The Wild Ride Book Club

We meet every 1st Sunday of the month, 4pm - 6pm
Scroll down to see what books we are reading and to learn more about the club.

Must be 21+ to join.

Programmed for Love by Lyonne Riley

MF

Lela Talbot works on a long haul ore freighter, traveling between the Cloud and Earth. When someone aboard the ship tampers with the engines, Lela is called in to help—along with D-084, the cool, collected, kind android that Lela has been crushing on for weeks.

While saving the day, it becomes clear that D returns Lela’s interest. But as things heat up between them, Lela fears exposing her feelings to an android who can’t possibly return them.

When their saboteur returns, jeopardizing their trip home, D and Lela will have to work together to solve the mystery. Can she keep it casual, or will she give in to her love for an android who can’t love her back?

C.W.: Graphic depictions of sex, anal play and anal sex toys, semi-public sex, mild violence, bomb detonation, life-threatening injury.

Threading Carefully by Ashlynn Mills

MM

When visiting the Monster world, I planned on seeing new things and visiting places different from what I'm used to, but I never planned on him.

Nova wasn't like the others of his kind or anything like me. He was a combination of nine humans but didn't think like one or share the same experiences.

He was the only one willing to find me the medicine I needed, but only if I made a trade with him.

He wanted the human experience; To cuddle, hold hands, kiss, and make love with someone like me.

I didn't know how far I'd go for the needs of my patients at the hospital, but after a while, I realized how far I wanted to go for him.

C.W.: On page murder (author notes they “deserve it”), on page SA (author notes it’s more manipulation, and not graphic or violent). If you want to skip these, you can just skip the Prologue.

Whispers Of The Deep by Emma Hamm

MF

One of the many engineers that keeps Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it’s her dream to help it flourish. But then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend. An undine. A dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

Arges has fought his entire life for his people. With deadly creatures under his control, he plans to eradicate Beta once and for all to protect his kind and their peaceful way of life. But when a human woman saves him, she unknowingly creates a bond between them, one he can’t ignore. Even though her flaming red hair haunts his dreams, he needs her for information on the undine’s enemies. So he steals her. Keeps her. Feeds her. Only to realize their bond is far deeper than captor and captive. He cannot let her go—but he cannot keep her under the sea. In a battle to determine if love can survive a war beneath the waves, it will be their decision that changes the tides.

C.W.: The only content warnings the author gives is that she is not a scientist and to suspend your disbelief. From what I remember, there is kidnapping, and violence (not between MC’s), and lot’s of underwater sex.

A Bone In His Teeth by Kellen Graves

Trans/M

When a fall from the mast leaves Alba Marsh unable to sail, he finally has the chance to run away from his family debts in search of a better life. He hopes to reunite with his mother, Edythe, where they always promised to meet if things went awry, but finding the small, secluded, secretive town of Moon Harbor proves a greater challenge than Alba ever expected. Worse, upon arriving, no one seems to know anyone by the name Edythe Marsh at all.

Taking a job as the local lighthouse keeper while waiting for her to come, Alba attempts to find peace in his stolen freedom--but the sea has other plans. First come the shadows, then the voices, then watery trails left on the floor while he sleeps. He's inundated with erotic dreams of sirens calling out to him, and distant singing haunts his waking hours, all while the townspeople claim to hear nothing.

After a debtor catches up with him and he's forced to dispose of their body in the harbor, Alba is interrupted by Eridanys, the last merrow of Moon Harbor, who curses him from leaving until he can find out what happened to the other merrow that once filled those waters. Eridanys' demands, both mental and physical, are exhausting and endless--but as their relationship deepens, and Moon Harbor’s long-kept secrets are butterflied open to see, it becomes clear they may both be prey to the town in ways neither of them ever anticipated.

C.W.: This is a dark fantasy with horror elements. Graphic depictions of violence (especially gun), gore, death, descriptions of human decomposition, themes of abuse and trauma, language used in a sexual context to describe a FTM trans man which may be dysphoric to some readers, brief themes of SA (no on page descriptions), rough but consensual explicit sex.