Review: Shoulda Called This One "Breath on Members"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2012
Oh, Anne Calhoun, how do I love thee?  Let me count the ways...One...Thea Moretti uses sex to keep painful feelings away since she lost her husband. Totally understandable and better than eating your sadness away with a box of Twinkies, especially since we don't have Twinkies any more. I think I may need to use Thea's mourning process myself to get over the demise of Hostess.Two...Thea selects Ronan O'Rourke, NYFD, from the Hot Fireman Line-up at a bar, to have ferocious, nasty, uncommitted sex with. Again, totally understandable. I mean, what? You expect her to do it with Ralph, the bag boy at Smith's Food King? Go big or go home.Three...Ronan is the one who'd like to start a serious relationship with Thea, and he doesn't let her get away with treating him like he's just a Swanson's Hungry Man Peen meal that she only eats when she's emotionally PMSing and needs some carbs. He knows she has issues, so he doesn't push hard--he pushes her just enough because he knows she's worth it.Four...Thea makes some delicious shortbread.  Mmmmm, shortbread.Five...Thea asks Ronan for a threesome because Santa doesn't deliver stuff like that...but Ronan does. Shortbread and double penetration--Oh, Holy Night!  Ronan warned her that if she went ahead with the threesome, she might discover things she doesn't want to...like feelings other than those that are located in her G-spot.And she does discover them, and it freaks her out, so she makes shortbread.  Mmmm, shor...oh, never mind--I already said that.And it's cathartic for her, and she realizes she doesn't just need to survive, she needs to live.Gawd, Calhoun can bring the angst and the sexy in just the right combo.  This was a deliciously satisfying read, so give yourself an early Christmas present and jump on it.