Smut on Books part Deux
I am very disappointed...
Back in February I had the audacity to read my first ever Smut book! It was a great adventure full of wonder, adventure and a whole lot of fucking.
After that wonderful and exciting adventure I said “well why the frick not?” I will try another book from the same author and see where it takes me. Because that’s usually me, every time I enjoy a book, movie, story or whatever the case is I always give the author another try.
In my past book review, which you can read RIGHT HERE: Smut in Books I talked about Credence and how it changed my life… no, not really it was more of a… ha… well all that for alot of whuts?
So I was between two other enterees of the same author and after I walked in to the 500 year old man that attended me in my local Target and I grabbed it with my shivering hands and he said in his soft spoken and dry voice:
Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas. Is the story of Jordan a girl that because her boyfriend is a complete asshole doesn’t pick her up and ends up watching Evil Dead with an older man called Pike and they end up doing things… Oh yeah Pike is, INDEED…INFACT… Jordan’s Boyfriends Father.
Let me be frank from the start right here and right now, I could not digest this book, if I can explain the sensations I was feeling while I was passing every painstaking paragraph and phrase from this main character. I think CRINGE was the best word I can come up for all y’all young ones.
Credence took me a week to finish, Birthday girl took me a week to finish 2 chapters from this book. I was trying HARD AND HARD to get to the meaty stuff but MY GOD, I enjoy smut but if I have to struggle to get to it I am most definitely gonna try it later after I watch or do anything else. This was no even a good “ take to the crapper” kind of book.
I think the problem I had in hand was more I could not really click with the main character, usually in my side of the end it’s more that than anything. Jordan felt flat, like her quirk was not even that… attractive for MY attention. Her problems where not relatable for me in this case, her whole backstory was very unsavory. Her family background, her sister that is a stripper… the X boyfriends all that did not really trigger me to keep on going but the real deal that killed me was… THE 80’s OBSESSION.
Bruh… At the start I was kind of in when she said well there is a movie theater where they are doing a midnight showing of the original Evil Dead movie.
Which any time they reference that master piece I can only think in one thing and one thing only…
But it started to kill me when this girl starts blabbering about HOW SHE IS SO IN TO THE 80s AND HOW I AM SO WEIRD BY IT, I AM SOOOOOO SPECIAL AND INTERESTING! That did it for me to just say BYE.
I this case this book lost me very quick, and it’s more because of how media has been in a perpetual trend loop of Nostalgia for 80’s. Don’t get me wrong I do enjoy some of the things from back them but I don’t make it my whole thing or my entire personality… even tho I am writting this while wearing a shirt from my favorite old anime Saint Seiya.
My review… (?)
I had to speed run this book, which was reading a bit of every chapter trying to not to puke and move on. I did not feel for this story, as I already have mentioned. Going back to Credence which everyone said OMG it’s so taboo because the uncle and cousins and omg!!! This one felt more awkward than that one.
This is an older book from her, it’s from back in 2018 and Credence was 2020. There are changes in the way this author writes FOR SURE, for some reason I thought this was later work but I was wrong… I imagine that if I want to read anything remotely better is to wait for something new. FOR SURE.
I am not demonizing the author, there has been in other instances that I have loved some of the work of X author and the other one was like YIKES nope! It happened to me with Anne Rice.
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice has been and will always be one of my favorite books from the saga, that and Queen of the Damned. But for some reason… some insane reason I CAN NOT COMPREHEND, I didn’t enjoy Vampire Lestat, even when I was hounding it hard when I felt the need to read some more vampire stuff. It did not capture me as The Interview did at the time, I also knew Lestat was a gigantic asshole that I just adored but… yeah I don’t know man.
Pet Sematary from Stephen King, I think I said it before is one of my all time favorites, and I for sure read every fall season for me. The Shinning was also great, I think it was spookier than the Pet one is… But the one that felt a whole ordeal and drag was It. The book is thick, I got to it midway in but I got tired of it… so quick. Much like Carrie that I felt not very entangled with the story as much, but the movie adaptations of both are good as the next one. I have not read Misery, I can’t say much from the book but the movie was very enjoyable. I watched both adaptations of The Stand and I should read the book! So far both series where very enjoyable… I need to sit and read that one.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy, I enjoyed hate this book because of how it’s written but it’s one of my fun readings from back in college. I am still considering reading Blood Meridian but I feel it’s gonna be one of those read if you dare kind of things. I coudn’t stand No Country for old men, and I tried the adaptation and I counldn’t do that one, I just felt draggy while reading and watching it, not my cup of tea I guess.
Wow… another post read huh?
I wasn’t thinking about writting about this but here we are with some spare time also taking a little break from the Dominant ones.
That btw…
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Again thank you again for passing by, I have no clue if I will read anything of a sort as for smut but if I bump with another one that sounds interesting I might give it a go.
I shall see you soon… with… something?
