Night Shift: A Choose-your-own Erotic Fantasy

Joanna Angel

Cleis Press (JANUARY) Softcover (310pp) 978-1-62778-288-3

Night Shift takes a “come one, come all” approach to erotica, with diverse body types, couplings, fetishes, and toys: nothing is off limits.

Night Shift is funny, pervy erotica that explores the late night capers of a naive porn store clerk, Taryn, and her customers. Using a choose-yourown adventure format, the book hops through a series of playful scenarios that highlight different kinks and sexual identities.

Taryn’s relative innocence makes Night Shift a fun investigation into the seedy, super commercialized world of porn, sex toys, and marital aids. Although she makes a point of saying that a job selling penis-shaped lollipops and threesome videos wasn’t her goal—she dreamed of a career in academia, and is drowning in educational debt— Taryn takes to adult novelties like a fish to water.

Her curiosity and playfulness give Night Shift a light tone. Also, she’s not immune to sexual attraction. As she helps a husky lumberjack with his garters, she reflects, “It really turned me on to think that a man who delivered couches during the day would be trying on thigh highs at night.”

Working at Dreamz isn’t exactly a fantasy, but its atmosphere gives Night Shift a dreamy, shimmery quality nonetheless. Author Joanna Angel emphasizes colors, flavors, and textures,