Review: Push Me Pull Me by Amanda Rhodes

Title: Push Me Pull Me

Author: Amanda Rhodes

Length: 72 Pages

Category: Contemporary, F/F Romance

At a Glance: Push Me Pull Me is not a bad quick-read with decent sex scenes. However, if you’re looking for an all-out romance, it’s probably not the greatest option.

Reviewed By: Courtney Ellen

Blurb: At twenty-four, Mallory Grant is still struggling with adulthood. She can’t seem to make it in to work on time and deals better with her Tumblr friend on the other side of the world than a face-to-face with a real live human. But when her boss threatens to fire her as a rental agent, Mallory has to buckle down with her new client or end up jobless.

Corinne Ibori is moving to the Chicago area and needs a place to call home. Mallory’s goal is to find just the right location for Corinne’s needs and show her boss she’s turned over a new leaf. Corinne is thirty-five, self-confident, beautiful, flirty, has a French accent, and knows what she wants.

Mallory is finding it hard to believe that what Corrine wants might be her.

Review: At 20,000 words this isn’t a bad novelette to pick up but having an awareness of what it is and isn’t can help prevent you from getting angry or disappointed. At 20,000 words there’s limited character and plot development; there’s some time spent on getting to know Mallory—she’s not the world’s best employee and has elements of daydreaming. Oh! Almost forgot, she has a Tumblr. She’s twenty-four, but that doesn’t provide enough of an excuse to dampen my own middle-aged person rage at a character’s sense of entitlement and poor work ethic. However, this rage is only there for the first 2,000 or so words.

The reader really doesn’t get to know Corinne, and as a ‘mysterious, in-tune with her sexuality’ type character, there’s a lot missing with the reading, only having Mallory’s very limited perspective. However, as a character, I’d like to know a lot more about her, but there’s not too much resolution in that area.

What the novelette is, though, is sex, pretty good sex. Lots of sex. Decent sex, realistic sex. Wait, not realistic in terms of how it happens, but realistic in that you have a character who has some doubts and insecurities as well as questions about what is going on with someone who has more sexual experience and is leading her into situations. I also had a moment of glee in reading a sex scene that ends with the narrator acknowledging that she was out of shape, was getting a cramp, and it’s hard to hold oneself in a certain position for a long period of time. There’s more character development and self-reflection in the protagonist when it comes to sex than in any other portion of the story; as a result, it’s not a bad quick-read with decent sex scenes. However, if you’re looking for an all-out romance, it’s probably not the greatest option.

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