Finally, a writer has come up with an anti-Christian Grey as the hero in a new romance novel, "San Francisco Summer '69 ". His name is Austen and he is loving, exhuberant, curious, smart, very sexy and--oh, did I mention, the lyricist and guitar player for a rock 'n' roll band. And I'll bet you dollars to donuts that Austen never flogged, beat or punished his girlfriends; that kind of behavior is so 2011. He has always been too busy doing something else with them.
While Austen is the hero of "San Francisco Summer '69 ", the story is told through the eyes of Julia, a young woman who has moved to San Francisco from Seattle and has other things on her mind than the blue-eyed rock musician. Things like finding a place to live and getting a job--which she does at a start-up alternative weekly newspaper. It doesn't take him long, however, to come up with a clever way to lure her to his bed.
Then there is sex. By Chapter 8 things are getting steamy. By Chapter 9 it will melt your socks off again and again.
True confession: normally I read spy novels, not romance novels, but this one was worth reading, especially as an antidote to everything Grey these days. I mean really, Oprah is doing an expose of BDSM??!! Talk about proof that the Grey frenzy is dead!
You can find San Francisco Summer '69 By Annie Carroll on Kindle. It's fun!
