Naughty Fiction
I don’t know how much reading you do, but I have quietly attempted to read a minimum of one book per month. This puts me at about a dozen books a year and while that isn’t all that impressive, I believe that to be a lot more than most. I’ve been kinda let down/burned out by scripted shows on TV and it’s incredibly rare to feel all that excited about a movie being screened at theaters or streaming on whatever platform.
Books have quietly provided incredible stories and backdrops for the head and heart to sink into. I’ve never really been a part of a proper “book club” but will occasionally take on a book recommendation from people I know and then talk to them about what I think. This usually allows me to break away from the books I typically read, which are more a long the lines of Non-Fiction/Band/Musical Artist biographies.
Just before thanksgiving, my friend Naomi and I were catch up on a number of things and she recommended a book she was in the middle of reading. She warned me that it would be “smutty” but that I might actually enjoy it. I’ve admittedly never read “romance” novel. I have a number of books where something intimate occurs but I wouldn’t really categorize any of those books as “smutty”.
The book she recommended I read was entitled “Ice Planet Barbarians”…. I stared at the cover and it’s kinda hard to not let your imagination run wild. I probed further as to why she thought I would like the book and she told me that besides the freakishly graphic sexy alien sex, that there was gripping backdrop of ‘Alien Abduction’ and this indescribable need that one has to be cared for and worshiped.
I read Ice Planet Barbarians and can attest that it’s both Spicy and it has a surprisingly great story backdrop too. A woman (I think 22) never believed in Aliens until she was abducted by them. She finds herself on a spaceship with several other 22 year old females that are all being held captive on a space ship. There’s a need for the Ship to stash the females on an ice planet and before you know it, the main character ventures out into the ice and snow to find a blue horned devil looking dude that wants to help her. He also wants to impregnate her because there’s only 4 “females” on the ice planet. These characters end up in a cave that is really a wrecked alien space craft and before you know it, a hologram computer provides the woman character details on what the Blue Devils are and it also helps her with understanding their language. Everything I just blurted out onto this screen makes no sense - but I promise you that it’s surprisingly good to read. There’s also the sex. Holy shit there’s lots of steamy alien sex.
I finished the book in a couple of days, sent over my observations in a series of wordy texts and then got another recommendation for my “next smutty read”. A book titled “PRIEST”, which I didn’t like as much as the Ice Barbarian book. Not sure if it was the catholic guilt but the central character in that book goes out of his way to talk about his thoughts and actions going against the vows he took to be a priest. There’s an interesting backdrop on what directed him to take the calling of the cloth, but this book seemed to really block characters into a room of some kind so that they can boink each others brains out. This book didn’t really have that much of a grip on me and it admittedly took some time to finish it. I would find myself reading only a couple of chapters and then finding other things to read or do.
That being said, I can say that i’ve added “smutty books” as something I’ve peddled in. Looking forward to finding my January 2024 book and go out of my way to actually write about what i’m reading going forward.
