The Sex Therapist Next Door by Meghan O'Brien

Published: November 13, 2018 by Bold Stories Books

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Genres: Erotic, LGBT 

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Description:

Diana Kelley is a couple's sex therapist with a problem: it’s her job to convince her clients of the importance of sexual and emotional intimacy, but after surviving a toxic relationship with an abusive ex, she's sworn off love and can’t fathom ever making herself vulnerable again. When her best friend Avaa is injured the night she is scheduled to assist with a hands-on sexual education workshop, Diana is forced to find a short term replacement. The last thing she wants is a new lover, even a paid one. 

After a year of living in the apartment next door, all Jude Monaco knows about her neighbor Diana is that she’s a gorgeous, older woman and the inspiration for more dirty fantasies than she cares to admit. So when Diana knocks on her door with a shockingly delicious favor to ask, Jude seizes the opportunity to learn more. 

Their professional relationship is supposed to be a clinical erotic arrangement between a sex therapist and her assistant, but at the intersection of sex and intimacy, anything is possible. Even love.

Review:

Well the title pretty much sums it up. This is a book about a sex therapist who takes her lessons to a whole new level. Now I have never had therapy is the sexual department, however, what I picture is you and your spouse in a similar situation to marriage counseling just a dirtier topic and maybe not so much hate towards each other. So I was very shocked to find that is was presented with actual sex happening during the therapy session. Not only the therapist and her assistant but the entire room of couples are partaking in the topic. I find this part very disturbing and that made this book not my thing. If they had been providing examples with their clothes on and not having six couples having sex in one room I would have been able to vouch very heavily for this book. 

Another part that I struggled with was the way Diana and Jude communicated with each other. It was so annoying as they competed to be politer than the other. Nobody talks this way. As the world moves in to equality and women not being victimize anymore I really hope this is not the turn literary is going to take because I will be done with reading unfortunately. 

Now the cover.. I do believe that it is beautifully done, even as a straight woman. It makes it very clear that this book is going to include sex between two women. Now the part that bothers me, the cover makes you believe that its going to be two women in their early twenties. Now one of them is and one of them is not. Diana is 39. Jude is 26, with an obsession over older women. Now for me, the whole older woman thing was over played, I started feeling like Diana was in her late sixties rather than just about to turn forty. O'Brien also over played the age thing with a good friend of theirs that was 49. She was played out like she was in her eighties. Why does this bother me so much with the cover? This whole book was played out where any Feminist would be giving O'Brien a standing ovation, with all the over done consent, empowerment the women gave each other and the obnoxious amount of apologizing that went into every apology given. Then you have this cover that is ashamed of showing a woman closer to Forty. Big fail on that decision. 

The overall story line of a woman overcoming her abusive past and opening herself up to love. I liked and can fully support. This part deserves a star of its own, which is why this book is getting two from me instead of just one.