Insatiable: ‘A frank, funny account of 21st-century lust' Independent

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The much vaunted sex is pretty clinical and all those descriptions of mechanical body parts with no passion just became boring to the point that I started skimming them. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. Maybe I can't love the way the other people love, and I just need to find enough to rescue myself, to protect myself from that which does not nourish me or make me strong. First of all: she just happens to meet a hot couple into swinging and she has AMAZING sex with all the people involved all the time? Few books out in the early half of the year are as flat-out entertaining as Buchanan's fizzy, filthy story of a young woman's sexual awakening.

There is a deep understanding of the insecurity buried deep in all of us ,of our desire to love and be loved ,to fit in and feel secure within our own bodies. The first person narrative works extremely well for this story and I loved the way all Violet's inner conflicts are there for us to see. In real life, people might be worried about how they look naked or feel their basque is itchy or what the fuck ever. I love both Buchanan and Tu’s exploration of female desire through their flawed characters and the fact that the line between this desire vs the simmering loneliness, sadness and desperation underneath is blurred.It is a story about being unable to tell whether you are running towards your future or simply running away from your past. She also has a lot of sex scenes in her books, but if you think Jilly Cooper is erotica, you just haven’t read any erotica. If the concept of a story about a frustrated and entitled ‘Millennial’ – in scare quotes a) because I find this generational concept inherently flawed and b) Violet, the MC, isn’t a Millennial, she’s a fucking Gen X-er – who in fleeing various responsibilities stumbles (literally) into an orgy club and proceeds to have badly-written orgies rings your bell, press on! Stars | INSATIABLE BY DAISY BUCHANAN went down a treat like a delicious glass of red after a long day at work. Her story explores people-pleasing, boundaries and confidence, poverty and the longing for human connection, jealousy, the closeness of friendship and what it's like to grow apart, and missing someone while slowly realising how awful they really were.

I will never, ever do anything bad again if I can just pretend that reality is suspended in this one room. I was totally engrossed, and couldn't put it down, after struggling to concentrate on reading for the last few months, I was absolutely gripped. I’ll give proof below, but at several points I was pulled out of an already excruciatingly unsexy sex scene by wondering how someone’s legs got there, or where their head was at this moment, or how they moved from A to B. Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend: Violet’s life is nothing like she thought it would be.Consumed by desire and wanting - there is a huge disconnect between her logical thoughts and her actions, causing a consistent internal tension. Imagine Nina LaCour for slightly older girls, Dolly Alderton for slightly younger girls, or Sally Rooney for people who aren't acutely suicidal (or those who want to at least read about a character who isn't). Again, I’m at my limit of books about twenty something chicks with low level admin jobs living beyond their means in major cities who go on sex adventures. I feel like I'm gambling, and I'm scared that if I throw everything into the idea of this new job and new life, I might end up with no jobs at all.