Thank you to NetGalley and Book*hug Press for an advance reader copy.

This collection of short stories by Jess Taylor was incredibly interesting and I really enjoyed the concept. Will definitely have an eye out for more from Jess Taylor.

Just Pervs is a collection of short stories brought to us by Jess Taylor, who gave readers The critically acclaimed Pauls back in 2015. Through her characters we see an examination of female sexuality and the subversion of its contemporary views. Their points of view take the romanticism out of things like sex and take it from something holy and sacred to being what it really is: human. Sex isn’t always meant to be a big deal, but rather it can be so many things at once.

The stories have little in common with one another except that the main characters all experience or witness something sexual in nature. That sounds like a cop out but I promise it isn’t. The stories show the reader various points of view and what was interesting to me was that many of the women depicted never exhibited shame in their behavior. Female sexuality should be spoken about more.

I think I might’ve shot myself in the foot by listening to the audiobook rather than reading the ebook. It was difficult for me to differentiate between the stories because I couldn’t clearly tell when one ended and the next began. I could only do it a few times.

3.5. The title really gives away the vibe of this book in the best way. Overall, I found the stories contained in it super enjoyable! They're dark and gross and times and leave you with an uncomfortable feeling. I appreciated that--I always love when a book can almost give me enough secondhand embarrassment to put it down. I did expect the queer points of the story to be more present than they were, though I enjoyed the overall mentions of bisexuality. I think this is a fun read, great for people who read Kink and liked it.

Not as engaging as I had hoped it would be. I was usually lost in the stories. Might have been better as a book rather than an audiobook.

I enjoyed this and had some things that made me blush listening to. Listening to the narrator talk about things I thought about but couldn't say out loud. I think this will be an enjoyable book for most. I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed the narrator

I was overall very disappointed in Just Pervs. The stories lacked original amity and depth, and were far from the edgy LGBTQ stories I was expecting. The narrator seemed bored out of her mind, and honestly it rubbed off on me. But the worst part was that it was so confusing that there was so transitions between stories. Over all I truly didn’t enjoy at all.

First of all, I listened to the audiobook version, which is a difficult format for a collection of stories, in my opinion, as there are no visual indicators to help separate one story from the next. The narrator sounded very detached, but I think that was a creative choice in trying to fit into what I call the "sad girl" sub-genre of literary fiction.

The stories themselves weren't a hit for me, either. They were rushed in their attempt to be edgy and sexy in a dark way, with absolutely no depth or development.

Thank you for the ALC, but I did not enjoy this title.

The two stare rating is not for the literary material of Jess Taylor's "Just Pervs", which would easily get four stars from me. My rating is for the audiobook version.

The stories were read in such a blase manner, I couldn't really engage with the narration. Maybe the style of reading was supposed to sound sultry, but at the end each story sounded quite the same, which for me was a bit monotone. Because of that for quite a while I didn't realise that these were supposed to be separate stories, not an ongoing narration told by one character.

Also, the lector does this thing that I find truly annoying in audiobooks, which is lowering the voice for men's lines and trying to sound "manly". I know recording audiobooks requires a little bit of acting, but this approach doesn't resonate with me.

I really don't like rating books so low as it's someone's work but I really cannot find a positive within this one.

Marketed as a frank, contemporary book of stories which looks at the views of female sexuality and their desires, this reads as a dull, inhibited, forced and lazy teenage diary. Often with a collection of stories there are one or two which stand out more than others, in this case none stood out in a positive manner. The only chapter that anyway jumped out was the token chapter on beastiality which honestly just felt like it was put in there for the shock factor.

I listened to the audio and couldn't be positive about this either, unfortunately the narrator sounded like she was trying to read a mix of Fifty Shades and Mills & Boon.

Unfortunately I simply could not get invested in this. I found the language too forced, trying to sound like something seen many times before. It does get an extra star because this time it focuses more on women's desires than the usual book of its genre but it really didn't bring anything new to the table and there was something in the writing itself that simply didn't do it for me.

I'll keep it in mind to recommend to those who might actually enjoy it, though.

This was such an odd ball of a book! I was not sure what to expect when going into this book other then it would be something different. This was that and so much more. The stories were all so odd and unique but in the best way. Some stories may have taken the prompt a bit far but I found myself really interested in the stories. I was definitely shocked by many of the stories but it all felt very intentional but not in a dirty shock jock sort of way. I felt like each story made me stop and rethink how I thought of sex and intimate and that is saying something as I am an asexual person. This isn't the book for everyone but those who know what they are signing up for will absolutely adore this odd book.

This read was really different for me and I loved that the stories are taken from a women's POV and their infatuation with sex and their lives. It's multiple stories about sex addicts that fall in love and each story is different.

I just didn't really enjoy the writing or the lack of descriptions of the characters and their journeys. I did love the whole aspect of sex from the POV of women, but it lacked fire for me.

Thank you, NetGalley for the ARC.