'I work in a pretty ordinary office from 9 to 5. I could be the receptionist in your building, or the girl next to you on the bus reading a copy of Metro. And I'm wondering, what happened? How did I turn from a spotty teenager into this femme fatale who can't stop falling in and out of bed.' Following a bad breakup, twenty-something Sienna Lewis resolves not to commit to one man until she has found The One. Instead she starts to explore the world of internet dating, sex clubs, one-night stands and booty calls. But it's not always easy - if not getting a call from one man is bad enough, not hearing from five is even more distressing. And then there is the man she can't get out of her head, Tall Boy from the office. How will she tell him that for her it's more than just the sex ...Sienna's just an ordinary girl from the office with an extraordinary private life, and her diaries are explicit, very honest and lots of fun.
A lot of people get really sniffy about these sex memoirs involving promiscuous modern women with the sexual appetite you would more attribute to a man on the dating scene and yes, from first impressions (especially with the questionable cover design), you would be fair to think that this is yet another one of these shagging tomes from someone who is happy to talk frankly but then still hide behind the cosy facade of a psuedonym for fear of being chased in the streets with pitchforks and a basket of rotten fruit. Yes, you would be forgiven for thinking that but I beg you dear charges on this instance to delve deeper, to look further, because this is certainly more than that and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. You see, whereas the Miss P book or the 'Girl with a One-track Mind' duly failed in that they turned in unreadable versions of their badly written blogs purely for the sake of producing contemptuous wank fodder, Sienna Lewis not only has so much more to say but she also transcends the blog format properly into a readable and enjoyable diary form, something that even Belle de Jour failed at. Mind you the problem there was that Belle's book just didnt have the deviance that her blog did. And now like Abby Lee, she's a 'meeja dalink' so anyway, what 'Office Girl' achieves is that she brings a lot of people have against monogamy. That forced social institution of being with one person, and here she presents her own unique theories including that of 'multi-dating', that of being open and honest with those that you meet on a casual basis, to the point where she happily and confidently settles into a number of open relationships and in most cases her experiences work out and when they don't it's not on a scale of the life a single monogamous girl has, which was surprisingly refreshing. I say good for her. If it works, then head out and have fun. There are many other reasons that I liked this book but the main one is that the writing is uber filthy and dirty and cocksure in a very inspiring way. Inspiring in that there are women out there who are not ghastly, obsessed Bridget Jones clones, starving on a diet of bitterness, jealousy and Sex and the City marathons. The bitter truth is that women should never be afraid to be open and to be so when meeting someone new. If that is truly where your heart (and loins) are, then you deserve and should expect nothing less. You are all goddesses and should be worshipped and pleasured by all, without shame, shunning or consequence.God may or may not want to bless her, but I think he should.
Sienna has written an honest, amusing, naughty and revealing book. Whilst it's a lot of fun, it is presents an astute look at the different ways of emotional thinking of men and women on relationships, brief liaisons, working together, sex and heartbreak. A great read!
I had bought this book as a romance comidy, tring to relax my nerves, but it returned me to the harch reality, My low rating might be due to conflict in timing