Naughty or Nice
Series: Naughty or Nice, Book 1
By: Eric Jerome Dickey / Narrated By: Full Cast
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
A tiny bit of Kwanzaa, even more Christmas, and a whole HELLUVA lot of rolling in the hay!!!
Just to reiterate: It turns out I’m a total prude. How else can I explain loving Regency Romances where only a chaste, if a tad passionate, kiss is offered?
So I was looking for a book that was a story as lived in the time of Kwanzaa, and Naughty or Nice turned up. It has three sisters navigating times of total stress: Olivia is separated from her husband as they wait for the results of a paternity suit, Frankie is looking for the right man via online dating posts but is getting from bad to worse specimens, and Tommie is a strong yet somewhat broken woman doing her best for her job, her sisters, and maybe somewhere along the way, even for herself. All of this during the holidays, and it turns out Tommie will celebrate Kwanzaa even as the rest will celebrate Christmas.
But mostly what they celebrate is so extraordinarily carnal that my ears blistered. I enjoyed the book, enjoyed the humor of the sisters (after all, I have my own sister and had some pretty hilarious roommates and friends during college when things just kinda sorta all hang out), but I could’ve used less of the near constant “pornographic noises” they made during practically every chapter (shoulda thunk about it a bit more when Audible’s rating of it was: Hot Damn! but I’m desperate to bring my fellow Accomplices audiobooks for all the holidays…).
The sisters’ stories were what kept me going and what had me liking the book when all was said and done. I wanted to know if Olivia was ever going to stop her adultery and make things work with her husband Tony (whom I liked, but I still don’t know that he can be trusted). I wanted to know if Frankie would ever find somebody, or if she would lower her standards and date a really, really short and somewhat ugly guy. And I really wanted to see Tommie get beyond her painful and abusive past. Maybe she’d find love, for the first time in her life. ‘Cause through all that sex, Naughty or Nice turns out to be about love. And I dearly like that.
Expect a whole LOT of humor, some really tender scenes, plenty of sibling snapping, and yes, of course: the Almighty Roll in the Hay, over and over and over. (What was I expecting with Eric Jerome Dickey?). The full cast does a stellar job with the narration, and you feel as though you’re listening to each sister herself in person as they speak.
It’s just that you feel that you’re constantly, CONSTANTLY, watching and listening to that which is better done in private too (and by the way? in the audiobook, it’s not always done privately either).
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