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lyricalagony:

My favorite erotica novel comes in a deluxe edition now! (And I’m actually mentioned, in the acknowledgements and some bonus material, [not under this name], which is kind of incredibly awesome).

This isn’t properly my kink (it’s MC as in mind control), though there’s elements where this kink and mine overlap, and it does feature one of those most-arousing-scene-I’ve-ever-read.

Outside of arousing things, it’s also a very well plotted and written story with an interesting setting/premise and great characters (and lots of awesome female characters!).

But it’s also very much my own writing aspirations made real – it’s a proper sci-fi novel, plot and characters and everything, but with the kink absolutely integral and throughout. And it comes from an adolescent fantasy the author carried with her for years. 

My kink things + actual story is the format my own stories have pretty much always taken, and putting them into full writing is a major dream of mine.

So it’s pretty amazing to see someone who’s done it, and done it so incredibly well.

In between reading this post and reblogging it, I read the book. How much I liked it depends on what standard I’m using.

As erotica, I was disappointed, though not surprised. This kink’s a pretty big umbrella, after all. (Probably all kinks are, if you look closely enough.) Ask five people what the appeal is and you’ll get six answers. If someone’s approaching it from a different angle than you do, sometimes it’ll work out anyway, but often you get…well, you get Sleepwalkers: something that repeatedly skirts the edge of being hot, but never quite makes it. It’s also too heavy on the genitals for my liking, but then to me “too heavy on the genitals” means “any genitals at all”. (Do you have any idea how hard it is to find good porn when you’re turned off by genitals? After a while, you just give up and learn the art of skimming.)

However, as a story I really enjoyed it. I haven’t read anything that page-turny in ages. (I pretty much devoted the entirety of Wednesday to it. Every waking moment that I wasn’t doing schoolwork (with difficulty) or cooking dinner, I was reading the book.)

All in all, totally worth four dollars.

(I even got to know before spending the four dollars that it was going to be worth it, thanks to the “read first 20% for free” option. I don’t have a whole lot of spending money, so that was very helpful for my peace of mind.)

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#sexuality and lack thereof #NSFW #Possible TMI #recs

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