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Any books that deal with addiction (alcohol or drugs)?

>>3706391
MacGregor's Shaken series, the 2nd book is all about alcoholism.

... aaaand I've just now noticed there's a fifth novel in the series I haven't read. Hum. Might give it a try. I guess.

Did anyone here read In Blood and Duty Bound by Erin S. Bales ?

It has great reviews and is tagged as ff on mobilism but I can't find anywhere if it is really /u/ or not.

>>3706913
You've won the lottery today, because I went and read this novel for the precise purpose of answering
>but I can't find anywhere if it is really /u/ or not.
this question.

... okay, except I didn't like it so I just skimmed most of it and as far as I got the answer was more than dubious. So don't actually go do any gambling.

Here's as far as I found: the main heroine (the princess) has a huge crush on a prince she's betrothed to. The guard woman could possibly be gay or not; I didn't spot anything. The third "heroine" is evil so whatever - but there seems to be something going on with a political rival of hers, kinda unclear what though (like a scandalous lesbian affair? Possibly).

Now ... we all know that "starts with a male love interest" doesn't really mean anything. What muddles the waters is that the heroine's sister is definitely gay and in a relationship with a priestess, so that might be the reason it's LGBT/FF everywhere. However, they are minor side characters, so hardly qualify for making it a FF novel. In the end, the princess is escaping together with the bodyguard-type woman so it could be a setup for the classic princess-bodyguard stuff in book 2.

As to why I didn't like it - it's a quite interesting setting, and decently written.There's some good stuff going on (there's a visceral scene early one that was, uff, great in an awful way), so far from a "by default" bad novel. But given that you got an antagonist POV you know IMMEDIATELY what's going on. Like, right as everything kicks off. And then you sit there waiting for the book to finish when you already know exactly "these are the bad guy, do something for fucks sake!" I can't stand that. And, okay, also because I couldn't figure out whether I should hope for some gay or not.

Any super chill books that have a Non Non Biyori vibe to them? Lesbians having a fun gay life in the boonies?

>>3707011
Well, guess I will skip it and check it after the sequels come out. Thanks!

>>3706391
I vaguely remember not my problem by cyara smith dealing with the alcoholism of the MCs mom ?

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So Kindle has that feature where you can see underlines on the most commonly highlighted passages in a book. I just find it funny to think about multiple people making highlights and annotations on a smutty FF romance novel like they're writing a book report.

>>3706391
I know "My White Dhalia" by C.M. Blackwood the main character is secretly an opiate addict but the plot/writing isn't good enough for me to recommend reading it with how dark and edgy it gets at points.

>>3707011
>classic princess-bodyguard
What are some good books like this?

Any recommendations for some well written lesbian smut?
It's not for shlicking purposes, I swear.

Karis Walsh - With a Minor in Murder
A little murder mystery. City copy quits her job to start as a college cop (gotta love those weirdo US organizations), when, of course, some professor gets murdered. She then somewhat teams up with a different professor (living) to solve the case.

The characters are quite okay and there's some decent banter. There's a little bit of typical lesbian story-issues; like the cop is dyslexic and she's afraid that people in the academic world will think she's stupid because of it. Or the whole "big city cop to community college" thing. But nothing in any depth or to any level of preachiness.

The murder case is also quite simplistic; it does have a bit of a twist but you can't really "puzzle along", there isn't anything much in terms of serious police procedural, and the finale is just a fairly generic "murder now wants to murder the protagonists so they run into them and fight it out" thing; not any sort of "we've figured out the culprit!"

Romance is kinda similar; there isn't much meat to it. It's okay, again, the characters are nice and the interaction is good. But no real interesting developments or revelations; a tiny bit of the traditional 70%-relationship-interruption but it's so perfunctory you barely even notice.

Kinda okay book if you just want a shallow quick read that doesn't do anything too annoying but also doesn't really deliver anything too great.

>>3707367
>well written
>smut
They wouldn't have to resort to writing smut to get readers if they were capable of writing well

KG MacGregor - Words Unsaid
Book 5 of the Shaken series. How long has it been since I read any sort of new generic contemporary lesbian romance? Hm, can't say exactly. Just feel generally kinda tired of the same stuff over and over again ...

But given that this one is part of a series it avoids most of the typical tropes; the heroines have long since married, there's zero relationship issues. Instead it's about their growing up kids, how their own parents get older, how some people have died (I think there's a 10 year or so timeskip to the previous book), a bit about the business one of the heroines is running (I forgot she's into BMWs - and I happened to read the book on a walk by the stupid BMW Cylinder Tower), those sort of things.

I can happily report that it doesn't ruin the series or does anything stupid like that. However, it's also not exactly the most interesting novel. I thought it was pretty obvious as soon as Trump came up (the gift that keeps on giving) - together with some other facts - that it'd be about ICE, and it was. Problem with that as a plot is, I feel anyway, that their entire organization (or at least what the story focused on) is just almost comically evil, there's nothing interesting you can do with it. It's fucked up and, okay, fucked up things can make a story, but there's nothing really beyond "fucked up things are fucked up".

But okay. Wasn't bad or anything, just not great.

The ending/epilogue felt a bit cheesy; and some of the things are just "eeeh" to me. There's always that level of disconnect when talking about US-style child upbringing that kinda makes me want to shake my head.

Anyway; made want go look for some other contemporary novels that aren't mysteries/UF/anything of that sort. But probably non-US based, which makes things difficult, but, gotta be something somewhere ...

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The Devil Wears Tartan - Katia Rose

Two lifelong rivals in Highland dancing, Moira and Kenzie, compete in a series of competitions and community service events for a huge scholarship as a sort of "final showdown" after missing their chance to face each other in a Championship match due to an injury.

The problem with most "enemies to lovers" stories is that there's not really enough "enemies", and this book isn't much different. They are vaguely "enemies" for like the first third then it just devolves into the typical sort of romance drama. The competition aspect gets pushed away in favor of drama mostly involving Kenzie and her clinically depressed mother, and the typical sort of "Can I allow myself to be loved?" stuff that you've seen a million times before.

The writing is fine, and the romance is decent. It is written in alternating first-person, which a lot of people don't like. The backdrop of Highland dancing competion is neat, but the author doesn't really go into the autistic detail that would be necessary to make this book stand out. There's some light virtue signaling, but it doesn't really beat you over the head with the author's viewpoints.

Overall, it was not bad. Certainly not the worst thing I read, but it's not at the top of my recommendations list.

Any reccs for obsessive, twisted, dark material? I'm so sick of fluffy stories. I want questionable consent, manipulation, anger, kinky shit. But not fully just fetish material. Well written stuff with intriguing characters.

>>3708259
Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas, maybe. Not that dark I guess, though there is a rape attempt.

>>3707634
This post reads like contrarianism for the sake for arguing.

>>3708489
If you see overly negative posts like that just ignore that anon. For some reason they hate everything mentioned here so it's an entire mystery as to why they even browse the thread

>>3707367
I'm not a huge fan os smut but I remember Thirteen Hours by Meghan O'Brien being good. Behind the Green Curtain by Riley Lashea is also recommended sometimes.

I want a unicorn: A decently written fantasy series with quality action that also doesn't shy away from sex scenes. It is a huge pet peeve of mine when authors shy away from sex because they don't want to/don't know how to write it, so they just go "and Trisha took her clothes off" end of chapter, or whatever. Even GRRM did two finger-bang scenes, come on.

>>3708489
>>3708790
Are you seriously, literally, defending porn writing? Really? For what purpose?

>>3709260
sure, why not

>>3708259
Creep

>>3709270
I didn't think that movie had a novelization

>>3707367
Seconding what the other sis said but if you have to read one book from O'brian it's The Sex Therapist Next Door

>>3708259
A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee

>>3706391
The Mythic Koda Rose by Jennifer Nissley

>>3709235
i guess they want the fans to fill in the gaps these days.

>>3709340
I will fill your gap.

>>3709340
Or they're just bad at writing

>>3709260
Posts like this are always either from radfems or men trying to appear such.
You do realize there is an entire genre of books, called romance novels, floated entirely on the will of the female libido, yes? It ain't men buying that stuff.

>>3709376
I'm a dude and I'd buy a shit ton of romance novels if it was guaranteed that everything I got was pure lesbian without any dudes, bi shit or het.
I bought one lesbian romance novel and one of the ladies is forced into a kiss by a dude in it and I nearly threw the book in the trash right there, I was so mad.

>>3709405
Protip: Don't read Dating Sarah Cooper
I made that mistake and am still mad about that several years later. Fuck that novel.

>>3709405
what does that have to do with smut though

>>3709405
>and one of the ladies is forced into a kiss by a dude
like this never happens in real life, ever

>>3709630
Yeah but I don't want that shit in my fiction.

>>3709630
Fuck off, retard.

>>3709376
Radfems living in your mind rent fucking free, lol.

>>3709376
>there is an entire genre of books, called romance novels, floated entirely on the will of the female libido, yes?
Which are also universally known as the epitome of terrible writing

>>3709405
Why would an, supposedly, hetero man read lesbian smut? Legit question.
> in b4 fujoshit

>>3709979
>supposedly
This made me giggle. As though it would make more sense to you if anon were a *gay* man (or mlm anyway) reading lesbian smut.

>>3709864
>>3709831
>nuuu you cannot have books I don't like
When did this board get flooded with men

>>3709864
>universally

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>>3709831
I thought they were mostly against live action porn? I’ll admit my foray into radfem politics was somewhat cursory before I just decided to nope out of most political theory etc. entirely and switch off my brain and just live my life consuming cartoon girls holding hands, but wouldn’t the lack of rl people being exploited be a good thing…?

>>3710062

What does any of this have to do with my post?

>>3710081
Gonna be honest, I just chose a random one in the chain to reply to. Soz anon

>>3709979
Because I'm sexually attracted to women, but not romantically. The idea of being in a romantic or sexual relationship with a woman is repulsive, I would rather die, but I love seeing women having a happy romance with each other. Lesbians are the true inheritors of Earth.
Men should all go sterile and die off.

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>>3708790
This board in general has a tendency toward weird hostility to innocuous comments, like the way people caricaturize 4chan based on ancient /b/ screencaps
It's funny because the yuri board on 2chan is the polar opposite

>>3709979
Not that anon, but I am a man (not hetero though) and I just find lesbian romance more fun to read than straight or gay romances. I don't know why that is nor do I really care to dwell on it too much. I do tend to skip through the smutty parts though.

>>3710170
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What does it say?

>>3710217
Details about the 15th of the 5th, such as the flower associated with it and how it's stockings day, mostly how it's the anniversary of Okinawa being handed back to Japan

>>3709562
Fuck you for reminding me but yeah.

>>3710136
There's a lot to unpack here

>>3710211
>I do tend to skip through the smutty parts though.
That's why I was asking. Romance I can understand, feelings are universal, but smut is inherently tied to gender.

>>3710170
>oh no, someone made a bit snarky reply to my post, what's this weird hostility on this website omg!
There are countless other websites out there where the users are drones without sentience or personality, maybe you should go to one of those if you feel threatened by divergent thought?

>>3710817
Well, you sure proved her point to a T.

>>3711238
What point? That not everyone here loves you unconditionally? Yes, she's right, they fucking don't and never will.

>>3711240
You did that again.

>>3711240
Being a contrarian faggot isn't a personality either. If what they're asking for isn't to your taste it's much easier to just not reply, after all your reply isn't what they're looking for, which is a recommendation.

>>3709979
Not that anon, but I don't read smut. I read lesbian literature because there are dynamics at play, that as a straight guy I can never really be privy to.
That and I got really tired of reading about male MCs, specifically in fantasy genres.

The part about not reading smut is only a half-truth. I have unconventional tastes and the only way to satisfy that itch is to write my own. A sex scene in a lesbian novel is more annoyance than anything, since too many are poorly written and most don't go close to what I like. Ultimately though, I'm not here for the smut.

>>3709979
I like girls and lesbian relationships tend to have more girls than heterosexual ones.

>>3711712
Why not read one of the hundreds of harem books around? The Wheel of Time, one of the biggest traditional fantasy books has that element.

>>3711506
I reply to whatever I want to. It doesn't take any fucking effort worth mentioning.

>>3711784
>The Wheel of Time
Is that true? My brother has been pestering me to read it since forever because 'I only consume shit media and need better ones', whereas I'm at the point of my life that I only bother with things if it has any yuri. He's reading harem-shit oh, he's never going to hear the end of it from me.

>>3712007
Yup, WoT is cringy by modern standards (and kinda misogynist) but the harem thing is stupid and controversial even for fans.

>>3712014
>WoT ...kinda misogynist
>kinda

>>3712007
Yeah, even as a teenager I realized WoT was pretty cringy. And I didn't exactly move on to the height of literary sophistication (it was basically GRRM and obscure fantasy stuff). But yeah, the female characters in WoT are mostly just really badly written. Both in terms of character development and plot, and just like how they are portrayed through the prose.

> yuri harem
Anything with this? I already read Nights of Silk and Sapphire. Poly is fine to.

>>3712033
I want poly romance too, but wholesome and sweet with no lewdness.

>>3711784
Jordan created some of the most insufferable cunts imaginable
Lanfear a best

>>3712033
Unironically Baru

anyone read Priory of the Orange Tree? hadn’t heard of it till just now, it seems interesting

>>3712619
There was some discussion about it last thread.

Here's my opinion >>3693223

When was the last book you really loved?

>>3713242
I loved Jasmine Throne (which I finished a few weeks ago). I am really excited about the second book coming in August.

>>3713242
>really loved
Born In Fury by David Weber.
It's not actually /u/, but quite goggleable. But I loved the story (and its telling) a lot.

>>3713242
Daisy Crown by Olivia Lark.
Read this a while back and I absolutely loved it. Its quite short and features historical lesbians. The ending was great though admittedly, the whole thing could have been longer. Also, it's maid yuri

>The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
>She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick

If you liked Not My Problem or She Drives Me Crazy, you'll like these two books. Solid YA romance books.

>>3709235
Onee-chan may I recommend something. "Retribution Engine" by Akaso on scribblehub has got some real quality action. It also has sex scenes, I can't vouch for their quality though as I skip sex scenes most of the time. (Sue me, I'm here for dirty stuff like feelings and hand holding.) Also the general quality of the writing is way beyond what you'd expect for a web novel

>>3713899
That title is not enticing.

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>>3713902
Nah man, it's good; trust me.

Is there such thing as books from conservative (-ish) writers, aside from TOWEM?

>>3713967
>conservative
As in politically? Literally why reading them?

>>3713980
More like... Ideologically? I dunno, you could tell that TOWEM was written by a conservative and it's the best wlw book I've read so far, so... Maybe there's corelation there.

>>3714011
If by "conservative" you mean it was written by someone who was not a democrat, then yeah, but I feel it made shots at many positions in at least the american political system. The author seems to have a more favourable view of american libertarianism than I do but thats really all I can get from it.

>>3713967
That Damian Stroud witch and Librarian series. It has a whole "if you're socially disadvantaged pull yourself up by your bootstraps" rant in one of the books that caught me off guard. Otherwise there is a stereotype of LitRPGs being written by objectivists so check for any of them with lesbian stuff.

>>3714011
>Maybe there's corelation there
I see

(You)

>>3714011
>Maybe there's corelation there
Yeah, its called you being 14 and posting on /pol/

>>3713967
>TOWEM
? What series is that?

>>3714108
Never mind! Is The Woman Who Eats Monsters, wow had no idea the author was a conservative!