panNot my cup of tea. Though Simone makes consent and agency crystal clear, the repetition broke the flow for me. Add in Tyler‘s constant rush to judgment, Poppy‘s questionable choices, and a few plot points that made me roll my eyes, and the story never fully clicked. I see why others love it, but it wasn‘t in my wheelhouse.
pickYou want a good smut book and a Catholic daughter girl. This is your book. Enjoy it and you want want to put it down.
pickI love these books 📚 first of all they‘re filthy 🥵 I‘m in love obv. 🌶️ but also I have really enjoyed thinking about how religion intersects with sexuality, the way the Catholic church in particular interprets things like guilt, punishment, & shame, & how much identity overlaps with belief
so I mean, if a book can do all that & contain so much smut I‘m on board 🍆
pickLow pick. Because I did enjoy this for the most part while reading it. But it was all smut and no plot. I mean there was a lot of thoughts about god and bible quotes, but he was horny AF. I wouldn‘t have picked this up without the new #readingsmut podcast. I would read another book by this author but probably not another priest romance. I did like the difference of getting the male POV the whole time.
This was a hard one to choose. I read a lot this month.
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This straight up spoke to me. Even out of context. Especially out of context. There is the logical, analytical, academic part of the brain… and then there is the fear, anxiety, panicky part of the brain. This book really did rise above the smut (but that part was awesome, too).
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I was happily reading the second book of a series of smutty fluff I stumbled upon to help me get over my Onyx Storm hangover, I was met with what is quite possibly the most sex positive, philosophically profound thing I have ever read (in smut or otherwise). 🤯🤯🤯
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pickI do love Sierra Simone, but this was my least favorite of hers I‘ve read (which isn‘t saying it‘s bad, it‘s just that the bar with her is so high). My biggest complaint is car sex; I can‘t get into her doing stuff to him while he‘s driving, because all I‘m thinking about is how dangerous it is. And honestly, people at the dinner table would know. Iykyk.
panA retelling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Cade‘s a priest who comes to Festivalé for cleansing. There he meets Amaya, whose dancer name is Esmeralda. Cade feels he has a monster within him that he feels Amaya brings out of him. When trouble finds Amaya, will Cade save her or kill her too?
I didn‘t like this one. It was too weird & awkward for me. I didn‘t like either of the characters & they didn‘t have any character arcs.
