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Professor with Benefits by Mickey Miller
"I like to think of myself as an open minded, approachable and welcoming person. I have my qualms when it comes to men attempting to write romance novels. Do they have a space in this industry? Well, of course.

There aren't a lot of them but the very few that exist have a very bad track record.

They find booktok, they see how many women are out there exploring kinks and their sexualities and they think: well, that should be easy enough right? Writing a romance. I've seen enough porn.

IF WOMEN CAN DO IT AND MAKE MILLIONS in this industry, I should definitely stick my penis in it.

And honestly? That's ok. That doesn't intimidate any of us. I decided to give it a shot. I've been seeing this author's tiktoks everywhere, apparently he is the guy who writes THE BEST AND SEXIEST FEMALE POV and I was like:

Despite my doubts, I wanted to be fair to him. Like I say it all the time, writing a book is no easy task and every person deserves to be valued for that, no matter how much criticism I offer them. He currently has over 15 published books on kindle unlimited, it's not easy to write full time but apparently it's extremely easy to sit down and write your own little sick fantasies where every woman is less than you.

When I asked him (the author) why he writes romance, he told me: a tarot reader told him he was a woman in 99 of his past lives and that is why he writes blow job scenes with ease. Here I was thinking you wrote those scenes with ease just because you liked sucking cock, (which I am totally cool with) but nah, he wanted to make sure I knew he was straight.

Let's get on with it, shall we? I don't show women I read any mercy. This dude won't get a different treatment.

The word COCK showed up 126 times in a 220 page book. And the sentence was always the same: you like my big cock? take my big cock, you should ride my big cock, you like my big intelligent cock? his cock had more personality than the main character by the end of it all.

Funny enough, he told me his books are NOT SUPERFICIAL and he really loves to get into his characters PSYCHE .

In this book, the female main character wants to become a sex therapist but she is a VIRGIN! And she can't possibly give people sex therapy when she hasn't even had sex herself. So she approaches her SEXUAL THERAPY TEACHER

and begs him on her knees, please fuck me. Only an intelligent handsome amazing awesome big cocked guy like you could possibly take my virginity in the right way.

I swear to god it was like being inside this guy's head and hell seemed like a better place to be.

Putting aside the fact that this dude wrote 3 paragraphs on how he disagrees that "being attracted to someone from the opposite gender could be seen as sexual harassment in school" - leave it to a male author to write about how UNFAIR he thinks SEXUAL HARASSMENT RULES are...

From his self-promo I could've sworn I would read this book and not even remember it was written by a man... but oh boy... it was actually hard to forget and he made sure of it:

"When I'm done with you, one of the most intelligent girls in this entire university (he met her 10 seconds ago btw), you'll be so fucking amazing that you'll be out of the league of probably ninety percent of the men in this stupid town."

So let me get this straight, your dick has some kinda magical power that will TURN THIS "unattractive 22 virgin woman" (he kept saying constantly that she wasn't the prettiest but she wanted him) into something truly desirable because YOU touched her.

"I'll be too good for other men?" she asks coyly. BRO, YOU CAN'T KEEP WRITING YOUR WET DREAMS AND START CALLING IT A ROMANCE NOVEL DUDE, you just can't.

Anyways, he makes her moan in the middle of a bar just by saying how amazing her tits are, she cums from giving him a blowjob, she repeats constantly that he is so handsome, so intelligent, so hot and that she could see how big his cock was from a mile away and she for SURE thought he had socks in there.

"Professor Hanks, just fuck me already. I want to know what it feels like to have a cock in me. A big cock. YOUR COCK." You will also catch her BEGGING him to fuck her and this exact sentence repeats itself over 87 times in a 222 page book. Yes. I DID COUNT.

I mean, the mediocre writing aside, the lack of knowledge in the actual art of writing a romance, the lack of depth and development from these characters ASIDE...I truly truly believed it wouldn't get worse than this. But it did...

"Rose you are so fucking malleable" I grin "it's adorable"

"Malleable? What does that mean?" The fucking innocence she has. I am going to teach this girl so much more than BIG WORDS" - I AM NOT FUCKING JOKING, this is a quote.

It means I am about to be the CATALYST that turns you into a little slut" "Oh god" she whimpers, smiling. "Professor Hanks, I love it when you use BIG WORDS

I am sorry, I am actually PISSING myself with laughter. You honestly think MALLEABLE and CATALYST are big words? How long have you been writing? Also...isn't she the smartest girl in school? But I guess it wouldn't be your wet little fantasy if you didn't have a DUMB STUPID woman to teach BIG words to like a child right?

Honorable mentions to him telling her she is PERFECT because!!! You're a people pleaser Rose. You're every man's dream.

Yeah, that is also a FUCKING quote from this book.

I got pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis from reading this book and inhaling all this sexist toxicity. Oh you don't know what that is? I bet this word is longer than your cock. Google it, you might actually learn some big words. Maybe women do have something to teach you from time to time. Look it up big boy.

Anyways, I can't fucking believe I read this entire thing for you guys. Go send me some money, I need to move on... and take a shower or something.

Mediocre, PAINFULLY obvious that it was written by a man, INSULTING in many ways to women everywhere. I really hope you're not getting laid because you're writing romance novels and infiltrating yourself into bookstagram and being friends with willow winters *pukes* and shit. Anyways, I expect to see your name on a list soon. And that list probably won't be the next Barnes and Noble best seller... but good luck with your projects.

ps: I want to make sure everyone understands we support and love male LGBTQ+ authors and even cisgender male authors when they're good writers, but this wasn't it. lol

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