“An instant classic…highly recommended!” —New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Probst
USA TODAY bestselling indie author Alice Clayton delights readers with the sexy, laugh-out-loud romance of Caroline and Simon in Wallbanger, the first book in the Cocktail series!
The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes she’s gaining an—um—intimate knowledge of her new neighbor’s nocturnal adventures. Thanks to paper-thin walls and the guy’s athletic prowess, she can hear not just his bed banging against the wall but the ecstatic response of what seems (as loud night after loud night goes by) like an endless parade of women. And since Caroline is currently on a self-imposed “dating hiatus,” and her neighbor is clearly lethally attractive to women, she finds her fantasies keep her awake even longer than the noise. So when the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts Simon Parker, her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. The tension between them is as thick as the walls are thin, and the results just as mixed. Suddenly, Caroline is finding she may have discovered a whole new definition of neighborly…
In a delicious mix of silly and steamy, Alice Clayton dishes out a hot and hilarious tale of exasperation at first sight.
A woman comes to terms with her *ahem* noisy neighbor in this adult contemporary romance.
Caroline is missing her O, while Simone is giving them out like candy. Simon and Caroline are fun characters full of energy and humor. It's hard not to like two such individuals. It's not often I read about a sexual active woman attempting to reconnect to her body after a lackluster sexual experience. Caroline's frustration and desperation for her O felt genuine and realistic. Simon's character arc is fulfilling, if a little less important, than Caroline's arc.
With all that said, I just did not like the writing style or tone (particularly in regards to her O). Don't get me wrong, my absolutely favorite part of the novel is Carolina's frustration and desperation for an orgasm. But some of the descriptions were just utterly silly. Something about her O being a mermaid with fiery hair and her jumping off a cliff and blah blah blah. I don't know, the language and tone just really did not work for me at all.
tl;dr While the story and characters are fun and humorus, the writing style did not work for me at all.
