The Essence of the Eye

Terat #2

by Jemma Topaz

Rosemary is having a little trouble with her head—it keeps falling off. Maybe a trip to the doctor on Terat, the monster world, will fix it right up?

But for trans girls, trips to the doctor rarely go well, and in short order she finds herself chased through the strange world by monster gangs, kidnappers, and assassins.

Rosemary is still monster-girl catnip, so she isn't entirely without allies, but she just wants to go home and chill with her girlfriends. It's very off-putting to have someone trying to kill you!

The expansive second volume in a unique contemporary fantasy series.

Genres: Fantasy, Erotica

259 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2025

About the author

Jemma Topaz is someone who is still really bad at writing profiles/bios. She's a trans lesbian living in Britain, and writing spicy lesbian fiction to escape from unspicy environs.

Reviews

[Luna Twig]

A fairly lighthearted adventure book about a trans girl making her way through a world of monsters. This is book two of Jemma Topaz's Terat Series, and when I say makes her way through, I mean it as sleeps her way through a diverse cast of monster-girls both cis and trans coded. I thoroughly enjoyed the brisk pace of the story as well as the creative world building (the Laceration is definitely a thing I might be yoinking for a DnD campaign at some point).

Now the only downside I had with it is that the sex scenes aren't as explicit or elaborate as I would have preferred but it didn't detract from the romance, the scenes that were present, nor from the fun of the adventure. Well written and humorous (especially hitting the queer/trans lived experience notes really well).