In which there is yet another brooding leading man, unsexy sex scenes, and an underutilized setting, this is Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon!

In Bodice Ripping’s fifth episode, our heroines try (and partially fail) to power through the worst book yet. The story is set in New Orleans, but you wouldn’t know it since it could literally be anywhere else, and though the leading man Kyrian, who is an immortal Greek Darkhunter constantly mistaken for a vampire, has a character arc and somewhat of a personality, his love interest, Amanda, isn’t quite as exciting. Though she intentionally wants to be boring due to problems with her supernatural family, she never really comes into her own or develops into anything more than cardboard, even when revealed to have psychic powers. Join our favorite ladies as they discuss consent (again), dramatic exits in body bags, magic vaginas that can apparently heal extreme trauma, and Barbies disguised as murder weapons.