Charlotte Stein doesn’t write predictable love stories, and Addicted is no exception. It resists easy classification. The book is erotic and introspective, crude in places but surprisingly gentle, and uninterested in tidying itself up for mainstream comfort. Kit Connor is a librarian and aspiring erotica writer with more imagination than experience. Her first draft is,…
NOTE: This review will contain spoilers from books one and two of the Vicious Lost Boys series and profane material quoted from the book. You’ve been warned. Imagine, if you will, that you’ve ordered the most luscious banana split sundae. The server brings it to you and you pick up your spoon, so excited to…
I gave The Never King, book one in this series a very ambivalent B- because 1) I was entertained and 2) I was compelled to read the next title to see what happened next. Alas, I am 1) no longer entertained and 2) so appalled by the rampant misogyny in The Dark One that I…
This book may quite possibly be the hardest one to grade in my career as a reviewer. Given the level of pure misogyny, the sex acts that I (me, myself and I) found very distasteful, and a screaming plot hole that kind of renders the whole book moot, The Never King should receive a flat…
Do you like a boss/employee taboo scenario that takes consent and power equality seriously? A hero who wants the heroine’s submission to come from a position of choice and strength, and to also make space for her own pleasure? Are you open to a ‘meet cute’ in a glory hole? Then Suzanne Clay’s Release may…
It’s that time of year. Snow’s falling, Christmas decorations have been up for months, and Cleis Press has released its annual compendium of erotica written by female-identified authors. This year’s umbrella theme is ‘play,’ which encompasses everything from playing an instrument to playing a game to watching some theatre. As always, the book encapsulates a…
Eris Adderly’s Bass-Ackwards is the sweetest book you’ll ever read that starts with the hero committing egregious workplace sexual harassment. A standout working-class erotic romance that starts out pushing consent boundaries and gradually works its way backwards to heartwarming, Bass-Ackwards is a kinky, cuddly contradiction that I enjoyed from start to finish – or maybe,…
Criminal Intentions by Cole McCade: Season One, Episode Two: Junk Shop Blues Narrated by Curt Bonnem I was completely hooked into Cole McCade’s long-running Criminal Intentions romantic suspense series by the time I’d reached the end of the first chapter of book one, so was chomping at the bit to get stuck into the next…
Criminal Intentions: Season One, Episode One: The Cardigans Narrated by Curt Bonnem For those unfamiliar with Cole McCade’s long-running Criminal Intentions series (and to explain the long-winded title!) the series was conceived as kind of a TV show in book format, with one book the equivalent of one episode in a twelve-thirteen episode season. There…
Katee Robert continues her exploration of Greek and Roman mythological tales with Electric Idol, which retells the story of Cupid (or Eros) and Psyche. While the world building is good and the romance well-paced, the tale misses out entirely on the best point of tension in the legend, making it something of a miss for…
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