Sometimes Naughty, Sometimes Nice

September 27, 2004
Raye brings sex toys out of the bedroom and into the pages of this featherweight follow-up to her first Farrel sisters book, Kiss Me Once, Kiss Me Twice
. Xandra Farrel, owner, head designer and product tester of Wild Woman, Inc., a manufacturer of erotic merchandise, plans to blow her competition out of the water with a new female condom designed to give every woman what she really wants: the ultimate orgasm. Who better to test it with than Beau Hollister, the man responsible for the worst five-minute sexual experience in her life? Getting Beau into bed isn't as easy as she thinks, especially since he still blames her for the loss of his college scholarship years earlier. Xandra, who is obsessed with her three gray hairs down there,
shedding 10 pounds and being dumped by her ex-boyfriend after eight years (which doesn't really count since she didn't love him anyway), now becomes obsessed with seducing Beau. Humor, sex and seduction is the soup du jour
here, but a less than tasteful reference to a sex act involving a cat and peanut butter may put off some readers. While the banter between characters can be mundane and Xandra's whininess will try readers' patience, Raye bravely crawls out on a limb with her subject matter, a gamble that may pay off among younger romance fans. Agent, Natasha Kern.