‘Kissing the Rain’ by Larkin Rose
Author: Pamela Bigelow
June 21, 2011
This is Larkin Rose’s fifth novel. In this outing, she introduces the reader to fashion designer Eve Harris, a driven workaholic at the top of the fashion ladder with no time for dating and romance. She gets physical relief using a British phone sex operator named Lexi.
Also introduced is Jodi Connelly, a very successful paid escort who was once a phone sex operator but has pared her phone sex client list down to a special three, one of whom is Eve.
Both women are obsessed with the other without ever having met in person, and neither has any interest in meeting in person because they are certain they will be disappointed with reality. The chances of meeting are slim to none because Eve lives in New York City and Jody lives in London. Little do they know that they will, indeed, meet. Neither could possibly foretell the cataclysmic effects their meeting will have on their carefully controlled lives.
Rose has written a book that no reader will be able to easily put down. This is a tightly woven story so well written that there’s not a single misstep. From start to finish, the story moves quickly forward. In the hands of a lesser writer, this story could very well have become trite. Larkin’s sure hand makes this a compelling story of two women looking for the same thing.
There is one caveat, though. The intimate meetings between Eve and Jody are explicit. If you prefer the details of sexual meetings to be hinted at rather than drawn in vivid detail, this is not the book for you.
Kissing the Rain
by Larkin Rose
Bold Strokes Books
Paperback, 9781602822115, 192 pp.
March 2011
