I haven't read Safe Word yet. I have read Carrie's Story. It was interesting. I'm not 100% sure if I plan to read the sequel.

So I'm asking all of you who have read it...Is it worth continuing the story? Did you like it more, less, the same? How so? less

I haven't read Safe Word yet. I have read Carrie's Story. It was interesting. I'm not 100% sure if I plan to read the sequel.

So I'm asking all of you who have read it...Is it worth continuing the story? Did you like it more, less, the same? How so? less

Since we discussing a sequel, here's Molly's take on that. (Molly gave me all these quotes ahead of time, so I don;t have to do much at all.)


On Sequels and Series: When I finished Carrie's Story, I was sure it was a total fluke. I'll never write another one, I remember proclaiming. And then, quite suddenly, there was Safe Word, my favorite of all my novels, like a child you despair of conceiving and then miraculously find yourself pregnant with.

Sequels and series are, of course, almost obligatory in my other genre, romance fiction, though there, perversely, I've never been able to pull one off. But with Carrie it was easy. I'd gotten her into such a mess of trouble in the first book, I figured I needed to get her out again. And then I found myself genuinely curious about the other characters I'd dreamed up. Jonathan was pretty much a mystery man in Carrie's Story; in Safe Word it was great to hear him speak from the depths of his moody, control freak self. And of course there's Kate, the other, older, woman; I love that she wins out by being true to herself even if it means risking losing Jonathan. less

Sadly I don't think that I will be able to make it to this meeting either. Sunday night/Monday morning, my husband had to rush me to the ER with chest pains and difficulty breathing. It was not a heart attack. It is something called pericarditis. Basically, the muscle tissue thingy around my heart was damaged or infected in some way causing it to become inflamed (swollen) and that's what caused the pain and the difficulty breathing.

Pericarditis can vary from mild to fatal. Fortunately, mine seems to be fairly mild, and although I'm still in a bit of pain and can't breathe as easily as I should, they think that it will probably go away on its own in a few weeks.

It is possible that fluid will build up in my pericardium, and it will have to be drained. Or my pericardium could get tighter and tighter making it harder and harder for my heart to beat and they would have to surgically remove my pericardium. But neither of those possibilities are very likely according to the ER docs.

Anyway, because of that and my usual sleep schedule issues, I probably won't be awake for the meeting. Hopefully, I will be able to make the next one. less

I liked Safe Word more, only because I was fascinated by Jonathan and Carrie's relationship and I wanted more of them together. Of course, at the end of Carrie's Story, they're split up, and most of Carrie's Story is about him getting ready to pawn her off on someone else at the auction, lol.

But Safe Word really uncovers all these amazing new layers to their relationship. I was like a junkie reading it. I got all that new insight into Jonathan, which I loved. less

Hi Liz. Forgive me for multitasking. I've got a little presentation to put together for work this evening, but the NRBC is soooo much more fun. I've got an eye on both. Now that I'm here, my spirit has picked up. Nothing like thinking about erotica while writing boring copy... less

I liked Safe Word more, only because I was fascinated by Jonathan and Carrie's relationship and I wanted more of them together. Of course, at the end of Carrie's Story, they're split up, and most of Carrie's Story is about him getting ready to pawn her off on someone else at the auction, lol.

But Safe Word really uncovers all these amazing new layers to their relationship. I was like a junkie reading it. I got all that new insight into Jonathan, which I loved. less

Since we discussing a sequel, here's Molly's take on that. (Molly gave me all these quotes ahead of time, so I don;t have to do much at all.)


On Sequels and Series: When I finished Carrie's Story, I was sure it was a total fluke. I'll never write another one, I remember proclaiming. And then, quite suddenly, there was Safe Word, my favorite of all my novels, like a child you despair of conceiving and then miraculously find yourself pregnant with.

Sequels and series are, of course, almost obligatory in my other genre, romance fiction, though there, perversely, I've never been able to pull one off. But with Carrie it was easy. I'd gotten her into such a mess of trouble in the first book, I figured I needed to get her out again. And then I found myself genuinely curious about the other characters I'd dreamed up. Jonathan was pretty much a mystery man in Carrie's Story; in Safe Word it was great to hear him speak from the depths of his moody, control freak self. And of course there's Kate, the other, older, woman; I love that she wins out by being true to herself even if it means risking losing Jonathan. less

I have to admit that after a certain point I was rooting for Carrie to run off with Annie, the horse trainer, and I was a bit disappointed when she didn't. (I guess that's a spoiler of sorts, but we can't very well say much about the book without giving things away, so we might as well throw caution to the winds.) less