Horse Talk Reviews

Omega for the Pack by N.J. Lysk My rating: 4 of 5 stars Horse rating: 0 of five horses But you didn't need to be trying to hurt someone to do it—all it took was chance or carelessness, or just plain ignorance. This is very existential erotic horror, right on brand for what I expected from a Lysk book. Especially when it's coupled with gender and gender roles in a society and not being in control of your own person. The horror of being slave to biology, being a slave to your own biology, trapped by society in a role you don't want but can't avoid...too real. The wolf thing added an interesting component of struggling within yourself, while also giving the world some framework. This had some degree of weird romance(?not the right word) - the alphas were all trying (well except maybe Gabriel, idk about him, I am suspicious) to help Ray adjust and be happy and take care of him...but Ray is still trapped. He adjusts a little by the end, in a way thats just to...

Naked Ambition by Lisa Henry My rating: 4 of 5 stars Horse rating: 🐴 of 5 horses He was drowning, all right, and Taylor had just thrown him a lifeline. And next he was going to tighten it around his pretty little throat and pull. This was a very well done dark MMM(ish?i don't know, it depends how you count) retelling of the Emperor's New Clothes. I would not consider it a romance. Maybe it's erotic horror. I tried to write down things that should have been in the content warnings since I couldn't find any for the book: Content warnings: dubcon, noncon, sexual assault, drug use, drug addiction, noncon drug use Characters: Taylor: All his life Taylor had wanted to create, and it turned out that his masterpiece was going to be destruction. There was probably something profound in that, maybe even a lesson, or at least something that someone with a more philosophical bent would have pondered for a while, but Taylor wasn’t going to lose any sleep over it. .....