WALLBANGER by Alice Clayton

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I've been waffling between three and four stars since I read the book. I've settled on four just because it made me laugh so hard. To the point that I was crying and my stomach hurt.

I will go over the reasons that I was almost going to give it a three and then why I gave it a four.

I felt like some of the characters were dropped. I didn't get a real sense of his friends and his relationship with James, even though he explained it. There was not conversation between the two where you could understand what Jame really meant to Simon. No trying to figure out his feelings for Caroline, etc. Simon's friends Neil and Ryan also seemed to be there just to facilitate the potential relationship with Caroline.

The end of the story seemed to go on a little too long. I get that she wanted to show how good their sex was after Caroline finds the O, but it went on a little too long. I think I would have preferred to know how their friends reacted to them as a couple, which I think she tried to show with the dinner party. Instead it seemed like it was more about how Caroline felt being a couple with her friends around and also as couples.

Caroline has more patience than I. I would have been over to Simon's door on the first night flipping out about and asking if that was going to be a pattern. If not the first night, then at least the second.

Caroline and relationship with Mimi and Sophia was better executed, and cutely with the texts. They had Sunday brunches, where they discussed the things that happened through the week. It was cute how the did the roundtable of what was going on with them.

While Caroline and Simon are establishing their truce, I found their interactions hysterical. I would laugh so hard I would just double over and couldn't stop. Their argument at Jillian (her boss) and James' house was hysterical, when they first discover each other. I love that he called her Pink Nightie Girl, but I think i would have loved it more if we, as the reader, knew what he had told his friends. That part was kinda glossed over. I mean, everyone's eyes seemed to get big and they were surprised that she was Pink Nightie Girls. I wanted to know why it was such a big thing. What did he say about her that would have caused them all to know about her?

I think my favorite time with Simon and Caroline was when they were watching The Exorcist. That was priceless. Her with the afghan over her head and watching the movie through the holes while sitting in his lap... Priceless. My stomach hurts just thinking about it, I laughed so hard.

Really funny moments, really sexy moments of them dancing around each other, and really sweet time in Spain, until the O doesn't happen. We all knew she was putting too much pressure on herself. I think they should have had a true moment to discuss it. But I like that Simon wasn't so insecure that he took it as a grade his performance and he let her get some distance before coming home (early I might add, which was sweet) in order to discuss it with her and tell her he loved her no matter what. Just sweet.

So, I gave the book 4 stars even though there were some minor things I didn't like, but it made me laugh really hard and that was work the extra star.

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