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ratcreature) wrote2021-06-30 04:38 pm
ratcreature) wrote2021-06-30 04:38 pm
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Wednesday Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading
I finished Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles, the third in the Will Darling Adventures series, and enjoyed it as much as the previous two.
I also read Not Safe For Work by L.A. Witt, a BSDM m/m romance that was a freebie, and I had hoped would deliver what it said on the tin, but it really didn't have a lot of kink in it, but was mostly workplace outing and angst (one is an important client for the firm the other works at) that was both boring and somewhat contrived. A little bondage with quick release handcuffs, a cock cage, one semi-public mild rope bondage scene at a party (that got aborted) and one scene with hot wax was about the extent of the BDSM, aside from elaborate extra safe word negotiations that seemed ridiculous overkill for the kind of sex they were having. I know this list sounds like at least a decent amount of sex, but this book was not short, over 104k words.
Wait, actually there was a fucking machine contraption with a dildo too, but it somehow was made so boring that I already almost forgot about it. I tend to enjoy that kind of thing if conveys some objectification feelings or something, but this was merely mechanical. The whole power exchange that supposedly was taking place was not really felt in the POV, and it was all very rote and just a pile of stuff being used. It never actually felt like reading D/s sex scenes, though part of it was that we remained only in one POV (the Dom's). Normally I enjoy orgasm denial quite a lot in fiction too, but t never actually got into the head of the character wearing the toy. Well, at least I didn't pay anything for this.
I also read the two LitenVerse novellas by Nino Cipri, Finna and Defekt. Those were both fun with an kind of Evil!IKEA type corporation that somehow manages to generate interdimensional portals (somewhat by accident) through an extra confusing store layout and to exploit them for corporate storage and production advantages, while the unintentional side effects are borne by low wage employees who have to recover lost customers and deal with sentient furniture. The whole setup is more surrealist and metaphor than consistent intricate worldbuilding, but a lot of the individual elements are fun and very vivid. I liked the second novella about a corporate clone discovering his identity more than the first, though both were quick, entertaining reads.
What I'm Reading Now
I haven't started anything new yet, though I didn't finish that military romance from last week either, so I guess technically still that?
What I'm Reading Next
No idea.
I finished Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles, the third in the Will Darling Adventures series, and enjoyed it as much as the previous two.
I also read Not Safe For Work by L.A. Witt, a BSDM m/m romance that was a freebie, and I had hoped would deliver what it said on the tin, but it really didn't have a lot of kink in it, but was mostly workplace outing and angst (one is an important client for the firm the other works at) that was both boring and somewhat contrived. A little bondage with quick release handcuffs, a cock cage, one semi-public mild rope bondage scene at a party (that got aborted) and one scene with hot wax was about the extent of the BDSM, aside from elaborate extra safe word negotiations that seemed ridiculous overkill for the kind of sex they were having. I know this list sounds like at least a decent amount of sex, but this book was not short, over 104k words.
Wait, actually there was a fucking machine contraption with a dildo too, but it somehow was made so boring that I already almost forgot about it. I tend to enjoy that kind of thing if conveys some objectification feelings or something, but this was merely mechanical. The whole power exchange that supposedly was taking place was not really felt in the POV, and it was all very rote and just a pile of stuff being used. It never actually felt like reading D/s sex scenes, though part of it was that we remained only in one POV (the Dom's). Normally I enjoy orgasm denial quite a lot in fiction too, but t never actually got into the head of the character wearing the toy. Well, at least I didn't pay anything for this.
I also read the two LitenVerse novellas by Nino Cipri, Finna and Defekt. Those were both fun with an kind of Evil!IKEA type corporation that somehow manages to generate interdimensional portals (somewhat by accident) through an extra confusing store layout and to exploit them for corporate storage and production advantages, while the unintentional side effects are borne by low wage employees who have to recover lost customers and deal with sentient furniture. The whole setup is more surrealist and metaphor than consistent intricate worldbuilding, but a lot of the individual elements are fun and very vivid. I liked the second novella about a corporate clone discovering his identity more than the first, though both were quick, entertaining reads.
What I'm Reading Now
I haven't started anything new yet, though I didn't finish that military romance from last week either, so I guess technically still that?
What I'm Reading Next
No idea.