“Liminal” by Marie Mistry [Femdom Book Review]

This one might have worked, if it had been able to pull off its core conceit. A supernatural reverse harem about a ghostly librarian sternly correcting a collection of wizard college students, by itself, not a bad premise. Where it fails is a double barreled issue of undermining the power of the dominant to the point of defanging her, and failing to make the male leads distinct enough to create any chemistry. Reverse harem can be hard to pull off, just from the point of sheer logistics. Stories need time to linger with each distinct and important character and develop a unique voice for them, so it’s all too easy to either have your harem turn into an amorphous blob of generic hotness or end up sidelining most of the group to put the focus on only one or two individuals. Liminal manages to do both, with the male leads forming a sort of late 90s boy band where each man is only distinct by an assigned broad stereotype (the jock, the brooder, the babyface, etc…) but then puts most of its…