This was a request, but unfortunately I have lost the screenshot of the message where the users name was so please dearie if you read this, send me a pm and I’ll tag you! ❤️
The request was for a monster boyfriend falling for a tall curvy reader.
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They descended on Earth one summer day, causing panic and
confusion. Their fleets hovered above cities for days until the first
contact found place. Their race called themselves Aldeans, and humans
learned very quickly that there was nothing to fear from them.
Their home planet was destroyed after their sun imploded, and for
generations, they’ve searched the vast universe for a new home,
that would be as hospitable as their previous one, and as they
arrived on Earth, they signed a treaty with humans, allowing them to
build their cities in exchange for their technology and knowledge.
Months passed and they integrated so well into the human society
that after a while they started to leave their advanced, isolated
cities to live among humans. You saw them every day since they
started showing up on the streets. First they started working at
schools, that hired some of them as teachers, to start educating
human youth about other planets and species, about their customs and
origin. It eased the transition and helped humans to accept them much
faster. They worked with humans, formed friendships, and after a
while, some of them found mates on Earth, which maybe wasn’t at
first something everyone felt ok about, but with time It wasn’t
uncommon to spot a interspecies couple on the street and after a
while everyone just stopped staring at them.
The cover doesn’t really do it justice. It’s dark. It’s got depth. It takes its time building the plot so when things really get moving you care what happens to the characters.
It really is dark. It’s got violence, references to rape. People get attacked and assaulted. It’s not fluff, but it’s so good.
This book was so intense, it literally gutted me and I LOVED IT! It was also recommended by @fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains and I’m so glad I’ve read it.
But seriously, this book is really dark, it had me crying a few times so be prepared to suffer!
Hey guys, they’ve also wrote a book called The Last Hour of Gann. It’s one of my favorite books of all time! It’s about a plus size woman on a pilgrimage with a badass religious lizard man and a bunch of incompetent human assholes. She writes some of the best character you will Fuckingloathe. The main character Amber is my spirit animal and her lizardman Meoraq does not put up with human’s bullshit. Plus, it’s HELLA long. You have time to get super invested in all the characters. I love it.
However, I need to warn that if anyone has suffered from sexual abuse they may want to skip this read. It’s well written, but there is an entire chapter that will trigger some people. Smith’s books are always VERY dark and not for the faint of heart. That chapter is very uncomfortable, but if you can get past it then please give this book a chance.
I was kind of looking at The Last Hour of Gann(Which is over 1,000 pages) and also Heat* (about 600 pages). Both are by R. Lee Smith. All the books by this author look somewhat heavy, and like they deal with darker themes; the shittier sides of humanity, rape, torture, and brutal deaths, so honestly if you want happy fluff please steer clear.
As one person described it in their reviews; “If you’re used to reading romance, it’s going to be really dark. If you’re used to reading horror, it’s about average.”
*Heat gets its own disclaimer as being extra dark even on the scale of this author. One of the main characters is an evil sadist. Tread carefully.
I can absolutely confirm everthing that’s been said about this author. I’ve read three books by R. Lee Smith so far and I have to say that there are hardly any writers out there that got me invested that much in their characters. The plot, the descriptions, the world building, actually everything is unbelievably good.
Imagine my surprise when I started The Last Hour of Gann for the space lizard-man alien erotica but got so much more. But yeah, it left me emotionally drained. The themes and descriptions are VERY intense.
Cottonwood was a light fun read in comparison. Although this still might not be the the book for you if you are easily triggered.
Unfortunately this one fell a bit flat for me in comparison to the two other books. The writing is still top notch, I simply wasn’t overly invested in the main characters. The male main character has a harem (yes, yes he’s lonely and tortured and a man’s gotta cope…) and the heroine is a mix between a “sacrifice everything for the cause” and a “stand by your man” type. I’m into neither of those things. Still, great writing, far above the average fare within this genre (or any genre, actually). Don’t let my personal taste deter you from reading! 😉
For centuries, there has been a legend of a hidden school where magic is taught by the demons who dwell there to anyone who seeks them out, but they ask a terrible price: Anyone who reaches the door of the Scholomance may enter, but the Devil takes every tenth student who tries to leave.
A hidden school. Demonic masters. An inescapable fate for one out of every ten graduates. But Connie would do anything to have the magic her best friend was born with.
And Mara would do anything to get Connie back.
X-rated Harry Potter but with a female protagonist and demon sex? Yes, please!!!
As far as I could glean from the reviews on Goodreads this might feature a love triangle, a trope which I normally loathe (unless it ends in a three-way, then it’s fine). But if there’s one author I’d trust with the execution of a love triangle it’s R. Lee Smith.
Alien genitalia has always been a popular topic in Star Trek fandom. People have speculated for decades about Vulcan genitals, and Star Trek: Discovery just confirmed a popular theory about Klingon schlongs. Namely, they have two of them:
… I don’t know whether I want to die laughing, or be turned on, or what…
😂😂😂
Considering Klingon physiology in established canon – there’s an
episode of Next Gen that deals with Worf’s two spines and a mention in
Voyager of half Klingon B’Elanna having two stomachs and multiple mentions
of Klingons have two of just about every organ in redundancy – no one
should have been surprised that the Klingon Males have two penises.
By that logic, Klingon women should have two vaginas/clitorises/wombs
I see your Klingon double penis and raise you one (1) Odo.
also me: ah, but why stick with angel monsters when you can ALSO read alien elf erotica
Oh mY the author is on tumblr! This explains the very vivid descriptions of very specific genitals. Also angsty pretty boys. And somewhat heavy handed handwringing over power dynamics and consent. Like I love how this erotica is trying to be more than erotica, and informed, but if they both wanna fuck and it’s clearly telegraphed as consensual just let em fuck mate. They don’t gotta be politically correct about it when there’s nothing to be politically correct over? This book is full of knotting and alien peen that looks like a tentacled lotus plant, so it don’t have to be that deep
me: *sees a novel where a woman sleeps with a kraken*
me, with a hundred unread samples already on her kinkle, pointing to the shelf: I want that one
HNNNNG. So after being coy and finishing this book in less than a day I’m gonna have to recommend it with some (fairly) large caveats, because even though I’ve got quibbles I really enjoyed it and think it deserves to be read:
Genres: Erotica/Alien kink Read it if you like: knotting, extremely graphic descriptions of VERY creative alien peen, captivity scenarios, tsundere alien princes, soft boys, actual feels, very passionate/loving romances that transcend species and differing genitalia, actual emotional character development in your erotica Warnings: Rape/Attempted Rape (not by the love interest to the protag, though, thank god–he’s good) Things I loved: The book tried to be more than erotica, which was really cool? Like I went into it thinking it would be alien kink junk food, but it actually was really thoughtful and self-aware in its depictions of gender, gender fluidity, power imbalances and depression. The alien prince is great. The pacing is great and the sex is hot. Things I wasn’t too hot on/the caveats: The subtext/philosophical discussions were heavy-handed af and kinda clumsy. As you can see from my complaints above there were points where the author seemed tortured by the current zeitgeist of fictional hand-wringing that we see on tumblr, and it detracted from the story. There was some real shoe-horned death and the maiden stuff at the end that also felt out of place, and the protag–Lydia–really has no character development at all, whether its internal or external. I felt like I was reading about a blank piece of paper designed to reflect the prince’s emotional state–like it was reader x alien–and I’m not a fan of self insert. I’m annoyed at the rape/attempted rape and the subtext surrounding it.
ANYWAYS, IT’S STILL A V GOOD READ. Very quick, only took me a couple hours.
Great review!
For more books with strange, unusual and monstrous love interests take a look at this list:
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