Girls Just Wanna Read Smut!

 Once upon a time in a town far far away there lived a young woman with stories in her head and sex on her mind. One day whilst browsing the YA section at the local library she stumbled into the pages of a book that would forever change the history of her TBR list. Spoiler alert: The young woman was me. Beautiful Disaster by our lord Jamie McGuire was published in 2011 and my little fourteen year old heart PATTERED when I spotted that beautiful book on our "New This Week" shelf. By this time my favorite authors were along the lines of Simone Elkeles, Katie McGarry, PC and Kristin Cast, Cassandra Clare, and Sarah Dessen. You know, the pre-smut greats. The stepping stones that paved my way on this journey to smut. Although it was not my normal safe beloved authors or my then-favorite genre it was close enough that I nabbed that book and made my way to the counter under the disapproving gaze of the librarian that I could tell thought I was too young for this "not your mothers romance" title. 

And when I cracked. That. Cover. 

A spark flew. A firework popped. And my heart sang. What I would consider tame for me now was everything I could ever want back then. I was consumed, lost to the story, barely breaking between pages to breathe. Fighting, gambling, sexy times, and soul had me sucked in. A mere 6 hours later my book was finished but I was not. An addiction had been born. I soon abandoned my little YA world to explore the excitement of the NA unknown. Soon I'd read through everything available to me in that section of the library. Cora Carmack, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Colleen Hoover, and more had accompanied me on my NA self discovery and they all had one thing in common that I loved and wanted more of. Sex. What can I say? I was a horny teenager. And it wasn't the fumbling, awkward, sometimes OK, sometimes not kind of sex I was having at that time. It was toe curling, heart racing, orgasm inducing great sex. What was a girl to do? I made my way back to the library for probably the thousandth time that year and found myself perusing the descriptions of many books in the romance section my mother usually occupied.

Then it happened. I picked up an innocent looking book with a piece of fruit gracing the understated and tasteful cover. Sweet Surrender by my personal goddess of love and smut Maya Banks. *All hail Maya*. And I didn't read the blurb or peak in the pages because when I turned the book over intending to read the description my eye caught on something else instead. A content warning stating this book contained situations not appropriate for readers under 18. What was meant to be a deterrent only encouraged my little rule breaker heart (sorry Maya). And thus I made my way to the counter. If I'd thought my librarians graze had been disapproving before, the look she gave me this time could have skinned me alive if I had let it. However, it only told me that I was definitely on to something with this one. And was I ever. It was something darker, dirtier, more of everything my horndog heart beats for. I read that book, then the next, and the next after that and soon moved on to the Breathless Trilogy. A new taste for the forbidden had hatched. Lora Leigh, Shayla Black, Olivia Cunning all followed me on my path to what I read now. Which is a little bit of all of it. As long as it's romance, I'm game. But that's enough about me and my journey. 

I'm here to help you walk your smutty path. I'm here to help you decide what books are going to be your stepping stones and awakenings. So follow me down this road of sex and sin and allow me to be your guide. I have books past and present to review just for you so that you have a little devil on your shoulder to point you in the right direction. Stay tuned to hear my thoughts uncensored on all books and authors and everything in between that I have read. Posts may be sporadic, my words may sometimes seem jumbled, and I am by no means a professional so consider yourselves warned. But if you're here to stay grab a blanket and a strong drink. Curl up on your bed or couch, sit down, and buckle up because if you stick with me your journey will be every bit as wild and untamed as mine was. When the world seems dull let me help to transport you to a world (or worlds) far better (or at least more exciting) than the one we live in. At the end of the day, Girls Just Wanna Read Smut. AmIright?