A review by lurker_stalker
The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

3.0

Contemplated quitting a few times but stuck it out and ended up mostly liking it. One of the biggest things that kept pulling me out of the story was the language used during the sex scenes. I don't read a lot of erotica - well, hardly any at all really - but I totally expect to see words like "fuck" and "pussy" and "cunt" in works of erotica. Because in the right context, they can be hot. I get that. In a romance story, I don't expect to be hit with so many "fuck me" uses and definitely no "cunt" uses.

I also understand that there's a power in reclaiming these words. I get that. But in the context of all the sex scenes in a romance, not erotica, book, it didn't work for me.

I did have other issues with book but they didn't pull me out of the story like the language did.