The King of Bourbon Street review

Title: The King of Bourbon Street
Author(s): Thea de Salle
My rating: ★★★★
Format: E-book


content warnings: blackmail, emotional parental abuse, slut shaming, bdsm, dom/sub relationship, mentions of drug addiction and sexual assault
representation: fat main character, bi/pan main character, black side character, queer side character


“I like how you are. So you have quirks. All the most interesting people do.”


Review is also posted on my goodreads.

Hot damn, this was good. I discovered this because the Book Hangover Book Club read it a couple months ago, and Chelsea and Julie praised it so much that I ended up getting really hyped, apparently for good reason!

This is about Rain Barrington, a young woman from a wealthy family who has just gotten involved in a sex scandal and decides to go on a vacation to New Orleans to escape her overbearing mother. The owner of the hotel she stays at is Sol DuMont, a recent divorcee who is immediately enraptured by Rain. Within literal pages of meeting they're having sex and it all goes from there.

So, yeah, this book is extremely unrealistic in terms of how quickly they have sex, then go into having a dom/sub relationship, and then fall in love. But you're not here for a realistic story, you're here for sex, and boy is there a lot of that. Not only is there a lot of sex, but it is so well written and so hot.

I really enjoyed Rain and Sol as main characters. Sol is a little bi shit who flirts with his straight best friend all the time, and Rain is a fat woman who knows that she's hot as fuck and will use her adorableness to manipulate you. I also loved that Rain's fatness is almost exclusively mentioned as either a matter-of-fact or as a way of Sol describing how hot she is.

But let's be real, my new queen is Maddy. I'm so excited that the next book is about her getting to have all the sex. 

There are a couple things I didn't love. One is the cover; who the fuck decided to not have a fat model on the cover?? Not a knock against the book, just something that really frustrated me. In terms of the content of the book, I wish there had been more discussion when it came to the dom/sub aspect of the relationship, and the characters' inner thoughts could get a bit much sometimes.

Overall, though, I really enjoyed this book. If you're looking for some good ass smut then this should be one of the first on your list.