reading the bizarre tiktok monster romance so you don't have to

at least she's enjoying it I'm not my heart melts as his tentacles unfasten my Barista apron this is the point where the book truly becomes something I never could have foreseen there is a blight on The Tick Tock for you page a certain type of book that is being recommended to people over and over again unprovoked out of nowhere having nothing to do with their regular taste in books I have seen it on my for you page many times and I keep looking at it because I'm just so fascinated and weirded out at the same time I'm talking about the monster smuts written by Siggy shade these monster smut stories always involve some bizarre monster human romance from stalking boogeymans to your boyfriend cheating with Bigfoot to tentacle monsters from another dimension they're recommended with the use of these seemingly AI General created images accompanied by a bit of explanation of the plot and of course a spice rating these tick tocks get almost millions of views just because of how bizarre they are they're even tick tocks of people talking about getting Ziggy shade on their for you page sticky shade what is the brain activity up there like now this is a book reviewing Channel and let's just say that my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to take one for the team so I read tentacle entanglement by Ziggy shade at what cost when you accidentally summon a lonely tentacle monster he enters your bedroom in the middle of the night then convinces you that eight arms are better than two and he leaves you feeling exhausted and satisfied when this book arrived in the mail I was a little scared I've read horrible poorly written problematic romance on this channel before and I've deeply criticized them of their glorification of abusive behavior and bad writing and I was ready to do it again now there is actually a very neat list of content warnings at the start of the book so that you know what you're getting into for example I read the list and thought nope that does not sound like something I ever want to read and then proceeded to read it anyway for your guys's sake at the end it says all acts in this book take place between two consenting adults which I find very funny because one of the content warnings is for murder did that happen between two consenting adults let's find out we start off with our main character Lexi complaining about the cold and then she hears a voice being carried over the wind and it Whispers mates to which I thought oh I didn't know this book was British and then I realized that they mean like soul mate kind of mates we get a little bit of an introduction to Lexi she's a barista but she really wants to make her hobby of making art her real job but no one really takes her seriously no one appreciates her no one appreciates her art she's very lonely but then one of her co-workers and friends Jessica is like you know what you should do you should listen to this video of like subconscious deep brain waves to to attract a soul mate you know those videos that you sometimes randomly get recommended of like listen to this while you sleep to clear your skin or to get good grades those kind of videos but to attract the soulmate that's what our main character listens to um and then she kind of lists all the things that she's looking for in a soul mate he has to be tall of course he has to be the type of man who reps his strong arms around my body I guess you can see where this is going oh and uh she she wants one who doesn't listen to Alpha Male podcast which you know if he's being from another dimension I'm sure they don't have Andrew Tate there then at night she sees a tall figure standing at the foot of her bed his head nearly reaching the lampshade Moonlight streams in from the window Illuminating his biceps and broad shoulders this by the way is already a better description because at first I really thought he was going to be just like an octopus man like a literal octopus monster um but he does resemble a human being uh to some extent the Intruder spreads his arms wide shadowy tentacles shoot out from his torso that's when tendrils of Doubt creep out from the farthest corners of my mind which honestly sorry tendrils of doubt that is literary genius right there every ragged breath makes my nipples tinge which is a strange thing to think about considering I'm about to die the monster's tentacles are everywhere around my waist between my thighs I guess you can see where this is going so this monster turns out to Come From Another Dimension and he is her soul mate you know because she used the soulmate vibrations video and it actually attracted her soul mate who is a tentacle monster but you know we get a description of his face which is a arched brows high cheekbones and a perfectly straight nose his mouth is white not monstrously so and his lips are sensual and full maybe this entire book is just fan fiction about handsome octo so she grabs whatever is near her and just grabs like a toy from her nightstand throws it at him in self-defense but he catches it of course because you know the tentacles and he's like what is this weapon of yours is it an Implement for food preparation one thing leads to another and our main character has a brief moment of existential introspection where she wonders could I really let a tentacle monster go down on me you know those are the questions they don't teach you the answer to in school I hope that by now we're all noticing that this book is very clearly not written to be like a regular book it's very unserious and it doesn't take itself seriously at all and I feel like that is kind of the case for most Monster smart novels I mean if you just take a look at the titles that others give to these novels you can kind of see it's all kind of tongue-in-cheek there's a lot of genre self-awareness of how weird and bizarre it is but it's just people having fun with like their fun little weird monster fantasies and just kind of giving an outlet to it and I think it's very easy to just kind of make this video and be like haha look at this insane thing you would have to be insane to write this I don't want to give in to the tendency that people have to look at women making a joke and a assuming that they're not in on their own joke we still live under the idea that women aren't funny and I very often see this leading you know online to people not realizing when a woman makes a joke and then laughing at her not realizing that it was a joke and not just a woman being dumb or incapable and I feel like a kind of similar thing might be happening to like the monster smart genre where people just look at it and think oh my gosh this is so bad and so horribly written when in reality it yeah I think it's on purpose I'm pretty sure it's on purpose like when I first opened this book and read the dedication on the first page I knew that I just struck 24 karat gold it reads to everyone who ever wanted things to pump and grind in the night immediately showing me that this book does not take itself serious at all all the bits that we're laughing at we're laughing at them not because they're poorly written but because Siggy Shader wrote these things as a joke except for the whole spicy part that is definitely serious um but we'll get there because they are now soul mates he wants her to stop using the tool this is the moment where I thought oh no there we go this is where we're gonna get some horrifically problematic smut scenes like I've seen so many times before in these kind of stories but actually our main character has a pretty pretty honestly pretty great moment where she's like well if you don't want me to use the toy maybe you should prove to me that you are better than this and honestly good for her they then proceed to establish very clear consent before all the smart happens I did not expect this to happen the scene itself definitely includes a few jump scares such as instead of the pointed tentacle tip I expect you know of course you just expect that normal tentacle dip right the appendage splits into smaller tendrils as fine as string he rubs my belly preparing me for something ominous what are you doing I ask making sure you have enough room for what permission seems important to you he replies matter-of-factly and I won't move on to phase three until you give me your enthusiastic consent phase three what is phase three if you think well that's quick so does Lexi she's like actually no I don't want to do that and then they proceed to not do that not until I give you my permission is that understood caused by mate he replies sorry I just I can't read it any other way at this point I thought you know what this really isn't that bad I didn't know what was coming for me later down the line she goes back to her room when we get to know the monster a little bit more okay because now it's light outside but he doesn't want to show himself to her he only wants to show himself in the dark I'm not having sex with an octopus man that refuses to show his true form you know I can't say I disagree with the main character I can't say so she shines a light on his face and he is revealed to be a beautiful Angelic man with blonde hair and blue eyes and handsome features but then he says I wish you hadn't done that why not his handsome face turns cold and his lips curve into a grin as sharp as it is wicked light erodes our compassion now I have no reservations about taking what I want from my mates uh-oh he stalks towards her and letting her know that he is going to take what he wants but I thought you wanted to take it slow I squeak that was before all the goodness in me burned out in the light Lexi as the smart girl that she is immediately turns off the light hoping that he will revert back to his sweet self but then the light just turns on seemingly out of nowhere my eyes widen how did you do that tentacles he says with the wink tries to run away but he catches her you know because because of the tentacles yeah and this is where yet again I thought well here we go there it is another romance book where some Alpha Man being dominant and possessive is being used as an excuse for dubious consent but I was mistaken and we actually get a pretty great example of how you can establish consent in a situation with the power Dynamic like this I'm gonna be honest I'm not lying when I say that this book has better consent than some of the romance books that I've read like normal mainstream Romance Books sticky shade could write an Emily Henry book but Emily Henry could never write a singing shade book the tentacles end up in her mouth which honestly is one of the less weird places that his tentacles are gonna end up being we're only on page 50 guys we're only on page 50. he's doing all these things to her that are honestly pretty horrible I'll spell I'll spare you the details but they were all we were warned in with the content warnings she's like crying and all your face is contorting he wipes my eyes there is now moisture in your nostrils yes I say through hiccuping breads that's what happens when a person gets overloaded I will remember to limit the strikes on York to three this is funny so although she was enjoying herself at first at some point the torture just gets a little bit too much for her you know you know how that happens sometimes and remember how like the monster is very sadistic when the light is on but sweeter when the light is off this actually creates a pretty clever setup where Lexi can use the light switch as a safe word so the moment the scene is getting a little bit too much for her she can just turn off the lights now granted they don't use this in the rest of the book at all anymore but could have been cool he then provides her with Aftercare he gives her a massage he cuddles her he wraps his tentacles around her like a cocoon I don't think a weighted blanket can match that I rolled up one of my tentacles to form a cushion for you while I work yeah then we just get smut scene after a smut scene at which point I started questioning my entire life my place in the universe and how I'm using my time I feel like when you're opening a fanfic and you see the tag dead dog do not eat and you think to yourself it's fine I'll just read it and then you realize it's not fine it's not even close to being fine then we get a bit of a character storyline because throughout the story Lexi has been referring to him as the monster but he is kind of hurt by this it really hurts his feeling he just wants to be seen as her soul mate not a monster am I so monstrous um I bite down on my lower lip you have a nice personality and you seem caring and easy to talk to but in our world there are many creatures with tentacles at least not any that can talk I keep imagining you as an octopus why why why do I feel bad for this monster now why do I care about the feelings of this monster now and they talk about how apparently the more time they will spend together the less monstrous he will become and I think this is kind of the appeal of monster romances because it seems to come up a lot in reviews Benny Burton writes regular male characters in Romans tend to be over the top perfect glistening Warriors and knights but I want an imperfect monster who needs love to show that he can be just as sweet as his human competition why deprive the imagination of a great romance just because the protagonist happens to live for 6 600 years or has the occasional bound with fleas which first of all I think is another signed it a lot of monster smelled romance readers are very aware of kind of like the absurdity they're all just kind of poking fun at it as well but it does appear that maybe the appeal of monster Romans is because it's just one big I can fix him fantasy which I personally never really a fan of I think it really plays into a lot of people's feelings of having to be the one to take care of your partner like especially women like having to be the one to use all of your power to just kind of like take care of them instead of it going both ways but honestly this is also out of this world another worldly I struggle to make any real life societal critique of it this is the point where the book truly becomes something I never could have foreseen this is the point where they kind of reverse the roles yeah now she's touching him um but he's oozing liquids from many parts of his body which has an anatomical reason of course she finishes him and there's this explosion of liquids which seeps into her skin um and he says it is only the beginning your Awakening but they are rudely interrupted by Lexi's boss Mr Roberts who's very angry at her for missing work so many days so she finally goes back to work it turns out that apparently a lot of her co-workers have been calling in sick as well because uh Jessica her friend has been sharing you know like the find your soulmates vibrations video with all their co-workers and then you know they've all been calling in sick so apparently there's like this whole group of tentacle monsters that has been fine have been finding human women through this YouTube videos of finding your soul mates I could not make this up Lexi's boss takes her apart in another room and sculpts her gets really angry at her grabs her by the shoulders but then look who it is it is our monster tentacle man in his human form coming to save her he touched what was mine he says if there's one thing that I can critique of This Book Is that unfortunately we do get the typical Touch of very possessive men constantly talking about how you know he's She's mine and I really don't like this whole faded mate possession thing possessive behavior is often presented in romance novels as something sweet as something that is a sign of another person truly loving you or really caring about you and I despise this because red flag number one for toxic relationships is when the other person doesn't allow you to be around other people to form bonds with other men or just friends because they see it as a threat that is red flag number one for potential abusive relationships so I that's why I hate it that it's often being presented as something nice and sweet in romance novels I think it really gives the wrong message to the readers in a turn of events we find out that Mr Roberts Lexi's boss has been secretly stealing her paintings and selling them for profit without her realizing somehow now her tentacle man-made is also there restraining Mr Roberts and he's like hey you know I need to feed of a human so I can remain in this Dimension so obvious answers that they have to kill Mr Roberts my mate spreads out his arms and tentacles stretch out from his middle the tentacles form a cocoon around Mr Roberts's body and drag him across the floor and then he eats him and they hatch a plan where Lexi's mate will take over the appearance because they're shapeshifters of Mr Roberts um so that they can pretend they never killed him and they can he can run the coffee shop okay I turned to the doorway to find Mr Robert standing in his usual attire looking at me like I'm a hot chocolate with whipped cream my heart flips like a panini I want you to call me mate why because I might have the body of a human but my soul belongs to you my heart melts as his tentacles unfasten my Barista apron but like I said Emily Henry could never are you ready for some octopus Anatomy which one is your mating arm she asks so here's the thing male octopuses have a separate tentacle for mating it is called a hecto kotilis a hectoless and because sticky shade is respectful of Science and biology this also appears in the book a thinner tentacle Rises between our bodies while the others are thicker than my thighs his mating arm has the girth of my forearm you know I gotta hand it to Siggy shade she is creative now every smart scene so far has been very graphic in its use of words but because of the introduction of this mating arm the entire scene reads like like one of those Romans books that's just like desperately trying to find another euphemism fill me with that mating arm the sensations are so overwhelming that my eyes flutter shut as he pushes more and more of the mating arm into me but when he reaches my cervix the little tendrils expand you like it he purrs every part of my mating arm is savoring you as he says this the extra tendrils caress the Contours of my insides so now that their mating is complete um the climax of their romance is that aside from using his mating arm he also has you know like human anatomy to use so they have a little double penetration moment human and octopus together in one Yin and Yang Sun and Moon so romantic it's a very very sweet moment really then we get a Time skip I'm not kidding out of nowhere we just get one year later and at this moment I thought are we already getting the epilogue no no no no no nothing could have prepared me for this what happens one year later so you know at this point they've already penetrated every hole possible and we realize the only next step in this tentacle Extravaganza he says I want triplets just unprovoked but why three I ask I cannot be satisfied with impregnating you once he growls now mating in the tentacle world is not like in the regular worlds um it's a multiple day ordeal which involves many many climaxes because of course it does it was at this point that I truly become numb to everything I could read about them using every orifice all the tentacles all the oozing it just didn't phase me anymore until until his eyes dance with mirth what a greedy little mate I will give you exactly what you want but first you must swallow a belly full of my special Inc day everything about my Mates is an aphrodisiac from his masculine Beauty to the lubricant he secretes through his tentacles Lexi I think we have a bit of a different idea of what works as an aphrodisiac here um but basically she has to drink a special ink because it will get her into the mating frenzy which is necessary for their mating ritual this is all just for the ritual okay they're doing this to populate the world this is an act of God so she swallows a full belly full of special ink she comes into the mating frenzy which causes her to release like multiple eggs at the same time during ovulation so that they can make triplets it also makes her ravenous for the mating ritual which is also just another feat of biology a Wonder of life um let me read this to you you're you're not gonna believe what I'm about to say your taste is changing my love I am going to relax your cervix is tentacle pushes against the neck of my womb I feel its blunt tips separate into smaller appendages each with pointed ends that push into the cervix infusing me with delicious shock waves so he's inside of her cervix now which if you don't know biology that's like the opening of the womb like he's going inside her womb nothing is supposed to go there except for a baby the little tentacles slithering through my cervix expand opening me wide and then her mate says you're doing so well I can fit the full tentacle through your cervix is basically reverse giving birth at this point and she's rolling in pleasure as they do it so at least she's enjoying it I'm not thank you for entrusting me with your body thank you for agreeing to Bear my young it feels like you are ready to be bred that wasn't the breathing yet he was just making room they haven't bred yet that's what's gonna happen now it gets even worse he grips his mating arm the slit widens exposing a thin white tendril that lashes from side to side like a tail what is that I ask between panting breasts my spermatophore he replies his voice husky Okay so Spirit fours are actually a real thing in octopus Anatomy okay little little biology lesson here so this is what I got from Wikipedia a sperm Shield containing spermatozoa created by meals of various animal species especially especially salamanders and arthropods but also cephalopods like squids and octopi most cephalopods use a specialized arm called the hectocotilis this is the mating arm we've been talking about remember to deliver the spermatophores to the female distributive force of the giant Pacific octopus are about a meter long Well turns out our tentacle man is kind of lacking in that area because hiss is not that long now I'm going to fill you with my young they have a bit of fun again she reaches her climax I feel the sperm of the force sneaking further and further up my uterus and I can only imagine how many eggs it has managed to swallow at this point this is just body horror I feel like critiquing this book for being too weird at this point would be like criticizing a horror movie for being too scary but apparently that one time's not enough he needs to do it three times if they want to get triplets at this point she is climaxing every single page by the way so just so you know she's at least enjoying this they are using every opening imaginable they're telling each other I love you it's a moment of entangled emotions and intense companionship and she feels the second spermatophore and the third spermint of War doing their thing inside of her uterus I'm his and he's mine I am also pregnant with his triplets Romance four years later they have three beautiful children who all love painting just like she does but of course you're asking yourself the question what the hell do these children look like are they human well they do have invisible tentacles just like the mate when he is in the light but they look human and they have friends because they can play with all the other Umbra children because of all of these other human women that have attracted like a tentacle soulmate through the YouTube video everyone's happy they do however like conveniently not mention how she gave birth and how that went so I get you know we can use our imagination you know when I decided to make this video I expected something harmful problematic to the likes of gothicana that we could have a discussion about instead I I just I I just got something that was so bizarre and weird that I just have nothing to say my conclusion on this book uh first of all it's not poorly written because of how self-aware it is and it's downright funny in its absurdity it's also not even problematic the relationship is never really toxic aside from some possessiveness and there's a lot of established enthusiastic consent there's content warnings at the beginning so if you know what you're getting into so I feel like I can't really say that it's bad because I'm clearly not the target audience if you would like some more serious book reviews you can check out my other videos um and if you enjoy that you can subscribe to the channel we would love to have you here I hope I made your day a little bit better with this video I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and I will see you soon in another 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Published: Sun Mar 19 2023