Shelf Pleasure

Better later than never! Shelf Pleasure is back to talk heavy religious trauma and magical baby making in The Succubus’s Prize by Katee Robert. Because who needs therapy when you can have wild fertility orgies in a sex demon realm instead? 

CW: explicit sex, abuse, religious trauma, cancer

Some might say dirty talk can make or break a spicy scene... so it’s time to see how Shelf Pleasure's latest read fared with this challenge. This month, Krista and Kelsey keep the contemporary romances going with The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. Bonus points if you can guess which classical song gets referenced in this book.

CW: explicit sex, violence, ableism, sexual harassment, sexual assault

Shelf Pleasure is back and this month they're bringing you some college-age romance with Icebreaker by Hannah Grace. Listen in to learn who loved it, who hated it, and who (surprisingly) had enough sport-related knowledge to tell fact from fiction.

CW: explicit sex, violence, alcohol use, gaslighting, slut shaming, disordered eating, death of a parent (historical), assault

In the last episode of 2023, Shelf Pleasure makes the Yuletide gay with Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun. Listen in and decide for yourself: is there enough magic in a snow day to make instalove work??

CW: explicit sex, alcohol and marijuana use, abusive relationship with a parental figure

Shelf Pleasure heads back to Christmas Notch this week to explore A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone. Listen in as Krista and Kelsey discuss their mutual distaste for *certain* romance tropes and learn just how little effort is required to Google “how to masturbate with a vagina”.

CW: explicit sex, infidelity, religious and purity culture trauma, complications with pregnancy and discussions of pregnancy loss

This week on Shelf Pleasure, we reach the end of our journey in Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty series with Beauty’s Release. If you thought it couldn’t get wilder than the Bridle Path or the Place of Public Punishments…you thought wrong. 

CW: explicit sex, violence, BDSM, pedophilia, enslavement, human trafficking, torture, female genital mutilation (FGM), rape

This week on Shelf Pleasure, Krista and Kelsey dive deeper into the madness with Beauty’s Punishment by Anne Rice. Listen in and learn about creative new things to get stuffed with (just in time for Thanksgiving!)

CW: explicit sex, violence, BDSM, pedophilia, enslavement, human trafficking, torture, rape

This week, Shelf Pleasure is throwing it back to 1983 and diving into The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice. Trust us when we say this is unlike any fairy tale you've heard before.

CW: explicit sex, violence, BDSM, pedophilia, enslavement, human trafficking, torture, rape

Is fucking a ghost the best revenge? Find out when Krista and Kelsey discuss Rough Ghost Lover by Cassie Alexander. As the show’s first official erotica novel, it’s absolutely wild from start to finish. 

CW: explicit sex, infidelity, BDSM, violence, attempted sexual assault, human sacrifice, murder

The Kate Prior series Claws and Cubicles continues this week as Krista and Kelsey review The Orc from the Office. Listen in to learn what orc penises look like and how some light violence can really spice up your meet-cute. 

CW: explicit sex, non-human genitalia, violence, workplace romance