Comments on: REVIEW: Sex as a Second Language by Alisa Kwitney

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 15 May 2006 10:32:29 +0000

Kwitney spoofs the whole spy thing. For example, her father wants her to communicate with him by stiking a certain color gum on one side or the other of a phone booth outside a restaurant. It’s very tongue in cheek and Kat gets exasperated by the whole thing.

By: Maili

Maili — Mon, 15 May 2006 03:10:21 +0000

*cries* I was thinking of getting this, but I’m not a fan of spy stories [well, I don't mind spy films, though, but spy books? No thank you].

Ah, sod it. I’m getting a copy because it is Kwitney after all.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:11 +0000

LOL, yep, I think this one would push your buttons then. And send your blood pressure soaring.

By: AAR Rachel

AAR Rachel — Sun, 14 May 2006 21:43:33 +0000

I got this out of the library, flipped through it and returned it. It just seemed very full to me. And, again, I hate spy plots.

Right from the beginning, I felt the book had a bleak tone to it. Kat’s marriage hardly seemed worth it to me - I wondered how she could stay in it so long, what with her husband being a total cheating, self-consumed d*ckHEAD like he was. There is nothing, just nothing, nothing nothing nothing, that gets me going in a book more than a bad father. I know there are guys out there who will abandon their kids without a fare-thee-well, but it’s not good for my blood pressure to read about it. That and the friend thing, the denouement of which was less dramatic than I would have liked (i.e, involving hair-pulling, eye-clawing, and a fall into a pool a la Krystal and Alexis) made for a wind-up skimming experience for me. I could tell the romance pay-off wasn’t going to be enough to balance out the frustration, so I returned it to the library.