Title: Wallbanger
Author: Alice Clayton
Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a KitchenAid mixer, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.
Adding insult to O-less, since her move, she has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Each moan, spank, and–was that a meow?–punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has, yep, you guessed it, no O.
Enter Simon Parker. (No, really, Simon, please enter.) When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has, well, mixed results. Ahem. With walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick…
In her third novel, Alice Clayton returns to dish her trademark mix of silly and steamy. Banter, barbs, and strutting pussycats, plus the sexiest apple pie ever made, are dunked in a hot tub and set against the gorgeous San Francisco skyline in this hot and hilarious tale of exasperation at first sight.
2 1/2 HEARTS!
Plot: 35 points
Great plot for the most part, but pretty darn cheesy all the way through! The very, very end was a way too cheesy for me in fact, but the rest was pretty good. A lot of sexual references and jokes, most of which I could have done without (although I got used to them eventually), and the cat had some pretty unrealistic behaviors, but for the most part, the plot was good! I think it was the overall story that I liked the best, and the relationship built between Simon and Caroline.
Characters: 10 points
Very funny main characters and supporting characters for sure. Tall, dark and handsome Simon sounds gorgeous! I wouldn’t mind having him as a neighbor! LOL. Sometimes I got annoyed with the friends, and I got confused when the friends got into relationships together (like, “Who is with who? I’m confused…”), so that was a downer. But just like the plot, in the grand scheme of things, I liked the characters and the book.
Names of characters: 4 points
I think Caroline is a really pretty name (and VERY pretty coming out of Simon’s mouth), Simon is a *meh* name (nothing great, but not not-great, and I definitely prefer ‘Parker’), and everyone else’s name was fine. Nobody’s name was God awful, so I’ll give it 4 points!
Writing/Depth: 25 points
I think the writing and depth was just OK. I’m giving it 20 points because I liked the book and I really liked the parts with the text messages for some reason. It was more of a silly book (keep that in mind if you want to read it) so there wasn’t really anything that needed emotional depth until close to the end. I could definitely feel Caroline’s frustration though! Which she seemed to have a lot of…
TOTAL: 74 POINTS
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