Review: No "FICTIONAL GOGGLES" Needed!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
Fiction Goggles are used to enjoy romances that have “beautiful people”, “simultaneous orgasms” and “no awkward moments”.  They are not perfect relationships, but the virgin can have sex over and over the first time, and the man-whore never looks at another woman after he meets “the One”.  Don’t get me wrong, I love those stories and regularly adjust my fictional goggles as I plunge into these unrealistic romances because that is why I read – for Fiction.  But Mimi Strong has introduced me to another type of heroine that makes me laugh and identify and I love it.I have discovered that Mimi Strong books are best read out loud to friends.  They are hilarious and are easily enjoyed while sipping wine and hanging with girlfriends who laugh and identify with Mimi’s characters.  She tells it like it is actually happening and sometimes it is AWKWARD.  Sex is not always “wonderful” and conversations get stilted.  That is what makes these books so hilarious.  YOU CAN IDENTIFY.Tina is swooning over the new guy on the block, Luca Lowell.  They are not in high school; Tina is 29 and has not fully recovered from her high school sweetheart dying ten years ago.  She normally dates skinny geeks, when she does date, so that she can feel in control, but when Luca’s heavy boots walk in her florist shop and she sees his big hands, she has changed her plans.“My eyes go first to the boots. They’re big.Next, my eyes climb up his jeans. And what a climb it is, over long legs and muscled thighs. My pulse quickens. He’s wearing a black shirt with a bike logo, stretched tight across huge muscles.He turns his body sideways to squeeze past the ferns.Damn it, he’s perfection” – TinaTina’s best friend since high school can’t tolerate sexual words. “Rory isn’t like anyone else I know. She gets grossed out by any mention of sex, in conversation, or in books or movies. A single word can send her screaming from the room”.  TinaDownload the sample pages, because if you do, you are going to need the whole book.  That is what happened to me.  It’s cute, quick and sweet, but it is the witty dialogue and the best friends that sell me on Mimi Strong books.There is some descriptive sex (milder than Peaches series).  I have already downloaded book 2 “Complicated Girl” and if possible, have laughed even more.Would I/Did I buy it? Yes (2.99)Would I read it again?  YesWould I recommend it to friends? Yes