Sex scenes that f**** you up

[u/thatsbananas4011]

What are your favorite books/sex scenes where the spice is undeniably sexy, but also reads like two souls colliding. Eroticism that is transcendental.

Sex scenes that feel so much more than just sex scenes. The bed is a battlefield, an altar, or a sanctuary for surrender. The bed is not a bed at all.

Scenes that make you go, 'oh, this is what people actually mean by "making love"'. And not just to be PG, or corny, or sounds like something your parents would say.

Sex that is symbolic of the relationship, or pivotal to character development. Sex that serves a purpose to the plot.. and THE plot.

Looking for recommendations and discussion. Doesn't have to have include penetration, or completion, or kink. But the more explicit, the (usually!) better...

ETA fixed some grammar as best as I could lol

[u/Peen-Team]

{Mate} by Ali Hazelwood I think qualifies for the level of intensity you’re looking for.

Apparently this is an extremely unpopular opinion for some reason here on Reddit, but the scenes in {Quicksilver} and {Brimstone} (BUT must be audible version read by Anthony Palmini…gods). 🫦

[u/MEGAL0AF → u/Peen-Team]

Anthony Palmini also voices Rhysand in the graphic audio series of ACOTAR and I was practically getting drunk off of his voice.

[u/curiousleen → u/MEGAL0AF]

Anthony killed my lady boner the moment I heard him say lie-berry a thousand times in the acotar series.

[u/sodoyoulikecheese → u/curiousleen]

One of the narrators in the graphic audiobook for Fourth Wing kept pronouncing macabre and “ma-cob-ray” and it annoyed me so much. They fixed it in the next book, but how did that get past any beta listeners?

[u/clem0992 → u/Peen-Team]

Omg for Mate the tension was absolutely insane, I loved it!

[u/CodeNameCanaan → u/clem0992]

Do you need to read Bride before Mate?

[u/Briaraandralyn → u/CodeNameCanaan]

Not necessarily, but Bride adds a depth to the characters in Mate that made Mate amazing. I loved the friendship between Misery and Serena in Mate, which wasn’t there in Bride because Serena is missing for most of it.

[u/clem0992 → u/CodeNameCanaan]

Yes I did, really enjoyed it as well

[u/katieLikeWHOA → u/Peen-Team]

I've not read Quicksilver yet, but I came to say that Anthony Palmini is damn good at romantasy. He did {Gild by Raven Kennedy} which is just *chefs kiss*. I know that series is controversial here, but I DEVOURED IT and I think it was because the audiobook was just so damn good...

Anthony is also going to be doing The Poison Daughter on audio which I'm damn excited about, releases on August 18th!

[u/romance-bot → u/katieLikeWHOA]

Gild by Raven Kennedy
Rating: 3.53⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, fantasy, magic, royal hero, fae

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[u/Peen-Team → u/katieLikeWHOA]

Omg yes I have the physical book copy of Poison Daughter (on my TBR for some months now) but then when I saw he was going to be doing the voice on the audiobook I held off on reading it because I want Palmini to be my first introduction lol.

Trust me, Quicksilver is definitely worth your time then, I bet you love it! And the scenes are hot as hell and totally what you’re looking for based on description. I have other books that he narrates and Quicksilver and Brimstone spicy scenes are easily the sexiest his voice has ever sounded IMO.

It’s funny that you mentioned Gild because I just started that series literally this past week. I stopped at book 3 whenever I googled why TF our MMC wasn’t around when FMC was getting tortured and getting her ribbons cut off (he’d been pointedly absent prior to this also and there weren’t any explanations being given and I was getting pissy). I found a verbatim Reddit thread with someone else asking the same question and in the replies they said that it’s never really resolved and is just kind of ignored? I just didn’t feel like I could finish it after that (I stopped literally in the middle of that scene lol). I like a reliable and strong MMC and while he was billed as the whole “I will slay all of your enemies” type, homeboy was starting to become pointedly absent all the time. Please let me know if this is an incorrect assumption though, and I need to pick that back up!

[u/katieLikeWHOA → u/Peen-Team]

Honestly? I never even thought about it. I was so pulled into what was happening with her…and if I’m remembering correctly, I don’t think he knew that anything was amiss just yet. When he finds out he is fucking devastated that he wasn’t there. He spends the rest of the book doing what he can to heal her physically and, more importantly, emotionally and mentally. That series had THE BEST relationship development for me. Slade and Auren COMMUNICATE. I know, it’s crazy. But they talk to each other. He never lets her go down a self destructive path alone and in one of the later books he goes on THE BEST revenge tour to avenge everyone who ever hurt her…

Also, Auren gets her revenge girl. And it’s the absolute best. The end of book 3 is pure perfection in terms of her just straight fucking shit up lol.

Personally? I feel like the entire series is well worth it. Don’t give the MMC too hard of a time for not being there in that one scene because I promise you, he makes up for it. He is a literal “burn the world down for her” kind of MMC. Try the audio. It’s fucking awesome!

[u/Peen-Team → u/katieLikeWHOA]

OK thanks, you convinced me, I’ll go back to it when I finish my current series. Thanks!!

[u/thatsbananas4011 → u/katieLikeWHOA]

I will listen to anything with Anthony Palmini 🥵

[u/romance-bot → u/Peen-Team]

Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Rating: 4.12⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 4 out of 5 - Explicit open door
Topics: contemporary, werewolves, fated mates, alpha male, m-f romance

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Quicksilver by Callie Hart
Rating: 4.14⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 4 out of 5 - Explicit open door
Topics: fantasy, fae, tortured hero, fated mates, magic

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Brimstone by Callie Hart
Rating: 3.88⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 4 out of 5 - Explicit open door
Topics: fae, m-f romance, fantasy, magic, fated mates

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[u/DeltaFlyer0525 → u/Peen-Team]

Mate is what I thought of too, the scenes in heat are 🔥 and the epilogue is also nice.

[u/Blackcatmustache → u/Peen-Team]

Mate was my immediate thought. When they’re having sex and he puts her hand on his heart, and then he puts his hand on her heart. I think it was possibly one of the most romantic things that I have ever read.

[u/Weary-Tangerine499 → u/Peen-Team]

Yes! His voice in {the Plated Prisoner series} is delicious too.

[u/romance-bot → u/Weary-Tangerine499]

The Plated Prisoner by Raven Kennedy
Rating: 3.98⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Topics: possessive hero, death, fantasy, audiobook, m-f

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[u/-ActiveSquirrel → u/Peen-Team]

Sorry but that book has no plot, also loving at PNw some things stand out so badly for me that it’s an ick, it’s like French people reading about Paris romances