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"Tell me every dirty detail…"
Jo Hutchinson is obsessed with a man she's never seen—only heard. Her late–night calls from the office to the mysterious "Mr. D." grow increasingly intimate, until they finally become full–blown phone sex. Still, Jo doesn't dare meet him. Instead, she embarks on a series of sizzling sexual escapades with other guys, sharing every sweaty moment with Mr. D. afterward, a passion–by–proxy arrangement they both get off on. But even as she's charting brave new naughty worlds, Jo knows that it's all really for Mr. D. Every pleasure she experiences—eagerly, athletically, vocally—is to please him.
Immersed in fantasy, reality just slips away—even the chance at that elusive combination of love and lust. Her new tenant, Patrick, an Irish hunk in geek's clothing, is totally into her. And in her lucid moments, Jo knows she feels the same. Can she tear herself away from her kinky dreamworld long enough to appreciate what's right in front of her? Or has Mr. D. ruined her for real life?
Jo Hutchinson is obsessed with a man she's never seen—only heard. Her late–night calls from the office to the mysterious "Mr. D." grow increasingly intimate, until they finally become full–blown phone sex. Still, Jo doesn't dare meet him. Instead, she embarks on a series of sizzling sexual escapades with other guys, sharing every sweaty moment with Mr. D. afterward, a passion–by–proxy arrangement they both get off on. But even as she's charting brave new naughty worlds, Jo knows that it's all really for Mr. D. Every pleasure she experiences—eagerly, athletically, vocally—is to please him.
Immersed in fantasy, reality just slips away—even the chance at that elusive combination of love and lust. Her new tenant, Patrick, an Irish hunk in geek's clothing, is totally into her. And in her lucid moments, Jo knows she feels the same. Can she tear herself away from her kinky dreamworld long enough to appreciate what's right in front of her? Or has Mr. D. ruined her for real life?
352 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2011
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Janet Mullany
19 books104 followersJanet Mullany was raised in England by half of an amateur string quartet and now lives near Washington, DC. Persecuted from an early age for reading too long in the bathroom, she still loves books and is an avid and eclectic reader. She has worked as an archaeologist, classical music radio announcer, arts publicist, and for a small press.
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July 13, 2011
**WARNING: This review is intended for readers 18 and older. It contains coarse language and adult themes. If you think you may be offended, you might want to skip this one. Be warned that this review also contains spoilers.**
Let me begin by telling you about the two most redeeming qualities about this book: the premise and the sex. The story centers on Jo, a woman who is just coming off of a bad break-up with a long-term boyfriend. Jo is a radio DJ and has been talking on the phone to a mysterious stranger who calls in, night after night. She knows nothing about him, except that he's a bit older and his calls are becoming something she looks forward to every night. After months of just talk, her conversations with "Mr. D" begin to turn sexual. It starts with phone sex, but Jo finds that with each call, she wants to up the stakes.
I found the early chapters of the book to be charming and sexy. I was quickly wrapped up in Jo's attraction to Mr. D and I couldn't wait for them to finally get together. But things go downhill fast. She sleeps with a co-worker, so she can tell Mr. D all about it. That wasn't so bad. But then, she sleeps with a guy she doesn't even like for the same reason. From there, that guy brings her into a mild 4-some with a swinging couple. And that leads to a secret sex club. Sexual adventure descends basically into hoe-dom at this point.
When she's not having sex, we see Jo interact with her BFF Kimberly... and her new tenant Patrick. There is some undefined sizzle between Jo and Patrick, but I didn't think much of it at first. I mean, who can pay attention to a sexual undercurrent, when Jo is so busy doing the nasty with random strangers?
Jo finds herself getting deeper and deeper into sordid sexual situations, all to titillate Mr D. But in a bizarre twist, it turns out Mr D is heavily involved into the kink himself. This development annoyed me. Mr D was painted as this staid, older man. I got the impression that his sexual talks with Jo were an aberration in his life... an exciting new adventure, as much for him as for her. But that wasn't the case at all. In another bait and switch, the love interest doesn't even end up being Mr D... but Patrick.
I found myself getting more and more disgusted as the book drew to a close. Jo, who starts the book as a woman seeking adventure and sexual empowerment, ends up a slut-bag who is too stupid to live. She makes one idiotic decision after another, especially when it comes to Patrick. Not the least of which is asking him for sex without a condom.... after the copious amount of sexual activity she has had throughout the book. It's true, the other guys used condoms for sex, but she swallowed more spunk than a porn star and poor Patrick had no idea what he was getting into. She brings him into the sex house, which she already knows is filled with nefarious perverts, without telling him... then proceeded to be shocked when she was betrayed. And yet, he forgives her! I don't know who is the bigger idiot!!! I wish I could say that things get better from this point, but then, Jo actually cheats on him... after all he has been willing to accept and forgive.
Jo is the worst character -- ever. I hope she gets crotch rot. And dies. I am a hardcore HEA fan, but I found myself wishing for her to end up living in abject misery. She deserved it. I read the last third of the book with my mouth hanging open, wishing I had never started it. Maybe this was magnified by the promise I saw early on. Maybe it was because Mr D was ruined. Maybe it was because I liked poor Patrick. Whatever the case, now that's it over, I feel like a need a shower. Or eye bleach. Or short-term amnesia... so I can forget I ever read this. Maybe 2 stars.
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Let me begin by telling you about the two most redeeming qualities about this book: the premise and the sex. The story centers on Jo, a woman who is just coming off of a bad break-up with a long-term boyfriend. Jo is a radio DJ and has been talking on the phone to a mysterious stranger who calls in, night after night. She knows nothing about him, except that he's a bit older and his calls are becoming something she looks forward to every night. After months of just talk, her conversations with "Mr. D" begin to turn sexual. It starts with phone sex, but Jo finds that with each call, she wants to up the stakes.
I found the early chapters of the book to be charming and sexy. I was quickly wrapped up in Jo's attraction to Mr. D and I couldn't wait for them to finally get together. But things go downhill fast. She sleeps with a co-worker, so she can tell Mr. D all about it. That wasn't so bad. But then, she sleeps with a guy she doesn't even like for the same reason. From there, that guy brings her into a mild 4-some with a swinging couple. And that leads to a secret sex club. Sexual adventure descends basically into hoe-dom at this point.
When she's not having sex, we see Jo interact with her BFF Kimberly... and her new tenant Patrick. There is some undefined sizzle between Jo and Patrick, but I didn't think much of it at first. I mean, who can pay attention to a sexual undercurrent, when Jo is so busy doing the nasty with random strangers?
Jo finds herself getting deeper and deeper into sordid sexual situations, all to titillate Mr D. But in a bizarre twist, it turns out Mr D is heavily involved into the kink himself. This development annoyed me. Mr D was painted as this staid, older man. I got the impression that his sexual talks with Jo were an aberration in his life... an exciting new adventure, as much for him as for her. But that wasn't the case at all. In another bait and switch, the love interest doesn't even end up being Mr D... but Patrick.
I found myself getting more and more disgusted as the book drew to a close. Jo, who starts the book as a woman seeking adventure and sexual empowerment, ends up a slut-bag who is too stupid to live. She makes one idiotic decision after another, especially when it comes to Patrick. Not the least of which is asking him for sex without a condom.... after the copious amount of sexual activity she has had throughout the book. It's true, the other guys used condoms for sex, but she swallowed more spunk than a porn star and poor Patrick had no idea what he was getting into. She brings him into the sex house, which she already knows is filled with nefarious perverts, without telling him... then proceeded to be shocked when she was betrayed. And yet, he forgives her! I don't know who is the bigger idiot!!! I wish I could say that things get better from this point, but then, Jo actually cheats on him... after all he has been willing to accept and forgive.
Jo is the worst character -- ever. I hope she gets crotch rot. And dies. I am a hardcore HEA fan, but I found myself wishing for her to end up living in abject misery. She deserved it. I read the last third of the book with my mouth hanging open, wishing I had never started it. Maybe this was magnified by the promise I saw early on. Maybe it was because Mr D was ruined. Maybe it was because I liked poor Patrick. Whatever the case, now that's it over, I feel like a need a shower. Or eye bleach. Or short-term amnesia... so I can forget I ever read this. Maybe 2 stars.
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September 25, 2011
Too Much And Not Nearly Enough
Warning: This book contains explicit scenes of a graphic sexual nature and is not suitable for all readers. Given my opinion of certain sections of the book, portions of this review are not suitable for all readers, either.
Late night on-air radio personality Jo Hutchinson has feelings for a man she's never met. He calls into her show and talks to her, has for months now, and the openness and honesty in those talks form the bonds of a deep connection, until her life on and off air seems to revolve around those calls. She doesn't even know his name, yet as time goes on, he becomes her world.
At his prompting, maybe even his genteel urging, Jo slips into a world of sexual expression and fantasy the likes of which she'd never known. She gives herself over to it in wild abandon, and all with one thought: telling Mr. D every erotic detail for their mutual sexual satisfaction, as their conversations are as sexually stimulating as her physical encounters. Sometimes more so.
As her journey into the world of fantasy pulls her further and further away from the life and friends she's known, Jo slowly starts to realize that there is a sinister side to sexuality, a more dangerous side, and her Mr. D. has been keeping secrets from her as he manipulated her into situations that proved untenable. It isn't until Jo tries to distance herself from the Association, a fancy name for the sex club she joined, that she starts to realize that life outside her fantasies has something in its favor. Most notably the good looking, slightly geeky Patrick Delaney, who reminds Jo just what it means to connect to someone in reality.
Walking away from the dark side is never without its risks, however, and is nowhere near as clean a break as she'd hoped. Her past haunts her, people from it harass her, and none of them want to let her go. Least of all the duplicitous Mr. D.
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In an ideal world, I'd read a book, review it, then start the next one in my obscenely large pile of TBRs. I do not live in an ideal world. For Tell Me More, though, that turns out to be a good thing, because if I had reviewed this book upon finishing it, this would be a much different review with a much lower rating. I've calmed down about it now, but the last quarter of this book had the unfortunate result of pissing me off more than any book I've read in recent...and not-so-recent memory.
For the first seventy percent of it, I was quite entertained by the quirky character of Jo and the utterly enchanting Patrick. There's a lot of sex in the book; even for an erotic romance, there's a hell of a lot of sex, but the scenes are well-written and though explicit, they didn't seem crass or overly gratuitous. What impressed me most about the book, however, was that when I looked beyond the sex, I found a surprisingly complex and darkly tragic tale of a woman with a deep-seated and long-standing fear of emotional intimacy and the road she travels as she sublimates for that with increasingly wild sexual intimacy following the breakup of a long-term relationship.
This is a woman who reflects on the moments of her emotional withdrawal from her ex-boyfriend long before their breakup, who refuses to find out Mr. D.'s name or meet him in person, even after he asks, who freezes up and walks away from a swinger sex scene when she catches a glimpse of emotion between two of the characters, who withdraws and withholds from the man who genuinely loves her, and who royally bollockses up her relationship with him in the single most heinously stupid and cruel way at the most unforgivable time. Jo is one flawed, messed up character, and I thought that made both her and her story interesting...to a point.
Also surprising considering the flagrant sexuality, the narrative has a lovely tongue-in-cheek, naughty humor that flirts with, but doesn't cross over into raunchy. Jo, for all her flaws, is a funny girl, and through shifting points of view that include first person from her perspective, there are plenty of opportunities to be entertained by that alone. Patrick is also a very affable, quick-witted chap who is quite easy to love as he recovers from the dissolution of his marriage and starts falling for Jo.
For the first almost three-quarters of this book, I was drawn in and fascinated by the story. Even the parts that made me a little uncomfortable (e.g. the sex club) seemed more a portent of impending conflict and a reflection of Jo's intimacy issues than were in any way an annoyance. Then the book hit the seventy percent mark, Jo popped a whole bottle of Stupid pills, became an idiot, a liar, and a cheating whore with no redeeming traits whatsoever, and then boo-hoo'd her way into the record books as one of the most repugnant creatures I've ever had the misfortune to experience in fiction.
To make that craptastic pile of shit even worse, the story stopped making sense, dropped every single plot thread that could have provided some measure of understanding, lost what modicum of good taste it possessed, and careened into wretched, unforgivable melodramatic angst with all the enthusiasm of an alcoholic at an open bar.
I started this book thinking it was an erotic romance. If that was the intent, it failed utterly for me on all fronts. There was nothing sufficiently redemptive or explanatory in the final chapters of the book to forgive Jo's unpardonable actions, and what I read in no way resembled a satisfying HEA. It is only when I look at this book through the lens of erotic fiction that I can be more objective and appreciate the first three quarters of it. Appreciating anything about the final quarter, though, is beyond me even then.
Disclosure: An ARC of this book was provided to me by Spice Books publisher Harlequin via NetGalley. This rating, review, and all included thoughts and comments are my own.
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Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
Warning: This book contains explicit scenes of a graphic sexual nature and is not suitable for all readers. Given my opinion of certain sections of the book, portions of this review are not suitable for all readers, either.
Late night on-air radio personality Jo Hutchinson has feelings for a man she's never met. He calls into her show and talks to her, has for months now, and the openness and honesty in those talks form the bonds of a deep connection, until her life on and off air seems to revolve around those calls. She doesn't even know his name, yet as time goes on, he becomes her world.
At his prompting, maybe even his genteel urging, Jo slips into a world of sexual expression and fantasy the likes of which she'd never known. She gives herself over to it in wild abandon, and all with one thought: telling Mr. D every erotic detail for their mutual sexual satisfaction, as their conversations are as sexually stimulating as her physical encounters. Sometimes more so.
As her journey into the world of fantasy pulls her further and further away from the life and friends she's known, Jo slowly starts to realize that there is a sinister side to sexuality, a more dangerous side, and her Mr. D. has been keeping secrets from her as he manipulated her into situations that proved untenable. It isn't until Jo tries to distance herself from the Association, a fancy name for the sex club she joined, that she starts to realize that life outside her fantasies has something in its favor. Most notably the good looking, slightly geeky Patrick Delaney, who reminds Jo just what it means to connect to someone in reality.
Walking away from the dark side is never without its risks, however, and is nowhere near as clean a break as she'd hoped. Her past haunts her, people from it harass her, and none of them want to let her go. Least of all the duplicitous Mr. D.
~*~
In an ideal world, I'd read a book, review it, then start the next one in my obscenely large pile of TBRs. I do not live in an ideal world. For Tell Me More, though, that turns out to be a good thing, because if I had reviewed this book upon finishing it, this would be a much different review with a much lower rating. I've calmed down about it now, but the last quarter of this book had the unfortunate result of pissing me off more than any book I've read in recent...and not-so-recent memory.
For the first seventy percent of it, I was quite entertained by the quirky character of Jo and the utterly enchanting Patrick. There's a lot of sex in the book; even for an erotic romance, there's a hell of a lot of sex, but the scenes are well-written and though explicit, they didn't seem crass or overly gratuitous. What impressed me most about the book, however, was that when I looked beyond the sex, I found a surprisingly complex and darkly tragic tale of a woman with a deep-seated and long-standing fear of emotional intimacy and the road she travels as she sublimates for that with increasingly wild sexual intimacy following the breakup of a long-term relationship.
This is a woman who reflects on the moments of her emotional withdrawal from her ex-boyfriend long before their breakup, who refuses to find out Mr. D.'s name or meet him in person, even after he asks, who freezes up and walks away from a swinger sex scene when she catches a glimpse of emotion between two of the characters, who withdraws and withholds from the man who genuinely loves her, and who royally bollockses up her relationship with him in the single most heinously stupid and cruel way at the most unforgivable time. Jo is one flawed, messed up character, and I thought that made both her and her story interesting...to a point.
Also surprising considering the flagrant sexuality, the narrative has a lovely tongue-in-cheek, naughty humor that flirts with, but doesn't cross over into raunchy. Jo, for all her flaws, is a funny girl, and through shifting points of view that include first person from her perspective, there are plenty of opportunities to be entertained by that alone. Patrick is also a very affable, quick-witted chap who is quite easy to love as he recovers from the dissolution of his marriage and starts falling for Jo.
For the first almost three-quarters of this book, I was drawn in and fascinated by the story. Even the parts that made me a little uncomfortable (e.g. the sex club) seemed more a portent of impending conflict and a reflection of Jo's intimacy issues than were in any way an annoyance. Then the book hit the seventy percent mark, Jo popped a whole bottle of Stupid pills, became an idiot, a liar, and a cheating whore with no redeeming traits whatsoever, and then boo-hoo'd her way into the record books as one of the most repugnant creatures I've ever had the misfortune to experience in fiction.
To make that craptastic pile of shit even worse, the story stopped making sense, dropped every single plot thread that could have provided some measure of understanding, lost what modicum of good taste it possessed, and careened into wretched, unforgivable melodramatic angst with all the enthusiasm of an alcoholic at an open bar.
I started this book thinking it was an erotic romance. If that was the intent, it failed utterly for me on all fronts. There was nothing sufficiently redemptive or explanatory in the final chapters of the book to forgive Jo's unpardonable actions, and what I read in no way resembled a satisfying HEA. It is only when I look at this book through the lens of erotic fiction that I can be more objective and appreciate the first three quarters of it. Appreciating anything about the final quarter, though, is beyond me even then.
Disclosure: An ARC of this book was provided to me by Spice Books publisher Harlequin via NetGalley. This rating, review, and all included thoughts and comments are my own.
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Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
June 25, 2011
3/5 Stars **This was provided to me by NetGalley**
Jo is a radio D.J. on a classical music station. She works the late shift and manages the administrative department of the station during the early morning hours. While working her late-night shifts, Jo gets a call from a listener, Mr. D, and pretty soon the calls become regular.
What starts out as something innocent, talking about everything from former lovers to music, quickly turns into full blown phone sex. Every night, without fail, Mr. D calls and Jo gives him steamy details of her love life.
Jo has an apartment over her house that she rents out to sexy Irishman, Patrick. It becomes clear that Patrick is interested in more than just a tenant relationship with Jo, and she cannot hide her obvious attraction to him either.
Soon after starting her sexy calls with Mr D, Jo is interested to a whole host of people and somehow gets mixed up in a sex club. Soon after, things start to heat up between she and Patrick and it becomes obvious that she has feelings for him. Does Patrick find out about Jo's crazy sex club? Does she ever meet Mr. D?
There were a lot of things I really liked about this book. Number one, it was HILARIOUS!! The dialog and banter between the heroine and all the other characters had me laughing out loud several times. The heroine is definitely a smart ass and extremely witty!! I loved Patrick. His Irish background was fascinating and watching him fall for Jo was very enjoyable. This man was quite an attentive lover as well and definitely had me breathless at times. The sex in this is HOT! So, if anal, menage, graphic language, etc. ain't your thing, don't even bother!
I was extremely confused throught the story with POV. It starts out in First person, but also goes to 3rd and the cutoffs didn't transition well at all. That was incredibly annoying and really took away from being able to totally get into the story. The author makes mention about a gazillion times that Jo has the body of a dancer from her former dancer background. The only problem is, there's never any real information about that background. For the most part, I just didn't like Jo; at all. She could easily classify as a slut, sleeping with three different man before one hundred pages into the book. To me, this showed lack of self-confidence and security on her part, and I detest that in a heroine. She's all tough girl on the outside, but then beds everyone in the next breath. Then, and this brought my rating down a whole star, she does something to Patrick that just pissed me off terribly. Seriously, I huffed and puffed. It made me so mad, I ALMOST didn't finish the story, and everything after that was really a blur because I was so pissed.
This story doesn't have a traditional HEA. For me, I like an HEA because it makes me feel good, but I realize in reality that that is not always the case.
Overall, this book is enjoyable. The writing is very good and again, I did enjoye the humor. I could've overlooked that pesky POV thing, but Jo just really did it in for me so I had to drop the rating. 3 Stars
Jo is a radio D.J. on a classical music station. She works the late shift and manages the administrative department of the station during the early morning hours. While working her late-night shifts, Jo gets a call from a listener, Mr. D, and pretty soon the calls become regular.
What starts out as something innocent, talking about everything from former lovers to music, quickly turns into full blown phone sex. Every night, without fail, Mr. D calls and Jo gives him steamy details of her love life.
Jo has an apartment over her house that she rents out to sexy Irishman, Patrick. It becomes clear that Patrick is interested in more than just a tenant relationship with Jo, and she cannot hide her obvious attraction to him either.
Soon after starting her sexy calls with Mr D, Jo is interested to a whole host of people and somehow gets mixed up in a sex club. Soon after, things start to heat up between she and Patrick and it becomes obvious that she has feelings for him. Does Patrick find out about Jo's crazy sex club? Does she ever meet Mr. D?
There were a lot of things I really liked about this book. Number one, it was HILARIOUS!! The dialog and banter between the heroine and all the other characters had me laughing out loud several times. The heroine is definitely a smart ass and extremely witty!! I loved Patrick. His Irish background was fascinating and watching him fall for Jo was very enjoyable. This man was quite an attentive lover as well and definitely had me breathless at times. The sex in this is HOT! So, if anal, menage, graphic language, etc. ain't your thing, don't even bother!
I was extremely confused throught the story with POV. It starts out in First person, but also goes to 3rd and the cutoffs didn't transition well at all. That was incredibly annoying and really took away from being able to totally get into the story. The author makes mention about a gazillion times that Jo has the body of a dancer from her former dancer background. The only problem is, there's never any real information about that background. For the most part, I just didn't like Jo; at all. She could easily classify as a slut, sleeping with three different man before one hundred pages into the book. To me, this showed lack of self-confidence and security on her part, and I detest that in a heroine. She's all tough girl on the outside, but then beds everyone in the next breath. Then, and this brought my rating down a whole star, she does something to Patrick that just pissed me off terribly. Seriously, I huffed and puffed. It made me so mad, I ALMOST didn't finish the story, and everything after that was really a blur because I was so pissed.
This story doesn't have a traditional HEA. For me, I like an HEA because it makes me feel good, but I realize in reality that that is not always the case.
Overall, this book is enjoyable. The writing is very good and again, I did enjoye the humor. I could've overlooked that pesky POV thing, but Jo just really did it in for me so I had to drop the rating. 3 Stars
June 15, 2011
I didn't know what to expect from this ARC of Janet Mullany's Tell Me More. But I can say this-- I wanted Mullany to tell me more-- I wasn't ready for it to end! This is steamy-steamy. And while the sexual scenes and situations were nothing new to me (ahem!), I haven't read many novels lately that delve into the sensuous underbelly that this novel does: three- and more-somes, public displays at play parties, snarky comments about the uncircumcised. I loved it!
I took to the character of Jo right away-- perhaps because she is a smart-ass and I like that in my female leads. What I couldn't cotton, though, was her willingness to put herself in so many sexually adventurous (read: sexually perilous) situations, with so many strangers, in such a small space of time. I can forgive Jo for "doing the nasty" with her hunky Irish tenant (man, I love a hot Irishman!), but there's quite a parade of "cads" getting an all-access tour of Jo's vagina, and that's just unseemly behavior for a supposed smart woman.
In the beginning of this deliciously sordid tale, I was getting a lot out of the sessions between Jo and her "gentleman caller," Mr. D, but after while that whole thing seemed to get out of hand-- and perhaps, away from the author. I know I was inhaling this one, but I still haven't figured what Jake did to Jo when he was serving as Mr. D's proxy. And I still don't know how I can forgive Jo for her gross error the first time she and Patrick have their special date night. Really?!!! How could she be so dumb? I don't know what to chalk Jo's stupidity up to-- she doesn't seem to be totally naive in the beginning of the book, so how could she make a succession of huge mistakes?
Ah, well. This ain't rocket science, but it certainly can help you get your rocks off! I enjoyed it, and if you're ready for a bit of randy, raunchy fun, this is the book for you.
I took to the character of Jo right away-- perhaps because she is a smart-ass and I like that in my female leads. What I couldn't cotton, though, was her willingness to put herself in so many sexually adventurous (read: sexually perilous) situations, with so many strangers, in such a small space of time. I can forgive Jo for "doing the nasty" with her hunky Irish tenant (man, I love a hot Irishman!), but there's quite a parade of "cads" getting an all-access tour of Jo's vagina, and that's just unseemly behavior for a supposed smart woman.
In the beginning of this deliciously sordid tale, I was getting a lot out of the sessions between Jo and her "gentleman caller," Mr. D, but after while that whole thing seemed to get out of hand-- and perhaps, away from the author. I know I was inhaling this one, but I still haven't figured what Jake did to Jo when he was serving as Mr. D's proxy. And I still don't know how I can forgive Jo for her gross error the first time she and Patrick have their special date night. Really?!!! How could she be so dumb? I don't know what to chalk Jo's stupidity up to-- she doesn't seem to be totally naive in the beginning of the book, so how could she make a succession of huge mistakes?
Ah, well. This ain't rocket science, but it certainly can help you get your rocks off! I enjoyed it, and if you're ready for a bit of randy, raunchy fun, this is the book for you.
September 8, 2011
This book was sexy, smutty, and delightful. The main character, Jo, has some delightfully wonderful sexual encounters. Some are sweet and some are kinky as all get out.
Let me just say that Jo and I had a tumultuous relationship. I loved her, then I adored her, then I was rooting in her corner, then I hated her, and then we met back at the comfortable place of my loving her again. Jo and I finally worked out our differences as soon as she got over her mysterious, late night phone sex caller. Oh yes ladies and gents, there's a whole slew of sexual debauchery in this book. Sex clubs, threesomes, hairy bush, phone sex, sex games, anything your little perverted heart desires.
In all seriousness, the author, Janet Mullany weaves a tale of a seemingly "vanilla" woman, living the life of a late night radio jockey for classical music. She gets mixed up in this fantasy world and when reality knocks on her door in the form of lovable, kind of heartbroken, delicious, Irish Patrick. Jo has a hard time getting back to reality and she can't seem to remember how much I love Patrick. Okay, fine, that's irrational, he's a fictional character but I love him..seriously.
Either way, this a really great read with a shocking ending. I will definitely be on the look out for more from this author and so should all of you.
Let me just say that Jo and I had a tumultuous relationship. I loved her, then I adored her, then I was rooting in her corner, then I hated her, and then we met back at the comfortable place of my loving her again. Jo and I finally worked out our differences as soon as she got over her mysterious, late night phone sex caller. Oh yes ladies and gents, there's a whole slew of sexual debauchery in this book. Sex clubs, threesomes, hairy bush, phone sex, sex games, anything your little perverted heart desires.
In all seriousness, the author, Janet Mullany weaves a tale of a seemingly "vanilla" woman, living the life of a late night radio jockey for classical music. She gets mixed up in this fantasy world and when reality knocks on her door in the form of lovable, kind of heartbroken, delicious, Irish Patrick. Jo has a hard time getting back to reality and she can't seem to remember how much I love Patrick. Okay, fine, that's irrational, he's a fictional character but I love him..seriously.
Either way, this a really great read with a shocking ending. I will definitely be on the look out for more from this author and so should all of you.
June 3, 2011
Holy moly. I had no clue what this was about when I randomly picked it from the books I had downloaded to my ereader from NetGalley, but once I started it I could not put it down. Extremely steamy, and various types of sex throughout the whole thing. I really liked Jo. She was funny, a smart-ass, and made plenty of mistakes to keep her real. It was pretty clear to see from the outside when she was making a big one, trusting the wrong people, etc. But the story would have been pretty boring if she did everything she should have done. She was unapologetic about what she wanted at the time, and as long as she wasn't hurting anyone, I say good for her. I liked that she discovered that maybe she did want more out of life than what she was getting, and hopefully she got a little smarter. My only complaint is I wish there would have been more relationship-building with Patrick. It was implied, but he was such a great character that I would have loved more of him.
July 8, 2011
Jo is a personality at a local radio station and has a big problem...the man who is stealing all her sexy thoughts and guiding her promiscuous behavior is a man she has never actually never met! Jo talks to the elusive and mysterious "Mr. D" on her office phone, late at night when no one is around. The lines of fantasy and reality begin to blur as she conducts her sexual life with the sole thought of rehashing every little detail with her sexy stranger. Can she pull herself together enough to have a real relationship with a real flesh and blood man?
I was very excited about reading this book, I thought the story line was fresh and fun and sexy and it had all the ingredients for an excellent read.
Right away I loved the heroine. Jo was a great combination of sexy, smart and funny...very funny, in fact I was laughing out loud on multiple occasions throughout the book. Jo's humor wasn't enough to sustain my attention though. In the beginning, I thought she was smart and confident and I liked that she seemed to own her sexuality by never apologizing for her behavior. As the story went on, I saw that Jo was not the confident character she seemed to be in the beginning and smart...nah. I can't say that she was smart because she seemed to always be making poor decisions and did not have a firm grasp on reality. I viewed her as a bit of a slut...her promiscuity comes across as slutty not liberated. By books end, I actually ended up not like Jo at all.
As supporting characters go, I would liked to have seen a stronger friend for her to lean on as she obviously needed that in her life.
Then, the men...there were just too many men to evaluate...it was a revolving door. Patrick was the only man noteworthy enough to mention and I don't know why he even stuck around--I actually began to question his mental stability for getting involved with her in the first place. Every man that I know would haul ass in the opposite direction and would certainly NOT become intimately involved with the likes of Jo. I did like him though. I thought maybe if he were a longtime friend and already had some sort of vested interest in her life it would have been a more believable relationship, but I just wasn't feeling it. It was way too new in the relationship, in my opinion to be dealing with Jo's brand of drama.
This is the first book I have read by Janet Mullany and I am pretty sure it will be the last. I was terribly confused with her writing style. Her shifting point of view and abrupt shift in scenes distracted from the story. I found on MANY occasions that I had to re-read entire sections, sometimes multiple times to get a handle on what was happening. It was a frustrating aspect that really brought my rating of this book way down. It was so distracting that by Chapter 9, I seriously contemplated not finishing the book--at that time, I had too much invested in the book and I wanted to know the the outcome. Honestly, I would have rated this higher if there had been better distinction between the scene shifts...here is just one example of the aforementioned shift: The first part, the intimate scene was with the heroine and one of her random guys and the second part starting with " I guess this is it" is a scene with the hero and his ex-wife - I had to re-read because I thought maybe I had missed something and the H/h were having sex. That is just one of many...I was actually beginning to think I had gotten a defective copy. There really needs to be at least a visual indicator that the scene is shifting with asterisks or spacing...something. I blame the editors as much as the author for this fumble. After finishing the book and now having read other reviews, I am not the only one who felt this confusion. It seems to be a common theme amongst reviewers.
I had high hopes for this novel--great in theory, but really needs some work to be a good read.
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I was very excited about reading this book, I thought the story line was fresh and fun and sexy and it had all the ingredients for an excellent read.
Right away I loved the heroine. Jo was a great combination of sexy, smart and funny...very funny, in fact I was laughing out loud on multiple occasions throughout the book. Jo's humor wasn't enough to sustain my attention though. In the beginning, I thought she was smart and confident and I liked that she seemed to own her sexuality by never apologizing for her behavior. As the story went on, I saw that Jo was not the confident character she seemed to be in the beginning and smart...nah. I can't say that she was smart because she seemed to always be making poor decisions and did not have a firm grasp on reality. I viewed her as a bit of a slut...her promiscuity comes across as slutty not liberated. By books end, I actually ended up not like Jo at all.
As supporting characters go, I would liked to have seen a stronger friend for her to lean on as she obviously needed that in her life.
Then, the men...there were just too many men to evaluate...it was a revolving door. Patrick was the only man noteworthy enough to mention and I don't know why he even stuck around--I actually began to question his mental stability for getting involved with her in the first place. Every man that I know would haul ass in the opposite direction and would certainly NOT become intimately involved with the likes of Jo. I did like him though. I thought maybe if he were a longtime friend and already had some sort of vested interest in her life it would have been a more believable relationship, but I just wasn't feeling it. It was way too new in the relationship, in my opinion to be dealing with Jo's brand of drama.
This is the first book I have read by Janet Mullany and I am pretty sure it will be the last. I was terribly confused with her writing style. Her shifting point of view and abrupt shift in scenes distracted from the story. I found on MANY occasions that I had to re-read entire sections, sometimes multiple times to get a handle on what was happening. It was a frustrating aspect that really brought my rating of this book way down. It was so distracting that by Chapter 9, I seriously contemplated not finishing the book--at that time, I had too much invested in the book and I wanted to know the the outcome. Honestly, I would have rated this higher if there had been better distinction between the scene shifts...here is just one example of the aforementioned shift: The first part, the intimate scene was with the heroine and one of her random guys and the second part starting with " I guess this is it" is a scene with the hero and his ex-wife - I had to re-read because I thought maybe I had missed something and the H/h were having sex. That is just one of many...I was actually beginning to think I had gotten a defective copy. There really needs to be at least a visual indicator that the scene is shifting with asterisks or spacing...something. I blame the editors as much as the author for this fumble. After finishing the book and now having read other reviews, I am not the only one who felt this confusion. It seems to be a common theme amongst reviewers.
I had high hopes for this novel--great in theory, but really needs some work to be a good read.
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July 20, 2011
2 stars for the story – heroine did stupid and illogical things. 3 stars for the sex scenes which is most of the book.
STORY BRIEF:
Jo works as a classical music radio announcer late at night. She gets regular phone calls at work from someone she calls Mr. D. She does not want to meet him in person. She tells him about her sexual activities with other men, usually embellishing. Jo’s boyfriend of three years (Hugh) was having affairs, so she kicked him out of her home. Patrick is going through a divorce and moves into Jo’s home as a tenant. Jo has sex with various men she meets. One of them invites her to join the Association, a sex club.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
This book is mostly explicit sex scenes, about 24, plus additional talk about sex. There are sex toys, bondage, whipping, and rear door activity. There is a lot of self-pleasuring. There is group sex and a minor amount of male-male and female-female activity. There is one scene that I found surprisingly arousing – I don’t know why (page 103). Jo is having lunch with the Chairman of the Association and two men who are Association members. After she agrees to join, the Chairman says “Before you go, Miss Hutchinson, there’s one more thing.” He beckoned to one of the waiters, who stepped forward. “A gesture of good faith, if you will.” Then Jo and the waiter have sex while the three men and another waiter watch and pleasure themselves.
The plot, motivations, and heroine’s actions were weak. Heroine did illogical and stupid things which had me shaking my head. Don‘t read this for the story. Read this if you want lots of sex scenes. I found them ok for explicit sex.
The definition of romance requires the couple be together at the end. This barely qualifies. They weren’t together but their actions hinted that they would be in the future (unless she continued doing stupid and illogical things which was her habit). It was an “assumed” happy ending. I’d prefer something more specific.
DATA:
Story length: 337 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: strong/erotic. Number of sex scenes: 24. Approximate number of sex scene pages: 60. Setting: current day Colorado. Copyright: 2011. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.
STORY BRIEF:
Jo works as a classical music radio announcer late at night. She gets regular phone calls at work from someone she calls Mr. D. She does not want to meet him in person. She tells him about her sexual activities with other men, usually embellishing. Jo’s boyfriend of three years (Hugh) was having affairs, so she kicked him out of her home. Patrick is going through a divorce and moves into Jo’s home as a tenant. Jo has sex with various men she meets. One of them invites her to join the Association, a sex club.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
This book is mostly explicit sex scenes, about 24, plus additional talk about sex. There are sex toys, bondage, whipping, and rear door activity. There is a lot of self-pleasuring. There is group sex and a minor amount of male-male and female-female activity. There is one scene that I found surprisingly arousing – I don’t know why (page 103). Jo is having lunch with the Chairman of the Association and two men who are Association members. After she agrees to join, the Chairman says “Before you go, Miss Hutchinson, there’s one more thing.” He beckoned to one of the waiters, who stepped forward. “A gesture of good faith, if you will.” Then Jo and the waiter have sex while the three men and another waiter watch and pleasure themselves.
The plot, motivations, and heroine’s actions were weak. Heroine did illogical and stupid things which had me shaking my head. Don‘t read this for the story. Read this if you want lots of sex scenes. I found them ok for explicit sex.
The definition of romance requires the couple be together at the end. This barely qualifies. They weren’t together but their actions hinted that they would be in the future (unless she continued doing stupid and illogical things which was her habit). It was an “assumed” happy ending. I’d prefer something more specific.
DATA:
Story length: 337 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: strong/erotic. Number of sex scenes: 24. Approximate number of sex scene pages: 60. Setting: current day Colorado. Copyright: 2011. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.
August 16, 2011
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This is a good example of well-written erotica. Of course, it had a lot of hot steamy sex, yet it also had a solid story. And characters you can actually care about. Even the cover sets it slightly apart from most erotica books out there. It didn’t have a hunk of a man posed in a scenic tableau, just a tastefully nude woman and the title against a black background leaving a lot to the imagination. Tell me more indeed.
The book is about Jo Hutchinson, a 20-something late night DJ who recently broke up with her longtime boyfriend. During her shifts at the radio station, she receives these phone calls from an avid listener that eventually turn into phone sex. As her ex-boyfriends moves out, a hot Irishman, Patrick, becomes her tenant. There certainly is an attraction between Jo and Patrick… and Jo and this mystery caller who calls himself Mr. D. Jo goes on to realize that fantasy is not always better than reality.
You know that saying ‘When God closes a door, He opens a window?’ You can apply that to Jo and her partners. More like opening a couple of windows, or replacing the single door with a revolving one. Sure, she just lost her boyfriend but saw a lot of action in the bedroom. There are a LOT of sexy – and sex – scenes in this book. But it’s not just that. There is definitely a steady plot progression that I liked a lot. Jo’s conversations with Mr. D while in the DJ booth were really hot. There’s one scene with Patrick towards the end that, I think, was probably the hottest of all. I’m not particularly a fan of bondage stories but even those scenes I found hot.
Jo’s not the only one who got major action in the story. Her best friend Kim had her share too. She’s the Samantha equivalent to Jo’s Carrie. And there’s Patrick. I was rooting for him and Jo. I liked Mr. D’s mysteriousness but once the curtains were lifted, the magic was gone. But Patrick was just so sweet, such a gentleman. And he’s a hot geek! I’ve read other reviews saying that they didn’t like the ending. I did. I felt that it went full circle and definitely utilized the title very well.
Rating: 4/5.
Recommendation: Fans of erotica. Readers with an overactive imagination would need to lock their doors and turn up the music. ;-)
This is a good example of well-written erotica. Of course, it had a lot of hot steamy sex, yet it also had a solid story. And characters you can actually care about. Even the cover sets it slightly apart from most erotica books out there. It didn’t have a hunk of a man posed in a scenic tableau, just a tastefully nude woman and the title against a black background leaving a lot to the imagination. Tell me more indeed.
The book is about Jo Hutchinson, a 20-something late night DJ who recently broke up with her longtime boyfriend. During her shifts at the radio station, she receives these phone calls from an avid listener that eventually turn into phone sex. As her ex-boyfriends moves out, a hot Irishman, Patrick, becomes her tenant. There certainly is an attraction between Jo and Patrick… and Jo and this mystery caller who calls himself Mr. D. Jo goes on to realize that fantasy is not always better than reality.
You know that saying ‘When God closes a door, He opens a window?’ You can apply that to Jo and her partners. More like opening a couple of windows, or replacing the single door with a revolving one. Sure, she just lost her boyfriend but saw a lot of action in the bedroom. There are a LOT of sexy – and sex – scenes in this book. But it’s not just that. There is definitely a steady plot progression that I liked a lot. Jo’s conversations with Mr. D while in the DJ booth were really hot. There’s one scene with Patrick towards the end that, I think, was probably the hottest of all. I’m not particularly a fan of bondage stories but even those scenes I found hot.
Jo’s not the only one who got major action in the story. Her best friend Kim had her share too. She’s the Samantha equivalent to Jo’s Carrie. And there’s Patrick. I was rooting for him and Jo. I liked Mr. D’s mysteriousness but once the curtains were lifted, the magic was gone. But Patrick was just so sweet, such a gentleman. And he’s a hot geek! I’ve read other reviews saying that they didn’t like the ending. I did. I felt that it went full circle and definitely utilized the title very well.
Rating: 4/5.
Recommendation: Fans of erotica. Readers with an overactive imagination would need to lock their doors and turn up the music. ;-)
October 21, 2011
In many ways this book is a thowback the vintage sleaze pulps of the 1960's of which I am an avid collector. Those irresistible books were primarily marketed to men and written in the colorful language of the day required to stay out of trouble with the censors at Post Master's Office. Tell Me More is of course written in the more direct descriptive prose of the modern erotic genre and is marketed primarily to women. But I can assure you this kind of stuff is read by heterosexual males seeking a voyeuristic guilty pleasure just as the vintage pulps were.
It is hard to give a detailed review of this book without coming across like a pervert. It has to be evaluated the same way a pure escapism junk action novel or movie is. Is it well crafted, paced with urgency, and do the action setpieces deliver? In this case the sex scenes are the action sequences that hold the book together and suffice to say they do deliver.
One of the reasons this book caught my attention is it shares a similar premise and themes to many of Joan Ellis's Midwood novels and to the 1990 guilty pleasure cult movie Body Chemistry.
It is hard to give a detailed review of this book without coming across like a pervert. It has to be evaluated the same way a pure escapism junk action novel or movie is. Is it well crafted, paced with urgency, and do the action setpieces deliver? In this case the sex scenes are the action sequences that hold the book together and suffice to say they do deliver.
One of the reasons this book caught my attention is it shares a similar premise and themes to many of Joan Ellis's Midwood novels and to the 1990 guilty pleasure cult movie Body Chemistry.
September 3, 2011
I didn't like Tell Me More.
*****
FRUSTRATING.
I started Tell Me More and really liking it, but when the moment came Jo can finally have closure with Mr. D., I found myself disgusted with her. I thought this erotica novel has a little substance in story, but that moment completely ruined it. That being said, Jo does not deserve even the smallest affection from Patrick. Ugh.
Jo went into sexual experiments but Mullany barely bother to explain Jo’s past so I as a reader can sympathize with Jo. Patrick could’ve have been a great male lead if not for his lax acceptance for Jo’s transgressions and secrets. Jo & Patrick’s relationship develop only in the middle of the book (i was impatient on where the story will lead me because Jo’s sexcapades is starting to bore me). The ending was kinda cute, perhaps too cute for an erotica book but it suits me fine.
I could’ve given this a 3 star-rating but the Mr. D.-Jo closure scene definitely irritated me.
*****
FRUSTRATING.
I started Tell Me More and really liking it, but when the moment came Jo can finally have closure with Mr. D., I found myself disgusted with her. I thought this erotica novel has a little substance in story, but that moment completely ruined it. That being said, Jo does not deserve even the smallest affection from Patrick. Ugh.
Jo went into sexual experiments but Mullany barely bother to explain Jo’s past so I as a reader can sympathize with Jo. Patrick could’ve have been a great male lead if not for his lax acceptance for Jo’s transgressions and secrets. Jo & Patrick’s relationship develop only in the middle of the book (i was impatient on where the story will lead me because Jo’s sexcapades is starting to bore me). The ending was kinda cute, perhaps too cute for an erotica book but it suits me fine.
I could’ve given this a 3 star-rating but the Mr. D.-Jo closure scene definitely irritated me.
July 9, 2011
This book was sort of a train wreck for me, both with the story and with the main character, Jo. She seemed to stumble into every situation. Hugh came by and she let herself be talked into sex, a caller kept calling at night, she struck a friendship with a guy that seemed to turn more real than her real life. I thought it was interesting that she let the phone relationship start to dictate her actions in her life, even become the center of her life, every action she took was with the thought of relating it back. It was at this point that Jo seemed to really loose herself and cross lines she knew better about. I also couldn't see why all these guys were so obsessed and into her, she was a hot mess.
Even at the end of the book I felt bad for everyone involved. They think they got past their issues, but I wonder, there still seems to be lots of unresolved things.
Even at the end of the book I felt bad for everyone involved. They think they got past their issues, but I wonder, there still seems to be lots of unresolved things.
July 11, 2011
This was one of the cleanest dirty book I have ever read but boy did it work. It was basically the sexual journey of Jo and her no so good experience with trying something a bit kinky. I have to say I liked that her foray into the sex club scene was shown as a bit of a disaster and that they were all a bit pretentious. The book worked well and the character development was a joy to read even if at times I was shouting at the book for Jo not to trust Harry.
Would I recommend this book..... yes to anyone who like erotica with a strong story that is not only entertaining but believable.
Would I recommend this book..... yes to anyone who like erotica with a strong story that is not only entertaining but believable.
July 24, 2011
2 ½ Stars
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Ok, I don’t know where to start with this *headdesk*… Jo is a radio DJ with a program late at night, sometimes she receives calls from listeners and in one of those calls she meets “Mr. D”. Jo went through a difficult breakup, her boyfriend cheated on her. Mr. D helped her a lot during those days and after some calls they became phone buddies. One day Jo’s ex comes to her house to pickup something he has forgotten in the house, Jo sees him and gets horny and it doesn’t matter that he is a lying cheating bastard, her hormones are stronger than her so she decides to have a farewell fuck with him. While they are at it, recently divorced Patrick comes to see the efficiency Jo is renting; the door is open, so obviously Patrick enters (without knocking or making noise) and catches Jo and Hugh in the act. When they are done they notice him watching them, he excuses himself and later via email reschedules the appointment to see the apartment the next day. That night Jo tells every little detail about her encounter with the ex to Mr. D and soon after that conversation they move to a next level and start to have phone sex, while Jo is at her job, nice! One night in one of those sex-versations with Mr. D Jo is masturbating almost naked in her office (classy) she thought she was alone in the building, but one young intern hasn’t left and caught her “in the act” (again), so what does Jo do? She takes this 21 year old to her house and has a sex-rathon with him. While having cougar sex she is thinking about Mr. D and how much he is going to enjoy when she tells him all about this new encounter. And she was right, Mr. D is “very happy” with the recount of the night.
That same day Patrick moves to the efficiency and the young intern with his “satisfied” face helps him move in.
Before all this started Jo wanted to meet Mr. D but he said it was better to keep a strictly phone relationship between them, but now Mr. D has changed his mind and wants to meet with Jo, but she is afraid things may change between them and now she is the one who doesn’t want to meet him.
Jo wants to have an exciting and a very sexual life just to have stories to tell Mr. D. She is changing from a nice woman to a very sluty slut. Her best friend Kimberly is noticing something different with Jo but thinks the hard breakup is to blame. Kimberly thinks Jo needs to meet new people and introduces her to Willis Scott. Jo doesn’t like Willis a bit, but accepts his invitation for lunch. They go to a picnic together and Jo is the dessert, another story to tell Mr. D.
Willis seeing Jo is so “liberated” invites her to a foursome with some of his friends and what does Jo do? She accepts… another story to tell Mr. D.
Willis’ friend Jack seeing how “approachable” Jo is invites her to join a sex club, and what does our delectable heroine do? She agrees of course, more stories to tell Mr. D!
Days later Jo is screwing around in the sex club when she hears the voice of Mr. D, she tries to approach him but he evades her. Jo starts to suspect Mr. D has been all the time behind her enrollment in this private club. This news leaves her feeling sad, betrayed and a little bit lost. She is also feeling attracted to her tenant Patrick. The attraction is mutual but Patrick knows there is something weird about Jo. He has these feelings not just because he caught Jo with two different men in just couple of days, but more because one night Jo arrived home early in the morning looking like a poor and badly used porn star. As I said before, our heroine is a delectable and classy lady.
Jo decides to leave the club behind and gives a chance to Patrick. Patrick wants to take things slow, to make it special, there is a lot of fooling around but they are waiting a while for the perfect moment to have their first time.
The super secret sex club doesn’t want Jo to retire and invite her to a dinner and sleep over as a proof of their good faith. The director of the club tells Jo to bring Patrick as her guest, she won’t have to have sex with anybody else and they are going to get a room all for themselves. So our smart heroine invites Patrick to the dinner/sleep over thinking it will be especial for the first night.
The night of the event they arrive to the club, Patrick thinks is weird they have to use masks but doesn’t think anything else about it. Many men know Jo and it is very obvious they know her “really” well, but Patrick is kind of ok with that too. After dinner they go to the room they were assigned. It is the first time Patrick and Jo are going to do “the deed” smart Jo tells Patrick not to use a condom and even smarter Patrick accepts, it’s not as if Jo was screwing around or being a participant in a sex club or drinking more body fluids than coffee in the morning… I guess being safe is not important for them. And Patrick doesn’t care that he saw her arriving the other night in the state she arrived, he thinks is safe to have unprotected sex with her? Ok, what can I say… STUPID!
Soon after they are done, the room is filled with people cheering them and congratulating them for their great performance. Patrick is appalled, he thinks it was Jo’s plan all alone and storms out of the room leaving her there. Jo doesn’t know what to do and finds herself in front of Mr. D, this was another of his evil plans. Jo is infuriated because he has been playing with her all alone, so she does the “smart” thing and asks him to meet her a couple of days later at a hotel to talk about his motives.
After some pleading, crying and begging from Jo Patrick forgives her and believes she didn’t know what was gonna happen, even though she brought him into a sex club without letting him know what they were getting into. Such a nice man!
Patrick and Jo are great, they are in love and enjoying to the max their time together… so sweet!
Patrick’s dad is visiting from Ireland, they have a tough relationship, so Patrick asks his dear girlfriend Jo to come with them to dinner to meet his father and be their buffer is the need arise. Jo accepts, is going to be a tight schedule, she is supposed to meet with Mr. D and go to the studio before dinner. Patrick doesn’t know Jo is meeting Mr. D, he thinks she is going to the studio and after will meet with him.
Jo arrives to the hotel, Mr. D is waiting for her in the lobby, they go to the hotel restaurant to have tea and talk (they are very civilized people), during their talk Mr. D shows Jo the card key to one of the rooms of the hotel and what does our sweet and in love heroine do? She goes and fucks Mr. D while nice Patrick is waiting for her with his pain in the ass father at a restaurant. Patrick is trying to reach her, but her phone is off, he is worried sick that something has happened, he calls the station and learns she haven’t been there the whole day. Of course he adds 2 plus 2 and realizes he has won the title of cuckold of the year. While many times during the book I “had to” hit my head with a desk I continue reading, but at this point I really wanted to throw the book through a window, but couldn’t do it because I was reading an ebook and I love my reader. If there had been many pages left I would not have finish this book, but there were just few left so I continue with Jo and her pussy’s adventures…
To end this summary/review let’s just say that Patrick needs to buy a set of cojones and a kilogram of self-esteem and Jo needs to go daily to the psychoanalyst and hopefully he/she will be a very unattractive doctor so Jo doesn’t end up screwing with him/her.
I also think somebody needs to give Jo a detailed explanation about STDs and how they are transmitted.
Even though I love the cover and really wanted to like it, Tell Me Morewas not for me, not just because I didn’t like any of the characters, or because the author’s writing style gave me headache with her point of view change from Jo’s first person point of view to Patrick’s third person point of view, or because I have to read some paragraphs more than once to understand what and who was saying it. Or because there is NOT a scene when Jo goes down and dirty with Mr. D even though there was a build up during the whole book between these two characters.
I was planning to give it 2 Paws but gave it an extra ½ Paw because some of the sex scenes were pretty hot.
If you like porn in paper and don’t care much about the plot or the characters this book is for you. If you want a well-developed plot and interesting characters look somewhere else.
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Ok, I don’t know where to start with this *headdesk*… Jo is a radio DJ with a program late at night, sometimes she receives calls from listeners and in one of those calls she meets “Mr. D”. Jo went through a difficult breakup, her boyfriend cheated on her. Mr. D helped her a lot during those days and after some calls they became phone buddies. One day Jo’s ex comes to her house to pickup something he has forgotten in the house, Jo sees him and gets horny and it doesn’t matter that he is a lying cheating bastard, her hormones are stronger than her so she decides to have a farewell fuck with him. While they are at it, recently divorced Patrick comes to see the efficiency Jo is renting; the door is open, so obviously Patrick enters (without knocking or making noise) and catches Jo and Hugh in the act. When they are done they notice him watching them, he excuses himself and later via email reschedules the appointment to see the apartment the next day. That night Jo tells every little detail about her encounter with the ex to Mr. D and soon after that conversation they move to a next level and start to have phone sex, while Jo is at her job, nice! One night in one of those sex-versations with Mr. D Jo is masturbating almost naked in her office (classy) she thought she was alone in the building, but one young intern hasn’t left and caught her “in the act” (again), so what does Jo do? She takes this 21 year old to her house and has a sex-rathon with him. While having cougar sex she is thinking about Mr. D and how much he is going to enjoy when she tells him all about this new encounter. And she was right, Mr. D is “very happy” with the recount of the night.
That same day Patrick moves to the efficiency and the young intern with his “satisfied” face helps him move in.
Before all this started Jo wanted to meet Mr. D but he said it was better to keep a strictly phone relationship between them, but now Mr. D has changed his mind and wants to meet with Jo, but she is afraid things may change between them and now she is the one who doesn’t want to meet him.
Jo wants to have an exciting and a very sexual life just to have stories to tell Mr. D. She is changing from a nice woman to a very sluty slut. Her best friend Kimberly is noticing something different with Jo but thinks the hard breakup is to blame. Kimberly thinks Jo needs to meet new people and introduces her to Willis Scott. Jo doesn’t like Willis a bit, but accepts his invitation for lunch. They go to a picnic together and Jo is the dessert, another story to tell Mr. D.
Willis seeing Jo is so “liberated” invites her to a foursome with some of his friends and what does Jo do? She accepts… another story to tell Mr. D.
Willis’ friend Jack seeing how “approachable” Jo is invites her to join a sex club, and what does our delectable heroine do? She agrees of course, more stories to tell Mr. D!
Days later Jo is screwing around in the sex club when she hears the voice of Mr. D, she tries to approach him but he evades her. Jo starts to suspect Mr. D has been all the time behind her enrollment in this private club. This news leaves her feeling sad, betrayed and a little bit lost. She is also feeling attracted to her tenant Patrick. The attraction is mutual but Patrick knows there is something weird about Jo. He has these feelings not just because he caught Jo with two different men in just couple of days, but more because one night Jo arrived home early in the morning looking like a poor and badly used porn star. As I said before, our heroine is a delectable and classy lady.
Jo decides to leave the club behind and gives a chance to Patrick. Patrick wants to take things slow, to make it special, there is a lot of fooling around but they are waiting a while for the perfect moment to have their first time.
The super secret sex club doesn’t want Jo to retire and invite her to a dinner and sleep over as a proof of their good faith. The director of the club tells Jo to bring Patrick as her guest, she won’t have to have sex with anybody else and they are going to get a room all for themselves. So our smart heroine invites Patrick to the dinner/sleep over thinking it will be especial for the first night.
The night of the event they arrive to the club, Patrick thinks is weird they have to use masks but doesn’t think anything else about it. Many men know Jo and it is very obvious they know her “really” well, but Patrick is kind of ok with that too. After dinner they go to the room they were assigned. It is the first time Patrick and Jo are going to do “the deed” smart Jo tells Patrick not to use a condom and even smarter Patrick accepts, it’s not as if Jo was screwing around or being a participant in a sex club or drinking more body fluids than coffee in the morning… I guess being safe is not important for them. And Patrick doesn’t care that he saw her arriving the other night in the state she arrived, he thinks is safe to have unprotected sex with her? Ok, what can I say… STUPID!
Soon after they are done, the room is filled with people cheering them and congratulating them for their great performance. Patrick is appalled, he thinks it was Jo’s plan all alone and storms out of the room leaving her there. Jo doesn’t know what to do and finds herself in front of Mr. D, this was another of his evil plans. Jo is infuriated because he has been playing with her all alone, so she does the “smart” thing and asks him to meet her a couple of days later at a hotel to talk about his motives.
After some pleading, crying and begging from Jo Patrick forgives her and believes she didn’t know what was gonna happen, even though she brought him into a sex club without letting him know what they were getting into. Such a nice man!
Patrick and Jo are great, they are in love and enjoying to the max their time together… so sweet!
Patrick’s dad is visiting from Ireland, they have a tough relationship, so Patrick asks his dear girlfriend Jo to come with them to dinner to meet his father and be their buffer is the need arise. Jo accepts, is going to be a tight schedule, she is supposed to meet with Mr. D and go to the studio before dinner. Patrick doesn’t know Jo is meeting Mr. D, he thinks she is going to the studio and after will meet with him.
Jo arrives to the hotel, Mr. D is waiting for her in the lobby, they go to the hotel restaurant to have tea and talk (they are very civilized people), during their talk Mr. D shows Jo the card key to one of the rooms of the hotel and what does our sweet and in love heroine do? She goes and fucks Mr. D while nice Patrick is waiting for her with his pain in the ass father at a restaurant. Patrick is trying to reach her, but her phone is off, he is worried sick that something has happened, he calls the station and learns she haven’t been there the whole day. Of course he adds 2 plus 2 and realizes he has won the title of cuckold of the year. While many times during the book I “had to” hit my head with a desk I continue reading, but at this point I really wanted to throw the book through a window, but couldn’t do it because I was reading an ebook and I love my reader. If there had been many pages left I would not have finish this book, but there were just few left so I continue with Jo and her pussy’s adventures…
To end this summary/review let’s just say that Patrick needs to buy a set of cojones and a kilogram of self-esteem and Jo needs to go daily to the psychoanalyst and hopefully he/she will be a very unattractive doctor so Jo doesn’t end up screwing with him/her.
I also think somebody needs to give Jo a detailed explanation about STDs and how they are transmitted.
Even though I love the cover and really wanted to like it, Tell Me Morewas not for me, not just because I didn’t like any of the characters, or because the author’s writing style gave me headache with her point of view change from Jo’s first person point of view to Patrick’s third person point of view, or because I have to read some paragraphs more than once to understand what and who was saying it. Or because there is NOT a scene when Jo goes down and dirty with Mr. D even though there was a build up during the whole book between these two characters.
I was planning to give it 2 Paws but gave it an extra ½ Paw because some of the sex scenes were pretty hot.
If you like porn in paper and don’t care much about the plot or the characters this book is for you. If you want a well-developed plot and interesting characters look somewhere else.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 18, 2018
Picked wrong author, have NOT READ this book, can't get it out of my stats. Read the one by Kelly Corrigan, strongly recommend it.
January 22, 2024
It had a lot of hot steamy sex, yet it also had a solid story. And characters you can actually care about
July 15, 2011
This is one of those books that will satisfy you on some levels and displease you on other levels. Even after thinking of the book for a while, I’m still not sure how much I enjoyed the story.
Josephine Hutchinson is a late night classic music radio announcer. Her boyfriend cheated on her and she is caught up in a phone affair with a random guy, Mr. D. Her love life gets more complicated when she realizes she has feelings for her mystery man and embarks on several affairs to add a bit of spice to her conversations with Mr. D. To add more to the mix, she rents out an apartment to nerdy Irish man name Patrick.
The story is slow to pick up as Jo converses with Mr. D. After a night of steamy conversation with Mr. D, she decides to date another man who introduces her to a sex group that disguises themselves as the association. Jo discovers her wild side as she jumps in and enjoys the sexual acts (including orgies) with the other members. Meanwhile, her relationship with Mr. D becomes tense because she wants more but is scared of getting her feelings hurt again.
I love the sex scenes. The dirtier the better if you ask me but even the wild orgies and intense sexual tension did little to hold my attention. I really wanted to know what was going to happen with Mr. D or Patrick. There are too many characters introduced in the love scenes and they held no relevance. In my opinion Jo could have been more intimate with the men she cared about.
Patrick is my secret fantasy, the sexy geek who is fun and endearing. His character plays a bit of a back role for the better half of the book. I’m not really sure why the author decides to add an affair between him and Kim. It really didn’t add to the story and made it awkward when Jo started to develop feelings for him. The author should have developed his character more and build more of a connection between him and Jo.
The author’s development of Jo went south mid way through the book. Her character became almost intolerable. I like a bit of spice in my erotica but this is borderline trashy. Jo sleeps around a lot in this book with different members of the association while prolonging her intimacy with her love interest. She is betrayed several times by the members of the association, falling for their traps, which shows how smart she really is.
Overall, this story was good for a quick, light and erotic read but fails if you’re looking for more substance in your erotica.
Josephine Hutchinson is a late night classic music radio announcer. Her boyfriend cheated on her and she is caught up in a phone affair with a random guy, Mr. D. Her love life gets more complicated when she realizes she has feelings for her mystery man and embarks on several affairs to add a bit of spice to her conversations with Mr. D. To add more to the mix, she rents out an apartment to nerdy Irish man name Patrick.
The story is slow to pick up as Jo converses with Mr. D. After a night of steamy conversation with Mr. D, she decides to date another man who introduces her to a sex group that disguises themselves as the association. Jo discovers her wild side as she jumps in and enjoys the sexual acts (including orgies) with the other members. Meanwhile, her relationship with Mr. D becomes tense because she wants more but is scared of getting her feelings hurt again.
I love the sex scenes. The dirtier the better if you ask me but even the wild orgies and intense sexual tension did little to hold my attention. I really wanted to know what was going to happen with Mr. D or Patrick. There are too many characters introduced in the love scenes and they held no relevance. In my opinion Jo could have been more intimate with the men she cared about.
Patrick is my secret fantasy, the sexy geek who is fun and endearing. His character plays a bit of a back role for the better half of the book. I’m not really sure why the author decides to add an affair between him and Kim. It really didn’t add to the story and made it awkward when Jo started to develop feelings for him. The author should have developed his character more and build more of a connection between him and Jo.
The author’s development of Jo went south mid way through the book. Her character became almost intolerable. I like a bit of spice in my erotica but this is borderline trashy. Jo sleeps around a lot in this book with different members of the association while prolonging her intimacy with her love interest. She is betrayed several times by the members of the association, falling for their traps, which shows how smart she really is.
Overall, this story was good for a quick, light and erotic read but fails if you’re looking for more substance in your erotica.
August 29, 2011
Ever read a book where you thought "is anything else going to happen in this story besides XX?" That was the question I asked myself, repeatedly, while I forced my way through.
Jo Hutchinson is a night shift DJ at a radio station in Colorado . She's started a "relationship" with a mysterious caller named Mr. D, but refuses to meet him in person. Instead, she's taken to having phone sex with him and then describing,in great detail, her other sexual adventures.
Jo has quite a few adventurous. Let me give you a brief list:
Had sex with her ex live-in boyfriend as he stopped by to pick up his skiis
Had phone sex with Mr. D.
Has sex with intern at studio after getting caught having phone sex with Mr. D
Has sex in a park while on a lunch date with a guy she couldn't really stand
Had sex with lunch date guy and his married friends
Had sex with waiter at a restaurant in a private dining room while being interviewed for sex club
Had sex with multiple people at the sex club
When she's not having her adventures, she's getting to know her sexy Irish tenant, Patrick. They have a chemistry together and soon he's on her list of adventures.
I'm all for sex in a story, but it has to have a point. There didn't seem to be a point to Jo's rampant sex life, other than maybe her having a potential sex addiction. She flipped from guy to guy with ease, but had a problem with sex when it came to the one man, Patrick, that she was trying to have a serious relationship with.
I couldn't connect with her or even feel sorry for her when he little adventures came crashing down around her. I almost had to stand up and cheer, thinking she was finally getting what she deserved.
Jo Hutchinson is a night shift DJ at a radio station in Colorado . She's started a "relationship" with a mysterious caller named Mr. D, but refuses to meet him in person. Instead, she's taken to having phone sex with him and then describing,in great detail, her other sexual adventures.
Jo has quite a few adventurous. Let me give you a brief list:
Had sex with her ex live-in boyfriend as he stopped by to pick up his skiis
Had phone sex with Mr. D.
Has sex with intern at studio after getting caught having phone sex with Mr. D
Has sex in a park while on a lunch date with a guy she couldn't really stand
Had sex with lunch date guy and his married friends
Had sex with waiter at a restaurant in a private dining room while being interviewed for sex club
Had sex with multiple people at the sex club
When she's not having her adventures, she's getting to know her sexy Irish tenant, Patrick. They have a chemistry together and soon he's on her list of adventures.
I'm all for sex in a story, but it has to have a point. There didn't seem to be a point to Jo's rampant sex life, other than maybe her having a potential sex addiction. She flipped from guy to guy with ease, but had a problem with sex when it came to the one man, Patrick, that she was trying to have a serious relationship with.
I couldn't connect with her or even feel sorry for her when he little adventures came crashing down around her. I almost had to stand up and cheer, thinking she was finally getting what she deserved.
October 31, 2011
Jo, a late night classical music DJ has been having a "relationship" of sorts with the elusive Mr. D. The odd thing is that they've never met, only spoken over the phone. When their phone calls take a turn towards full on phone sex, Jo's life changes forever. Instead of meeting Mr. D, at his request, she decides to embark on a sexual adventure. She decides to have planned sexual ecounters and then relate all the dirty details to Mr. D. Things get a little tricky when Jo is invited to join and exclusive club where things are not as they appear. Throw in a new tenant, Patrick, who she's wildly attracted to, and we've got a slighly confusing, but intensely sexy romp.
The whole phone relationship, that developed into more with Mr. D was interesting, but I wasn't sure why Jo was doing this when she had a full on relationship with Hugh. (They were breaking up when this book began). The whole introduction into "The Association," was also a bit weird to me. Why would Jo, a seemingly intelligent woman, put herself in these sexual situations only to relay the deets to Mr. D but not get any fulfillment from him, which is clearly what she seeks. Then when Patrick comes into the picture, even though she's attracted to him, she still does things to screw it up. I really liked Jo only when she was with Patrick. They had interesting chemistry. I would've like to find out more about Mr. D, but as I said he was elusive. Unfortunatley, the author didn't elaborate any further on his character.
I'm kind of in the middle when it comes to this book. I don't know how a responsible woman could fall into these random sexual situtations so easily. There was far too much game playing in this book for my liking. Not that I was looking for a HEA, I just wanted a little more substance.
The whole phone relationship, that developed into more with Mr. D was interesting, but I wasn't sure why Jo was doing this when she had a full on relationship with Hugh. (They were breaking up when this book began). The whole introduction into "The Association," was also a bit weird to me. Why would Jo, a seemingly intelligent woman, put herself in these sexual situations only to relay the deets to Mr. D but not get any fulfillment from him, which is clearly what she seeks. Then when Patrick comes into the picture, even though she's attracted to him, she still does things to screw it up. I really liked Jo only when she was with Patrick. They had interesting chemistry. I would've like to find out more about Mr. D, but as I said he was elusive. Unfortunatley, the author didn't elaborate any further on his character.
I'm kind of in the middle when it comes to this book. I don't know how a responsible woman could fall into these random sexual situtations so easily. There was far too much game playing in this book for my liking. Not that I was looking for a HEA, I just wanted a little more substance.
August 14, 2011
This is the story of Jo Hutchinson’s erotic adventures. Is she’s looking for love in all the wrong places? Or sex in all the right places. As Jo’s real relationship is falling apart she becomes more and more intimate with a late night caller. This could be the love she wants. Real love could be the blind date her best friend sets her up on, or it could be he her tenant who happens to be “seeing” said best friend.
Things are getting complicated and a bit messy.
I was very interested in reading Janet Mullany’s first go at erotic fiction. I’ve read a few of her other novels and have liked and really liked them. Her wit, snappy dialogue and modern take on sometimes tired genres have impressed me. Unfortunately, I didn’t find them here.
I was about ½ way through when I found myself on a train about to crash and couldn’t get off. For me this book read in a very middling way. The sex while plentiful, loud and acrobatic sounded like a shopping list of other erotic reads. I give credit to Ms Mullany for not repeating herself; but, just couldn’t find empathy for the characters. After some horrendous choices by Jo I started wondering why she accepted her choices since she didn’t seem to learn from them.
Coming from her other novels I can see how this may seem titillating and sexy. However, after reading other erotic novels this one seems rather tame. For me I miss the wit, humor and of her previous stories and had expected a twist on a currently very popular genre.
I'd like to sincerely thank http://www.netgalley.com for providing me with this ARC.
Things are getting complicated and a bit messy.
I was very interested in reading Janet Mullany’s first go at erotic fiction. I’ve read a few of her other novels and have liked and really liked them. Her wit, snappy dialogue and modern take on sometimes tired genres have impressed me. Unfortunately, I didn’t find them here.
I was about ½ way through when I found myself on a train about to crash and couldn’t get off. For me this book read in a very middling way. The sex while plentiful, loud and acrobatic sounded like a shopping list of other erotic reads. I give credit to Ms Mullany for not repeating herself; but, just couldn’t find empathy for the characters. After some horrendous choices by Jo I started wondering why she accepted her choices since she didn’t seem to learn from them.
Coming from her other novels I can see how this may seem titillating and sexy. However, after reading other erotic novels this one seems rather tame. For me I miss the wit, humor and of her previous stories and had expected a twist on a currently very popular genre.
I'd like to sincerely thank http://www.netgalley.com for providing me with this ARC.
August 5, 2011
**Taken from Atastyread.blogspot.com
Tell Me More was an Erotic Fantasy Novel involving Jo, a radio personality who after a difficult breakup gets involved with not just Mr. D, a mysterious stranger that she gets to know intimately over the phone, but an assortment of other men involved in some sort of Sex Club. In Reality, she becomes involved with her tenant, Patrick, whom she begins a real relationship with, might even be love. But when all the lies and hidden secrets about her sex life come out of the dark, will Patrick be able to see that what happened was just fantasy, but in reality Jo really is in love with him? Read the book to find out!!
I did like the book, I really did, but I hated what happened with Mr. D at the end. I really liked Patrick, and I was crushed when Jo decided to get her closure....I really was hoping she wouldn't have done it!! But closure is closure even if I HATE it!! I liked Jo as the heroine, a real female trying to come to terms with a cheating live in boyfriend and a sad encounter that she doesn't really speak about. Anyone would understand that she was spreading her wings and being a woman exploring her sexuality. I am not sure that I would have followed in her exact footsteps, but she had fun, she was a single girl and it was an experience. But I was sad for her, I was sad for Patrick, and I just wanted things to work out for two!! I love a happy ending....but who doesn't!! And for the record I HATED MR.D......just sayn!!
Tell Me More was an Erotic Fantasy Novel involving Jo, a radio personality who after a difficult breakup gets involved with not just Mr. D, a mysterious stranger that she gets to know intimately over the phone, but an assortment of other men involved in some sort of Sex Club. In Reality, she becomes involved with her tenant, Patrick, whom she begins a real relationship with, might even be love. But when all the lies and hidden secrets about her sex life come out of the dark, will Patrick be able to see that what happened was just fantasy, but in reality Jo really is in love with him? Read the book to find out!!
I did like the book, I really did, but I hated what happened with Mr. D at the end. I really liked Patrick, and I was crushed when Jo decided to get her closure....I really was hoping she wouldn't have done it!! But closure is closure even if I HATE it!! I liked Jo as the heroine, a real female trying to come to terms with a cheating live in boyfriend and a sad encounter that she doesn't really speak about. Anyone would understand that she was spreading her wings and being a woman exploring her sexuality. I am not sure that I would have followed in her exact footsteps, but she had fun, she was a single girl and it was an experience. But I was sad for her, I was sad for Patrick, and I just wanted things to work out for two!! I love a happy ending....but who doesn't!! And for the record I HATED MR.D......just sayn!!
May 30, 2011
If you are looking for a book that will make you forget about your day and envelop you in hot, steamy and intense sexual situations, then by all means pick this book up. However, if you’re looking for more substance, then keep on searching for another story. The sex scenes are really exciting and inventive (orgies, phone sex, one night stands, public sex, the works!), and it’s wonderful to picture yourself in the steamy scenarios that Jo –short for Josephine—puts herself in, but I couldn’t help but get a little irritated by her as well.
She meets this great Irish man who is sweet, smart, successful, and dynamite in bed! Why would you screw that up, even if you are being tricked??? Jo’s character is supposed to be innocent in the sense that she’s very trusting, and this plays a key role in the plot when she is set up by a sex club she joined (disguised as an investment company—weird), all in some twisted plot of revenge. Long story short, I grew frustrated when she got duped by this club and its members not once, not twice, but FOUR TIMES!!!! That being said, if I was her male Irish paramour I would have grown too frustrated and sent her packing. But I guess that’s why they call it fiction.
So again, if you enjoy reading erotica/romance because of the sex scenes: by all means, pick this book up because it is very scintillating. However, if you’re looking for more substance then I recommend you move along and look for another title.
She meets this great Irish man who is sweet, smart, successful, and dynamite in bed! Why would you screw that up, even if you are being tricked??? Jo’s character is supposed to be innocent in the sense that she’s very trusting, and this plays a key role in the plot when she is set up by a sex club she joined (disguised as an investment company—weird), all in some twisted plot of revenge. Long story short, I grew frustrated when she got duped by this club and its members not once, not twice, but FOUR TIMES!!!! That being said, if I was her male Irish paramour I would have grown too frustrated and sent her packing. But I guess that’s why they call it fiction.
So again, if you enjoy reading erotica/romance because of the sex scenes: by all means, pick this book up because it is very scintillating. However, if you’re looking for more substance then I recommend you move along and look for another title.
June 15, 2011
Janet Mullany’s latest release is the story of Jo Hutchinson, a twenty-something woman who works late nights at her local radio station. Recently recovering from a break-up, Jo finds solace in her late night conversations with her mysterious friend, Mr. D, which have taken a steamy turn. Jo becomes obsessed with pleasing Mr. D, seeking out adventures in her daily life to spin into fantastical erotic romps over the phone for Mr. D. In the process, her new tenant, Patrick, moves in and the two strike up a cozy friendship that begins to blossom into something more. To top it off, Jo is invited to an exclusive sex club that specializes and indulges in fantasies. She’s soon swept up into a dreamworld of erotic pleasure, and she finds herself having problems functioning in reality.
Tell Me More was a romp of sensual exploits, but also very endearing. And funny. Mullany has a great skill in creating multidimensional characters that are deep reservoirs of human emotion and experience. Jo is a strong, independent woman, but has several serious flaws. Patrick has his own problems as well, and watching the two of them work it out is a really interesting drama. Your heart beats and breaks for them.
This novel is erotica at its best. A good, strong story driven by interesting characters, and steamy scenes that will leave you smiling secretly to yourself.
Rating: B+
Romance: 3/5 Raunch: 5/5
Tell Me More was a romp of sensual exploits, but also very endearing. And funny. Mullany has a great skill in creating multidimensional characters that are deep reservoirs of human emotion and experience. Jo is a strong, independent woman, but has several serious flaws. Patrick has his own problems as well, and watching the two of them work it out is a really interesting drama. Your heart beats and breaks for them.
This novel is erotica at its best. A good, strong story driven by interesting characters, and steamy scenes that will leave you smiling secretly to yourself.
Rating: B+
Romance: 3/5 Raunch: 5/5
July 27, 2011
There was something about the cover and the synopsis that had me looking forward to this read. After reading a certain amount of another genre, I was ready for a romance.
While the story of Jo, Patrick, and Mr. D were great in theory, I felt there was something with the progression that had me longing for more. I could relate to Jo, and who she was a as a person, but I could not relate to how infatuated she was with someone she never met or didn't completely know. That could just be me and who I am, and not necessarily about the writer and the character she has created.
The story progression though. Things were too intense in the short amount of time that they were happening in. To me, it felt like I was playing catch up with what was going on, with my emotions right behind me. I yearned for Patrick and I hated Mr. D. But most of all, I sympathized with Jo and her struggles to find out who she was.
Also, what did her miscarriage have anything to do with the story? It was thrown in there, but I didn't feel the natural connection to the story or where the characters were in that point of the story.
The scenes were great, but after that I ended up skimming to the steamy parts.
While the story of Jo, Patrick, and Mr. D were great in theory, I felt there was something with the progression that had me longing for more. I could relate to Jo, and who she was a as a person, but I could not relate to how infatuated she was with someone she never met or didn't completely know. That could just be me and who I am, and not necessarily about the writer and the character she has created.
The story progression though. Things were too intense in the short amount of time that they were happening in. To me, it felt like I was playing catch up with what was going on, with my emotions right behind me. I yearned for Patrick and I hated Mr. D. But most of all, I sympathized with Jo and her struggles to find out who she was.
Also, what did her miscarriage have anything to do with the story? It was thrown in there, but I didn't feel the natural connection to the story or where the characters were in that point of the story.
The scenes were great, but after that I ended up skimming to the steamy parts.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 30, 2011
Reviewed by Heather
Jo Hutchinson is a late night radio DJ that plays classical music over the air. When her boyfriend of three years, Hugh, cheats on her, she breaks it off with him and decides she needs to be a little more ‘adventurous’ in her life.
She has recently struck up an unconventional relationship with a gentleman that calls her nightly while she is at work. While she has never met ‘Mr. D’ she feels that she can share anything with him. When they take their relationship to another level by having phone sex, the lines they had once drawn become blurred. She wants to cut all ties to Mr. D, but finds that it is hard to do so.
Jo eventually joins an exclusive sex club and begins to realize that nothing in her life is as it seems. People she thought she knew turn out to be nothing like she thought.
The author has done an amazing job writing this. It has the hot and steamy element, shown with Jo’s various relationships, yet also has a bit of a mystery on the side as she’s trying to find out the workings of the club she’s joined.
This book was a very quick read for me, but one that I definitely wouldn’t mind reading over and over again.
Jo Hutchinson is a late night radio DJ that plays classical music over the air. When her boyfriend of three years, Hugh, cheats on her, she breaks it off with him and decides she needs to be a little more ‘adventurous’ in her life.
She has recently struck up an unconventional relationship with a gentleman that calls her nightly while she is at work. While she has never met ‘Mr. D’ she feels that she can share anything with him. When they take their relationship to another level by having phone sex, the lines they had once drawn become blurred. She wants to cut all ties to Mr. D, but finds that it is hard to do so.
Jo eventually joins an exclusive sex club and begins to realize that nothing in her life is as it seems. People she thought she knew turn out to be nothing like she thought.
The author has done an amazing job writing this. It has the hot and steamy element, shown with Jo’s various relationships, yet also has a bit of a mystery on the side as she’s trying to find out the workings of the club she’s joined.
This book was a very quick read for me, but one that I definitely wouldn’t mind reading over and over again.
May 31, 2011
Recensione completa su Libri & Co.
Per quanto mi riguarda, questo libro si divide in tre parti.
Alla prima, tutta sesso sesso sesso, do un 5 pieno... e non per il sesso. Beh, non solo per quello. La scrittura di Janet Mullany è divertente, frizzante. Jo è una donna sicura di sé e del proprio corpo, che sa cosa vuole e che sa come prenderselo. La storia con Mr D. è intrigante, e il fatto di non conoscere la sua identità mi ha fatto incollare il naso alle pagine, col desiderio di sapere e scoprire chi si nascondeva dietro la sua voce.
La seconda parte del libro (ancora sesso sesso sesso) ha perso un bel po' di brillantezza. Lo sviluppo della trama - comunque originale, lo ammetto - ha rallentato la sua corsa lì dove, secondo me, non era necessario. A questa parte do un 3.
Nella terza ed ultima parte, invece, il libro ha recuperato tantissimo, anche perché assieme al sesso (sesso sesso sesso) è arrivato anche l'amore.
E che amore.
Per quanto mi riguarda, questo libro si divide in tre parti.
Alla prima, tutta sesso sesso sesso, do un 5 pieno... e non per il sesso. Beh, non solo per quello. La scrittura di Janet Mullany è divertente, frizzante. Jo è una donna sicura di sé e del proprio corpo, che sa cosa vuole e che sa come prenderselo. La storia con Mr D. è intrigante, e il fatto di non conoscere la sua identità mi ha fatto incollare il naso alle pagine, col desiderio di sapere e scoprire chi si nascondeva dietro la sua voce.
La seconda parte del libro (ancora sesso sesso sesso) ha perso un bel po' di brillantezza. Lo sviluppo della trama - comunque originale, lo ammetto - ha rallentato la sua corsa lì dove, secondo me, non era necessario. A questa parte do un 3.
Nella terza ed ultima parte, invece, il libro ha recuperato tantissimo, anche perché assieme al sesso (sesso sesso sesso) è arrivato anche l'amore.
E che amore.
July 9, 2011
I really dont know where to start with this review.
Two pages in and the MC is already going down on her ex, which normally wouldn't bother me but the writing here reminded me of bad eighties pizza delivery boy porn, really cheesy and not in a good way.
And that's pretty much the way the whole book read for me unfortunately.
Bow-chicka-wow-wow.........
Truth be told, I read the whole book thinking it was going to get better and the sex a little more high class but sadly it just didn't happen. And by the time the MC Jo finally meets up with the elusive Mr.D, their sex scene is completely left out!!
I found the writing to be choppy and disjointed, and basically weak.
The relationships between the characters didn't feel real and had very little substance to them.
And as I have previously stated the sex was very low brow and had a cheap titty magazine quality to it.
If the authors aim was to produce an appealing story with exciting and erotic sex, I'm afraid she failed miserably.
1 star only :[
June 3, 2011
Reviewed at: Over A Cuppa Tea
Date reviewed: 4 June 2011
Review link: http://cleffairy.com/?p=5411
‘Tell Me More’ by Janet Mullany is a rather tasteful erotica. It is arousing, but not trashy in any ways like many adult fictions out there. It’s all about dirty little secrets as well as secret fantasy with a blend of nasty desires that the world would not approve of.
If you’re looking for some naughty read… or some dirty little secret that nobody would ever whisper into your ears for the fear of your disapproval, then this is the book that you ought to read.
Highly recommended for those who are bored or those who have nothing better to do with their boring sex life. This book will surely amuse you… if erotica tickles you fancy, that is.
I rate this book 3 out of 5 stars. I received an ARC of this book from Harlequin via Netgalley. I was not under any obligations to write a positive review for this book, and I received no compensation for doing this.
Date reviewed: 4 June 2011
Review link: http://cleffairy.com/?p=5411
‘Tell Me More’ by Janet Mullany is a rather tasteful erotica. It is arousing, but not trashy in any ways like many adult fictions out there. It’s all about dirty little secrets as well as secret fantasy with a blend of nasty desires that the world would not approve of.
If you’re looking for some naughty read… or some dirty little secret that nobody would ever whisper into your ears for the fear of your disapproval, then this is the book that you ought to read.
Highly recommended for those who are bored or those who have nothing better to do with their boring sex life. This book will surely amuse you… if erotica tickles you fancy, that is.
I rate this book 3 out of 5 stars. I received an ARC of this book from Harlequin via Netgalley. I was not under any obligations to write a positive review for this book, and I received no compensation for doing this.
June 9, 2013
I'm not usually an erotica reader. I read books that have sex in them, yeah, but the sex isn't normally a huge part of the story or anything. This book is purely about the sex ...... and god-dammit, it's hot as hell.
About a quarter of the way into the book I was convinced it was actually just porn, there didn't seem to be any discernible storyline happening. This is in no way a complaint but, in my head, erotica has a storyline while porn just has sex. I, personally, don't mind either. But eventually a story started to unfold which kept my interest, not that the sex didn't but it was getting pretty uncomfortable reading sex all the time (if you get my meaning *winkwink*).
The story was well told, Jo is discovering a whole new world that she didn't know about and discovering a whole lot about her sexuality and then love rears it's head and she has a choice to make. The sex scenes are ..... well ..... they're amazing!
Definitely worth a read, although if you're uncomfortable reading sex in books don't bother 'cos this book has loads, and I loved it.
About a quarter of the way into the book I was convinced it was actually just porn, there didn't seem to be any discernible storyline happening. This is in no way a complaint but, in my head, erotica has a storyline while porn just has sex. I, personally, don't mind either. But eventually a story started to unfold which kept my interest, not that the sex didn't but it was getting pretty uncomfortable reading sex all the time (if you get my meaning *winkwink*).
The story was well told, Jo is discovering a whole new world that she didn't know about and discovering a whole lot about her sexuality and then love rears it's head and she has a choice to make. The sex scenes are ..... well ..... they're amazing!
Definitely worth a read, although if you're uncomfortable reading sex in books don't bother 'cos this book has loads, and I loved it.
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