Review: Dirty Girls Book Club – Savanna Fox

Every woman who joined the book club expected to expand their literary horizons. But when they stop reading the classics and start exploring the steamy side of fiction, they discover just how much fun reading can be…

When the book club makes their first erotic selection The Sexual Education of Lady Emma Whitehead, marketing executive Georgia Malone is surprised to find herself identifying with the main character. Like Emma, Georgia is a widow who has never truly experienced the joys of sex. But when she meets the spokesman for her newest campaign, Georgia’s long-buried libido is awakened.

Hockey star Woody Hanrahan is charming and cocky—the sort of man Georgia usually avoids. But while her mind is saying stay away, Georgia’s body is telling her to give in every time Woody comes near. Now as her book club explores the tantalizing extremes of fiction, Georgia is experiencing first hand, and for the first time, the real pleasures of the flesh, and fulfilling the desires that—chapter by chapter—are getting delightfully dirty. Woody is hers to command in a hundred deliciously wicked ways, but when it comes to writing her own happy ending, this dirty girl doesn’t just need his body—she wants his heart.

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Release Date:  September 4, 2012
Publisher:  Berkley Trade
Source:  Provided by Publisher
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Emma Malone has been celibate since her husband died in a care accident two years prior.  When she’s introduced an an erotic novel, through her book club, she finds striking similarities between herself and the widowed sexually repressed heroine.  While she could sympathize with the way the character felt in the book, she never imagined she’d find herself face to face with her own modern day rake.

Woody Hanrahan is a super star hockey player that has no problem finding a woman to slack his sexual desires.  But when he meets Emma Malone, he finds a woman who irritates him to no end but he’s attracted to no less.  He’s not used to doing the chasing when it comes to women, but there is something about the buttoned up Emma that makes him want to get her to cut loose.

I wanted The Dirty Girls Book Club to be one of those books that proved good girls could be just as dirty as everyone else.  But I found it really hard to like Emma.  She took a chastity vow at 14, joined a chastity club, didn’t have sex with her husband until her wedding night.  But one confrontation with Woody and she was giving it up to him.  I’ll admit that I’d probably give it up for Woody too, but it just seemed so out of character for a woman who had taken such a stand on chastity and sex on when married.  I also felt she was too judgmental of people (the way a co-worker dressed or a book club member having casual sex).  For someone who was having sex in her workplace with a virtual stranger, she really didn’t have a let to stand on.

Woody was adorable, in a cocky I want to smack you sort of way.  He was bitter over the loss of trust and betrayal in the one person he counted on, but he was also willing to do what he had to for his mother.  Despite is sometimes obnoxious attitude, you have to love a man that was willing to swallow his pride and do what he needed to.

Then there were the book club girls.  It felt like there was more to the women in the group than what we were given.  I realize Emma was fairly new to the group and didn’t feel particularly close to any of them, but it would have been nice to seem a growing camaraderie with the women, especially after reading this selection and the conversation they had about sex.

I wanted to love this one, but it fell a bit short for me.  The sex was hot between Emma and Woody, I wanted more from Emma and by the time she finally have her revelations, it was too late for me.