A review by junibjones
Just Pervs by Jess Taylor
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.