Status Updates From The Sensualist & the Untouched

I'm actively counting down the pages until I'm finished.

My god I bought this book cause the summary made seem to be such a promising book, but I have to say I'm so disappointed so far, the story could be good but there's just too many words and long phrases and it's such a slow read that I'm really thinking of just leaving it at that and not finish the book.

Finished..

All the time they had spent together, every sensual test they had undergone side by side, they all came down to this. To this moment, this time and place.

The notion was frightning, nerve-wracking even, since touch was the only sense he had no firsthand experience with, no memories he could draw on for strength or confidence other than his parents from childhood.
But he wanted his so badly he could taste it.

"Is this, um... appropriate?"
"It's compicated. But I suppose a lot of it depends on what you perceive to be the goal of tonight's.. activities."
Corey chuckled. "God, I fucking love the way you talk."
That makes NOT two of us, Corey!! Who talks like that?

Now I KNOW this is not what you're supposed to say to your therapist!!
"Pants down."

Okay, this is probably unethical but I don't care!!! WHOOOHOOO :)

"No more experimenting with strangers.
I want to smell YOU."
That was about when Lucian's brain short-circuited.

Sure, let's put in a time jump...

"The time and place of falling in love is rarely of our own choosing. But what we can do is choose how to react. We are no animals. Our hearts do not have to gain control over our faculties. We master our own emotions, as it should be."

Thank gawd, something substantial said...

HELP!!!!

What an unsexy book.

"Hush, you,"Lucian admonished with a wicked smirk. "I have a reputation of cynical notoriety to maintain."

whaaattt?? Man, the way Lucian talks...
Susan, we're not reading historical, are we, love?

”Body hairs also affect how pungent the odor is.” Corey seemed to mull this over, and his gaze went around the room over all the naked men. “Here you have the opportunity to see—well, smell for yourself.” Corey frowned, a displeased look encompassing his features. “Isn’t it a bit too… damn intrusive for me to stuff my face in a stranger’s crotch?”

How can anyone make sex so clinical and boring…

"I will not take advantage of you or betray the trust you have in me. Of course, considering our proffesional relationship is basically about getting you all hot and bothered, with a chance of sex, that premise might change."

Blahblahblah...

"I've said it before, Corey," Lucien said. "I do not play mind games. Besides, it is I who is in the dark. I don't know you, and yet I'm supposed to help you.

“Yes.” He popped a piece of sliced apple from the bow l into his mouth. “I like to eat a lot of fruit. It makes my semen taste sweet. Fruit is good for me and good for any lover who might—”

Seriously, this is why you eat fruit?

I'm struggling with this book...

"When I think about kissing a guy, all I see is the ick factor. I think about stupid things, like.. his breath smells funny. He should trim his nose hair. Gross, is that a pimple? Is that a piece fo rancid meat dangling between his teeth? What if I kiss him, and it's dislodged, and I swallow it.

Oohh dear.

So far I’m not sure about this one. I’m intrigued and I’m curious as to what will happen.
But I don’t really like Lucien…

BR with Elsbeth and Tina