Ricky
A hellhound falls in love with his neighbor, a writer of supernatural novels. It's actually pretty readable despite a worldview I would describe as muddled at best. The hellhound is sort of like Dexter in a world where all of the villains are involved in the sex trafficking of moral panic. Then there's a lot of weird stuff I assume is probably grounded in Omegaverse tropes. As much as I think of myself as someone who is entertained by transgression, interspecies intimacy is one kind of transgression that largely just makes me uncomfortable. I kept wondering if the author was a sexual assault survivor or if she just consumes a lot of material that creates the sense of a world that is consistent with whatever moral panic is the current rage. An author's unresolved personal issues bleeding all over the page can be an uncomfortable thing for me. Sometimes it can be compelling, but it often just makes me uncomfortable. Another thing that makes me uncomfortable is that way the female authors of this genre often seem to fetishize possessiveness and protective violence. It's definitely one of those things on my list of things in an MM romance that makes me feel like the book was written by and for women. I'm sure some gay men like that sort of thing, but it feels weird and heteronormative to me.
A hellhound falls in love with his neighbor, a writer of supernatural novels. It's actually pretty readable despite a worldview I would describe as muddled at best. The hellhound is sort of like Dexter in a world where all of the villains are involved in the sex trafficking of moral panic. Then there's a lot of weird stuff I assume is probably grounded in Omegaverse tropes. As much as I think of myself as someone who is entertained by transgression, interspecies intimacy is one kind of transgression that largely just makes me uncomfortable. I kept wondering if the author was a sexual assault survivor or if she just consumes a lot of material that creates the sense of a world that is consistent with whatever moral panic is the current rage. An author's unresolved personal issues bleeding all over the page can be an uncomfortable thing for me. Sometimes it can be compelling, but it often just makes me uncomfortable. Another thing that makes me uncomfortable is that way the female authors of this genre often seem to fetishize possessiveness and protective violence. It's definitely one of those things on my list of things in an MM romance that makes me feel like the book was written by and for women. I'm sure some gay men like that sort of thing, but it feels weird and heteronormative to me.