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Middlesex: Powerfully Embodying PanGender
An ultra-geeked-out hermaphrodite (boygirl), I've researched my kind. Middlesex are more common than science had taught. Our rainbow church embraces us. For centuries, husbands embraced wives’ extra features in silence. How many were experiments like me, closed up and sent home ‘normal’, conditioned against transforming? Since the research, my body's reacted to this truth. My ovaries are no longer dormant. My wife can’t handle my boobs. I’m a single futa hottie now, with growing super powers. Why am I living here in Sus Angeles, under the North Pole, friends with the bad-ass head librarian angel of heaven? Are my powers, my being Middlesex and my job up here all related? Secret heavenly knowledge here makes my mind spin. The sex much more...way beyond psychedelic! Good Witches, Super Heroes, whatever...we're going to need a bigger bed!
244 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2017
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September 3, 2022
I do not care how good your imagination is, whatever you might be expecting from the cover blurb for Middlesex: Powerfully Embodying PanGender, you are not even close. Seriously, not even in the same universe . . . or multiverse . . . or plane of existence.
This was one of the weirdest, trippiest, most surreal, and most beautiful books I have ever read. It is absolutely marvelous, with a truly wonderful (and surprising) approach to spirituality. Seriously, if more people could separate faith from religion, there would be a lot more kinky love in this world, and a lot less hate.
The story that Jessica Mandella has crafted here is almost too much for words. It has rainbow fantasies, sister-wives, polyamorous marriages, Nazi experiments, gender transformations, angels, hippy communes, fallen angels, UFOs, psychic powers, superheroes, and more. I have never had my mind blown quite like this, leaving me stimulated intellectually, emotionally, and physically at the same time. It was one of those books where I had to stop every once in a while to sort of process the inputs and decompress.
I absolutely love what Mandella did with the flexibility of gender and love here, contrasting one woman's forbidden fantasies and learned bigotry with the love, openness, and acceptance inherent in another. What makes us who and what we are is as much spiritual as it is DNA, and both have been perverted over time. At our purest, we are beings of light and joy, entirely malleable, with a potential very few of us even know exists. Middlesex is all about discovering that potential, and embracing who we are beneath all that deception. The exploration of fantasy and sexuality in that process of discovery is so crazy, and so intense, it is has to be experienced to be believed. It is not a preachy story, but it is one that does preach a lot of beautiful ideas - including that of forgiveness.
There is almost too much going on here for one book - drama, romance, science fiction, adventure, erotica - but somehow it all comes together. The pacing is just about perfect, never leaping too far or too fast, allowing the reader to process all of the ideas and accept the natural progression of the story. By the time it gets to its wildest, with a cosmic war involving mass-produced UFO warships piloted by expendable hybrid grays, versus Middlesex superheroes with impenetrable shields of faith, we are cheering the heroes and gleefully enjoying the unimaginable destination which one man's speculative fantasies have led.
This was one of the weirdest, trippiest, most surreal, and most beautiful books I have ever read. It is absolutely marvelous, with a truly wonderful (and surprising) approach to spirituality. Seriously, if more people could separate faith from religion, there would be a lot more kinky love in this world, and a lot less hate.
The story that Jessica Mandella has crafted here is almost too much for words. It has rainbow fantasies, sister-wives, polyamorous marriages, Nazi experiments, gender transformations, angels, hippy communes, fallen angels, UFOs, psychic powers, superheroes, and more. I have never had my mind blown quite like this, leaving me stimulated intellectually, emotionally, and physically at the same time. It was one of those books where I had to stop every once in a while to sort of process the inputs and decompress.
I absolutely love what Mandella did with the flexibility of gender and love here, contrasting one woman's forbidden fantasies and learned bigotry with the love, openness, and acceptance inherent in another. What makes us who and what we are is as much spiritual as it is DNA, and both have been perverted over time. At our purest, we are beings of light and joy, entirely malleable, with a potential very few of us even know exists. Middlesex is all about discovering that potential, and embracing who we are beneath all that deception. The exploration of fantasy and sexuality in that process of discovery is so crazy, and so intense, it is has to be experienced to be believed. It is not a preachy story, but it is one that does preach a lot of beautiful ideas - including that of forgiveness.
There is almost too much going on here for one book - drama, romance, science fiction, adventure, erotica - but somehow it all comes together. The pacing is just about perfect, never leaping too far or too fast, allowing the reader to process all of the ideas and accept the natural progression of the story. By the time it gets to its wildest, with a cosmic war involving mass-produced UFO warships piloted by expendable hybrid grays, versus Middlesex superheroes with impenetrable shields of faith, we are cheering the heroes and gleefully enjoying the unimaginable destination which one man's speculative fantasies have led.
December 5, 2017
Girls with something extra, hippies, angels, super heroes, multiple true love romance, ancient mysteries...WOW
Rather than say it's super hot, I'll just say it's like an antimatter solar flare from another dimension. It's amazing how real the characters are, how much emotion there is, while getting crazy excited-aroused and mind blown. A whole rainbow variety of fantasies kicks it off, and then it gets hotter from there. This is a girl with something extra book with a whole lot of something extra. Angels, hippies, good witches, super heroes, futa women, true love, every situation you can imagine and then some. Jessica's SciFi turbo charges a wild crazy multiple romance that romps through centuries old secrets, with explicit love scenes so powerful they're almost psychedelic. There's so much in this, I've read it several times.
Rather than say it's super hot, I'll just say it's like an antimatter solar flare from another dimension. It's amazing how real the characters are, how much emotion there is, while getting crazy excited-aroused and mind blown. A whole rainbow variety of fantasies kicks it off, and then it gets hotter from there. This is a girl with something extra book with a whole lot of something extra. Angels, hippies, good witches, super heroes, futa women, true love, every situation you can imagine and then some. Jessica's SciFi turbo charges a wild crazy multiple romance that romps through centuries old secrets, with explicit love scenes so powerful they're almost psychedelic. There's so much in this, I've read it several times.
December 31, 2017
This is the third book by this author I have read, so I went in with high expectations and was not disappointed. This novel blew my mind wide open. First of all, it presents the argument that gender and plumbing are completely unrelated. Once the limitations of gender which have been imposed by society are discarded, other limitations start to fall away as well. This is not just a book about being intersex or transgender. It is about unleashing the human spirit and exposing the evil powers that be that have prevented humanity from realizing its full potential. Ms. Mandella is obviously well-informed on the corruption and conspiracies that manipulate the human race. She may be a psychic or she may be a whistle-blower, but she's got some serious talent as an author, and this fan girl is going to keep reading her stuff!
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