sarah_hil's review against another edition
DNF
Maybe it's the fact that I listened to the audiobook but I couldn't get behind this. Way too juvenile, zero tact. I'll have to read the physical book in the future if I revisit.
Maybe it's the fact that I listened to the audiobook but I couldn't get behind this. Way too juvenile, zero tact. I'll have to read the physical book in the future if I revisit.
abbie_'s review against another edition
emotional
fast-paced
2.25
A very mixed bag, some stuff I enjoyed, some stuff forgettable or felt like it was just in there for shock value. Usually stories about sex and relationships are always winners for me, but something felt superficial with this collection.
The standouts were Cavern, Just Pervs and A Story about our Friends Lana and Tia.
The standouts were Cavern, Just Pervs and A Story about our Friends Lana and Tia.
katlynnalm's review against another edition
5.0
Just a little known, Canadian published book that I found on a random persons goodreads a while back. Turns out, it’s one of my favorite books of the year. Short stories that weave a timeline together of two friends, one bisexual and one straight, as well as stories about strangers, sex addicts, and random sexual encounters. I loved these stories with my whole heart and highly recommend. These ones have stuck with me for a while now.
“The play stars the four of us as the animals I know we are. Penny fucks my first love in the music practice rooms. She’s the one who knows all about anal before I even got my hands on a penis. Dani sneaks into the bathroom and watches people pee through the stalls, guy or girl, it doesn’t matter. Jenade keeps a USB strung around her neck with porn based on her favorite fantasy movies and a video on how to deep throat.”
“The play stars the four of us as the animals I know we are. Penny fucks my first love in the music practice rooms. She’s the one who knows all about anal before I even got my hands on a penis. Dani sneaks into the bathroom and watches people pee through the stalls, guy or girl, it doesn’t matter. Jenade keeps a USB strung around her neck with porn based on her favorite fantasy movies and a video on how to deep throat.”
bmahaffy's review
3.0
Read it on recommendation from our eLibrary. I enjoyed these stories, and despite some reviews here that felt they were overly sexualized, I felt that most of the stories were trying to be in depth looks at relationships and sexuality. If anything, I felt the stories were too short - like they were just setting the stage for a wider, more interesting story that might have gone places. They left me wanting more - not more of the same kinds of stories, but more detail, depth, and development.
sprainedbrain's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
junibjones's review
4.0
Just Pervs is a collection of short stories brought to us by Jess Taylor, who gave readers The critically acclaimed Pauls back in 2015. Through her characters we see an examination of female sexuality and the subversion of its contemporary views. Their points of view take the romanticism out of things like sex and take it from something holy and sacred to being what it really is: human. Sex isn’t always meant to be a big deal, but rather it can be so many things at once.
The stories have little in common with one another except that the main characters all experience or witness something sexual in nature. That sounds like a cop out but I promise it isn’t. The stories show the reader various points of view and what was interesting to me was that many of the women depicted never exhibited shame in their behavior. Female sexuality should be spoken about more.
I think I might’ve shot myself in the foot by listening to the audiobook rather than reading the ebook. It was difficult for me to differentiate between the stories because I couldn’t clearly tell when one ended and the next began. I could only do it a few times.
The stories have little in common with one another except that the main characters all experience or witness something sexual in nature. That sounds like a cop out but I promise it isn’t. The stories show the reader various points of view and what was interesting to me was that many of the women depicted never exhibited shame in their behavior. Female sexuality should be spoken about more.
I think I might’ve shot myself in the foot by listening to the audiobook rather than reading the ebook. It was difficult for me to differentiate between the stories because I couldn’t clearly tell when one ended and the next began. I could only do it a few times.
lesbrarycard's review
dark
funny
fast-paced
3.5
3.5. the title really gives away the vibe of this book in the best way. overall, i found the stories contained in it super enjoyable! they're dark and gross and times and leave you with an uncomfortable feeling. i appreciated that--i always love when a book can almost give me enough secondhand embarrassment to put it down. i did expect the queer points of the story to be more present than they were, though i enjoyed the overall mentions of bisexuality. i think this is a fun read, great for people who read Kink and liked it.
thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with an ARC!
thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with an ARC!
shewantsthediction's review
2.0
This is just a bunch of uncomfortable vignettes from the author's life thinly disguised as a book of short stories. Far from "championing expressions of female sexuality in their many forms," this book focuses on a singular type of experience: the author's.
I came to the conclusion that she was just writing her own life by the way she reuses names and characters - Sam, Travis, and others pop up multiple times in different stories, always in the same roles. (Side note: I have never read so many generic white person names in my life. I literally couldn't keep any of the characters straight because of it - also probably because they had no characterization or anything substantial to differentiate them.
I came to the conclusion that she was just writing her own life by the way she reuses names and characters - Sam, Travis, and others pop up multiple times in different stories, always in the same roles. (Side note: I have never read so many generic white person names in my life. I literally couldn't keep any of the characters straight because of it - also probably because they had no characterization or anything substantial to differentiate them.
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