Review: Reading Missionary Position felt like taking a fabulously sexy vacation.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
I know I’m not the only woman that has fantasized about vacationing and meeting their dream man in some exotic place. Well, lucky Doctor Selah got to do just that, she did it twice, really. I got to just lie back and enjoy the free ride (pun totally intended). This was a surprisingly sweet, fantastic read. I’ve instantly become a Daisy Prescott fan.Selah is a 40-somethings, educated, single woman. She loves her life. No kids, no ties, no complications. No love, just sex. Selah’s just set out on a new job that involves a few weeks in Amsterdam, followed by a longer stay in Ghana. At an airport sushi bar she meets a woman who insists that she call her brother for a date while in Amsterdam. It’s an odd experience, having a relative stranger try to set her up in a foreign city. But, after a few lonely nights, she decides she will take a chance and calls Gerhard. It turns out she had already met him earlier in the evening at an art auction. Selah and Gerhard hit it off immediately.I loved this part of the book, I just love the chase. I have so rarely read actual dating and courting written so well in a book. Selah and Gerhard are together constantly for the rest of her stay in Amsterdam. Many of their ‘dates’ are spent just laughing hysterically and enjoying delicious Dutch food together. It’s a fairly new experience for Selah, dating and talking and not just screwing a man. Selah spends her last few days with Gerhard overthinking things, as so many of us ladies often do. When Selah finally receives a heated parting kiss from Gerhard, she is pretty sure she can’t do without him in her life in some capacity. She just hasn’t had enough time to know for sure. My heart was just dying when she had to walk away from him at the airport; I wanted her to run back and jump him! But alas, she had to go to work in Ghana.It’s at this part of the book that my warning lights started flashing. I’m not a big fan of love triangles and I saw the beginnings of one starting here. Enter Kai, Ghana’s answer to Selah’s heartbreak. Gerhard and Kai are so much alike, you almost can’t tell them apart. I did love the change of scenery. I have always wanted to travel to Africa and the author clearly has a love for travel and culture herself. Selah is an independent and fierce woman, so Africa is a perfect wild destination for her. She embraces the dress, the lifestyle, the customs and the people easily. But really, the star of this book is the feelings, the discovery, and the love.Permit me one tiny gripe here, please. I didn’t like title of the book and didn’t think it fit very well. I don’t know if it was supposed to be funny or cheeky, but it doesn’t really convey either for me. I think there was definitely a more appropriate, romantic title out there for this book. But that really is a minor gripe.What I truly loved about this book was the relationship between Selah and Kai/Gerhard. Neither is perfect, but they have grown to love one another through honesty, sacrifice, compromise and true determination. You just can’t keep this couple apart, and that is what love really is. It’s hard work sometimes. It’s the ability to look at yourself honestly and believe you deserve happiness and love if only you are willing to let your guard down. MP is an outstanding romance for real women. I don’t say that with any airs, I say that as a true compliment. I’m tired of reading books about 20 year olds falling in love in college. That’s not my life. Being that I’m a 34 year old woman, this book was just perfect for me. Missionary Position is a dazzlingly beautiful journey I know any woman will enjoy. It’s fantastic vacation reading.