I guess I wish there’d been just the tiniest opportunity for him to show a touch more vulnerability-though his devotion to Meg is swoony AF. Complicated and damaged, and-in the end-very, very loved for being both.įor me, Hades is kind of the weakest link here by just being A Cold Mysterious Dom With A Tragic Past and while he’s a well-done example of that archetype it’s just not an archetype I connect with.

Seriously, the man is legit heroic in ways that are just not discussed, celebrated and or present enough in romance novels. Enter beautiful, shiny HEY LET’S TALK ABOUT OUR FEELINGS WHILE I GO DOWN ON YOU Hercules. It’s just, like, fucking beautiful man.Īnyway, Meg and Hades are lovers, companions, sub and dom, and their relationship is fraying at the edges because they’re both too damaged to know to fix it. Perfect, gleeful, guilt-free fantasy that cares as much about its characters being happy, fulfilled and empowered than it does about getting them off. Plot? World-building? Who the hell cares? I know it sounds a slightly weird thing to say about what is essentially pornography Disney fanfic but there’s something just so very *clear-sighted* about these books. It’s really hard to describe what they books accomplish because they’re about 30% deft character work, 40% extravagant fucking, 20% melty feels and 10% of whatever else is needed to a glue book together.

I mean, of course Hercules is an emotionally open-hearted sub, Meg is a complicated, damaged switch and Hades is … someone whose place I desperately wished to occupy in this piece of fiction?)

(Also you can see it, can’t you see it? It makes PERFECT SENSE. But it turns out I super did.Īnd I feel genuinely enriched by the experience. Just … I didn’t know I needed a kinky queer polyamorous erotic romance starring a dom Hades, a switchy Meg and an adorably submissive Hercules. So everything I’m having a difficult time knowing how to write about it. Oh my motherfucking God on a stick with bells on.ĭon’t get me wrong, I appreciated the first book in this series (Desperate Measures - Jafar/Jasmine) but this was just EVERYTHING.

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