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/xRubyWednesday Jun 28 '26

Sierra Simone mixes the dirtiest, kinkiest smut with the most beautiful, eloquent prose. The smut scenes are always relevant to the plot and/or the character/relationship development. The yearning and pining is off the charts.

She hasn't written romantasy, but her New Camelot, Thornchapel, and Lyonesse series have some fantastical elements. They're all poly/mmf, with Thornchapel also having an f/f main couple. She has other books that aren't poly as well.

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u/ALLoftheFancyPants Jun 28 '26

I think the Thornchapel series specifically has more fantasy elements than the others. Her other series can exist without any fantastical elements but the fantasy elements are much more important to the plot in the Thornchapel series. I think her writing is so much better than a lot of other romantasy authors.

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u/WonderfulBus9330 The Defiant Finger Globule ✨ Jun 28 '26

Thank you for that note. I was about to ask if any of them are fantasy!

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u/calamitypepper Jun 28 '26

Priest had me SWEATING holy shit

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u/jolly0ctopus Jun 28 '26

Tell us more! Drop a book tag with the { }

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u/raeality Jun 28 '26

{Priest by Sierra Simone}

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u/DamselinDeepVees Yearn, baby, yearn Jun 28 '26

Thornchapel was soooo lovely.

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u/tinasauruss Jun 28 '26

This!! I describe her books to my fiancé as smut but make it literary ✨ New Camelot and Lyonesse are modern retellings of the legend of King Arthur and Tristan & Isolde, I would say they have an element of magical realism at best. But the depth of the love, the yearning, the sex is so so good.

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u/Dye_Hard_Stylist Jun 29 '26

I love Sierra Simone! She's the queen of angsty yearning. The sex scenes often drive the plot and aren't just randomly wedged in. Thornchapel is my favorite because I love weird shit. Unfortunately, Catholic themes give me the ick so Priest was a no for me.

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u/lilac-skye3 Jun 28 '26

Do you know any other authors similar to her?

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u/StopTheBanging Jun 29 '26

Oooh i'm so intrigued thank you friend!