I’m still debating on how to address the rare occurrences in which I manage to find a book in which no one bangs. Oddly enough the ones with the most salacious set ups or characters putting great importance on getting laid are the books that sadly do not put out. I’m torn between throwing and handful of confetti and shouting “Congratulations!” when I finish a book like this or just setting it to the side gratefully before getting back down to business.
As of now these books will be listed here mostly for stat keeping purposes (at the end of the year I’ll total up how many books I read and how many of them involved banging). If the book in question is part of a series in which banging in involved in other books I’ll mention it in the overall stats for the series.
Here we go:
Never After, by Rebecca Lickis
(Lots of importance placed on virginity, tons of flirting and coupling up but no actual deeds done)
The Princes Of The Golden Cage, by Nathalie Mallet
(Main character spends most of the book whining about not getting sex and then surprisingly does not get sex. This is one of the books I was expecting to be a bang fest but it’s painful to listen to this guy talking about how much he wishes it was a bangfest.)
Heartless (Book 4 of the Parasol Protectorate), By Gail Carriger (Main Character spends most of the book 8 months pregnant so no banging for her and the secondary characters aren’t banging either. Odd sidenote: I keep finding this book shelved in the Romance section in various bookstores even though I would say this is definitely not romantic)
The Shapechanger’s Wife, by Sharon Shinn
(No banging but it’s heavily implied that two men have banged a transmogrified tree)
Expecting Someone Taller, by Tom Holt
(Lots of emphasis on love and forswearing it, which is expected for a Ring Cycle modernization/continuation no banging though)
The Snow Queen’s Shadow (Book 4 of the Princess Series), by Jim C. Hines
(Lots of eyebrow waggling and implication in the epilogue but everything happens off page and is only heavily implied so I can’t count this book.)
The Automatic Detective, by A. Lee Martinez
(A wonderful retro-futurist noir that’s fast paced and fun without all that pesky femme fatal focus. No banging involved but there are moments of fun romantic tension between a robot and an implied technophile hinting at a possible romantic future but in a completely asexual way.)
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