She's had a crush on him throughout college, so she decides to have an affair with him for the summer before she leaves for graduate school. program and he's running the lab that she works in as an undergrad. She’s a student who’s leaving to go into a medical Ph.D. This is the first time I’ve ever read a heroine who couldn’t orgasm vaginally and it’s not a thing like, 'Oh, there will eventually be a magic penis that will cure her of this affliction.' The hero is like, 'That’s totally fine, we’ll do whatever we need to do to make sure that you come.' The sex is so hot but the story’s also really beautiful. Every single sex expert should write a romance novel, because the sex in this book is bananas good and also so honest. Emily Foster is the pen name of Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., a sex expert who also wrote a book called Come as You Areabout women’s sexuality and how women can have sex for pleasure. ' How Not to Fall tells the story of a summer love that happens to become a year-round love. There’s a massive taboo to it too in the sense that there’s something just deliciously wrong about it, even as it's totally right.'īUY NOW 3. He's always had a little bit of a thing for her but she’s never thought of him in any way other than as her stepson’s best friend. The heroine goes there intending to have an affair with this silver fox, but ends up with her stepson’s best friend. She has another really fabulous widow best friend, who has taken a ton of lovers and has access to a pleasure club. He dies and leaves her a widow, and at the same time, a dear friend of hers dies, so the heroine decides she needs to have the adventures she’s always dreamed about. She cared about him but it wasn’t the perfect marriage. She’s a young, stunningly beautiful woman - think Gloria from Modern Family - who married an older man for money and for security. We really don’t see that often in any romance at all and we could see a lot more of them. 'This book turns the whole historical romance trope on its head - it’s an older-woman, younger-man romance.

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