SOMETIMES NAUGHTY, SOMETIMES NICE

Author: Kimberly Raye ISBN: 0446614009 10/2004 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: Warner Forever

SOMETIMES NAUGHTY To Xandra Farrel, men are only good for procreation and pleasure-and sometimes they even need help with that. As proprietor of erotic aid manufacturer Wild Women, Inc., she's ready to launch her best product just as soon as she tests it out. Her subject: Beau Hollister, once the sexiest, most popular bad boy in high school, and the man responsible for the worst sexual experience of Xandra's life. If Xandra can have one mind-blowing night with Beau, the commercial success of her product is a sure thing… SOMETIMES NICE When Beau started his home renovation company, Hire-a-Hunk, being Xandra's boy toy was not what he had in mind, especially since he blew it way back when. Then Xandra turns up the heat and turns on the seduction. As wills clash and hearts collide, can unexpected love prove that being naughty is sometimes the nicest way a girl can have her Beau...and keep him too?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

So who doesn't think about the first time they "hooked up" with someone? Well, actually I don't, but I know a lot of people do, so Kimberly Raye's new one, SOMETIMES NAUGHTY, SOMETIMES NICE, might be a humorous walk down memory lane for some readers.

For me, the walk is littered with good jokes and spicy humor but a bit on the raunchy side. Gray hair, down there, is more than I can handle in a romance book. Yes, it's a fact of life, but having a wax job to get rid of it is not romantic in the least {shudder}. Not to mention that it's brought up on several occasions in the book. Some might think it's funny; I just thought it was gross.

Now don't get me wrong, there is some funny and sexy stuff in here. The heroine, Xandra Farrel, has a mother who hosts a talk show about men being inferior to women and marriage being a form of bondage. What a hoot that is! Especially when you find out the above mother has another daughter (Skye) that recently experienced marital bliss, and another daughter (Eve) that lives to torment her with fake tattoo's of a man's name on her butt!

I guess if you can get past the raunchy side of things, or if you like raunchy, SOMETIMES NAUGHTY, SOMETIMES NICE is cool.

Shannon Johnson