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Monster Whisperer
No tentacle monsters were harmed in the creation of this novel. An erotic science fiction novel from the mastermind of the Nobilis Erotica podcast. If there’s something strange with your tentacle monster, who are you going to call? Dale Monster Whisperer. With her own ship and a menagerie of tentacle monsters, she travels from world to world, rehabilitating monsters and training the people who love them. From the amorphous, fluid Kritzoan to the stone-like Nalcheka, Dale embraces the monsters and records her encounters for a reality show that broadcasts to countless worlds. One might think there’s nothing she couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do. Still, when she gets a call from her old colleague (and old flame), Dale nearly turns him down. Nearly. Joining him to capture a particularly dangerous monster is part of an adventure that has the potential to change their universe – or lose Dale her monsters, her ship, her show, and everything that she holds dear.
254 pages, Paperback
Published December 10, 2016
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Nobilis Reed
60 books52 followersNobilis has been writing smut for years, but recently decided to see whether anyone else wanted to read it. To his surprise, people like it, so he keeps writing more. In between that and his day job, he does the father thing and steps over the cats.
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September 8, 2017
Monster Whisperer is more than an excellently written erotic sci-fi novel, though it most certainly succeeds at that. There is so much to the story, more than one might expect from the above description. The depth and richness of the plot creep in on the reader purposefully, like encroaching tentacles intent on wrapping themselves around the reader and not letting go. At least that's how I experienced it!
The story flows between serious steamy sex scenes (both tentacle/human and human/human (both F/F and M/F)), exciting space adventure, anxious suspense, moments of humor, and peeks at that deeper plot, until the absolutely fantastic climax that brings everything together, and an extremely satisfying conclusion.
The main characters are well-developed. I grew especially fond of the resourceful, entrepreneurial, confident, sexually submissive main protagonist and viewpoint character, Dale. I also liked her clever, excitable protege, Christine, and their interactions were good fun to read. The secondary characters are far from flat, and the minor ones are varied. Dale's former lover and colleague, Vince is a notable secondary character who added some of the book's humor just with his personality and mannerisms.
I also loved how tentacle monsters are portrayed in this universe, and how much consentacle (consensual+tentacle) sex there is, in contrast to common tentacle monster tropes. Some tropes are enforced, others altered, and Nobilis developed some really creative and interesting species of tentacle monsters with very varied traits. More than that, he created a universe in which their existence makes sense and is controversial. The worldbuilding in general is excellent in this novel. It's not bogged down with inconsequential details, but there certainly is enough detail to give a good feel for the universe.
This book is superb, and stood up well to a reread for me. I recommend it to fans of any or all of the following: erotica, sci-fi, tentacle monsters, and good storytelling.
The story flows between serious steamy sex scenes (both tentacle/human and human/human (both F/F and M/F)), exciting space adventure, anxious suspense, moments of humor, and peeks at that deeper plot, until the absolutely fantastic climax that brings everything together, and an extremely satisfying conclusion.
The main characters are well-developed. I grew especially fond of the resourceful, entrepreneurial, confident, sexually submissive main protagonist and viewpoint character, Dale. I also liked her clever, excitable protege, Christine, and their interactions were good fun to read. The secondary characters are far from flat, and the minor ones are varied. Dale's former lover and colleague, Vince is a notable secondary character who added some of the book's humor just with his personality and mannerisms.
I also loved how tentacle monsters are portrayed in this universe, and how much consentacle (consensual+tentacle) sex there is, in contrast to common tentacle monster tropes. Some tropes are enforced, others altered, and Nobilis developed some really creative and interesting species of tentacle monsters with very varied traits. More than that, he created a universe in which their existence makes sense and is controversial. The worldbuilding in general is excellent in this novel. It's not bogged down with inconsequential details, but there certainly is enough detail to give a good feel for the universe.
This book is superb, and stood up well to a reread for me. I recommend it to fans of any or all of the following: erotica, sci-fi, tentacle monsters, and good storytelling.
January 20, 2018
Where to start...?
I was initially reluctant to list that I was reading, and now have read, this book. There is a certain stigma in our culture about admitting that you are a sexual being with sexual interests -- indeed, needs. Especially when you're a middle-aged, chubby woman who writes sweet sapphic romance. But it's true... I like sex. And while tentacle sex isn't one of my especial interests, neither is it one of my squick factors.
I was also slow to initially buy the book when Amazon recommended it to me. When you were young, did you ever build something like a model airplane with a clear canopy? But the glue got away from you a little bit, and you hazed the canopy, or ended up with gluey fingerprints on it? The feeling you get looking at such a model aircraft is a lot like being a woman reading a female-viewpoint pr0n story written by a man.
But I did eventually buy the book, and I have read it... and to my surprise, I rather strongly enjoyed, and even responded to it. Nobilis Reed leaves fewer gluey fingerprints than most men. And a lot of the action in this particular book was either F/F or F/M... which is to say, Female / Monster. There was one Female / Male sex scene, but I skimmed over it, 'cause... yeah. Not my thing.
Anyway, a lot of pr0n has just enough plot to string together rather repetitive pump-by-pump descriptions of sex. That's not the case here. There's an actual plot, an actual story, and actual characters. And while the sex scenes are explicit, they're also not overly riddled with detail, allowing readers like me to imagine those details for ourselves... and being all the hotter for it.
I don't know that I'll seek out more of Mr. Reed's writing, 'cause... gluey fingerprints. But I don't know that I won't seek out more of his writing, either.
I was initially reluctant to list that I was reading, and now have read, this book. There is a certain stigma in our culture about admitting that you are a sexual being with sexual interests -- indeed, needs. Especially when you're a middle-aged, chubby woman who writes sweet sapphic romance. But it's true... I like sex. And while tentacle sex isn't one of my especial interests, neither is it one of my squick factors.
I was also slow to initially buy the book when Amazon recommended it to me. When you were young, did you ever build something like a model airplane with a clear canopy? But the glue got away from you a little bit, and you hazed the canopy, or ended up with gluey fingerprints on it? The feeling you get looking at such a model aircraft is a lot like being a woman reading a female-viewpoint pr0n story written by a man.
But I did eventually buy the book, and I have read it... and to my surprise, I rather strongly enjoyed, and even responded to it. Nobilis Reed leaves fewer gluey fingerprints than most men. And a lot of the action in this particular book was either F/F or F/M... which is to say, Female / Monster. There was one Female / Male sex scene, but I skimmed over it, 'cause... yeah. Not my thing.
Anyway, a lot of pr0n has just enough plot to string together rather repetitive pump-by-pump descriptions of sex. That's not the case here. There's an actual plot, an actual story, and actual characters. And while the sex scenes are explicit, they're also not overly riddled with detail, allowing readers like me to imagine those details for ourselves... and being all the hotter for it.
I don't know that I'll seek out more of Mr. Reed's writing, 'cause... gluey fingerprints. But I don't know that I won't seek out more of his writing, either.
May 25, 2022
Sci-fi with an erotic twist of tentacles. Can tentacle monsters be more than monstrous sex toys? This is a story that includes a sci-fi version of PETA, Monster hunters, religious cult, and monster rescuers all with agendas, video cameras, profits, and of course sexual interactions. There is a good well-presented storyline with a plot to this tale or tails. I could go out on a limb here and say if cleaned up a bit this would make a good movie but then it would be half the fun. If you like your sci-fi with some interdimensional tendril action, this would be a good listen.
February 6, 2017
A fun romp
March 1, 2018
Hee! Monster Whisperer was fun. The setting is clever, if a bit familiar— casual galactic space opera, only with a diverse population of several different species of tentacle monsters that seem to inhabit a lot of human-habitable worlds throughout known space, and all of them are very sexy beasts indeed. Dale, our heroine, makes her living filming herself bangin' these wild creatures while helping other people understand their own monsters better.
Then things get weird. Monsters start disappearing, terrorists start trying to "free" monsters that really, really don't want to be freed, and Dale gets a very pretty assistant who discovers something important about tentacle monsters... and then the story gets even weirder.
The final conflict is a little disappointing. It was too abstract and, well, not sexy enough. It missed the promise of the premise, which is watching sexy people get sexed by sexy tentacle monsters. There's plenty of that throughout the book— it is erotica, after all— but its general lack in the last turning point was a bit of a let down. There's some, and it's hot, but for me the hottest scene in the book is definitely the "sorcerer's apprentice" moment— which was super hot despite most of it being off-page!
A good book, and one that takes the whole tentacle monster trope in a positive, well-written direction. Given just how tragically embarrassing most tentacle monster porn can be, Monster Whisperer is a welcome addition to the genre.
Then things get weird. Monsters start disappearing, terrorists start trying to "free" monsters that really, really don't want to be freed, and Dale gets a very pretty assistant who discovers something important about tentacle monsters... and then the story gets even weirder.
The final conflict is a little disappointing. It was too abstract and, well, not sexy enough. It missed the promise of the premise, which is watching sexy people get sexed by sexy tentacle monsters. There's plenty of that throughout the book— it is erotica, after all— but its general lack in the last turning point was a bit of a let down. There's some, and it's hot, but for me the hottest scene in the book is definitely the "sorcerer's apprentice" moment— which was super hot despite most of it being off-page!
A good book, and one that takes the whole tentacle monster trope in a positive, well-written direction. Given just how tragically embarrassing most tentacle monster porn can be, Monster Whisperer is a welcome addition to the genre.
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