#sierra simone

[morakricz]

Art inspired by a book "Priest" Sierra Simone

[shy-girl04]

I keep her spread with one hand and then use the other to push her pants and knickers down to her ankles, enough to free one leg, which I sling over my shoulder. God, yes, this—this right here, with her thigh warming my ear and her hips angled just right against my face—I have to live the rest of my life like this. My face buried in her and my nose bumping her clit as I fuck her with my tongue, as I stab into her and swirl and lick, and then move up to suckle at her while her pleasure slicks all over my face.

Sierra Simone , Supplicant

[improbablycryingg]

Couldn't stop thinking of this while I watched Wake up Dead Man :p

[vreow]

-Be me

-Experience a year long reading slump that you cant get out of

-Have one of your very hot funny snarky hot glasses wearing (did i mention hes hot? Cause he is) mention this book hes reading bc he saw they were making a tv show

-Think about reading the book but cant seem to make yourself

-Wait a month for the series to come out so you can watch it and bond with hot funny snarky glasses wearing man about it

-Watch the premiere and get obsessed

-Immediately read both books its based on in the span of 36 hours

-Reading slump is like it never existed bc now you have read like 10 books all over thanksgiving break and you just want to keep consuming more and more media

-Bond with hot funny snarky glasses wearing hot man over the series as episodes premiere

-Start a new book series while waiting for episodes

-Immediately regret all life choices because your two books deep and its revealed one of the main characters fathered his half-sisters son

-Its ok though bc you’ve also started reading a 550,000 word omegaverse historical-fiction hannigram fanfic you downloaded to kindle ages ago and forgot about

Anyways come back to see if i can get hot snark sexy glasses dude to love me back (in my dreams, its been over a year of pining, his bsf literally knows i have a crush on him and girl said not to go for him)

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: F/F Bodyguard Romances

Saving the Star by Rachel Bowdler Cover Story by Rachel Lacey Seas and Greetings by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone Guarded Desires by Anna Stone The Bodyguard Affair by Anna Stone and Hildred Billings Bonus: These are all contemporary, but for Historical Fantasy, check out Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones 

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[which-witchhazel]

Fantasy romance vs. romantic fantasy vs. romantasy

(according to me a mere English lit major)

Fantasy romance

The main genre is romance, the fantasy element is secondary. The plot revolves around something mainly seen in romance novels such as fake dating, forced proximity, etc. but it probably wouldn’t be too hard to take the fantasy elements out. The main reason you pick up the book is for the romance. It’s regular rivals to lovers but they happen to be witches. It’s the one bed trope but they’re vampires and it’s a coffin instead.

Examples:

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Reason: While the characters would have a harder time meeting without the fantasy element (or mating, for that matter), it’s still possible. The main plot is the romance. Everything else comes secondary.

A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone

Reason: the fantasy is barely present in this first book, but even in the main series, we mainly read to learn more about Proserpina, Auden, and Saint’s relationships. Why they fight, why they hate, why they love each other in their own fucked up way (cough cough Auden). If Thornchapel weren’t magical, everything would stay the same.

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Reason: the first good chunk of the book is romance. This isn’t the best example, but people don’t read Twilight for the inner vampire politics. They read it for the will-they/won’t-they of Bella and Edward’s relationship.

Romantic fantasy

These are fantasy books with a rather nice romantic subplot, but it’s very much a subplot. It’s not doing any of the heavy lifting. It may motivate a character’s actions, but the plot doesn’t hinge on the romance. The plot more revolves around whatever large fantasy issue is happening, usually world-changing. But there’s a lil bit of romance sprinkled in as a treat.

Examples:

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Reason: The main plot revolves around Silas and the school, figuring out the mystery. Daphne’s existence is primarily to affirm Silas’s and to rescue him during one moment. They have my favorite romance in any book ever, but it truly is a subplot.

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Reason: While I love Elspeth and Ravyn, their romance doesn’t do much for the plot until the second book. Everything, for the most part, continues as it should, without the romance. If you wrote out the romance, not much would change.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Reason: While a big selling point for this book is its unique love triangle, the plot doesn’t change much if the main three were friends instead of lovers. The plot doesn’t hinge on them being lovers until the second book, or until the very end of this one, depending how you look at it. They do have an absolutely stellar throuple, though.

Romantasy

To qualify as a romantasy novel, a book must balance the fantasy and romance plots with near equal precision and entwine them so that they become inseparable. If you get rid of the romance, then the third act crumbles entirely. Or if you remove the fantasy then the romance dies. This is a lot trickier to do which is why a lot of romantasy books feel similar to each other or feel like they have cheap quality.

Examples:

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Reason: Without the magical war, there’s no reason for Violet and Xaden to be enemies. They wouldn’t have fallen for each other without magic in varying capacities. But also the actions they take are completely dependent on their love for/obsession with one another, sometimes to the narrative’s detriment.

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Reason: Peter and James would never have met without Neverland, but they never could have escaped Neverland without each other. Their romance affects the fate of the island, literally. Peter’s heartbreak freezes the surrounding ocean and keeps James trapped on Neverland, and it’s their love for each other that melts the ice and allows them to go home with each other.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Reason: Wei Ying and Lan Zhan would never have met without cultivation. They hunt demons together, fight in wars, learn magic, it’s all fantasy. And Wei Ying coming back to life through necromancy is what allows their relationship to come to fruition. Without the demonic cultivation, Lan Zhan never would have been able to be with Wei Ying. But without their romance, a lot of the plot wouldn’t exist. Lan Zhan stays by Wei Ying’s side no matter what, and his choices because of that change the outcome of both plots. But additionally, most people go to it for a mix of the fantasy plot and the romance. Xianxia does as xianxia do.

But also everything is up to interpretation! I’m sure someone’s going to disagree with a sorting I have on here, but I think this sorting helps identify more of what readers look for. If you need a strong fantasy plot and someone recommends you a fantasy romance book with cartoon protagonists on the cover, it’s not quite up your alley. Me personally, I’m someone who craves the duality of romantasy, so getting recommended the other two can let me down. This is all just to help understand your preferences.

Hope this helps!

[triviareads]

finished an ARC of Devil by Sierra Simone and it was quite an exercise in patience to deal with the heroine, in a way you rarely need to with contemporary characters. Birdie has a level of religious... zeal, I suppose, and capacity for great suffering and martyrdom that is quite frankly shocking and exhausting to read as someone who is only mildly religious, and not Christian. A lot of it is... diagnosable as depression and anxiety, and if you combine it with her family background and financial struggles, it makes sense, but the religious aspect is almost reminiscent of reading a medieval character by Laura Kinsale— how they treat faith feels absolute and extreme.

[moonlit-disclosures]

Excerpt from Priest by Sierra Simone