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Originally Posted by ratinox
My opinion: If it's gratuitous then it does nothing to develop characters and nothing to advance the plot. It's dead weight. The existence of dead weight makes me question the competence of author and editor. Persistence across a larger body of work can cause me to drop an author from my reading list entirely.
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That's the reason I avoid paranormal romance as a rule (and romance in general).
I will say I thought the sex in The Barrow was frequently kinky going on (BD)SM. I tolerated it as it's a fantasy novel, but if it was set in a realistic situation (modern or historical) I would have badged the book as more hard core than erotic. As I mentioned earlier, some of it had bearing on the plot, but some I thought not. Artesia (the comic) is definitely 18+, but some of the sex in The Barrow I thought went a lot further. (And before you ask, I have read some of the Marquis' output - some of which I thought was tolerable, but mostly off-putting or plain tedious.)