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Wet Hot Allosaurus Summer
by Lola Faust
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Overall: ⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖
Feels: 🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Ummm it’s hilariously horrifying
Perspective: Third person perspective from the heroine
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: Yes 3 years
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through NetGalley
Should I read in order?
This is a stand alone novel.
Basic plot:
Tanis loves dinosaurs and can’t wait to escape the farm and her abusive father. Big Al can bring all her dreams to reality...
Give this a try if you want:
- a contemporary-ish/fantasy world where humans and dinos coexist
- dinosaur/human pairing
- shorter novel
- you’re okay with every content warning
- you can’t wait to read phrases like “Big Al’s cylinder of love” and “meaty sauna of his breath”
- medium to high steam – there’s plenty of scenes in a short novel but they are short, not developed and not as explicit as I thought they’d be
Ages:
- Heroine is 17/18
First line:
Tanis climbed onto the biggest barn to watch the dinosaurs.
My thoughts:
I had to try it. This one I regret.
I read it a week or so ago and just went back through to put my notes into review form and realized my brain desperately tried to protect itself and forgot so many details.
I am all for weird stuff but this one was too much for me. The amount of blood making and licking wasn’t sexy like it has been for me in other novels. The plot is like a run on story without closure on so many aspects. There was a ton of sex but none of it actually good. I didn’t care about either character. The writing just didn’t grab me.
BUT I can say I did it. And that deserves some kind of award. I have read 3 of her books now and I actually liked Dino Stud. Triceratops and Bottoms was worse than this one in some ways.
Cock/Hero Stats:
- Our hero is an allosaurus
- 8 feet tall with iridescent feathers
- eyes of a deep green ocean
- cheekbones carved from prehistorical cliffs
- feathers on his head coiffed in a sexy and hip honky-tonk curl
- all dinosaurs have a communication device that allows them to speak telepathically with their humans
Quotes/thoughts:
You know the stories about male writers writing heroines bouncing boobily down the stairs? This screams that to me...
Tanis’ body was tight and lean from seventeen years of working alongside her father and brothers on their farm. Had she grown up in the city around men who were not her family, she might’ve known she was beautiful. She’d inherited her mother’s generous breasts and backside, but hard labour had crystallized her curves, made them more severe and striking.
---
She repeated the name out lout and telepathically. Big Al. It was so beautiful to her. So simple.
Content warnings:
- physically abusive family/father
- gunshot wound (heroine’s father tries to shoot Big Al but misses and hits her shoulder)
- amputation – after her father shoots her arm, she lets the dinosaur eat it
- possible feelings of infidelity – Big Al takes Tanis to his dino pod with his other women and goes and humps one in the bushes and then Tanis also has fun with a female there
- harassment/abusive coworkers/attempted sexual assault
- dino boyfriend eating period blood
- slaughterhouse and taking remnants for your dino boyfriend to eat
- murder/death
THESE ARE WORTH READING
Author given content warnings: Dinosaurs, sex, dinosaur sex, ornithoscelidaphobia, fisting, vore, gore, pain, blood, sadism, masochism, captivity, camping, cults, candy, insects, arm trauma, shoulder trauma, amputation, interspecies sex, menstruation, brains, carnivorism, sexism, misogyny, speciesism, classism, ableism, abusive parent, abusive coworker, infidelity, pornography, fire, water, forests, farms, unorthadox use of personal lubricant, implicit and explicit threat of sexual assault, inaccurate dinosaur anatomy, accurate dinosaur anatomy, feathers, Canada, South Dakota, Wal-Mart, cornfields, cow-tipping, barns, pickup trucks, threat of police violence, guns, gunshot wounds, immigration paperwork, portable toilets, decapitation, taffy-pulling, animal slaughter, religion, PTSD, venture capital, vegetables.
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes: I might have missed some but this should give you an idea
Safe sex? NOTHING ABOUT THIS BOOK IS SAFE. NOTHING!!!
9% - Big Al licks her
13% - her on top sex
18% - dinosaur style sex
23% - fingering for Tanis from a woman at the dino pod, oral for Tanis, fisting that leads into a strange 3 some with a female allosaurus that gives Tanis oral while Tanis gives oral to another woman
37% - sex
54% - period oral for her
74% - sex
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖
Feels: 🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Ummm it’s hilariously horrifying
Perspective: Third person perspective from the heroine
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: Yes 3 years
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through NetGalley
Should I read in order?
This is a stand alone novel.
Basic plot:
Tanis loves dinosaurs and can’t wait to escape the farm and her abusive father. Big Al can bring all her dreams to reality...
Give this a try if you want:
- a contemporary-ish/fantasy world where humans and dinos coexist
- dinosaur/human pairing
- shorter novel
- you’re okay with every content warning
- you can’t wait to read phrases like “Big Al’s cylinder of love” and “meaty sauna of his breath”
- medium to high steam – there’s plenty of scenes in a short novel but they are short, not developed and not as explicit as I thought they’d be
Ages:
- Heroine is 17/18
First line:
Tanis climbed onto the biggest barn to watch the dinosaurs.
My thoughts:
I had to try it. This one I regret.
I read it a week or so ago and just went back through to put my notes into review form and realized my brain desperately tried to protect itself and forgot so many details.
I am all for weird stuff but this one was too much for me. The amount of blood making and licking wasn’t sexy like it has been for me in other novels. The plot is like a run on story without closure on so many aspects. There was a ton of sex but none of it actually good. I didn’t care about either character. The writing just didn’t grab me.
BUT I can say I did it. And that deserves some kind of award. I have read 3 of her books now and I actually liked Dino Stud. Triceratops and Bottoms was worse than this one in some ways.
Cock/Hero Stats:
- Our hero is an allosaurus
- 8 feet tall with iridescent feathers
- eyes of a deep green ocean
- cheekbones carved from prehistorical cliffs
- feathers on his head coiffed in a sexy and hip honky-tonk curl
- all dinosaurs have a communication device that allows them to speak telepathically with their humans
Quotes/thoughts:
You know the stories about male writers writing heroines bouncing boobily down the stairs? This screams that to me...
Tanis’ body was tight and lean from seventeen years of working alongside her father and brothers on their farm. Had she grown up in the city around men who were not her family, she might’ve known she was beautiful. She’d inherited her mother’s generous breasts and backside, but hard labour had crystallized her curves, made them more severe and striking.
---
She repeated the name out lout and telepathically. Big Al. It was so beautiful to her. So simple.
Content warnings:
- physically abusive family/father
- gunshot wound (heroine’s father tries to shoot Big Al but misses and hits her shoulder)
- amputation – after her father shoots her arm, she lets the dinosaur eat it
- possible feelings of infidelity – Big Al takes Tanis to his dino pod with his other women and goes and humps one in the bushes and then Tanis also has fun with a female there
- harassment/abusive coworkers/attempted sexual assault
- dino boyfriend eating period blood
- slaughterhouse and taking remnants for your dino boyfriend to eat
- murder/death
THESE ARE WORTH READING
Author given content warnings:
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes: I might have missed some but this should give you an idea
Safe sex? NOTHING ABOUT THIS BOOK IS SAFE. NOTHING!!!
9% - Big Al licks her
13% - her on top sex
18% - dinosaur style sex
23% - fingering for Tanis from a woman at the dino pod, oral for Tanis, fisting that leads into a strange 3 some with a female allosaurus that gives Tanis oral while Tanis gives oral to another woman
37% - sex
54% - period oral for her
74% - sex