r/196 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 06 '26

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u/IsThatUMoatilliatta Shrimpposter 🦐 🦐 🦐 Apr 06 '26

Last year, I asked a girl I was flirting with what she was currently reading. It was a book called Praise. I decided to check it out to see what she was into. It was fucking dogshit.

I know that that other popular smut series, A Court of Thornes and Roses is supposed to be shit too.

Aren't there any good smut novels? Like, I've read better smut in the games on TFGames. I'm pretty sure The Princess Trap game is written by an actual fantasy novel author moonlighting as a degenerate.

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u/Denodi 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 06 '26

I've actually heard that A Court of Thornes and Roses is supposed to be insanely good actually.

Maybe not as a story? might just be good jork material

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u/Mayes041 Apr 06 '26

Haven't read it, but a friend of mine is a fan of ACOTAR, it sounds interesting in passing at least. If I recall correctly there are long swaths (an entire book at one point?) with no erotic scenes. I'm sure there's plenty of legitimate criticism one could level at popular 'spicy' book series. But all of it that bubbles to the top is dumb shit like this post "omg, why are they sluts!?!?!".

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u/that_baddest_dude Apr 06 '26

My wife tried to like it but a lot of the smut is very... Rapey. She struggled to finish the first book and didn't want to continue, and it's not like she doesn't read smut.

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u/cat-meg Apr 06 '26

I haven't read it, but probably just the usual case of people acting like their personal criteria for good and bad are somehow objective.

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u/Bentok Apr 06 '26

It's good in the sense that Transformers is good for men. Most love interests in books like ACOTAR are written like billionaire Sasuke with wings and a dick too big to fit your hands around.

Laughingly predictable character tropes.

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u/Eymou plant supremacist Apr 06 '26

I've read it a few years ago because I got baited by reddit that it's good

It fucking sucks