The Vampire Shrink

I read the book a first time way back in 2009 at the tender age of 13. Was I way too young to have been reading this? Absolutely; my parents forgot to monitor what I was reading after I was forbidden to read Anne Frank's diary before the age of 12. After that, it was pretty much the wild west for me and there have been some very dubious choices. I still wonder whether I liked the book more back then because I was still a child and had no clue about anything (especially adult-themed relationships) or because the german translation is doing legwork from here to Timbuktu. But since I don't plan on re-reading the German version, we'll never know. 
 
This is pure and unadulterated smut - I still don't consider it well-written. I mean, it's fun in places and you definitely bang your head on the nearest surface every damn time you get confronted with the main character's train of thought - which is just ... I mean people make fun of the inner monologue in 50 shades and how it was the first bad inner monolgue since ever. Clearly an exaggeration or none of them ever read this book, because boy does it offer competition. 
 
I definitely feel a lot of sympathy for himbo Alan, who just can't compete with a vampiric god. He tries though and it's kinda sweet. (I don't really deem this a spoiler considering the great lengths the book takes to show just how much of an inferior man Alan is compared to Devereux. You see this one coming from the cover on.) 
 
The smut is ok-ish. It's not really my cup of tea and just like the short meant to be set before the events of this book, there is a in my opinion poor management of the whole power dynamics / dub-con vs non-con thing. It's very likely a wish-fulfillment read for the author, so tread with caution if this is not for you.