Stacy temple has gone without a man in her life since she broke up with Brian. It seemed to be going very well for her until she read an article about women who have gone a year or more without sex are considered to be Revirginized. With only a week left to go before her dreaded one year anniversary Stacy starts her frantic search for a new man. This super funny romantic comedy was hard to put down and ended much to soon. ( )

Very smutty, quick read. Predictible and sort of sad. This woman looking for sex.
5/26/03 ( )

Stacy has gone almost a year without sex and is thus staring at the threshold to "re-virginization". What ensues is her quest to have sex and avoid this accidental state. Humour isn't that funny, the story itself is already dated and the plot gets more outlandish with every page. Not recommended. ( )

funny and fluffy!! ( )

Ugh. There were only a few chapters toward the end that were cute and fun. The rest was degrading. As another reader put it: "The woman is running around like crazy willing to bring ANYONE to bed in order to not revirginize herself." Plus there's all sorts of sexual harassment (primarily her employers at a web-based lingerie business implying her job depends on pleasing a pornographer), the glorifying of said pornography, and even casual, callous treatment of drunk driving when Stacy mentions her parents' annual visit to the city from which they drive back having had too much to drink. It's as though Sam from Sex and the City behaved the way she did but didn't enjoy sex at all. Not cool.

Some of the writing is cute though, like using the same few lines to describe the character periodically (what was it -- red of hair and pink of cheek? Something like that...)

And the one plot element I liked was the attempts at meeting up with her neighbour but with timing issues, having them leave notes for each other instead.

The blurb on the cover is from the Ottawa Citizen -- neat to see my daily featured but sorta implies that the New York Times, Chicago Tribune et. al. didn't have anything equally positive to say about this book. ( )