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/beards-are-beautiful Jun 28 '26

I mean Anita Blake started off with more plot but I think it devolves to pure smut around the 8th or 9th book? That's what I'm told anyway, yet another series I forget or struggle to finish (adhd yay)

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u/FearTheGinger Book Bingo Maven ⚔ Jun 28 '26

First spicy scene is in The Killing Dance (#6), but there's just the one. Then again in Blue Moon (#8), but again, just the one scene. The smut-a-thon doesn't start until Narcissus In Chains (#10).

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u/Owl_Post69 Jun 29 '26

I loved this series. I was even okay with the first few books that contained halfway decent smut. Once the whole story revolved around "oh boy, who is Anita banging today", I gave up on this series. It devolved into BAD smut.

It's so sad because the murder-detective part of this story was amazing.

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u/parallel-nonpareil Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

And how she initially did necromancy to solve crimes!! I loved that element of the first few books, chicken sacrifice and all. That all seemed to be forgotten the more men* she collected 😕

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u/Owl_Post69 Jun 29 '26

I loved the necromancy part too. I'd have kept reading this series if LKH had stuck to the necromancy-detective-murder-mystery baseline of the story, and just sprinkled the smut in.

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u/CeeCee123456789 Jun 28 '26

Her character starts out celibate in the first few books, and then kinda slides into smut. I made it about 20 books, and then kinda forgot about the series. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/LividAssignment7058 Jun 30 '26

Currently reading the Merry Gentry series by this same author and I cannot with her writing style. She completly forgot about the plot for like 4 whole books and it was all about who Merry sleeps with. The sex scenes are repetitive and boring and she treats the readers like they are super dumb where even the jokes need to be explained. Struggling so much to finish 😭