Review Tuesday: The Sex Therapist Next Door by Meghan O'Brien

 

 

The Sex Therapist Next Door

by Meghan O'Brien

Can love happen when a mature sex-therapist who is afraid of commitment has to give sex demonstrations with the young sexy woman next door for her classes? 

I have never read very much erotica. I especially read even less after the passing of my dear friend Lisa Andel many years ago. So it took the suggestion of another dear friend to get me to pick this book up. 

 

The Sex Therapist Next Door by Meghan O'Brien is, simply, lesbian erotica coupled with the therapist or teacher fetish. The story works like this: Diana Kelley is a sex therapist who gives LIVE demonstrations on how to have better lesbian sex before a small class of couples. It's meant to be instructional, while having actual live demonstrations of various sex acts. The problem is when Diana's usual teaching assistant broke her back in a fall. Who will be able to do this job on such short notice? Why not the young womanizing lesbian next door, Jude? She brings home new women all the time. She'd be perfect for these no-strings attached classes, get paid, and not have to worry about the entanglements of relationship (because Diana had been terribly damaged in the past and had no plan to open up the possibility again). 

 

From the start Diana lays down the law: This is a business arrangement, NO ATTACHMENTS. Jude understood and accepted. Getting some great pay to help demonstrate sex techniques for a handful of female couples who need help or need to add some zing to their love lives? Why not? 

 

Of course, the trouble starts from the first class. These two have an unbelievable sexual chemistry that immediately jeopardizes this work arrangement. The rest of the story is, mostly, about these two trying to figure out what they are doing with their lives and each other. There is an added side romance story, 'cuz, why not? 

 

Even though this book is, most definitely, lesbian erotica, it's really much more about how relationship build and grow from where and when and with whom you least expect it.

 

For the most part, I really liked this story. Not so much for the graphic sex scenes, but watching relationships grow from where you wouldn't expect it. The internal dialogs wrestling with what is the right thing to do, you know, like we all have had in our lives. 

That said, this book hits TWO pet-peeves of mine. 

One. A therapist who is terrible at discussing her own problems and feelings. Diana is in front of her classes telling them how important COMMUNICATION is, and she can't do it herself. I think SHE needs some therapy... 

Two. Never-ending endings. You think you reached the end, smile, turn the page AND THERE'S MORE. It brought back Dan Brown flashbacks! 

That aside, the book is very readable and even endearing.

 

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