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Unconditional
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Feb 15, 2022
bookshelves: enjoyable-writing-style, spice-is-sort-of-the-plot, age-gap, dirty-talk, fmc-is-a-virgin, horny-virgins-gather-here, insta-spice, orgasm-worthy-smut, potential-cw-tw, spicy-but-did-not-enjoy, spicy-romance-all-levels, turned-me-on, vanilla-or-non-kinky-spice, well-written-spice, i-regret-reading-this, passed-pcnc-protocol, smut-i-want-to-recreate-irl
I expected better
QB Tyler is a great writer, and I'm a fan of the taboo romance subgenre, but this book just wasn't it for me.
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I wish that Maddie had been older. Like early twenties. Her being seventeen just didn't sit right with me.
I've read the Off Balance series (new version) where the FMC is sixteen in Georgia (Georgia's age of consent is 16). But reading about a 17 year-old in Oregon, it just wasn't right.
I would have liked it a lot more if Maddie was 20-22 and visiting from university when Cal and her did stuff. Something where they have time apart and it doesn't feel eerily adjacent to grooming.
QB Tyler is a great writer, and I'm a fan of the taboo romance subgenre, but this book just wasn't it for me.
Slight spoiler
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.
.
.
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I wish that Maddie had been older. Like early twenties. Her being seventeen just didn't sit right with me.
I've read the Off Balance series (new version) where the FMC is sixteen in Georgia (Georgia's age of consent is 16). But reading about a 17 year-old in Oregon, it just wasn't right.
I would have liked it a lot more if Maddie was 20-22 and visiting from university when Cal and her did stuff. Something where they have time apart and it doesn't feel eerily adjacent to grooming.
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Reading Progress
October 22, 2021
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October 22, 2021
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to-read
Started Reading
February 15, 2022
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dirty-talk
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
age-gap
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
spice-is-sort-of-the-plot
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
enjoyable-writing-style
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
spicy-but-did-not-enjoy
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
potential-cw-tw
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
orgasm-worthy-smut
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
insta-spice
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
horny-virgins-gather-here
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
fmc-is-a-virgin
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
well-written-spice
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
vanilla-or-non-kinky-spice
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
turned-me-on
February 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
spicy-romance-all-levels
February 15, 2022
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Finished Reading
February 19, 2022
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i-regret-reading-this
February 19, 2022
– Shelved as:
smut-i-want-to-recreate-irl
February 19, 2022
– Shelved as:
passed-pcnc-protocol
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Feb 15, 2022 03:56PM
I just finished a book with a 16yo h too. And I wondered why the author just didn't make her at least 17 and a half & give it a few months before she turns 18. Or how about just plain 18yo? Pushing the age younger is pushing it for me.
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Exactly. Like in Sinner by Sierra Simone, the FMC is 21 and the MMC is ~ 35, but there's no grooming-esque relationship. He knew her as a child then he didn't see her for years until she was 21. In this book, her being 17 was unnecessary. Whereas in the Off Balance series, her being sixteen is sort of important for the plot, in this book she could have easily been older.
When the FMC is under 18, it just makes me feel icky. The age of consent in Canada is 16, but with restrictions (like there cannot be any power imbalance between them).
I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if she was already 18 when it started.
Batool wrote: "The age of consent in Canada is 16, but with restrictions (like there cannot be any power imbalance between them)."oh, I didn't know that! The power imbalance is a huge factor in the age-gap romances with much younger heroines. It does help when an author characterizes h as emotionally mature & the couple clearly discuss the whole age-gap thing. But most erotic romances unfortunately skip these ;-/
10000% agree. Maddie wasn't even emotionally mature in this book. She was an annoying teenager. And I didn't feel their chemistry (unlike the Off Balance series, where the chemistry was off the charts)
