It’s time for one of my favorite monthly threads, where we ask what you’re reading and you tell us and then we all buy tons of books: Whatcha Reading?
I’ll start: I just finished The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell.
Yes, that’s nonfiction. Funny enough, I mentioned this book (it’s giving me Jiffy Pop brain where all the ideas explode in my head at one time) at the Smart Bitches DC gathering at Sona last week (hello to everyone who came!). I was standing next to Maya Rodale, who exclaimed, “Oh, my gosh, I KNOW HER!”
But of course the author knows Maya Rodale because there are ONLY romance people in the world, right?
I liked this book a great deal. It’s nonfiction about the writer’s experience relocating from London to Jutland, Denmark, when her husband is hired by Lego. Each chapter takes a month of their year as Russell tries to identify why Danes are ranked by several world measures as the happiest people on earth. I really liked the mix of hard data and interviews with economists, sociologists, doctors, chefs, and government officials – including a person who works for the Danish tax office – and her own personal experiences as she attempts to navigate life in Denmark. Each chapter has given me a lot to think about it, and I’m really happy I stumbled into this book. Then I started The Shopkeeper’s Daughter by Lily Baxter, about a young woman sent to northern England during WWII. I loved the first few chapters, especially because there was so much detail and tension. I think the first few scenes take place over a handful of days, and the book opens on an air raid, with the heroine, Ginnie, trying to make tea quickly for a sick neighbor in the bomb shelter while Nazi drone bombing aircraft are attacking London. Then the book switches pace very quickly once Ginnie and her sister are in Shropshire, and a few months pass in a handful of sentences. The switch in timeline brings with it a strange case of insta-love on the part of an American soldier and I’m hoping the story gets back to the detail and richness of the first few chapters.
Next I might try Suzanne Enoch’s classic England’s Perfect Hero ( A | K | AB ). All that HarperCollins backlist on Scribd – mmm mmm good. (And don’t forget, there’s a three-months-free coupon for Scribd for Smart Bitches readers, too.)
RedHeadedGirl:
I just finished The Game and the Governess by Kate Noble and I just got The Manservant by Michael Harwood ( A | K | G | AB | Scribd ).
Carrie:
I am in a weird limbo because I just finished Boy, Snow, Bird and I don’t want to be almost done with a book when I get on a plane, because I’m so overthinking the “what to pack and what will I read thing.” Also I have a cold.
So I’m supposed to be reading You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tannen ( A | K | G | AB | Au | Scribd ) but I’m secretly mostly reading random pages of Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie ( A | BN | K | G | AB ) for the 1,000 time.
Amanda:
I’m almost done with At Wolf Ranch. Loving the hero so far and how attentive he is! A sweet Southerner.
After that, I’m moving onto The Master by Kresley Cole ( A | K | G | AB | Au ) and I CANNOT CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT!
Elyse:
I just finished At Wolf Ranch!
I really liked it but there were some info dump moments
I also just read Playing Dirty by HelenKay Dimon ( A | K | G | AB | Au ) I have about a million rom sus I ordered from Amazon at home, too.
Amanda:
Agreed on the info dump! The beginning also hella confused me.
So, what about you? What are you reading? Anything you recommend and want to share? Or… the opposite of that? Please share!
Shopping note:
After a recent Whatcha Reading? discussion, Lisa M emailed me to ask if I could link the books mentioned in the comments to the various retailers to make shopping a little easier. I wish I could! But alas, that isn’t possible.
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I just finished an ARC of “First Time in Forever” by Sarah Morgan and I loved it! Previously I had read an ARC of “Playing by the Greek’s Rules”, also by Sarah Morgan, and it’s so, so good.
Today I started “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart and, so far, I’m intrigued…
I’m reading Johanna Lindsey’s Stormy Persuasion. I hadn’t read the Mallory’s in a while and am thrilled to say they are as awesome as ever. After that it’s back to working my way through Rys Ford’s Cole McGinnis series. *happy claps*
@Vicki – the heroine in Written in Red gets more spine in the next book, fear not 🙂 I havent read the last one yet but I expect she will develop into an actual person in that one.
I too have recently become a Grace Draven fan due to a 5 book set I got off here probably that had Master of Crows in it. Im taking it slow to enjoy her.
Longmire! A few weeks ago I found out about the TV series and GLOMMED it like there was no tomorrow – I spent one whole day watching S3! Turns out there are books and I have bought the first one and it was different but mostly OK but very $$$ – trying to get my library to get them.
Waiting for the next Jodi Taylor St Marys Tea and Time Travel series due out in a couple of days!!!
@Julia Angel’s Blood was a DNF for me. OTOH, so was Jericho Barnes.
I just finished Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear, about time-travelling historians in London during the WW II Blitz. Amazing. Blackout ends pretty abruptly, so it would be a good idea to have All Clear handy. I also tried vols. 1-3 of the One Piece manga by Eichiro Oda, which I liked enough to keep going with. I started Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden and was enjoying it up till what felt like some clumsy foreshadowing made me put it down. Next may be This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner or The Falconer by Elizabeth May.
Somehow my brain turned the ad for Seduced by the Senator into The Seducinator. Maybe Ahnold made it to the Senate?
Kate Meader’s latest is out? How did I miss that?! Thanks @JCP. And you really should read the other two books. This is why I love, and hate, this post every month.
I’m having a terrible time getting really sucked into anything. It took me ten days to read Milan’s two Carhart books and the prequel novella. That’s ridiculous. I usually would have read that in five days at the outside.
I’ve started MacLean’s Rules of Scoundrels books and just can’t focus.
It’s not the books, it’s absolutely me. I’ve enjoyed the books. I feel like I don’t want to read anything really good as I’m not enjoying it anyway but I can’t force myself to read crap. So I’m reading numb instead.
Really, the thing I’m reading with the most consistency is this website. I love this site but I want to read books, not about books, actual books.
Can someone explain just what is different about Kristen Ashley’s writing style? I’d love to start some of her books but am worried I’ll hate them if I start them now and can’t keep up mentally. I hear she’s different but not how. Should I wait until I can focus?
I just finished reading The Kraken King by Meljean Brook twice. I loved it so much the first time, I just had to go back and read it again. I NEVER do that.
I also really enjoyed Hillbilly Rockstar by Lorelei James, but skimmed through Straddling the Line by Jaci Burton. Love the covers, but I don’t think I’ll be reading any more books in her Play-by-Play Series.
Finally, working my way through Linda Howard’s backlist. I don’t know how I missed her books the first time around.
I tore through The Martian by Andy Weir and it was brilliant and fast paced. Also read and really liked Radiance by Grace Devon. It’s easy to see the book blogger effect on reading choices since many of the same books are mentioned. If not for that I might have missed reading The Martian and that would have been a shame. I must resist any new purchases and tackle some of my shamefully large TEN pile next
Oh, Jackdaw is out? now, there’s a hero for the apparently-impossible-to-redeem thread. K.J. Charles is going to have her work cut out if she intends to make me care about that self-centered [expletive] Jonah, but she’s talented enough that she might do it…
I signed up for that free trail of Scribd and promptly read Lisa Kleypas’s It Happened in Autumn and The Devil In Winter (a fantastic book for Feburary I must say) in two days. I plan on reading A Scandal in Spring, but figured I should take a breather.
I finallly got Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews through Overdrive on Thursday (I got the notice while in a bookstore, go figure) and am almost finished. I LOVE it and plan on ordering the hard copies of the rest of the series through ILL, because I have no patience.
I’m also reading Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold because the omnibus has been sitting on my shelf for months. I have The Vor Game left and I’m excited to get back to it. I love Miles’s ability to fly by the seat of his pants.
I’m also also reading The Plantagenets by Dan Jones and loving it as well. I’ve read almost everything Sharon Kay Penman has written so I was eager to get a solid nonfiction overview of the period.
Oh! And! I had an Audible credit, so I downloaded a Doctor Who novel, The Stone Rose, because it’s narrated by Ten himself, David Tennant. Can’t wait to listen!
Overtime at work has rudely and crudely cut into my reading time. Not that it’s stopped me from picking up Tom Reiss’ Black Count which is only $1.99 over at Amazon.
@Julia #36: I read with pen in hand.
SB Sarah: THANK YOU for the 3 month subscription code to Scribd. I am enjoying it tremendously! I finally read Lisa Kleypas’ Wallflower series, your book Beyond Heaving Bosoms, a biography, a mystery and browsed a couple of cookbooks.
@Taffygrrl: the new book in the Marketplace series fits in well. It is long, but I really loved seeing Chris again.
@Coco: Kristin Ashley is a trip. She will always tell you what the heroine is wearing, including makeup and hair details. She is primarily self-published, and there are some spelling issues in some of her books, but the story and characters are so interesting, you just go with it. She is like crack. Lady Luck is my favourite of her books, but I also love Sweet Dreams, Breathe, and Law Man. Try a sample of one of these, because if you like it, you will like most of her work. All the heroes tend to be dominant alphas, and the heroines tend to be in their mid to late 30s. Not challenging reading, but oh so much fun.
I’m currently snaffling up a bunch of Karina Bliss goodies. What the Librarian Did has been on my radar for years, but I kinda lost track, so your recent interview was a godsend. I read and loved Librarian and am in the process of glomming a bunch of her backlist before I indulge myself with Rise. Thank you for the recent interview that triggered this Bliss-fest.
Before that I read the beginning novels in Jennifer Ashley’s Shifters Unbound series. Enjoyed the first three, then got so bogged down in the fourth, I had to quit mid-book. I’ve also read a bunch of stuff by Gretchen Galway, starting with Love Handles which was free! I’m cautious about free books but this one was a delight.
My homework is to reread Ann Cleeves’ Raven Black for my Mystery Book Club. We got snowed out last month so we’re tackling both books at this meeting. The other is Maron’s Designated Daughters. Both are excellent.
@Julia Oo I just read Sweet Dreams, my first Kristen Ashley, as well. (I bet a lot of people have finally taken the leap because of the sale.) I’d read so much about how her style can be a turn off, and you either love her stuff or hate it, but so far I just…kind of like it? It definitely is something, but I think for me it’s almost too much and I have to take breaks from all the alpha, which is saying something. And it is pretty long. But I think the part that most frustrated me is when the heroine buys denim curtains for the hero’s bedroom. I just couldn’t get behind that decision and started to seriously question the heroine’s decision making. Because really? Denim curtains? I judge.
I’m also whizzing through Garrett, the second book in Sawyer Bennett’s Cold Fury hockey series. I don’t like it as much as the first in the series, but, despite *MINOR SPOILER* the heroine’s battle with cancer being a major plot point, it’s way less intense than Sweet Dreams, so I guess it’s been serving as a bit of a palate cleanser.
Geez so many snow days this last week. I’ve really made a dent in my TBR pile. I read my first Christi Caldwell, For Love of the Duke. I also just finished Lost in Me, book one of the Here and Now series, because I was looking for a good triangle. But right at the end, it’s like all of my least favorite plot tropes take center stage, so I think I’m dunzo, at least temporarily.
I also completely breezed through the first two books in the Lacey Flint suspense series by S.J. Burton, Now You See Me and Dead Scared. Love Lacey, love the mysteries and suspense, love the multiple narrative voices, love the slow burn romance between Lacey and her fellow copper. There was serious good book squeeing going on.
@ Lammie
Thank you so much! All I hear is that it’s different but nobody says really what about it is different. It sounds like she’s very detail-oriented (though perhaps not in her editing?), I can get behind that.
Is it ok to say that I like crack?
No?
Just forget I said anything then.
@ Linastew
Denim CURTAINS!?
I’m gonna judge too.
Please tell me you go to Apartment Therapy. Everybody at AT judges, you’ll fit right in.
I’m about half way through reading the newest J.D. Robb and I’m just not sure how I feel about it. I’ve definitely read better, but I love all the little throwbacks to the earlier books because this is the 40th in the series.
I just finished the newest Karen Rose (Closer Than You Think, which was really good, but I was afraid she was edging into cliche territory with the villain. Thankfully, she didn’t go there because that would have made two books in a row where teh gay = evil.
I recently read and enjoyed two Lia Silver books. Prisoner (Werewolf Marines) is free to Kindle readers. The other was Laura’s Wolf.
I also read all three of Rhiannon Held’s Silver series and enjoyed them all. They are Silver, Tarnished, and Reflected.
Currently reading some older Lisa Marie Rice books that my library just purchased — Midnight Man and Midnight Angel.
Oh, and I reread Alpha and Omega (the novella) by Patricia Briggs last night. It’s a favorite.
I also just finished Radiance, this afternoon in fact! Liked it, but not as much as MoC. Don’t read the epilogue if you can’t stand a cliffhanger.
Recently finished Grim Shadows, the second in the Roaring Twenties series by Jenn Bennett. If you hold any affection for the movie The Mummy, you MUST read this book (and the first one, really). I love the 1920’s setting and the dash of paranormal – nothing like werewolves, but things semi-believable for the time. I’m so excited for the third to come out!
I had an itch for sci-fi romance after seeing Jupiter Ascending and read Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair. Really, really loved it and was totally sucked in. Reviews mention that the heroines seem a little similar after a few books, so I’m going to space them out a fair bit.
Other recent reads include Halfway to the Grave (liked), Trade Me (loved) and Mating Instinct (ok).
Not out yet, but I’m very eagerly awaiting the release of Rock Hard by Nalini Singh. Read the preview on her website and I cannot WAIT to see how Charlie & t-Rex get on.
@ Amanda– we must be reading twins! I just read BOUND BY FLAME followed by NIGHT BROKEN. I also put off reading NB due to the evil ex factor, but I wound up really enjoying he book after all. Hope you do too! (I really wanted to be caught up before the next ALPHA & OMEGA book comes out.).
My husband has FINALLY dived into the Kate Daniels books and is (of course, I told him so) loving them. Now I want to reread them yet again because he keeps reading the good bits out loud and it’s making me nostalgic.
I just read Edith Layton’s THE DUKES WAGER and loved it. I really have to add my recommendation for RADIANCE by Grace Draven as well (although I would have liked a little more conflict, it was still an awesome read).
Next up, if I don’t do a Kate Daniels reread, will probably be Jennifer Ashley’s BEAR ATTRACTION. — love her shifters series!
I’ve been giving and receiving technical training this month, so I have been escaping by reading bunches of historical novels, with a few contemporaries thrown in, most notably First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen, which I read at a time I needed a little magic, and Worth the Risk which was another Claudia Connor story that just pulled me in to be read in one day. There were horsies.
I gobbled up and loved The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy and agree with CelineB that it is my favorite Julia Quinn in a while, despite the big secret. My all time favorite is still When He Was Wicked. Also caught up on my Theresa Romain reading, including the recommended Season to Surrender, which is a keeper with a capital K.
For a Valentine treat I bought myself Lord Savage by Mia Gabriel which had been on my Amazon Wish List for a while. First of three parts which ended abruptly. I don’t plan to search out rest. The story is set in 1907, the Golden Age, which is what drew me in, not to mention the cover artwork. All the action, and I mean action, takes place at a naughty house party where the narrator, a rich widow from New York, is a guest. The guests play the Game, where there are Innocents and Protectors. If I had met Evelyn’s “Protector,” the troubled Lord Savage, I would have packed up and run the other way. Most notably, another woman’s ladyparts were described by the narrator as “blossomed like a midnight rose.”
Right now, I am reading through The Ladies Book of Pleasures series by Jess Michaels. The quotes from The Ladies Book of Pleasures at the heading of each chapter set up the events to come and add to the enjoyment of the books. The stories center around three friends who find love, and naughty times, through a book being passed around behind closed doors by the ton.
Think I may need to read a cowboy book next and At Wolf Ranch looks mighty tempting.
Hey @ClaireC, I have been a huge fan of Linnea Sinclair.and was totally crushed when I found out she wasn’t continuing the series. I don’t find the heroines to be quite as similar so you may not need to space them out so much. Where have all the good sic fi romances gone?
@taffygrrl Thanks for the info! I’ve read two in the Dock Five universe (Hope’s Folly & Rebels and Lovers) and could see a little bit of superficial similarity to Makaiden from Rebels – short blonde hair, not-so-legal past, willingness to break the rules. I’ve loved everything I’ve read from Sinclair so far and am sad to hear the series won’t continue! Looks like all she’s published recently are some shorts in anthologies? (which my library doesn’t carry, grr).
I agree – it’s so hard to find good SFR! I liked Jess Granger’s Realms Beyond duology and Sara Creasey’s Scarabeaus duo. Ilona Andrews has a few good shorts as well and I kind of count Clean Sweep and Sweep in Peace (currently a free serial on their blog) as SFR, since there are alien species and travel to other planets.
@RedHeadedGirl: The Manservant sounds intriguing, will there maybe possibly be a review?
@linastew If you enjoy SJ Bolton’s Lacey Flint series you might also like Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series. Maeve deals with some of the same issues about being a female copper and there is smoldering romance, too. The mysteries are less psychological than the Lacey books, but complex and I really love Maeve as a character. She’s plucky without being TSTL and is really good at herjob. The first in the series is THE BURNING.
One of the better things I’ve read recently is not a romance (at all, by his own account the man is a moron at relationships) Salman Rushdie’s memoir, Joseph Anton. Prefer it to his fiction – same great writing but a tighter narrative. It’s hard to explain, but I like character based stories, and his are generally too idea driven for me, but this felt more about (real) characters, albeit driven by ideas.
Read Unexpected by Sarah Morgan, which, unexpectedly indeed, I had already read as Ripped. This name changing business drives me batty but it’s such a flawless novella I didn’t even mind reading it again, and it is extremely rare for me to reread a romance.
Also recently enjoyed some old Nora Roberts, the latest Jeanienne Frost, and lots of Loretta Chase’s backlist that are newly added to the library.
Checked out the first Emily Ashton book based on recs on this site, fumed about her poor choices throughout, and immediately put the next one on hold.
@Coco re: Kristen Ashley – I agree with @Lammie, but also listen to the Smart Bitches #81 podcast with Kati D. They talk a lot about KA’s style and what makes her different.
I’ve listened to this podcast multiple times. It’s a commuting happy place because Kati D’s description of reading KA’s Knight (the hero is a pimp) never fails to make me laugh out loud. From this podcast I learned to skim the heroine’s morning routines, and evening ones. She wears her shelf bra camisole and panties with the black ribbon bows a lot. No need to read every time.
I also skimmed the decor. @Linastew I’d completely forgotten about the demin curtains!! Oh Dear! @Coco as a fellow Apartment Therapy reader, I also suggest you skim all the decor including the
kitchen renovation. Just go right past it. Do not look too closely. 😀
I’ve been reading more backlist historicals this month, just finished Because you’re Mine by Lisa Kleypas and am about halfway through Guilty Pleasures by Laura Lee Guhrke. Also finished The Cinderella Moment by Jennifer Kloester last week. Very cute YA based on the Cinderella story.
@ Julia
Thanks so much! I’m gonna listen to that right now.
I’ve just finished two Alethea Kontis books, Hero and Dearest. While I like all three books in this series, Hero was the book I’ve been waiting for since I was a little kid. Finally, the fairytale girl, armed with a sword, rescues the prince! The gender-bending was refreshing and very well done. It works as a stand-alone, but it’s better to read Enchanted first, to get a better background on all the characters and events.
I just finished Trade Me my first Courtney Milan… It was awesome. I’m not an NA reader but I loved it. I plan to read her backlist. I can’t wait for the next Tina and Blake book. My TBR pile is a mile long. I’m attempting to mix up my reading by reading Cukoos Calling by Robert Galbraith. I am also planning to spice things up with Miranda Nevilles latest…
@Coco thanks for sharing about your lack of reading focus. I went through that period too, where this site was the only thing I read completely. It will pass but it was a bummer. Hang in there. 🙂 Read Kristen Ashley.. Don’t overthink it.
@ClaireC, I’ve had Grim Shadows on my Kindle for months, and still haven’t gotten to it, so thanks for the reminder!
But I’ve been making good use of Scribd. I read “Miss Jacobson’s Journey” by Carola Dunn. h/t to Rose Lerner, because in a blog post she linked to a Goodreads list of romances with Jewish leads including this book. It’s a road trip book, involving smuggling of gold during the Napoleonic War, the hero and heroine are both Jewish, and I really enjoyed it.
I am also reading a quartet of trad. Regencies by Deborah Simmons, although frustratingly, the first one, “The Vicar’s Daughter” is not on Scribd, the other 3 are. They’re cute and funny. Scribd is actually a gold mine of old Signet Regencies, but you have to know what authors or book titles you’re looking for in order to find them.
In paperback I read “Sweet Madness” by Heather Snow and I thought it was even better than her first book, “Sweet Enemy”, even though plots involving insane asylums and primitive medical practices in historicals are super angsty for me. In the middle of the second Kate Ross mystery. “A Broken Vessel” and really loving it. The 1st was an English country house murder, but this one takes place in the seamy side of London, much more interesting.
I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that even though I’m not working, I’ve fallen behind on all the recent books of my favorite authors, including Courtney Milan, Theresa Romain, Vanessa Kelly, Rose Lerner, and I haven’t even cracked “Rogue Spy” yet!
@ClaireC Thanks for all the SFR recs, and I also just saw one reviewed RIGHT HERE ON THIS BLOG that looks intriguing. They had me at “Titanic in Space,” a trope that includes two of my favorite things in the world (the Titanic and space!)
@ClaireC I remember also liking Susan Kearney’s Rystani books more as the series went on. Those and Linnea Sinclair’s Dock Five books, series wise, I felt improved as they went on. It was like…neither series was my perfect series, but they were getting closer and closer to being what I really wanted to read, and then both of them ended.
Last night I finished Frank Tuttle’s Brown River Queen which was full of Markhat goodness (noir fantasy detective in a second world setting with magic, ogres and Mama Hog).
This morning I read Noble Intentions by Katie McAlister which was the funniest and sweetest romance I’ve read in a long time. Has to be in the top section of my favorite romances of all time. I chortled, giggled, snorted and sniggered through it.
Now I’m halfway through Silver Mirrors by A. A. Aguirre (kind of a steampunk aesthetic fantasy in a second world setting) which is really good so far.
Right now I’m in the middle of A Perfect Catch by Anna Sugden; it’s part of her Ice Cats series about the various members of a pro hockey team, and involves the goalie and the sister of the wife one of the other players. They have a history together but she thinks he’s too domineering and he’s miffed that she puts her career first ahead of their relationship. To some extent it’s one of those if-they-would-just-sit-down-and-talk books but I can also see and understand why it is hard for them to just do that due to their individual baggage, so that’s well done. It’s the third in the series but I had no trouble jumping in and reading it as a stand-alone. So if you like sports romances or reunited-couple stories this could be a good pick for you.
Earlier in the month I finished Blood of Olympus, the final book in the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. It’s a terrific, pull-out-all-the-stops finale to the series, and I appreciated the way he wrapped up each character’s storyline. It’s also a great series in the way the girls get to be as badass as the boys, and the boys are willing to stand back and let them when they know the girls are more qualified in a given situation.
I just finished Obsession In Death, and was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I hate saying it, as I am a longtime J.D. Robb fan (only since 1998, yo), and the last few books have been not up to the quality of many of the earlier books. I found especially the last two left me cold.
I also read The Rook this month (which I found about during last months thread, as you do) and it took a little bit to get going, but once it did, definitely an excellent read. I now very much want to read Stiletto.
I just started Gemini Cell, the latest novel in the Shadow Ops series by Myke Cole. They are military fantasy, not a usual genre for me, but I dig the hell out of Cole’s work. It broke my heart in the first several pages, but still reading, because it’s shaping up to be riveting. In fact, I think I’ll get back to that.
Sci fi romance wise I just read all 5 of Ruby Lionsdrake’s mercenaries series. Not perfect but I enjoyed the heck out of them.
Interesting heroines and man eating plants and gut bacteria.
I just finished the first 7 chapters of the new book by the fug girls, the royal we. It’s a fictional version of will and Kate’s romance. The publishers are providing the first seven chapters as a promotion. I love the go fug yourself blog, so I thoroughly enjoyed this promotion. The only problem I had with it is that the book won’t be out until April and I want to finish it now!
I’m in the third book of L. Marie Adeline’s S.E.C.R.E.T. trilogy (which I found out about through a Smart Bitches sale post!). It’s fabulous, very sex- and woman-positive, and basically the opposite of Fifty Shades of Grey.