Sex (Love Trilogy, No. 2)

Rating:
Summary: decent book, lousy title
Review: Its nice that a summary of the first book in the series is given at the start before the actual chapters of the book start. The second of the series has much more of the "trashy romance" and teen soap opera elements than the first one. Colette finally decides to go ahead and give in to her sexual urges with Art, to the sheer disbelief and disappointment of her best friend Val. Val, meanwhile, gets together with another of Colettes friends, Greg...one, in fact, who used to have a crush on Colette. But when Val gets pregnant, its Colette who has the bigger breakdown, at least on the surface. The rest of the book focuses on the private musings of Colette, her boyfriend, and the sexual acts they perform, and how her view of the world around her has changed now that she crossed the line. But Art, in a typical "free-spirited male" fashion, decides he can't handle a heavy relationship and takes off for another country, leaving Colette miserable and lonely. A typical "plastic type teen romance" novel, one which could be read and understood without reading number one. The story does read quickly, and there are fewer British words to confuse American readers. There is still the British/American glossary in the back of the book for convenience but readers will have less use for it in this book than in the first one.

Rating:
Summary: Second in series a fair progression
Review: Its nice that a summary of the first book in the series is given at the start before the actual chapters of the book start. The second of the series has much more of the "trashy romance" and teen soap opera elements than the first one. Colette finally decides to go ahead and give in to her sexual urges with Art, to the sheer disbelief and disappointment of her best friend Val. Val, meanwhile, gets together with another of Colettes friends, Greg...one, in fact, who used to have a crush on Colette. But when Val gets pregnant, its Colette who has the bigger breakdown, at least on the surface. The rest of the book focuses on the private musings of Colette, her boyfriend, and the sexual acts they perform, and how her view of the world around her has changed now that she crossed the line. But Art, in a typical "free-spirited male" fashion, decides he can't handle a heavy relationship and takes off for another country, leaving Colette miserable and lonely. A typical "plastic type teen romance" novel, one which could be read and understood without reading number one. The story does read quickly, and there are fewer British words to confuse American readers. There is still the British/American glossary in the back of the book for convenience but readers will have less use for it in this book than in the first one.

Rating:
Summary: decent book, lousy title
Review: When Kate Cann initially wrote these books, she titled them (in order) "Diving in" "In the deep end"(this one) and "sink or swim". This retitling seems like a lousy attempt to have an overused loud title and cash in on "sex sells". It may work, but I, for one, am unimpressed.
Putting the title aside, I found the book itself quite decent.