Tag: LGBTQA

The Parasol Protectorate: Series Recap

Mary Golding

The Parasol Protectorate

By Gail Carriger

Number of Books in Series: 5

Number of Books They Bang In: 4

Overall Bangs In Series: 15.5

Series Average of Bangs Per Book: 3.1

Do Supernatural Characters Bang In the Series?: Yes, werewolves, a lot. Like pretty constantly. Oddly enough while vampires exist in this series and do have relationships that are talked about, there is no explicit banging.

Are Different Sexualities Depicted In The Series?: Yes, the majority of secondary characters in these books are Queer.

If Present Do They Get To Bang?: YES! I’m so excited about this. While the majority of the series focuses on one heterosexual couple and their relationship we do get insights into the relationships of the queer characters and a couple of very sweet bangs

Number of Partners: 1. Main couple hooks up in book 1 and is monogamous. Secondary couple has mentions of previous partners but only bangs written about are with each other.

Final Thoughts and Recommendations: If you like like light and fluffy books with a side of spice this is a good series. It’s got enough science, action, and intrigue to keep you invested with enough focus on relationships and emotions to keep the characters relatable. It’s a smart steampunk fantasy mixed with a soap opera that writes within the heads of the characters so well that you might miss the alternate science and history the world is built on being dropped into the story because it’s so seamless. I wanted to hate this series when I first picked it up because I thought it was going to be just another badly written fanfic-ish romance disguised as a fantasy novel to make it marketable but I was completely wrong. It’s got wit and heart. I honestly like it and the characters even though by all means I shouldn’t. If my awkward descriptions of it seem like your thing pick it up and check it out. If you like it there are multiple series written within the same world with some of the characters making cameos.


The Mermaid’s Madness

Mary Golding

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.