Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - Kink

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Kink by R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell

51 reviews

l4urenmurr4y's review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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woodiefrog's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad

4.0

A fine collection of stories exploring people and their various desires :D Love that it is consciously not heterocentric; and really it’s the stories that are from/by/for “sexual deviants” that really resonated with me, also the better written ones.

Roxane Gay, Garth Greenwell, Kim Fu, Carmen Maria Machado (dazzling period story!) and Zeyn Joukhadar astound as always. I also enjoyed Trust by Larissa Pham and Impact Play by Peter Mountford. The rest, not to say “bad writing,” did not land very well with me and fell flat (or otherwise to the non sequitur lit fic side).

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aplpaca's review against another edition

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1.75

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arlingtonchamberofgay's review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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doubleyou's review against another edition

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dark informative sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

I didn’t really like it.

I thought it wasn’t that good and at first the first few stories were intriguing but I got to one story where it had a SA and I didn’t know if this was part of the theme of the book since it’s about kinks. And I guess I wasn’t quite prepared for the brutality of the scene but it just turned me off for the rest of the book

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rosalind's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

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starwitness's review against another edition

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Started off steamy but then it was like three or four cis hetero stories in a row that left me feeling uninspired and bored :( I wanted this to be more gender expansive inclusive - maybe try to pick it up again.

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sakisreads's review

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

I really wanted to like this short story collection more than I did 🥲 Unfortunately I wasn’t gripped. However, I have highlighted the ones I did like below:

‘Oh, Youth’ got me in my feelings 🥺 I can imagine it’s hard to navigate a three person relationship, especially when with one of the members it’s meant to be strictly transactional…

‘Mirror, Mirror’ was quite fun. There was a lot of excitement from the get go, which I really got into ✨

‘The Voyeurs’ was probably my favourite. Although harrowing in some aspects,

what with Mr. Harris being a transphobic prick 😫,

I felt real intimacy and love between Belèn and Omar ❤️ I wanted to give them both big hugs!

2.5 out of 5 stars for me on this one ✨ Content warnings also posted below.

Thank you 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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archiveofrasa's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

3.0

Honestly, this read was to see how explicit content differs from fanfiction and original work. Only really liked 4 stories, (by Larissa Pham, R. O. Kwon, Brandon Taylor and Carmen Maria Machado, but Kim Fu's Scissors was nice too.)

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wngwendy's review against another edition

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2.5

some stories are amazing, and some of them fell very flat.
Read the tw's before starting this books!

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