"amiable romantic romp"

In San Francisco Macy Thomaston competes with Griffin Reed for the position of creative director at Bronson and Wade the ad agency they both work at though he has seniority and greater experience than her. Her friend Lauren Parish quoting an article in the Journal of American Medicine informs Macy of a research study that proves sexual pleasure reduces an individuals IQ temporarily so she concocts a scheme to insure her rival loses brain power and makes dumb errors.

She sets her plan in motion to seduce Griffin while expecting not to enjoy any sensual pleasure so that she lucidly thinks about her actions while he fuddle-brained screws up on his counter maneuvers. The only flaw in her plot is that when she blows his head, she leaves herself senseless too.

THE SEX QUOTIENT is an amiable romantic romp that will provide plenty of amusing fun for readers sort of mindful of a heated version of a hotter Hudson-Day tale. The solid secondary cast keeps the tale from going to light as they bring some zaniness but mostly help anchor the shenanigans of the lead female protagonist. Still it is Macy's sexual escapades that make Jamie Sobrato's contemporary a pleasant blithe read.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 24, 2006