Episode 44: Boning Bones
There’s no bones about it… we’ve got a bonefied epsiode this week for you! Sarah teaches us all about skeletons and baculum, and Jess dives into the sexuality that accompanies our skeleton romances. We chat with Desirée M. Niccoli about her book Untethering Dark, the first monster romance under the publisher Harlequin. We consume some bonefied monster media, and explore bone daddies as we rate those skeletal baddies. Hit play on this spine-tingling episode now!
Our guest this week:
Our guest today is an author that writes a blend of vicious romance and cozy horror, featuring monsters, villains, and the supernatural, often served with (mostly) emotionally intelligent characters and heart. Her books include the newly released Untethering Dark, the first monster romance released by Harlequin.
Learn more about our guest on her website here or on her Instagram here.
Untethering Dark - Desirée M. Niccoli
In the shadows of the forest, he waits…
A bloody and bewitching monster romance from Desirée M. Niccoli.
A winter hag in training, Astrid spends her days in the Black Forest sharpening her spell craft and flinging axes at tourists, and her nights leaving offerings to the ancient eldritch monster that guards the woods. She’s one sex ritual away from leaving the last trace of her unwanted humanity behind and stepping into her full power.
It’s the perfect life. Until a group of unruly humans brings that same deadly monster to her doorstep. Now, her only hope for survival is a plate of poisoned cookies.
Gudariks has roamed the Black Forest since it sprouted its first trees, consuming any who violate his beloved land. Lured to the witch’s gate, he is amused at her attempt to poison him with sweets…but spending time with her awakens millennia of repressed desire. Astrid doesn’t shy away from the gentle caress of his claws or his most ravenous attentions.
As witch and monster find long-buried heat in the wintery landscape they call home, signs of a dark, lost magic begin to appear in the forest. When a rising supernatural threat has them questioning not only their ability to protect the forest, but Gudariks’s own immortality, their only solution may be to share their strength and create a union beyond mortal comprehension.
Media we consumed:
No Bones About It: a modern monster romance
Fifer Ione is an asexual selkie. She likes sexual fantasy, and she wants to fall in love. Only, erm, without the touching parts. Without the fluids parts. Without the gross, real parts. Just the good stuff.
When Hollis Mac appears at open mic night at the Meck and reveals that his skeletal face means he lacks skin, so he lacks, you know, anything gross, she can’t help but feel as if he’s what she’s been waiting for her whole life.
Except Hollis is some ancient fae thing, exiled and odd, very wealthy, very aloof. He doesn’t think he’s quite capable of love, only desire, endless and aching and exploitive. His kind, he says, only want to devour things, especially pretty young things like her.
But she trusts him.
Or anyway, she’s curious enough to risk it.
Some things are worth the risk.
This book doesn’t depict a lot of actual, physical intercourse. But it does depict a lot of shared fantasy about intercourse, and since it’s a book, are we splitting hairs here? Content includes: vampire blood play and biting, breeding, capture, spanking, and soothing during noncon.
Thrice-Boned in the Graveyard: MFMM Three Skeletons and a Witch
by Mina Tor
Grace needs help. Luckily she's a witch, and help is easy to make. But the help just might unmake her instead.
When Grace breaks into the graveyard, she intends to use her witchcraft to build her helpers from dusty old bones. But a chance encounter with her ex-boyfriend and two of his pack leaves her begging for satisfaction. So she's more than a bit distracted while she's performing the spell to build three skeleton helpers. They understand her needs. It's built into them. And they're determined to satisfy their mistress.
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