So I love to read a good romance.. and I love me some steamy scenes. I've picked up a few reddit recommendations from comment section in Erotica, and I couldn't get past the 20% mark. If I wanted a plot that didn't make any sense, and if it were just enough for the smut to be good, I would've gone for p*rn!
Surely, there must be good erotic books with decent writing — I just don't know where to find them.
Here's what I liked/disliked so far:
- I liked the steamy chapter 16 in Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis (to an extent) but the test of the book had me on my nerves.
- I loved the queer romance bits in One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and the plot was good too (it didn't make me want to DNF it)
- I haven't read the Fifty Shades series, but the movie Fifty Shades Darker entertained me well because I liked the dialogue. I've watched the film at least three times.
- I liked The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (it was 3 years ago so my tastes might have changed since, but it was okay)
- I tried to read Bully by Penelope Douglas but I stopped in the first few chapters because there was something about the writing that put me off. (Can't remember what it was because it's been too long)
- I read Addicted by Zane from start of finish, I kinda liked the steamy bits but the plot was not good at all, it had SO many flaws and had me rolling my eyes at the page so so often, but there was some mystery so I just kept going
- I read Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover and was okay with it (I think I even liked it) but that was 6 whole years ago so I think my tolerance for not-good writing has decreased since then.
- I am reading Cruel Idols by Sorcha Black, I'm at 11% and so far there's no smut but there's no substance either. The plot is quite full of holes already and I peeked into some GoodReads reviews which have me convinced that the book isn't for me.
So… do you think you could recommend something? 🙁
by saime9hana