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Meva Aslan mevaslan — Heroine lets people walk all over her. I wanted more to the plot. STORY BRIEF: Izzy writes articles for her father’s travel magazine. Her hobby is playing tournament poker. She flies to Las Vegas to write about hotels and poker. Nick is famous for winning the poker championship three times. Izzy has had a crush on him for a while. When she meets him she falls on the floor, splits her skirt and loses her temporary front tooth. She’s embarrassed. He’s curious. Their paths keep crossing. He asks her out, but she won’t accept because she doesn’t want to be another notch on his belt. He is known for dating models and Barbie-doll types in quantity. He offers to help her with poker playing. She accepts and they spend time together. A romantic relationship is developing. There are a lot of card playing details in the book. Side stories include: After Izzy’s mother died her father married Jennifer, a Barbie-doll type. Jennifer insults Izzy and others throughout the book. Izzy’s former boyfriend also insults Izzy. REVIEWER’S OPINION: Parts of the story were pretty good, but other parts were drawn out and not interesting. I was annoyed with the following. Izzy was stupid to make two side bets with Phil. Because Phil cheated (which Izzy should have expected) she lost both bets, forcing her to do stupid things. One was that Phil would tell people they slept together and she had to say it was true and keep up the lie for 24 hours. Of course the reader knows Phil will use that comment during the poker tournament to unsettle Nick at the worst time. Another uninteresting conflict was Nick and Izzy arguing over who could last longer without sex. So they have no sex for a while, and both are frustrated. That took several pages. There were a lot of sex scenes, some in front of other people. Sex scenes were ok, but I didn’t feel anything. In the beginning and for a good part of the story, Izzy is frequently insulted and accepts it. She lets everyone walk all over her. For example: she’s cooking with her mother’s recipes. Jennifer walks in and adds undesirable spices. Izzy says nothing. The bartender repeatedly gives her different drinks than what she asks for. She accepts the drinks and tips him. She doesn’t send them back. Am I supposed to feel sorry for her? I didn’t. Was I chuckling over this? No. Poker players might enjoy the story more than I did. There are a lot of poker terms that didn’t mean anything to me. It’s told in first person with point of view changes. The author did a few chapters in Izzy’s mind and then a few in Nick’s mind. When she switched to Nick’s mind, I was frequently confused. It was hard to remember that “I” was him not her. I usually like POV changes because I want to know what’s going on in others’ minds. But somehow this didn’t flow well. DATA: Story length: 415 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 13. Estimated number of sex scene pages: 29. Setting: current day mostly Pittsburgh and Las Vegas. Copyright: 2010. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.

Oscar Mclaren _itted_reations — Jeffrey Eugenides is an amazing author. He is disturbed, somewhat perverted, and always trying to shock the reader, but his writing is really great. The voice in this book was really unique, and as always with Eugenides (at least with the two books I've read), the details are explained in almost painful reality, and the story is weird but thought-provoking and memorable.