Alex River is the pen name of an otherwise decently well-respected author. While she does enjoy a bit of kink in real life with her husband of many years, she has never actually had sex in zero-g or been violated by tentacles.
As a consequence of this tragic state of affairs, she pours her frustration into writing erotica stories that have literally no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. Well… unless you consider the fact that there’s at least nominally a plot to the stories, and that the protagonists care for each other beyond a quick roll in the sheets, to be redeeming characteristics. In which case, they have two.
But, yeah, mostly it’s just chickporn with a ton of edgeplay.