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Make no mistake; this book should definitely be shelved as smut (neutral descriptive use of the word, not negative). The author's writing is descriptive and evocative, not just in the spicy bits, but in the imagery and characterization that work to give the story its angst, like a black, white, and gray color palette with pops of bright color.
I'm personally not completely sold on Mark, and I'm suspicious about his supposedly redeeming qualities. I can't get over my instinct that he is a shark and master manipulator, and not just in the bedroom, but I can see why people, fictional characters and IRL readers, are drawn to him.
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I appreciated how good of a job Sierra Simone does in writing a retelling of Tristan & Isolde, especially because I found it so uncompelling when I read it in college. Simone crafts an erotic thriller retelling of it that made me more aware of the ways in which classics are classic because they capture timeless themes like, love, lust, pain, shame, duty, care, rejection, the taboo, and all the gradations and overlap among them.
I'm personally not completely sold on Mark, and I'm suspicious about his supposedly redeeming qualities. I can't get over my instinct that he is a shark and master manipulator, and not just in the bedroom, but I can see why people, fictional characters and IRL readers, are drawn to him.
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I appreciated how good of a job Sierra Simone does in writing a retelling of Tristan & Isolde, especially because I found it so uncompelling when I read it in college. Simone crafts an erotic thriller retelling of it that made me more aware of the ways in which classics are classic because they capture timeless themes like, love, lust, pain, shame, duty, care, rejection, the taboo, and all the gradations and overlap among them.