The emotional connection is the part that’s actually enjoyable to read about, in my opinion. Reading smut scenes feels like being sick and your roommate brought over their partner.

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im asexual and I 10000000% relate to this 💔💔

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honestly yeah. once people started reading for smut, authors started prioritizing that instead of the emotional connnection. now you have two of the most boring characters with “incredibly, mind blowing smut” like rewind pls

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I miss actual slow burns and yearning 😭

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No same! Cause the current state of romance novels, the author focuses on (mid) sex scenes, and then the plot, dialogue, and continuity are straight ass

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Yess, I totally agree with this. I don’t mind a FEW steamy scenes, but when I feel like they’re overshadowing the main plot or emotional connection, it’s too much

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A lot of the time I feel like oh I want this book to get some spicy parts. And then I get to the spicy parts and wish it would have just been some loving connected intimacy (not necessarily sexual) or developing a deeper connection instead. I don’t know. I read it and I’m always let down lol.

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Reading is quite the real thing towards fallowing passages of life so it’s always the meter that runs the most

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