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For a Good Time Call... #2
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"Great in bed... A suit... " spa owner Mercedes Estevez wrote on J. D. McClary's business card after they broke up. Now the lawyer's card rested with many other men's in the glass "booty," all up for grabs by the female dating pool in Mercedes's building. It was a fun way to meet new men!
Except Mercedes drew J.D.'s card herself at the weekly booty call--and couldn't resist contacting him.
Fabulous in bed... summed up John Dennis's thoughts about his fling with Hurricane Mercedes. Which was the problem. Too often they indulged in dessert... instead of dinner. Instead of getting to know each other. Now he'd heeded her call, but had a whole new set of rules. Dates only, no sex. Nada. But with their explosive chemistry, how long could they last?
Except Mercedes drew J.D.'s card herself at the weekly booty call--and couldn't resist contacting him.
Fabulous in bed... summed up John Dennis's thoughts about his fling with Hurricane Mercedes. Which was the problem. Too often they indulged in dessert... instead of dinner. Instead of getting to know each other. Now he'd heeded her call, but had a whole new set of rules. Dates only, no sex. Nada. But with their explosive chemistry, how long could they last?
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2006
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June 16, 2014
I enjoyed the spa concept but Mercedes confirmed that some aestheticians really don't know how to tell someone they can have healthy skin without insulting what their skin looks like currently. I liked Mercedes character overall but I feel like the book does fall into stereotypes of women of Mexican heritage. I do think that Mercedes could have a passionate and fiery temper without it being because she is part Mexican. I was happy to see a book that had a heroine of color and initially the book didn't seem to point it out in any significant way.
Oh there was one part that pissed me off because I felt that the description was skin prejudice. And I quote, "...the tawny skin that was so exotic to him, as though she had a permanent tan." But she doesn't. She's not tanned. She's part Mexican. This sentence assumes whiteness as the norm and attempts to make Mercedes into a white person with a permanent tan. And yes it does say "as though" but why does it need to be said at all? Why is her darker skin exotic? I suppose that the majority of white people read a sentence like this one and don't read anything wrong with it. I read that sentence and I'm immediately taken out of the story. Another reminder that women of color should stay within our race or we are exoticized by whiteness and in some cases paid the highest complement of being almost white! What the heck!?
What so sad about this is that the story is a good story. Strong female character with a good strong male character who is not happy that the woman he's crazy about isn't falling at his feet. Definitely a story right up my alley, but that line almost killed it for me.
Dennis is a guy (I read him as white) who comes from a family with prestige. He doesn't realize that he is not open with his family about Mercedes being in his life. There is a secondary character of Camilla who's romance and life gives the reader a break from the intensity and sexing of Mercedes and Dennis. Fun story, just need to ease back from stereotypes like you did with Dennis.
Oh there was one part that pissed me off because I felt that the description was skin prejudice. And I quote, "...the tawny skin that was so exotic to him, as though she had a permanent tan." But she doesn't. She's not tanned. She's part Mexican. This sentence assumes whiteness as the norm and attempts to make Mercedes into a white person with a permanent tan. And yes it does say "as though" but why does it need to be said at all? Why is her darker skin exotic? I suppose that the majority of white people read a sentence like this one and don't read anything wrong with it. I read that sentence and I'm immediately taken out of the story. Another reminder that women of color should stay within our race or we are exoticized by whiteness and in some cases paid the highest complement of being almost white! What the heck!?
What so sad about this is that the story is a good story. Strong female character with a good strong male character who is not happy that the woman he's crazy about isn't falling at his feet. Definitely a story right up my alley, but that line almost killed it for me.
Dennis is a guy (I read him as white) who comes from a family with prestige. He doesn't realize that he is not open with his family about Mercedes being in his life. There is a secondary character of Camilla who's romance and life gives the reader a break from the intensity and sexing of Mercedes and Dennis. Fun story, just need to ease back from stereotypes like you did with Dennis.
September 15, 2011
Okay I know what you are thinking & yes it is a trashy romance novel. Enough said.
August 19, 2012
Light and fun. He wants more - she doesn't. More than the average sex quotient.
November 14, 2007
read 04.03.07
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