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If I Were You by Lisa Renee Jones- Book Review

You may know from my last post about this , but after I finished   Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker I found myself without anything to read, waiting for Fifty Shades Freed  in line behind a few others who also had it on hold from the library.  I wrote my review and found myself on Twitter seeing what people are saying about #50Shades. The first post I saw was a post by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author  @LisaReneeJones , saying that her book If I Were You was currently in development for a cable TV show and it was "What to read after #50Shades"... That got me interested.  I went to her facebook account where I found the above image with the tagline that follows: Get a copy of "If I Were You" today! In Development to be a cable TV show!  #50Shades  meets  #PrettyLittleLiars  Here's a SEXY teaser to get your imagination flowing. PLEASE SHARE!:)  Amazon link  http://amzn.to/1ne2wfI  NOOK...

The 50 Shade of Grey Frinzy

The Essence of the Fifty Shades Trilogy & Why Women Love It.                  I recently read the first two books in the Fifty Shades of Grey  Trilogy (have the third one on hold), and it was easy to see what the big fuss was about when it comes to these books.  Some people think its the crazy hot sex scenes, but come on now, we can seriously read/ watch/ imagine/ see that in lots of other places too and masses of women aren't swooning to that stuff.  Personally, I found the writing of the sex scenes annoying, referring to her womanhood (trying to keep this at least PG lol) as "her sex" just totally irked me for some reason and put me off of those scenes completely.      What I think the underlying draw to this story really is, is that it hits on so many women's primal desire to "fix" broken men. Well that and to find a man who is an actual man... not a wimp who has no idea what he's doing in l...