Reviews for Bedspell

The average rating for Bedspell based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-06-11 00:00:00 Billy Blair Jr Не верю! (с) Станиславский Аманда. Доктор психологии, ведущая колонку в журнале и отвечающая на анонимные письма женщин с сексуальными проблемами. На деле: девушка с психологией чуть ли не монашки (ах, Зак мне из другой комнаты позвонил и предложил заняться сексом по телефону, ах, он меня игрушкой стимулировал - это так порочно!). Если что - действие происходит не в викторианской Англии. Что такая специалистка может посоветовать читательницам? Да и стремится ли она им помочь? Аманда постоянно откладывает работу, больше занимается собой, не столько вникает в проблемы, сколько ищет выгодный для себя материал. Да, ее маньяк похитил, так доктор психологии ничего сделать не смогла. Он же был такой рассерженный! Конечно, обычно же маньяки милашки и лапочки. Зак. Частный детектив и бывший коп. На деле: о расследовании вспоминает редко и неохотно, маньяка случайно вычисляет подруга Аманды, Зак в это время мучится от спермотоксикоза. А, еще занимается раскрепощением Аманды. Ну то есть коп снимает комплексы психологу. Автор, вы ничего не напутали? И да, мужчины так не говорят. Решение проблемы Зака (невозможность достичь оргазма с партнершей) подавалось как нечто эпичное - а на деле оказалось обычными предварительными ласками с минетом. Вот так незатейливо. В общем впечатление паршивое. Постоянное ощущение нереальности происходящего, как если смотришь дешевую постановку, где на людей напялили неподходящие костюмы и заставляют говорить чушь.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-09-17 00:00:00 Ariel Bernardo Fun fact: the cover image on the UK version is a stock photo that's used to advertise phone sex chat lines. I couldn't help but giggle the first time I saw it in the back of the advertising section in a magazine, especially considering the theme of this book. Anyway, onward. Amanda is a sex therapist and psychology professor who's taken a leave of absence from her uni job. As a favour to a friend who edits a women's magazine, she's become the new advice columnist after the last one died in a hot-and-run. Zach is investigating the hit-and-run case, and he doesn't think it was an accident. He thinks Amanda is in danger, especially after an intruder breaks into her rented holiday home, so he moves in with her on a temporary basis. Zach and Amanda are fiercely attracted to each other, but it's not just the killer on the loose that they have to worry about - Zach's got some very personal issues of his own. I think this is the first Rebecca York book I've read that I really didn't like. I enjoyed her 43 Light Street series, in varying degrees of course, but none of them really left me cold. I read the first four Moon books, and while I didn't enjoy them as much as 43 Light Street, I certainly didn't hate them. However, there was something about Bedroom Therapy that didn't sit well with me. I'm not 100% sure what it is. I wasn't overly keen on Amanda's character, for a number of reasons, none of which should have made me truly dislike the book. I guess it was just an accumulation of all the little things. I'll try and explain what I disliked, although it may not make much sense. Early in the book - page 48 - she's annoyed that she got caught speeding. Not annoyed that she was dumb enough to speed, but mad that the locals didn't warn her about the speed trap. Why should they warn you? The limit is the limit for a reason. You're not supposed to keep within it when you know you're being observed and then disregard it the rest of the time. It's a small thing to be irritated about, but I'm always turned off by anything that smacks of entitlement, and this felt like it did. Later in the book, Zach writes a letter saying what he'd like to do in bed, because he's too nervous to ask her face to face, and Amanda doesn't react well initially. Her initial reaction is, how dare he ask me such things? He'd like to what? Not in this lifetime. Smart of him to be afraid to ask! (Page 131.) This is not an idea that EVER sits well with me. People should be able to ask for what they want without being shamed for it. Of course sometimes you won't want to do it, and that's just fine - there are polite, kind ways of saying, "I'm sorry, that's not something I can do." You always get to say no to any kind of bedroom stuff that you don't want to do. But you don't get to shame someone else for wanting it, or for asking you if you'll try it. It's bad enough when your average person treats someone with kinks like they're a freak who shouldn't dare ask for fulfilment - it's a whole lot worse when a therapist, who should know better, does the same. Amanda's kind of a prude, really. I didn't expect that from someone who specialises in human sexuality. Being vanilla is one thing; that's all well and good. But she actually seems embarrassed and icked out by a lot of sexual stuff, both stuff that Zach brings up and stuff that appears in her letters. She's even angry and humiliated when Zach finds out she has a vibrator. Lady, if you're going to be all judgey about any sex that you consider abnormal, you're in the wrong line of work. She doesn't seem to enjoy her work much either. Over the whole book, she answers about four letters, and every time she tries to work she ends up fantasising or having sex instead. Boy, I hope they're not paying her too high a salary. I found the whole situation with Zach's "problem" a little weird. I've never heard of a guy who could get aroused and erect but not climax due to psychological issues. I've certainly heard of psychological issues preventing men from getting aroused at all, but I would think that once arousal kicks in, if the stimulation continues then he'd almost have to climax sooner or later. You hear of women having orgasms while being raped - not because they're enjoying it, but simply because it's a natural reaction to physical stimuli. I find it hard to believe that Zach's man parts could work well enough to have sex but not well enough to take pleasure from it - it seems to me it'd be an all-or-nothing kind of situation. That said, I'm not a doctor, so take my opinion with a pinch of salt. Overall, I was very disappointed with Bedroom Therapy, and felt quite cold by the end. Even the suspense plot - normally something York does very well - seemed tacked-on to the book. 2 stars.