A review by rjordan19
Sir Loin of Beef by Vanessa Vale

fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Overall: 2.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖 (This was short, and that helped the readability for me. If it was longer I would have struggled to finish)
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋 (There was not a big emotional pull for me here. Plenty explicit, but I felt it was a bit mechanical and not emotionally devastating like I wanted it)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥 (Might be 3? But I think it’s a 2, I didn’t take good notes)
Humor: A touch of family banter
Perspective: First person from Duke and Kaitlyn (I can’t recall if Jed has POV too, he might)
When mains are first on page together: Pretty soon in
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happy for now
Format: listened to the audiobook (bought)
(Descriptions found at end of my review)

Should I read in order?
This is the first book in Vale’s Grade-A Beefcakes.

Basic plot:
Jed and Duke have massive dicks that meant for just one woman – they just have to find her.

Give this a try if you want:
- Contemporary romance
- M/F/M relationship
- small town romance vibes
- instalove
- medium steam – at least 2 full scenes (my notes weren’t the best) in a shorter page count and light praise kink

Ages:
- Duke is 32 (I’m assuming Jed is similar age since they were in the same grade), and Kaitlyn is mid 20s

My thoughts:
This one….okay so I wasn’t expecting anything super sophisticated. I just wanted some good threesome sex. But I couldn’t get into this one.

When you meet the characters, the heroine is very much not like other girls. She goes to a bar with her friend and her friend is just too much, too forward, dressed too slutty – and they are OKAY with that – but NOT for the one. Kaitlyn is dressed cute, she’s more reserved. And from this, they can tell she is perfect. Oh, I haven’t stated yet that these two, Jed and Duke, their giant, massive, semen filled cocks are searching for THE ONE. It was mentioned so much I started thinking (especially Duke) they had no personality other than what their cocks want. They talk about them a lot, how giant they are, how badly they want to fill one woman with their semen. THE WOMAN.

Side note. My friend and I were recently talking about helicopter dicks (anyone read Slave by Cheryl Brooks??) and how big they would have to be before a man could actually take flight. These men could accomplish it, I am sure.

And, okay I was cringing a bit, but still like maybe I would still enjoy parts of it! But then Duke does something that to me was so asinine, childish and unforgivable, I would have never given him another chance. This is called out in the story by his friends and family and then he’s like oh you’re right. So I was glad it was addressed but I just couldn’t like him after that. And how he had to be explained to about how to behave...it’s big cock little brain usage syndrome I know, but still. Maybe once he empties the massive storage of semen he will be able to think clearer.

Anyway, I liked Jed. I wish Jed and decided his partner was an idiot and ran away with Kaitlyn in a MF relationship. Or took her fun ‘slutty’ friend and lived FFM happily ever after…

(Another random side thought – these two knew in seventh grade they wanted to share everything and wanted to fuck together. Am I just old? That seemed weird to me. And someone in their life (father?? I can’t recall and don’t care) told them to wait until college. So they practice and fucked their way through school and then in college were able to come together in all the ways)

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- stalking remembered and on page, harassment of heroine by a date that takes things too far
- mention of drunken driving that results in injuries and jail time
- death of a parent
- heroine is mentally and emotionally abused by a parent


Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
 
Chapter 5 (of 16) – kiss with Jed
I STOPPED TAKING GOOD NOTES SORRY I SUCK
Fingering for her scene at the bar soon after that (with Duke and Jed), then she gives them hand jobs
Chapter 14 oral for her by both, blow job
(I don’t have anymore notes but I know that there is a MFM penetration scene – vaginal and anal. I’m not sure if it’s with the scene above or another scene? I think it’s with the chapter 14 scene though