rai’s style, so I wanted to see which of her themes translated across her other books. From that, I can’t say what prompted me to start with Glutton for Pleasure, […]
The cream of the crop
Guys. GUYS. I’m pretty sure Christina Lauren, like, really listens and responds to feedback. This book would have been written too early to claim a direct line of insight from the epic post on slut shaming in romance, but I feel like the cultural tides that made way for that post influence Christina Lauren very much. 1) Luke, the male hero, out-and-out declares himself a feminist. 2) In direct contrast to almost every other book featuring a recovering rake, this one goes out of its […]