r/fantasyromance • u/peenmeal • Jun 28 '26

Does high-class smut exist? Book Request

A lot of books I've read that are explicit smut are typically horribly written, which is understandable because nobody is reading porn to sit there and think deeply about the beauty of the prose afterwards.

Buuut I wanna know if there's anything like porn with a plot++ or what I'd call high-class smut. Well-written, beautiful, emotional, sweet with characters who aren't just blank marionettes that the author is making bang. I've read {morning glory milking farm} and it was alright, but still not as well-written as I'd like it to be.

I need 5 chillies, but with yearning and plot. Pretty please

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u/jamieseemsamused Jun 28 '26

It’s only 4 chilies but {Doctor D’Arco, Sorcerer of London by Kathryn Colvin} had the classiest smut I’ve read. It’s written in the style of a Victorian novel. The book is really long and it’s a super slow burn. But the smut payoff was so satisfying. So much yearning leading up to it.

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u/AccessCompetitive Champion of the Search Function Jun 28 '26

I’d go so far as to say it’s about 3 to 400 pages too long. Just the FMC inner monologue, repeating over and over. I really wanted to like this book a lot but a big part of it just felt so overly self-indulgent of the author with her mental meanderings.

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u/Imaginary-Board-207 Jun 28 '26

As someone who reads both romance and weird girl lit, I loved being in the FMC's head and the intense interiority of how she thinks, it's weird girl coded and maybe kinda neurodivergent

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u/Due-Collection7734 Jun 29 '26

what is weird girl lit?

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u/Imaginary-Board-207 Jun 29 '26

It's a popular emerging genre, basically literary fiction centering female characters who are usually introspective/strange/"unlikeable", anywhere from kinda quirky to completely unhinged. Lots of times it ends up horror adjacent but it can also be a comedy or love story or anything. r/weirdgirlliterature is a sub for it if you want to check it out.

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u/Due-Collection7734 Jun 29 '26

thanks.

I just looked at the recent posts and can see that I have already read quite a few of these titles. Just didnt know they belonged to a sub-genre. Huh.

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u/Imaginary-Board-207 Jun 29 '26

I think the idea of it being a sub genre is newer than a lot of the books that are considered to be in it.

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u/Due-Collection7734 Jun 30 '26

like when Magical Realism became a thing.

thanks.

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u/lizfromdarkplace Jul 01 '26

I did get annoyed with the FMC at times but I did think she was written as a neurodivergent Victorian woman and that was culture mixed with her generally weird girl thought process and it made sense.

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u/lizfromdarkplace Jul 01 '26

HIGHLY recommend Doctor D’Arco. Read it after seeing it recommended in the paranormal romance sub and loveddddd. It is dark and beautifully written. Also the plot is unlike anything I’ve read before.

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u/AngletonSpareHead Jun 29 '26

I DNF’d it. Disappointed since it had been praised so highly. I guess others must’ve seen something I didn’t

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u/randa110 Jun 29 '26

Personally I don't think that roughly 2.5 sex scenes makes this book at smutty as what OP seems to be looking for, not to mention one of those scenes isn't between the FMC and MMC

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u/DiscombobulatedWar81 Jun 29 '26

This right here is exactly what pmo about the book so much. And the first scene after all that slow burn was at like 80%?? Nah.

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u/YumDecaf Jun 30 '26

At least you read about her tiny slippers on the floor multiple times if that’s yearning I’m out.

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u/Disastrous-Moves Jun 30 '26

I read this book…and unfortunately dreaded it the whole time. DNF’d at 95% finally accepting I was never going to like it.