Play Book Tag discussion

NancyJ wrote: "Am I the only one who cringes just as much when looking at sexualized covers with half naked men as with half naked women? I swear I’m not a prude, but I feel embarrassed for anyone who is objectif..."

Is it objectifying or erotica? Or fantasy art? To me the covers are no different than admiring a stranger's beautiful perfect ------ [fill in body part of choice]. That includes women you admire for being beautifully turned out and thus fully clothed.

It's not like they have no relation to the product being sold.

Most of them look silly as Robin says. Others feed fantasy same as the stories do. I see no problem with that.

There are however those who judge someone negatively for reading books with covers like that. Hence the ancient practice of using the 'brown paper cover or wrapper'. Now we can all read ebooks and nobody knows. It is thus your guilty pleasure.

My husband is laughing at me too. He just found a book cover with a male who is wearing a shirt with no pants. 🤣😁

Robin P wrote: "You can have Mods approve new members, but if it is the same person, she must be using different names, which is weird. Good thing there weren't any team games that she could get on at this point..."

Mods here do approve but as I tell coop boards reviewing applications and also interviewing someone in person, anyone can seem perfectly fine on paper and for 15 minutes in person, yet turn out to be a horror. Have had more than one coop experience that.

Theresa wrote: "Robin P wrote: "You can have Mods approve new members, but if it is the same person, she must be using different names, which is weird. Good thing there weren't any team games that she could get on..."

Yes, I hired people like that, they were great in the interview and in the first few days, then they kept being late, or they said they weren't good at handling stress. We specifically explained that the job (taking calls in the telephone repair department) was often stressful, with many calls in queue, demanding customers, etc.

“The sensation was like a song she could feel with her eyes”

This was a new one for me - I had to rewind I was laughing so hard.

Oh that’s a keeper, Sue!

I really wouldn’t make a big deal about it. It’s just a curious situation, not a scam. There was no harm done. If it’s a troll, they thrive on the chaos. If it’s an illness, it won’t help to attract more attention to it.

Sue wrote: "“The sensation was like a song she could feel with her eyes”

This was a new one for me - I had to rewind I was laughing so hard."

Oooh, that sounds like a very interesting form of Synesthesia.
Where did you see that ?

NancyJ wrote: "Sue wrote: "“The sensation was like a song she could feel with her eyes”

This was a new one for me - I had to rewind I was laughing so hard."

Oooh, that sounds like a very interesting form of Syn..."

It would be more interesting if this were any sort of serious book. Nope - just some of the over-the-top lurid prose in my Fall Into Smut book.

We should have a thread where we post the most "inventive" descriptions of attraction / orgasm / etc ...

For example (from my review of Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
Loved these descriptions:
”August’s climax was like reaching land after parachuting at night into the ocean.”

And perhaps the best (or at least most entertaining) metaphor I’ve ever encountered:
”She rode on a rainbow unicorn over the Milky Way and waved at an astronaut.”

Book Concierge wrote: "We should have a thread where we post the most "inventive" descriptions of attraction / orgasm / etc ...

For example (from my review of Unfortunately Yours by [author:Tessa Bailey|..."

🤣🤣🤣

Book Concierge wrote: "We should have a thread where we post the most "inventive" descriptions of attraction / orgasm / etc ...

For example (from my review of Unfortunately Yours by [author:Tessa Bailey|..."

These are both killing me! 🤣🤣🤣

I love the euphemisms - so much better than the recent trend towards calling everything by its clinically correct name. I'm not here for a trip to the GYN after all.

I just started listening to Dair Devil - I have this cover which is very restrained. The very first scene has 4 men taking their pants off. The idea is that they are dressing as "Red Indians" to break into someone's house, unclear yet if it is a prank, some kind of revenge or an investigation. But there is a remarkable amount of time and detail spent on donning the "breechcloths". There is a mention of how hairy the hero is, apparently he hasn't had the "manscaping" of those cover models.

Robin P wrote: "I just started listening to Dair Devil - I have this cover which is very restrained. The very first scene has 4 men taking their pants off. The idea ..."

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My library has Ice Planet Barbarians so I'm going for it for my first fall into smut read.

Rachel N. wrote: "My library has Ice Planet Barbarians so I'm going for it for my first fall into smut read."

I read my first one this year -- the month we had fantasy romance tag. It was actually really enjoyable, not just smutty. So glad you are going for it, Rachel!

Theresa wrote: "Robin P wrote: "I just started listening to Dair Devil - I have this cover which is very restrained. The very first scene has 4 men taking their pant..."

The heroine also notices that he has big feet!

Big feet? Hubby wears a size 15!

Book Concierge wrote: "We should have a thread where we post the most "inventive" descriptions of attraction / orgasm / etc ...

For example (from my review of Unfortunately Yours by [author:Tessa Bailey|..."

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I am starting off my Smut Fest with this -
Angel in a Devil's Arms by Julie Anne Long. Though why our heroine is fully dressed is beyond me! 2nd in a series and I did enjoy the first.

And early on I encountered this:

That grin stole her breath. It spread in her chest and heated her veins like a bolted liqueur. No doubt petticoats slid to ankles of their own accord when he deployed that smile, much the way snakes are said to undulate from baskets when a charmer blows a flute.

Clearly 'petticoats-slid-to-ankles' is 'panties-go-poof' in trashy 19th century historical romances.

😅😅😅 I still love the PgoP tag so much-we should use it when applicable for any book here!

Any chance you think we can get Cindy to add it to PBT's library?

I sort of had the idea that because I got so hot with the Ex Talk, that maybe her other book Business and Pleasure would give me the same pleasure that the first did. And it fits the Hollywood Tag which is on my intended Steeplechase track. Yes, I have planned that far ahead... But if its going to be hot, it better be audible, which isn't good for my Steeplechase movement. What ever is a girl to do. I have to await the right smut to come around for me. Maybe it will be a surprise.

Amy wrote: "I sort of had the idea that because I got so hot with the Ex Talk, that maybe her other book Business and Pleasure would give me the same pleasure that the first did. And it fits the Hollywood Tag ..."

Clearly you need to spend some quality time perusing and sampling the options that appeal to you!

Finished one. The Reluctant Alpha

No. Just no.

It actually had the core of a story (gasp 😱). And the hint of some decent characters, tormented and thoroughly ripped hero wolf shapeshifter and all. But SOOOOOO badly written. Horrible dialogue - including liberal use of the F bomb, which doesn’t usually bother me, but it was used so weirdly here. When it did finally get round to the *ahem* smut, I wasn’t even in a ‘finding it funny’ mood. And it ends on a cliffhanger.

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So you aren't reading the next in series?

The one I'm reading has plenty of funny great dialogue, and we are still working up to the real smut. The hero's revenge plot is typical of the genre but there is so much fun, and some great characters.

You just aren't good at picking your smut and trashy romance reads, Katrine. That's what I have concluded.

I'm not sure if I will find something for this, but I have a possibility.

Our nightly dinner ritual is watching Jeopardy and last night (which is actually Monday's episode because we watch a day late) there was a young woman on who was an author, Dana Schwartz. She said she had visited Edinburgh and fell in love with it so she wrote a novel about a medical student and corpses. It sounded perfect for Fall Flurries and I thought it might fit here.

I love the cover although it doesn't look to smutty. Anatomy: A Love Story

Booknblues wrote: "I'm not sure if I will find something for this, but I have a possibility.

Our nightly dinner ritual is watching Jeopardy and last night (which is actually Monday's episode because we watch a day l..."

Sounds great and rather fun but not necessarily smutty - it's tagged YA and also a Reese's book blub pick. I certainly have found some of Reese's picks trashy reads - one of the things I love about her picks is that she is a true diverse reader and a book can just be a fun read for her to recommend, not have some more serious theme or message.

You'll just have to read it and report back to us!

@KateNZ - I know you love J.D. Robb - have you read any of her books as Nora Roberts? Not the ones from her early years in the 80s and 90s - but any of the more recent, written and published in the 2000s. You like her writing in paranormal detective police procedurals, you might just like her romance novels, mostly contemporary and a few paranormal. Personally I really liked the Inn at Boonesboro ones which revolved around restoring an inn and the Bride Quartet - featuring 4 friends running a wedding planning business. There's another series or two featuring paranormal that I've not read.

A very few but I think they are the earlier ones. The Inn at Boonsborough ones are on my TBR though.

I finished my first Fall Into Smut book: Dark Ghost

My Review

Nice level of euphasism for me - very steamy, but still a little left to the imagination.

Finished Angel in a Devil's Arms, my first Fall Into Smut read.

My Review

It's an entertaining historical romance set during the late Georgian Era, with colorful characters, amusing and witty dialogue, and yes, meager plots that revolve around emotions more than action. I think it could have used a tad bit more smut but there is plenty of romance even before it gets steamy.

The current Audible sale features several books, not all the same series, that seem to be based on role-playing games. Apparently they are oriented toward men, because the covers feature women with HUGE breasts, like almost anatomically impossible. I guess that's only fair when we have covers of supposedly Regency men with beautifully tanned Mr. Universe-style abs.

I don’t know if this is smutty enough (it’s not). I mean look at this cover. The book was set in Ireland which is always a plus for me.


It’s no Ice Planet Barbarians, or Vorge Crew.

I finished the deliciously smutty Lover Eternal. Who doesn't love a story featuring super sexy vampires! It was a 4 Star read with 5 Smutty Stars.

My Review

Love seeing all these romances - smutty or not!

I have one to read that also fits October Flurries -- and I plan to start it in a day or two. After the last week and half of work, plus the next day or two, I will need it!

On to my next smutty romance. Disappointing...... There was some smuttiness but not until 75% into the book. I found it odd that the cover showed a guy with no tattoos.....not your usual cover for a motorcycle romance. Versions of "Fuck" were used 418 times but not much was actually going on.


Accidentally Yours - Mallory Funk - 2 Stars

My Review - My Review

I am getting antsy waiting for my cowboy book, so I found one to read while I wait



Can't wait to get into it tonight!

You are all expanding my TBR! I need to get reading!

Ok, ya'll are a bad influence on me 😅😉

Started Too Dangerous to Desire last night and....

never picked up another book. Nearly half through with it. There is a plot (surprised?), the writing could be better, but all in all I will probably finish it sooner rather than later. And my cowboy books has arrived!!

Lady Derring Takes a Lover - 3.5 stars

A much more positive contribution to ‘Fall Into Smut’ than my last one!

Widowed Lady Derring finds her late fairly unlamented husband has left a mountain of debts and that she has absolutely nothing to support her. Plus, he had a mistress. The latter proves fortuitous though - the two women get on surprisingly well and hatch a mutually beneficial scheme to work together running a boarding house … with a difference (not of the salacious kind).

This was a lot of fun. Yes the plot involving the smugglers is pretty daft but at least it gave a decent background for the characters. Some fun dialogue, a heroine who discovers just how feisty she can be, a hero who discovers he is less cold than he thought, and some entertaining secondary characters. Some steamy scenes - which you’d expect from the title - but nothing ridiculously over the top.

Having a widow as a heroine allows for more equal sexual history of the couple. There are too many virgins in these books who have a thrilling and painless experience their first time. ( of course, it might be because the heroes are superhuman lovers.)

Olivermagnus wrote: "Versions of "Fuck" were used 418 times but not much was actually going on."

Oh my God! I almost just choked on my water reading this comment. I'm dying laughing 😂😂😂😂.

KateNZ wrote: "Lady Derring Takes a Lover - 3.5 stars

A much more positive contribution to ‘Fall Into Smut’ than my last one!

Widowed Lady Derring finds her late fairly unlamented husband has le..."

I loved this when I stumbled on it some months ago Just enjoyed the 2nd -- there is much that is appealing that let you overlook certain weak plot points like the smuggling one. In fact that plot was bad in a way that was rather funny, like slapstick.

I agree! Just finishing something else then will pick the second one up for light relief!

Apparently I read more smut than some of you. I recently read The Ex Talk which was much steamier than I expected. Plus a really cute storyline. If you like contemporary romance, take a chance on this one.
The Ex Talk - Rachel Lynn Solomon - 4 Stars
Review

I'm contining my reread of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. This one features one of the scariest brothers, Zsadist. But he has an incredibly sad backstory that will break your heart. If you are a fan of vampire romance (and I realize not everyone is), why are you not reading this series?
Lover Awakened - J.R. Ward - 4 Stars
Review

Lynda - I think its fair to say you read more than most of us for any given genre!

Totally steamy as promised. I’m fanning myself thinking about it!

I found this on my library free book shelf . I hope to get to it by Halloween, not sure how smutty it will be, but it is a Silhouette Desire book.

He is wearing an eye patch-works for me!😅