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A review by nicolet2018
The Obsession by Jeannie Lin, Liliana Lee
3.0
I have never read erotica about menages so this is new ground for me. However I have read FSoG so I was wondering how bad could this be? The subject never appealed to me before and it is only because the author is one of my favourites that I decide to give this a try. I was intrigued by the setting as well.
I have to say this was just okay for me. I was expecting some very crazy explicit scenes but as I read the menage scenes I did feel a little uncomfortable but not shocked beyond belief or forever changed. It just felt like reading a sex scene with more people. 24 year old Shanyin and her concubines have some sort of bond but it seemed so perfunctory here. To allow yourself to have more than one sexual partner at the moment just makes it less personal in my opinion. I think the idea of Yuan was attractive to Shanyin was believable. People want what they can't have.
The violence and debauchery of this dynasty is fitting for an erotica. However those who are squirmish should avoid reading this due to the language used and violence. Ziye is pitiful, to think a 17 year old boy could be turned into such a tyrant. There are moments where I felt Shanyin might not have necessarily wanted to have herself subject to those sexual acts but she uses sex to escape so it is hard to tell. I think is why the author cautions that.
I think it is fascinating to see a woman in power here as the time period was where men ruled more than women. At first, I wondered how I could sympthatize with her, it was easy when the reader is allowed to hear her thoughts and how kind she actually is.
I have to say I am disappointed that the story seems so shallow. Shanyin and Yuan play games with each other and it is not okay. I do not like how they both bounded each other up against the other's will. However this being an erotica novella I should not expect too much. I did enjoy the world building and the plot when you can put aside the amounts of sex and foreplay in this story.
This novella has explicit sex scenes, coarse language, sex toys, menages, graphic violence, bondage and fear. I would say fans of the author's previous work might enjoy this for the setting but I do not think this is for everyone. I read an excerpt of the next novella and I do not think I want to read any further.
I have to say this was just okay for me. I was expecting some very crazy explicit scenes but as I read the menage scenes I did feel a little uncomfortable but not shocked beyond belief or forever changed. It just felt like reading a sex scene with more people. 24 year old Shanyin and her concubines have some sort of bond but it seemed so perfunctory here. To allow yourself to have more than one sexual partner at the moment just makes it less personal in my opinion. I think the idea of Yuan was attractive to Shanyin was believable. People want what they can't have.
The violence and debauchery of this dynasty is fitting for an erotica. However those who are squirmish should avoid reading this due to the language used and violence. Ziye is pitiful, to think a 17 year old boy could be turned into such a tyrant. There are moments where I felt Shanyin might not have necessarily wanted to have herself subject to those sexual acts but she uses sex to escape so it is hard to tell. I think is why the author cautions that.
I think it is fascinating to see a woman in power here as the time period was where men ruled more than women. At first, I wondered how I could sympthatize with her, it was easy when the reader is allowed to hear her thoughts and how kind she actually is.
I have to say I am disappointed that the story seems so shallow. Shanyin and Yuan play games with each other and it is not okay. I do not like how they both bounded each other up against the other's will. However this being an erotica novella I should not expect too much. I did enjoy the world building and the plot when you can put aside the amounts of sex and foreplay in this story.
This novella has explicit sex scenes, coarse language, sex toys, menages, graphic violence, bondage and fear. I would say fans of the author's previous work might enjoy this for the setting but I do not think this is for everyone. I read an excerpt of the next novella and I do not think I want to read any further.