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Last Courtesan of Olympus

Amanda Meuwissen

DID NOT FINISH: 21%

DNF @ 20%

The premise sounded fun and I anticipated it being primarily spice so that was fine too. 

I just could not deal with the author's overly flowery writing. It's like she was trying to come up with the most creative ways to describe the acts that she could think of and it ended up being clunky and weird. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every time, you know?

What a shame. 
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes


Another completely bingable YA Horror that I could not put down. I went into this pretty blind (other than knowing something about a camp setting) so I had no idea where this was going. And I was actually shocked by how graphic it got during some scenes.

That last chapter and then epilogue had me questioning everything but I love how it ended!

My only criticism is for the auduobook- I did not love the narration.

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RTC

 Do you see this cover??

Do you SEE the exasperation on Pyro's face as he's looking at that brat, Valentine?? It's perfect. 😘🤌🏻

Now, am I fully bought into the concept of dragon-santa? No. But I was vibing hard with these holiday monster babies.

Overall, it was cute (and spicy!) & now I have to go back and read the first book (because I didn't know it was a series.) 

I REALLY like these characters. Ladybug is a very sweet and relatable character and Anzan is mysterious and a total sweetheart. But I wish there was MORE time with them  interacting before they finally give into the sex pheromones. (It's only 75 pages so the pacing just felt a little slow.) 

But, I will say, I absolutely love how it's canon for spidery love interests to be bondage experts. It just makes sense.

So I picked it up for the sapphics and tentacles but to my very great surprise there were also werewolf knots and polyamory?! (I love when I apparently don't read the blurb very well.)

Anyways. Yeah. This was hella spicy and had all of the things:

✔️ FF, FM, FFM
✔️ Shadow tentacles 
✔️ Werewolf shifter
✔️ Chasing scene

It was just supposed to be horny but it ended up being horny and a little bit sad. 

MMF Headless Horseman erotica.