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The Limits of a Good Metaphor

King of Immortal Tithe by Ben Alderson

July 22, 2023 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Listen: it’s fundamentally really tricky to pull off a romance when the premise for their connection is that this is the ONLY person who can physically touch you and not die. Our basics here are fairly simple: our ingenue protagonist is abducted in a kind of marriage trade to a fae prince whose touch drains people’s life force, causing instant death. Except it doesn’t work on our hero. Possibly because he’s already dying. And that creates an instant connection. But that premise only goes so far, right? […]

How to Bang Your Dragon (Without Necessarily Knowing Her Personally!)

Treasured by Poppy Woods

July 21, 2023 by Sarah 4 Comments

Listen: if you want to bang the dragon that sorta kinda grave-robbed your mother, go for it. Have fun! Dragons are sexy! But if you want to decide that the dragon that sorta kinda grave-robbed your mother is now the LOVE of your LIFE, you probably need to have a little more going for your relationship than that she’s: 1) hot And 2) here. Don’t get me wrong: the sex is good. Aside from a somewhat creepy start to the first sex scene, the sex […]

There is Such a Thing as Having TOO MUCH of a Type!

Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson

July 20, 2023 by Sarah 2 Comments

Okay, so, full disclosure: I’m trying to burn through my Kindle Unlimited backlog list, because I’m cancelling my subscription next month, because I hate a price hike. (The new fees system also charges readers more to pay authors less, which is corporate greed at its finest. But, theoretically, this review isn’t supposed to be my Rant About the Evils of Capitalism, but I digress). Lord of Eternal Night is your typical monster-y romance: ingenue protagonist gets sacrificed to the monster, finds out they’re not so monsterous after all, […]

WHAT in the VICTIM-BLAMEY BULLSHIT

A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne

July 9, 2023 by Sarah 4 Comments

WHAT in the VICTIM-BLAMEY BULLSHIT did I JUST READ??? Okay, listen, I’m on board with the consensual monster-fucking. No question. I will read ten bajillion versions of the same basic Beauty & the Beast plot where we literally or metaphorically marry the creepy creature, and then discover that that there is actually a soulmate. Great! Gets me every time! I am even fully down for the variations where the monster love interest has totally non-human anatomy – it requires authorial creativity that I enjoy, and […]

The Question of Soulmates

Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

July 8, 2023 by Sarah 9 Comments

The thing about Wolfsong is that it’s a keen example of the best thing about paranormal romance as a genre: it’s a way to explore a deep corner of human nature by coming at it sideways, through a fantasy concept that magnifies the details. This one, in particular, is about what it might mean to have a soulmate. People give this book some flak for the age gap – and I see that, and it didn’t need to be quite this wide, but I can […]

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