Bang For Your Books

Title: The Mermaid’s Madness
Author: Jim C. Hines
Book in the Series: Book 2 of the Princess series
Page Number: 173 for first mention of banging in hindsight 176 for mention of actual banging
Scale Of Realistic Detail: 0 for multiple reasons, 1 it’s mermaids, 2 this author gets a little bit too into it when describing female sexuality and it’s always a little hot and heavy handed.
Is Anyone Involved A Virgin?: No
Is Anyone Involved A Magical Creature?: Everyone involved in the actual banging instead of just reminiscing about banging is a mermaid. The author does point out rather bluntly that the characters are expecting a mermaid orgy and we get a very brief and strangely chaste description of one.
Is It Consensual: Yes? I mean they’re all responding to pheromones in the water that make them want to bang but they seem to all be consenting.
Is It A Plot Device: Oddly enough yes, the characters have to swim through the area during the mermaid orgy so the mermaids are distracted and don’t catch them.
Kinks Involved: Fish?
Bangs Per Book: Like the other books by this author there is little banging but a lot of sexual innuendo and characters thinking about past sexual experiences. So maybe 2 for mentions of banging during the mermaid orgy and you can probably throw in another 2 for characters talking about past experiences for a total of 4ish.
Did You Feel Dirty For Reading This?: Yes, but not because of overly sexual content. It was dirty like touching something that had juice spilled on it days ago and wasn’t cleaned up, sticky grimy and slightly unpleasant. There are strong female characters but they are overly sexualized without actually giving them agency over their sexuality. Also, there’s the big elephant in the room of the author’s habit of sticking lesbians and bisexual female characters into his books. I love when there is queer representation within the main characters in fiction but, his depictions of them can be problematic for instance making the storyline with the only gay character in this series revolve around her being secretly in love with her very straight best friend and occasionally eyeing her and getting aroused in situations where they have to be naked because the plot says so. I need to go wash the juice off my soul.