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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
(Spoilers for the story, and for NSFW language, including profanity, descriptions of murder, incest, and extremely disgusting topics). I started this book at midnight on the same day as I watched the film adaptation. At midnight 24 hours later, I’d finished reading. This book was an unforgettable experience and weeks later, I still can’t stop…
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The Roommate by Rosie Danan
While I was greatly entertained by the over-the-top tropiness of this book, something wasn’t quite working for me here. My hunch is that this novel has been constructed around scene ideas rather than characters. It builds its chemistry by forcing two complete opposite types into proximity. The characterizations are, from page one, pushed to comic…
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Love Code by Ann Aguirre
This book kinda didn’t work for me as a whole. But let me first say that I have so much admiration for Ann Aguirre. She does so many things with her characters I appreciate. For one, this series is apparently based on erotic encounters involving aliens with non-human genitalia with precedents in the animal kingdom.…
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The Sex Life of Saint Augustine: Spiritual Ecstasy and Sierra Simone’s Priest
This is more of an heretical sermon on the novel than anything else! Beware of spoilers for the entire book. This essay starts off as a review of Priest, discusses an historical example of sexuality and salvation in Augustine’s confessions, contrasts that with the idea of sex as spiritual transcendence in the novel (along with…
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How to Belong with A Billionaire by Alexis Hall
Controversial opinion here, but I think Ardy 3 is actually my fave of the bunch. This is said with a small proviso. The ending scene, where Ardy intercepts the…semipublic humiliation of Caspian to bear his lashes with the cane kind of works only at a metaphorical level – since I don’t really buy it that…
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