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Bedroom Therapy
Phone sex, fantasies, fetishes and more... It's all in a day's work for new sexual advice columnist Dr. Amanda O'Neal. She enjoys answering the racy letters she gets and helping people with their sex lives. After all, she hasn't had much of a sex life herself lately!
P.I. Zachary Grant suddenly shows up with a few probing questions of his own, mostly about her predecessor. But soon he wants to know much more about gorgeous Amanda...and what makes her hot. What does she fantasize about? And could the delicious doc help Zach out with some personal bedroom therapy?
Amanda knows this will be a hands-on situation. And Zach is like no other man she's met. But can the two of them deal with the morning after...?
P.I. Zachary Grant suddenly shows up with a few probing questions of his own, mostly about her predecessor. But soon he wants to know much more about gorgeous Amanda...and what makes her hot. What does she fantasize about? And could the delicious doc help Zach out with some personal bedroom therapy?
Amanda knows this will be a hands-on situation. And Zach is like no other man she's met. But can the two of them deal with the morning after...?
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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Rebecca York
319 books449 followersRuth Glick (born 1942) is a best-selling author of healthy cookbooks and has also written dozens of romantic suspense romance novels under the pen name Rebecca York.
Ruth earned a B.A. in American Thought and Civilization from George Washington University and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Maryland. Although she always wanted to become a writer, Glick was convinced that her lack of spelling skills meant that her goal was unattainable. As a stay-at-home mother, she took a community college course to help her choose a career. The course made it very clear that writing was her primary interest. Glick began writing articles for newspapers and magazines, but after several years decided to try writing fiction. Her first book, a kids' science fiction book, was finally purchased by Scholastic Inc..
Since then, Glick has become a highly successful author of over 50 romantic suspense and paranormal novels. Many of her novels are published under the Harlequin Intrigue line, and in June 2003, she became one of the first authors published under Berkley's new Sensation imprint. Before 1997, she often collaborated with Eileen Buckholtz and Kathryn Jenson.
Glick also is a highly regarded author of cookbooks focusing on healthy eating. She sometimes hires trained chefs to test the recipes that she creates, and makes sure that every recipe is tested at least three times before it appears in one of her cookbooks.
Glick is the head of the Columbia Writers Workshop. She and her husband, Norman Glick, live in Columbia, Maryland, where Ruth collects rocks, and enjoys cooking, walking, reading, gardening, travel, and Mozart operas. They have two grown children, Elissa and Ethan, and two grandsons (Jesse and Leo).
Ruth earned a B.A. in American Thought and Civilization from George Washington University and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Maryland. Although she always wanted to become a writer, Glick was convinced that her lack of spelling skills meant that her goal was unattainable. As a stay-at-home mother, she took a community college course to help her choose a career. The course made it very clear that writing was her primary interest. Glick began writing articles for newspapers and magazines, but after several years decided to try writing fiction. Her first book, a kids' science fiction book, was finally purchased by Scholastic Inc..
Since then, Glick has become a highly successful author of over 50 romantic suspense and paranormal novels. Many of her novels are published under the Harlequin Intrigue line, and in June 2003, she became one of the first authors published under Berkley's new Sensation imprint. Before 1997, she often collaborated with Eileen Buckholtz and Kathryn Jenson.
Glick also is a highly regarded author of cookbooks focusing on healthy eating. She sometimes hires trained chefs to test the recipes that she creates, and makes sure that every recipe is tested at least three times before it appears in one of her cookbooks.
Glick is the head of the Columbia Writers Workshop. She and her husband, Norman Glick, live in Columbia, Maryland, where Ruth collects rocks, and enjoys cooking, walking, reading, gardening, travel, and Mozart operas. They have two grown children, Elissa and Ethan, and two grandsons (Jesse and Leo).
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June 11, 2015
Не верю! (с) Станиславский
Аманда. Доктор психологии, ведущая колонку в журнале и отвечающая на анонимные письма женщин с сексуальными проблемами.
На деле: девушка с психологией чуть ли не монашки (ах, Зак мне из другой комнаты позвонил и предложил заняться сексом по телефону, ах, он меня игрушкой стимулировал - это так порочно!). Если что - действие происходит не в викторианской Англии. Что такая специалистка может посоветовать читательницам? Да и стремится ли она им помочь? Аманда постоянно откладывает работу, больше занимается собой, не столько вникает в проблемы, сколько ищет выгодный для себя материал.
Да, ее маньяк похитил, так доктор психологии ничего сделать не смогла. Он же был такой рассерженный! Конечно, обычно же маньяки милашки и лапочки.
Зак. Частный детектив и бывший коп.
На деле: о расследовании вспоминает редко и неохотно, маньяка случайно вычисляет подруга Аманды, Зак в это время мучится от спермотоксикоза. А, еще занимается раскрепощением Аманды. Ну то есть коп снимает комплексы психологу. Автор, вы ничего не напутали? И да, мужчины так не говорят.
Решение проблемы Зака (невозможность достичь оргазма с партнершей) подавалось как нечто эпичное - а на деле оказалось обычными предварительными ласками с минетом. Вот так незатейливо.
В общем впечатление паршивое. Постоянное ощущение нереальности происходящего, как если смотришь дешевую постановку, где на людей напялили неподходящие костюмы и заставляют говорить чушь.
Аманда. Доктор психологии, ведущая колонку в журнале и отвечающая на анонимные письма женщин с сексуальными проблемами.
На деле: девушка с психологией чуть ли не монашки (ах, Зак мне из другой комнаты позвонил и предложил заняться сексом по телефону, ах, он меня игрушкой стимулировал - это так порочно!). Если что - действие происходит не в викторианской Англии. Что такая специалистка может посоветовать читательницам? Да и стремится ли она им помочь? Аманда постоянно откладывает работу, больше занимается собой, не столько вникает в проблемы, сколько ищет выгодный для себя материал.
Да, ее маньяк похитил, так доктор психологии ничего сделать не смогла. Он же был такой рассерженный! Конечно, обычно же маньяки милашки и лапочки.
Зак. Частный детектив и бывший коп.
На деле: о расследовании вспоминает редко и неохотно, маньяка случайно вычисляет подруга Аманды, Зак в это время мучится от спермотоксикоза. А, еще занимается раскрепощением Аманды. Ну то есть коп снимает комплексы психологу. Автор, вы ничего не напутали? И да, мужчины так не говорят.
Решение проблемы Зака (невозможность достичь оргазма с партнершей) подавалось как нечто эпичное - а на деле оказалось обычными предварительными ласками с минетом. Вот так незатейливо.
В общем впечатление паршивое. Постоянное ощущение нереальности происходящего, как если смотришь дешевую постановку, где на людей напялили неподходящие костюмы и заставляют говорить чушь.
June 24, 2015
Fun fact: the cover image on the UK version is a stock photo that's used to advertise phone sex chat lines. I couldn't help but giggle the first time I saw it in the back of the advertising section in a magazine, especially considering the theme of this book.
Anyway, onward.
Amanda is a sex therapist and psychology professor who's taken a leave of absence from her uni job. As a favour to a friend who edits a women's magazine, she's become the new advice columnist after the last one died in a hot-and-run.
Zach is investigating the hit-and-run case, and he doesn't think it was an accident. He thinks Amanda is in danger, especially after an intruder breaks into her rented holiday home, so he moves in with her on a temporary basis.
Zach and Amanda are fiercely attracted to each other, but it's not just the killer on the loose that they have to worry about - Zach's got some very personal issues of his own.
I think this is the first Rebecca York book I've read that I really didn't like. I enjoyed her 43 Light Street series, in varying degrees of course, but none of them really left me cold. I read the first four Moon books, and while I didn't enjoy them as much as 43 Light Street, I certainly didn't hate them.
However, there was something about Bedroom Therapy that didn't sit well with me. I'm not 100% sure what it is. I wasn't overly keen on Amanda's character, for a number of reasons, none of which should have made me truly dislike the book. I guess it was just an accumulation of all the little things.
I'll try and explain what I disliked, although it may not make much sense.
Early in the book - page 48 - she's annoyed that she got caught speeding. Not annoyed that she was dumb enough to speed, but mad that the locals didn't warn her about the speed trap. Why should they warn you? The limit is the limit for a reason. You're not supposed to keep within it when you know you're being observed and then disregard it the rest of the time. It's a small thing to be irritated about, but I'm always turned off by anything that smacks of entitlement, and this felt like it did.
Later in the book, Zach writes a letter saying what he'd like to do in bed, because he's too nervous to ask her face to face, and Amanda doesn't react well initially. Her initial reaction is, how dare he ask me such things?
He'd like to what? Not in this lifetime. Smart of him to be afraid to ask! (Page 131.)
This is not an idea that EVER sits well with me. People should be able to ask for what they want without being shamed for it. Of course sometimes you won't want to do it, and that's just fine - there are polite, kind ways of saying, "I'm sorry, that's not something I can do." You always get to say no to any kind of bedroom stuff that you don't want to do. But you don't get to shame someone else for wanting it, or for asking you if you'll try it. It's bad enough when your average person treats someone with kinks like they're a freak who shouldn't dare ask for fulfilment - it's a whole lot worse when a therapist, who should know better, does the same.
Amanda's kind of a prude, really. I didn't expect that from someone who specialises in human sexuality. Being vanilla is one thing; that's all well and good. But she actually seems embarrassed and icked out by a lot of sexual stuff, both stuff that Zach brings up and stuff that appears in her letters. She's even angry and humiliated when Zach finds out she has a vibrator. Lady, if you're going to be all judgey about any sex that you consider abnormal, you're in the wrong line of work.
She doesn't seem to enjoy her work much either. Over the whole book, she answers about four letters, and every time she tries to work she ends up fantasising or having sex instead. Boy, I hope they're not paying her too high a salary.
I found the whole situation with Zach's "problem" a little weird. I've never heard of a guy who could get aroused and erect but not climax due to psychological issues. I've certainly heard of psychological issues preventing men from getting aroused at all, but I would think that once arousal kicks in, if the stimulation continues then he'd almost have to climax sooner or later. You hear of women having orgasms while being raped - not because they're enjoying it, but simply because it's a natural reaction to physical stimuli. I find it hard to believe that Zach's man parts could work well enough to have sex but not well enough to take pleasure from it - it seems to me it'd be an all-or-nothing kind of situation.
That said, I'm not a doctor, so take my opinion with a pinch of salt.
Overall, I was very disappointed with Bedroom Therapy, and felt quite cold by the end. Even the suspense plot - normally something York does very well - seemed tacked-on to the book. 2 stars.
Anyway, onward.
Amanda is a sex therapist and psychology professor who's taken a leave of absence from her uni job. As a favour to a friend who edits a women's magazine, she's become the new advice columnist after the last one died in a hot-and-run.
Zach is investigating the hit-and-run case, and he doesn't think it was an accident. He thinks Amanda is in danger, especially after an intruder breaks into her rented holiday home, so he moves in with her on a temporary basis.
Zach and Amanda are fiercely attracted to each other, but it's not just the killer on the loose that they have to worry about - Zach's got some very personal issues of his own.
I think this is the first Rebecca York book I've read that I really didn't like. I enjoyed her 43 Light Street series, in varying degrees of course, but none of them really left me cold. I read the first four Moon books, and while I didn't enjoy them as much as 43 Light Street, I certainly didn't hate them.
However, there was something about Bedroom Therapy that didn't sit well with me. I'm not 100% sure what it is. I wasn't overly keen on Amanda's character, for a number of reasons, none of which should have made me truly dislike the book. I guess it was just an accumulation of all the little things.
I'll try and explain what I disliked, although it may not make much sense.
Early in the book - page 48 - she's annoyed that she got caught speeding. Not annoyed that she was dumb enough to speed, but mad that the locals didn't warn her about the speed trap. Why should they warn you? The limit is the limit for a reason. You're not supposed to keep within it when you know you're being observed and then disregard it the rest of the time. It's a small thing to be irritated about, but I'm always turned off by anything that smacks of entitlement, and this felt like it did.
Later in the book, Zach writes a letter saying what he'd like to do in bed, because he's too nervous to ask her face to face, and Amanda doesn't react well initially. Her initial reaction is, how dare he ask me such things?
He'd like to what? Not in this lifetime. Smart of him to be afraid to ask! (Page 131.)
This is not an idea that EVER sits well with me. People should be able to ask for what they want without being shamed for it. Of course sometimes you won't want to do it, and that's just fine - there are polite, kind ways of saying, "I'm sorry, that's not something I can do." You always get to say no to any kind of bedroom stuff that you don't want to do. But you don't get to shame someone else for wanting it, or for asking you if you'll try it. It's bad enough when your average person treats someone with kinks like they're a freak who shouldn't dare ask for fulfilment - it's a whole lot worse when a therapist, who should know better, does the same.
Amanda's kind of a prude, really. I didn't expect that from someone who specialises in human sexuality. Being vanilla is one thing; that's all well and good. But she actually seems embarrassed and icked out by a lot of sexual stuff, both stuff that Zach brings up and stuff that appears in her letters. She's even angry and humiliated when Zach finds out she has a vibrator. Lady, if you're going to be all judgey about any sex that you consider abnormal, you're in the wrong line of work.
She doesn't seem to enjoy her work much either. Over the whole book, she answers about four letters, and every time she tries to work she ends up fantasising or having sex instead. Boy, I hope they're not paying her too high a salary.
I found the whole situation with Zach's "problem" a little weird. I've never heard of a guy who could get aroused and erect but not climax due to psychological issues. I've certainly heard of psychological issues preventing men from getting aroused at all, but I would think that once arousal kicks in, if the stimulation continues then he'd almost have to climax sooner or later. You hear of women having orgasms while being raped - not because they're enjoying it, but simply because it's a natural reaction to physical stimuli. I find it hard to believe that Zach's man parts could work well enough to have sex but not well enough to take pleasure from it - it seems to me it'd be an all-or-nothing kind of situation.
That said, I'm not a doctor, so take my opinion with a pinch of salt.
Overall, I was very disappointed with Bedroom Therapy, and felt quite cold by the end. Even the suspense plot - normally something York does very well - seemed tacked-on to the book. 2 stars.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 17, 2017
The book was full of the sensual tension that she manages to raise between her characters. Phone sex, fantasies and fetishes are all in a day's work for sex advice columnist Dr. Amanda O'Neal. They do manage to stir more than her up, if you know what I mean. Then she meets sexy detective Zack Grant, and things get even more interesting. Add to that a murderer on the prowl who wants the column to stop and will happily murder the present author ...It's a good read. Am sure the rest of the books are going to be equally good.
March 5, 2014
Amanda O'Neal memulai karier barunya sebagai "sexual advice columnist" di majalah Vanessa (sebuah majalah wanita) berbekalkan latar belakang pendidikannya sebagai seorang doktor di bidang human sexuality. Sebenarnya dia melakukan pekerjaan ini atas permintaan sahabatnya yang menajdi editor di sana. Kolumnis sebelumnya yang bernama Ester Knight meninggal akibat sebuah kecelakaan. Karena rating kolom tersebut cukup tinggi, maka Amanda diminta menggantikan penulis sebelumnya dengan menggunakan pseudonym Esther Scott.
Zachary Grant adalah seorang detektif swasta yang diminta oleh keluarga Esther Knight untuk menyelidiki kematian Esther. Keluarganya merasa ada yang tidak wajar dari sekedar kecelakaan. Berhubung Amanda sendiri pernah menjadi kolega Esther, dan sekarang menggantikan Esther di majalah Vanessa, Zach merasa perlu mewawancarai Amanda.
Ternyata benar, ada yang tidak wajar dengan kecelakaan Esther. Suatu malam, rumah Amanda dimasuki orang yang tidak dikenal. Merasa bertanggung jawab atas keamanan Amanda, Zach meminta Amanda pindah rumah. Di rumah yang baru, Zach tinggal bersama Amanda hingga dia menemukan siapa pelaku pembunuhan terhadap Esther.
Kalau lihat judul dan covernya, gak mungkin dong kisahnya hanya soal pembunuhan saja. Yang menarik adalah pekerjaan dari Amanda sendiri. Sebagai seorang kolumnis yang mengasuh rubrik seksual, dia mendapatkan banyak sekali surat seputar masalah seksual yang dialami baik wanita maupun pria. Di novel ini ditunjukkan sebagian suratnya. Terkadang Amanda merasa hot sendiri membaca surat-surat itu. Nah pada saat pertama kali Zach datang menemui Amanda, Amanda lagi horny habis baca beberapa surat. Begitu lihat penampilan Zach, dia tambah horny deh. Zach sendiri sempat membaca sebagian surat pembaca karena ada di meja kerjanya Amanda, dan dia mulai merasa "gerah" apalagi Amanda sendiri sangat menarik di matanya.
Ketika mereka tinggal serumah, Zach mulai melakukan pendekatan pada Amanda. Diawali dengan phone-sex (padahal mereka seatap)sampai skenario self-pleasuring yang dirancang oleh Zach. Amanda ga puas hanya dengan self-pleasuring dia pun meminta Zach untuk melakukannya untuknya. Zach yang awalnya keberatan, akhirnya tidak bisa menolak. Anehnya, Amanda udah dapat "big O" beberapa kali, Zach masih juga "tegak" dan belum mencapai "that O". Ternyata Zach memiliki masalah akibat trauma masa lalu. Dia bisa mendapatkan kepuasan jika melakukannya sendiri, tapi begitu berhadapan dengan wanita, dia tidak bisa. Amanda ingin sekali membantu Zach, tapi yang ada Zach malah menutup diri.
Well, apakah sang doktor mampu memberikan solusi atas permasalahan yang dihadapai oleh pria yang dicintainya? :)
Zachary Grant adalah seorang detektif swasta yang diminta oleh keluarga Esther Knight untuk menyelidiki kematian Esther. Keluarganya merasa ada yang tidak wajar dari sekedar kecelakaan. Berhubung Amanda sendiri pernah menjadi kolega Esther, dan sekarang menggantikan Esther di majalah Vanessa, Zach merasa perlu mewawancarai Amanda.
Ternyata benar, ada yang tidak wajar dengan kecelakaan Esther. Suatu malam, rumah Amanda dimasuki orang yang tidak dikenal. Merasa bertanggung jawab atas keamanan Amanda, Zach meminta Amanda pindah rumah. Di rumah yang baru, Zach tinggal bersama Amanda hingga dia menemukan siapa pelaku pembunuhan terhadap Esther.
Kalau lihat judul dan covernya, gak mungkin dong kisahnya hanya soal pembunuhan saja. Yang menarik adalah pekerjaan dari Amanda sendiri. Sebagai seorang kolumnis yang mengasuh rubrik seksual, dia mendapatkan banyak sekali surat seputar masalah seksual yang dialami baik wanita maupun pria. Di novel ini ditunjukkan sebagian suratnya. Terkadang Amanda merasa hot sendiri membaca surat-surat itu. Nah pada saat pertama kali Zach datang menemui Amanda, Amanda lagi horny habis baca beberapa surat. Begitu lihat penampilan Zach, dia tambah horny deh. Zach sendiri sempat membaca sebagian surat pembaca karena ada di meja kerjanya Amanda, dan dia mulai merasa "gerah" apalagi Amanda sendiri sangat menarik di matanya.
Ketika mereka tinggal serumah, Zach mulai melakukan pendekatan pada Amanda. Diawali dengan phone-sex (padahal mereka seatap)sampai skenario self-pleasuring yang dirancang oleh Zach. Amanda ga puas hanya dengan self-pleasuring dia pun meminta Zach untuk melakukannya untuknya. Zach yang awalnya keberatan, akhirnya tidak bisa menolak. Anehnya, Amanda udah dapat "big O" beberapa kali, Zach masih juga "tegak" dan belum mencapai "that O". Ternyata Zach memiliki masalah akibat trauma masa lalu. Dia bisa mendapatkan kepuasan jika melakukannya sendiri, tapi begitu berhadapan dengan wanita, dia tidak bisa. Amanda ingin sekali membantu Zach, tapi yang ada Zach malah menutup diri.
Well, apakah sang doktor mampu memberikan solusi atas permasalahan yang dihadapai oleh pria yang dicintainya? :)
August 13, 2016
I really liked this book. Short and quick read but still steamy because it's a Blaze book. I also like the little bit of mystery and suspense involved. Love Rebecca York so was not disappointed with this story.
January 4, 2013
Great book from a great author. I always enjoy her books and this one was no exception.
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