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A review by queerafictionado
Hera's Studio: A Sapphic Awakening by Alyssa Bloom
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
🏳️🌈Rep: Queer FMC, Bi-curious FMC
📝Tropes/Themes: Gay for you/toaster oven, BDSM, erotica, sex club, insta lust/love, age gap (41-25), student/professor
This was a sinfully delicious novelette with a toaster oven, age gap erotic romance. Emily is a grad student, writing a thesis on human sexuality and decides to take her research out of the library and inside a BDSM sex club. She only came to observe, but when captured by the gaze of Hera, one of the club’s Dommes, she finds herself more than intellectually curious about what happens inside. Emily’s never been attracted to a woman before, but suddenly feels drawn to the bold and mysterious woman behind the mask. But once the mask falls, Emily has to not only process her new sexual awakening, but what to do now that she knows her seductress’s true identity.
I’m still not much of an insta love fan, but I enjoyed this story a lot. It was a quick and steamy read about hidden desires and what happens when our curiosity takes us to unexpected places.
I received an ARC from the author. This is my honest and voluntary review.
⚠️TW/CW: Sexual content
📝Tropes/Themes: Gay for you/toaster oven, BDSM, erotica, sex club, insta lust/love, age gap (41-25), student/professor
This was a sinfully delicious novelette with a toaster oven, age gap erotic romance. Emily is a grad student, writing a thesis on human sexuality and decides to take her research out of the library and inside a BDSM sex club. She only came to observe, but when captured by the gaze of Hera, one of the club’s Dommes, she finds herself more than intellectually curious about what happens inside. Emily’s never been attracted to a woman before, but suddenly feels drawn to the bold and mysterious woman behind the mask. But once the mask falls, Emily has to not only process her new sexual awakening, but what to do now that she knows her seductress’s true identity.
I’m still not much of an insta love fan, but I enjoyed this story a lot. It was a quick and steamy read about hidden desires and what happens when our curiosity takes us to unexpected places.
I received an ARC from the author. This is my honest and voluntary review.
⚠️TW/CW: Sexual content
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content