Good Girls Don't

September 26, 2005
As frothy as a milkshake but not nearly as satisfying, St. John's debut romance, set in contemporary Atlanta, pairs three beautiful women with three gorgeous, sensitive and well-endowed men. The book gets off to a promising start, depicting an amusing conversation between Colette Campbell and her sister, sex-toy designer Amy, about (what else?) sex toys. But with so many relationships, there's room for little more than character sketches: the good guy who still loves his high school squeeze and vows to be a little bad to win her heart; the wild girl turned businesswoman who rediscovers her naughty side with said good guy; the woman who just needs the right man to make her rethink her sex-toys-are-a-girl's-only-friend motto. Everyone is earnest and looking for love, and none has too much emotional baggage to impede their perfect unions. It's no wonder that St. John's attempts at penning racy, gossipy exchanges à la Sex and the City
so often fall flat. While her book contains steamy sex scenes aplenty, it lacks the multidimensional characters and conflicts that made the HBO series so popular. Agent, Caren Johnson.

November 1, 2005
Colette Campbell is a professional liar. Her company, My Alibi, is used by everyone from cheating spouses to AWOL employees. Now Colette has reached a low point: Jeff, her perfectly physiqued--albeit lousy lover--boyfriend, has gotten engaged to another woman. Then Amy, Colette's sex-toy-creator sister, offers Colette's alibi services to Erika, who is going away for the weekend with a biker. Unfortunately, Erika's uncle and guardian is Bill Brannon, Colette's best and virtually only friend in high school. Colette feels terrible about lying to Bill, especially since they've begun to explore a more romantic relationship. If she tells him about Erika's deception, Colette will damage her relationship with her sister. If Bill finds out that Colette has been hiding this secret from him, their chance at finding true love is gone. St. John does a good job of getting inside Colette's head and sharing her dilemma, and the novel's fast-paced, sexy, and witty conversations will please fans of " Sex and the City.\i0 (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)