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Surrendering to Scylla
by Wren K. Morris
This book actually made me cry. I came in expecting tentacle hentai, and I got in-depth psychological analysis of fear, worry, helplessness, inability to trust and be vulnerable after a trauma, low self-worth and how we try to "earn" love when we don't feel worthy, and also some social commentary on who writes history, who is called a monster, how people who try to make the best out of their worst fate are still blamed for not being good enough, who gets a chance for redemption... It was extremely emotional and heart-rending.
This book is probably 10% plot, 10% sex, 80% internal monologue of the characters, and yet it held my attention from the beginning to the end, which is an astounding feat because I often get easily bored by low-plot novels.
And also, romance.io baited me. Why do they rank it as spice lvl 5, there are only 3 sex scenes. One at start of act 2, one before the climax and one in the ending. Is it because of the tentacles? I'm sick and tired of people's double standard, when I'm going through multiple books containing thinly veiled kink like maledom, primal play, praise kink, knotting, making the woman beg, weird alien male organs, dubcon, that's "vanilla", but when the woman is the dominant it's immediately rated as higher spice. It's the same in queer books, f/f is less spicy than m/m on average and harsher rated.
This is a very underappreciated book, judging by the low number of ratings, I wish this doesn't discourage the author from writing more, it's so hard to find full length romantasy novels with dominant women.
The editing was okay. There was maybe couple of typos but it was much better than your average self-pub, and the prose was intentional and evocative.
5 glowing stars! If you liked His Secret Illuminations by Scarlett Gale, Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh or The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian, you'll probably enjoy this one.
This book is probably 10% plot, 10% sex, 80% internal monologue of the characters, and yet it held my attention from the beginning to the end, which is an astounding feat because I often get easily bored by low-plot novels.
And also, romance.io baited me. Why do they rank it as spice lvl 5, there are only 3 sex scenes. One at start of act 2, one before the climax and one in the ending. Is it because of the tentacles? I'm sick and tired of people's double standard, when I'm going through multiple books containing thinly veiled kink like maledom, primal play, praise kink, knotting, making the woman beg, weird alien male organs, dubcon, that's "vanilla", but when the woman is the dominant it's immediately rated as higher spice. It's the same in queer books, f/f is less spicy than m/m on average and harsher rated.
This is a very underappreciated book, judging by the low number of ratings, I wish this doesn't discourage the author from writing more, it's so hard to find full length romantasy novels with dominant women.
The editing was okay. There was maybe couple of typos but it was much better than your average self-pub, and the prose was intentional and evocative.
5 glowing stars! If you liked His Secret Illuminations by Scarlett Gale, Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh or The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian, you'll probably enjoy this one.