A Taste of Her Own Medicine
A Taste of Her Own Medicine is both an erotic romance, and a post-divorce reinvention story. This book was earthy, sensual, and made sex in a garden sound strangely reasonable.
Sonia is an herbalist and newly single mother who decides to start her own business after years of propping up her ex-husband’s career. She takes an entrepreneurship class, and falls into mutual insta-lust with her teacher, a younger man named Atlas. Yes, this is a man whose broad shoulders can hold up the world, or keep Sonia’s thighs open.
Thanks to her browbeating ex, Sonia has self-esteem issues, and is initially confused by Atlas’ attention. He’s a gentle pursuer, and gives her plenty of space to figure her shit out between make-out sessions and pep talks. I found Sonia’s emotional fragility overwhelming at times, although I appreciated that her kooky sisters played as least as large a role as Atlas in helping her heal from her divorce. The book was at its best when Sonia reconnects with her family’s expertise as Gullah traditional medicine makers, and there’s a fair amount of witchy woo. After a dollop of love potion, the couple decide not to use condoms at the last minute because “the thought of any sort of barrier between us [was] almost unbearable.”
Unsafe sex without a substantive discussion? So, we’re still doing this in 2019. Right. I almost gave up on the book, but after a deep breath, I soldiered on and was rewarded with a satisfying emotional trajectory where Sonia finally realizes her worth, and grows both personally and professionally.
She makes luscious sounding herbal tonics, and more importantly, learns how to have partner-assisted orgasms! Despite zero safe sex practices, and some emotional flailing, A Taste of Her Own Medicine was still a gooey treat with a rare middle-aged heroine getting the action she deserves. A final warning to grammar warriors: there were several typos in the final third of the book.
– Shana
“He looks like he could plow my north field without a horse.”
Sonja Watts needs to re-enter the workforce after divorcing her husband of thirteen years. Taking the advice of her sister Birdie and her best friend Estelle, she signs up for a six-week course for entrepreneurs; hoping that she will learn everything she needs to know to build a business to support herself and her kids.
On the first night of class, Sonja is able to ignore the fact that most of the students were younger than her by ten years or more. It was what she expected. But when the instructor walks in, she debates packing up her new twelve hundred dollar laptop and walking out.
Sonja couldn’t remember the last time she looked at a man with little more interest than she give a sturdy dining room table. She was just disinterested.
But wow, did Atlas James grab her interest.
Atlas hasn’t been interested in dating since he moved back home from California. Adjusting to new found success in the town where everyone sees him as that big, geeky guy who cut grass for pocket change when they were in high school has been awkward. Aside from a couple of one night stands, he hasn’t really wanted to pursue a relationship with anyone until sweet, shy Sonja signs up for his class.
Compact, curvy, and juicy in all the right places, being in the same room Sonja Watts ignites all of those giddy feelings he felt when he had his first crush. He wants to know her and he’s pretty sure she wants to know him — despite the age difference that she seems to be so fixated on.
With her future riding on the success of her new business, Sonja has no time for distraction. Will she be able to keep her eyes on her own paper or will they remain glued to Atlas’s biceps and thick thighs?
Contemporary Romance, Romance
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