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Sensual Secrets
Sensual Secrets by Jo Leigh released on Mar 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.
256 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2002
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Jo Leigh
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Jolie Kramer began her career in 1975 as a reader in the Comedy Development department for 20th-Century Fox. She left Fox in 1977 to go on location with THE DEER HUNTER. She then worked as an auditor, associate producer and producer on such projects as WHEN SHE SAYS NO for CBS, BEULAH LAND for NBC, GREAT AMERICAN TRAFFIC JAM for NBC and CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR for Jozak Productions. In 1987 she became head of development for the McCarran Film Corp., overseeing a roster of twelve feature films. As a screen writer, she’s had a series idea purchased by Cinemax, and has worked as a script consultant on more than 50 screenplays. Currently, her screenplay APACHE TEARS was optioned by Northern Lights Productions in Canada.
Jo Leigh's first Silhouette novel, SUSPECT, was awarded BEST FIRST SERIES BOOK by Romantic Times Magazine, garnered the 1994 ROMANCE WRITER OF THE YEAR award from Pike’s Peak RWA, and was a finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE NOVEL OF 1994 by Romance Writers of America. Her first Temptation novel, ONE WICKED NIGHT was a finalist for BEST SHORT CONTEMPORARY NOVEL OF 1998 by Romance Writers of America. She was invited to write one of the launch books for the Harlequin imprint, Blaze, with her book GOING FOR IT! Her 2006 Blaze RELENTLESS was a RITA finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE.
She also ghost-wrote GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL – THE ANNA NICOLE SMITH STORY for Barricade Books.
Jo teaches writing at workshops across the country and on-line, and is a frequent guest speaker at writing conferences. Her tape on Advanced Plotting from the Dallas Romance Writers of America conference is the best selling tape in RWA’s history.
Jo lives in an incredibly rural area of Utah where her many rescue dogs have room to run and play and her rescue cats are determined to win the International Shedding Award. She spends an inordinate amount of time reading about how the brain works, listening to music and trying not to kill the basil.
Jo's husband died of cancer on 13 June 2008, three years after they married, and whose medical bills are astronomical. Authors, editors, and bloggers have all donated a mess of items, from books to critiques to mentoring sessions to offer an item for the auction to benefit author Jo Leigh.
Jolie Kramer began her career in 1975 as a reader in the Comedy Development department for 20th-Century Fox. She left Fox in 1977 to go on location with THE DEER HUNTER. She then worked as an auditor, associate producer and producer on such projects as WHEN SHE SAYS NO for CBS, BEULAH LAND for NBC, GREAT AMERICAN TRAFFIC JAM for NBC and CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR for Jozak Productions. In 1987 she became head of development for the McCarran Film Corp., overseeing a roster of twelve feature films. As a screen writer, she’s had a series idea purchased by Cinemax, and has worked as a script consultant on more than 50 screenplays. Currently, her screenplay APACHE TEARS was optioned by Northern Lights Productions in Canada.
Jo Leigh's first Silhouette novel, SUSPECT, was awarded BEST FIRST SERIES BOOK by Romantic Times Magazine, garnered the 1994 ROMANCE WRITER OF THE YEAR award from Pike’s Peak RWA, and was a finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE NOVEL OF 1994 by Romance Writers of America. Her first Temptation novel, ONE WICKED NIGHT was a finalist for BEST SHORT CONTEMPORARY NOVEL OF 1998 by Romance Writers of America. She was invited to write one of the launch books for the Harlequin imprint, Blaze, with her book GOING FOR IT! Her 2006 Blaze RELENTLESS was a RITA finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE.
She also ghost-wrote GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL – THE ANNA NICOLE SMITH STORY for Barricade Books.
Jo teaches writing at workshops across the country and on-line, and is a frequent guest speaker at writing conferences. Her tape on Advanced Plotting from the Dallas Romance Writers of America conference is the best selling tape in RWA’s history.
Jo lives in an incredibly rural area of Utah where her many rescue dogs have room to run and play and her rescue cats are determined to win the International Shedding Award. She spends an inordinate amount of time reading about how the brain works, listening to music and trying not to kill the basil.
Jo's husband died of cancer on 13 June 2008, three years after they married, and whose medical bills are astronomical. Authors, editors, and bloggers have all donated a mess of items, from books to critiques to mentoring sessions to offer an item for the auction to benefit author Jo Leigh.
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July 25, 2008
Sensual Secrets was a random buy from the library book sale. I thought that the premise, that of a painfully shy, repressed young woman who kept a journal of her most secret sexual fantasies online that is then found and read by the man of her dreams, to have potential as a hot, steamy and interesting read. Ultimately though, I thought that the story fell rather flat. It seemed that every time Jay tried to set up a scenario from Amelia's diary it never quite worked out, and I started loosing count of all the times she ended up leaving him frustrated. Unfortunately this was making me frustrated too. While I'm not a reader who wants to see the protagonists jump into bed with one another at the first available opportunity, all the aborted attempts just became rather tiresome, and the "main event" didn't end up happening until very near the end of the book. There was some other steamy content in the form of Amelia's diary entries, both of them getting friendly with their own hands, and a couple of other things, but what I really wanted to see was the characters interacting with each other more. I think that if Jay had earned Amelia's trust, she had communicated her fantasies to him, and then they had played them out, instead of him sneaking peeks at her diary, it would have been a much better story with a lot more depth.
Amelia and Jay were both generally likable characters, but I thought they could have been better too. As a shy person myself, I understood Amelia's timidity, but her constant self-reproach in the early chapters became a little too repetitive. Then over the course of just a few weeks, she magically came out of her shell, which I thought stretched the bounds of credibility. Jay was a decent guy with some good traits that I usually like in a hero, but what bothered me about him was that he seemed rather contradictory. On the one hand he supposedly saw Amelia for who she was and found her desirable in spite of her plain appearance, while on the other hand, it all seemed like a game to him, with the ultimate goal being sex. When he started thinking about dumping Amelia after they had sex for the first time and she declared her love, I started loosing respect for him, and in my opinion, he only partially redeemed himself by the end of the story. There was also a sub-plot about Jay being an incredibly intelligent guy who had turned his back on academics and a promising writing career in favor of running a Harley shop, but then he did an abrupt about-face at the end which didn't really make much sense. I think the problem was that the author tried to cram too many cliched romance hero characteristics into Jay, which ultimately diluted the character.
Overall though, Sensual Secrets was a pretty readable book (I've certainly read worse;)), and a reasonably pleasant way to spend a few hours. However, it might be the type of book better left to a boring, rainy afternoon when there's nothing better to do. I'm sure that I have tons of books on my TBR list that would have given me a more satisfaction. This was my first book by Jo Leigh though, and since I have several of her other books on my TBR list that were recommended by a friend, I will try to keep an open mind.
Amelia and Jay were both generally likable characters, but I thought they could have been better too. As a shy person myself, I understood Amelia's timidity, but her constant self-reproach in the early chapters became a little too repetitive. Then over the course of just a few weeks, she magically came out of her shell, which I thought stretched the bounds of credibility. Jay was a decent guy with some good traits that I usually like in a hero, but what bothered me about him was that he seemed rather contradictory. On the one hand he supposedly saw Amelia for who she was and found her desirable in spite of her plain appearance, while on the other hand, it all seemed like a game to him, with the ultimate goal being sex. When he started thinking about dumping Amelia after they had sex for the first time and she declared her love, I started loosing respect for him, and in my opinion, he only partially redeemed himself by the end of the story. There was also a sub-plot about Jay being an incredibly intelligent guy who had turned his back on academics and a promising writing career in favor of running a Harley shop, but then he did an abrupt about-face at the end which didn't really make much sense. I think the problem was that the author tried to cram too many cliched romance hero characteristics into Jay, which ultimately diluted the character.
Overall though, Sensual Secrets was a pretty readable book (I've certainly read worse;)), and a reasonably pleasant way to spend a few hours. However, it might be the type of book better left to a boring, rainy afternoon when there's nothing better to do. I'm sure that I have tons of books on my TBR list that would have given me a more satisfaction. This was my first book by Jo Leigh though, and since I have several of her other books on my TBR list that were recommended by a friend, I will try to keep an open mind.
February 11, 2013
A decent enough read - but I didn't really like either of the main players, Jay or Amelia. Lots of blue ball action as well, and not really a Blaze-worthy title.
May 17, 2013
Sensual Secrets will take you beyond your wildest dreams using her fantasies but will she be happy when she finds out he has read her fantasies and that is why they are coming true?
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