But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo

 

Review copy provided by the publisher.

First: arachnophobes should not read this novella. No, seriously. Do not. The cover is not an overdramatization of how arachnid-laden the book is, if anything the cover is an understatement. It is constant spiders up in here. Flee while you still can.

Okay, for those of you who did not run screaming from that: I am not the target audience for this book, I think. I'm not actually opposed to wall-to-wall spiders (seriously, literally), but this is the kind of sapphic monsterfucker book that I think would be intolerable if it was about straight people, and I don't actually find it less intolerable this way. "Sure she literally eats people on a whim, but she has never felt truly seen and I truly see her" uh cool story pal but not actually a cooler story with "she" than it would be with "he."

I know that there is a target audience for this book! That "she is a horrible giant spider lady who does horrible things in a vividly described setting, and then the sex" is something some people really, truly want. If that's you, here it is, no shaming here, just: wow is that not for me, I will be somewhere else.