Review: Sexytimes for the Shakespeare Lover
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
I'm a total sucker for anything based on Much Ado About Nothing, and Reisz does not disappoint.Ben shot Beatriz down when he was a senior in college and she was a freshman. She doesn't know why. He hasn't been able to forget her.Now they're both attendants at the wedding of their friends Claudia and Henry, and Ben can really help Bea out with her job: reviewing sex toys/books for her online blog. What better way to see if the mutual attraction they both still feel might lead to something more?This is a novella, more or less, and it never ceases to amaze me how much Reisz can get so much into such a small word count. Misbehaving is full of her signature humor and features another heroine who is relentlessly fearless with her own sexuality. Also make no mistake, hay muchos sexytimes in this novella (a bit of mangled Spanish for the heroine--I can do better. Promise. It's just sexytimes doesn't totally translate to Spanish.)Fan of Much Ado? You'll find plenty of nice twists on Shakespeare's original, my favorite being Keaton which is sort of a double allusion. (In related news, any time I can mention a "double allusion" in a hot novella, I say that's a win.) Still, if you like your stories tamer, you might want to look to Shakespeare's original because this one is hot.