Name: Shockingly Sensual
ISBN: 9780373791798

Lori Wilde

Shockingly Sensual by Lori Wilde released on Mar 08, 2005 is available now for purchase.

Shockingly Sensual

Olivia

This book has all the ingredients to be a good book and it just didn’t read the recipe. It’s a bodyguard romance featuring a carrie bradshaw type radio host who is receiving death threats because of her sex talks, but it turns out the death threats are from her best friend in order to boost the heroines publicity so she can get more famous. the last 50 pages were rough for me. 

I was expecting a more feminist take considering the issues that were being talked about and tackled with her being a sex talk radio host, but instead I got a jealous best friend who was obsessed with the heroine. Even having the early morning slot talk show dude come out snd be the “big reveal” as the antagonist felt cheap and derailing for what I thought was going to happen. 

lots of selfish/annoying characters who were walking contradictions and a hero with a tragic past with love that felt less tragic and more icky. maybe it’s because I’ve read “The Rommate” and “The intimacy Experiment” so my expectations are too high when dealing with these kinds of books and issues, and maybe I should cut this one a break because it was written 16 years ago, but I’m disappointed and I feel cheated. 

So this isn’t just me shitting on the book, I will say I liked how the dynamic between the hero and heroine were switched, where the heroine is the one with experience and the hero is the one coming to her to learn more about sex. I think it nailed that aspect great. He was very stuffy and easily embarrassed (he blushed a lot!!) which I found enduring, and she loved pushing his buttons. There was also a very hot scene in a bar that I was sweating for! 

I’m going to give this author another go because I have hope this was a fluke, but this one was not something I enjoyed or would recommend.