I found STIFF on Threads when my friend, Dana, reviewed it. And right away, I knew it was going to be different. Richard is a medieval man, cursed by a witch to be a dildo after years of using women and leaving them unfinished. Now, his fate is to be a passive object doomed to constantly be horny but only allowed to give pleasure. The only way to break the curse is if someone puts the dildo in their mouth.
Enter Felicity, sex toy author. She's about to write a book about the history of sex toys but she's stuck on the Elizabethan period. To "inspire" her, her publisher is sending her replicas of classic historical sex toys, including a Victorian hand-crank masturbator and... Richard.
Anyway, Felicity puts Richard in her mouth and he becomes human... but the witch isn't finished with him yet. He has to get to know Felicity as an actual human being and treat her respectfully, or she'll turn him into something even worse.
STIFF was pretty entertaining. I liked it more than I have liked most books I've picked up for this challenge and I thought all of the trivia about sex toys the author included as epigrams for each chapter were fascinating. The ending actually made me tear up a little... almost. I'm embarrassed to say that this book was as heartwarming as it was cringe. This truly was a What the Actual Fuck Wednesday for the ages.
2.5 to 3 out of 5 stars
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