Knockin' Boots: A Novel [Paperback]

Tracy Price-Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2005

Bestselling author Tracy Price-Thompson returns with another steamy novel, packed with wife swapping, down-low desires, racial self-hatred, and sexual swinging. . . .

Kevin Lawson has a secret. This hard-charging army sergeant is drawn to seedy sex dens, adult bookstores, and kinky encounters with multiple partners. To hide his cravings, Kevin uses his wife to solicit bedroom playmates and to indulge his ever-growing fantasies.

A preacher’s daughter, college graduate, and ex-stripper, “Freak Nasty” Fancy Lawson has done it all and loved every moment of it. But now Fancy must face the truth of her husband’s sexual addiction or risk losing the one constant in her ever-changing world.
Emile Pinchback is a dark-skinned brotha with issues, especially when it comes to his bootylicious, ghetto-fabulous nubian sistahs. He worships at the feet of the slender, blond-haired Becky Ann. But once he looks past her milky skin and into her heart, his racial stereotypes are blown wide open.

Sexy and full of Brooklyn spice, Sparkle Henderson loves on the black-hand side or not at all. Just a whiff of jungle fever can send her flying into a rage, but when she’s caught in a web of sexual trickery, she finds love in a strange place and is forced to reexamine her beliefs.

With a fresh look at love and lust in uniform, Tracy Price-Thompson’s sensual characters come alive in this erotically-charged page-turner of urban life.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Price-Thompson sets a colorful cast of characters on the road to explosive conflict in her sometimes racy, sometimes raunchy fourth novel. Heating up New Jersey's Fort Dix (and steaming up the book's pages) are sex-addicted army demolition instructor Kevin Lawson ("women passed out just from sniffing my vapors"); his wife, ex-stripper Fancy ("a preacher's daughter with a whore's body"); Fancy's best girl, Staff Sgt. Sparkle Henderson ("Men just loved me! Women hated me on sight"); and Emile Pinchback, a commander at the 12th Army NCO Academy, Kevin's foster brother and self-hating, gynophobic black man ("I wouldn't touch a black woman with a ten-foot pole"). The plot in a nutshell? Who's putting the zoom-zoom in whose boom-boom. Kevin consorts with hookers and makes Fancy do nasty things, which she loves and hates at the same time; Sparkle's on the lookout for a good man, but when she finds one she sends him packing; and Emile is just trying to love his skinny white girl, the barmaid Becky Ann. The relationships get screwed up, the sex gets dirtier and more violent and the specter of AIDS looms. Price-Thompson, herself a Desert Storm veteran, has spun an X-rated cautionary tale sure to appeal to Zane fans everywhere. (Oct.)
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From Booklist

Kevin Lawson and Emile Pinchback grew up in a foster home that was devoid of love and appropriate affection. As officers in the military, these brothers have learned to deal with their demons in self-destructive ways. Kevin is a sex addict who uses his wife to solicit playmates and conceal his obsession from his peers. The more she participates, the more pressure he applies to "keep his jones fed." Emile is a dark-skinned man whose self-loathing and sellout attitude disallow any intimacy with black women. He is committed to a white girlfriend for all the wrong reasons. Fancy is Kevin's wife and his accomplice in their seedy sex life. Although she loves her husband, Fancy no longer enjoys the pressure and situations required to satisfy her husband. Sparkle is Fancy's best friend and a sexually liberated woman. Serving under Kevin causes him to focus on Sparkle as a potential bedmate. As everyone's secrets are exposed, each character is ashamed, embarrassed, and forced to make some soul-searching changes. A good inside peek at sexuality in the military. Lillian Lewis
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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: One World/Ballantine (October 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345477235
• ISBN-13: 978-0345477231
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,881,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Turn Off the Lights! Turn 'Em Off!, October 25, 2005

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Yasmin Coleman (PENNSYLVANIA, USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Knockin' Boots: A Novel (Paperback)

Once again, fourth time novelist, Tracy Price-Thompson has drawn the reader into a captivating and compelling storyline with her latest novel, Knockin' Boots. Price-Thompson continues to demonstrate that she can creatively craft a story and write outside of the box no matter the plot/theme. In her latest release, she takes the reader on a wild and wicked sexcapade as she allows one to experience the wild-freaky side of sexual rendezvous via friends, lovers and spouses.

Set against a military backdrop (Fort Dix, NJ), Price-Thompson demonstrates that once the uniforms come off, the blinds are shut, the bedcovers are turned down, there is no telling who might be knockin' boots with whom. But as the old cliché goes `what is done in the dark will come to the light' and sometimes what is exposed might be embarrassing, explosive, deadly and unfortunately very addictive.

Knockin' Boots is a plot-driven storyline with colorful and memorable characters, edgy dialogue, and sometimes steamy and erotic but definitely raw and raunchy sex scenes. Disclaimer: If you do not like in your face booty call scenes then this might not be the book for you. Filled with taboo and sensitive subject matters, Knockin' Boots touches on any sexual escapade you can envision; if you can imagine it is probably included in the storyline. However, as is Price-Thompson's tradition, when you look beyond the surface, there is generally a social message present.

Despite her latest novel being fun, sexy, raw, edgy, and at times racy, she does not disappoint in leaving us a message to ponder long after the last page is read. If you are looking for a book with plenty of juicy sex scenes, but also a well-written storyline, then check out Knockin' Boots by Tracy Price-Thompson. It is definitely hot and guaranteed to make the most frigid reader warm.

I do not generally like to compare authors to other authors, and readily admit that Price-Thompson is a talented author with her own style who needs no comparison to others. However, I highly recommend Knockin' Boots to Zane fans and believe that after reading Price-Thompson's latest release these same readers will want to pick up her other books.

Reviewed by Yasmin
APOOO BookClub

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uhn...uhn...uhn, October 25, 2005

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Kola Boof (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knockin' Boots: A Novel (Paperback)

Hi everyone.

This is Kola Boof, author of "Flesh and the Devil" and a few other books. I'm also a PERSONAL FRAND of Miss Tracy Price Thompson.

Girlfriend did not tell me that this book was off the hook LIKE THIS!!!

Now peep this.

Tracy knows that I'm separated from my kids' father, not open to dating right now, and trying to make sure the boys's Father doesn't have his cake and eat it too----he visits the ranch every weekend to see the boys and sleeps in the guest room downstairs----tries to flirt and act MANLY and stuff, but I'm a totally in control woman, right?

No hanky panky, right?

Raise your sons and leave me alone right?

Well then after we came from church and had dinner, I figure---ok, I'll relax with a nice bubble bath and read Tracy's latest book (see what social issue she carefully talks about but PRETEND to be talking about Acupunctural Orgasms or something with her sly self---she sneaks stuff into your brain like that so you have to watch her paragraphs)....anyway....I'm reading KNOCK'N BOOTS. And wondering...why is this bathwater so hot?

My skin usually gets used to the temperature and I'm able to relax....but the more I read, the more I was sweating.

I swear...I had to get out that damned tub!

And I huffed and wondered-----WHY is this book so damned SEXY???

I kept thinking...OK, it's Tracy Price Thompson, you know she writes incredible love scenes, BUT...surely it's about to get back to a nice boring explaining the characters part or something and give me a Breather from the Steam.

But, no, no. That's why that Heffa called it "KNOCK'N BOOTS" and didn't even TRY to come up with a more pretentious title. She just said---come all YEE freaks and freaks IN dee-NILE.

And who would knock at my door talking about I forgot to bring him some blankets and pillows but the children's father.....then noticed Tracy's book on the bed and asked me, "What's that you're reading?" And then HE picked it up and started reading where I left off....Damn you Tracy!!!!!!

KNOCK'N BOOTS is.....

Passionate, smart, shocking, brazen, make SURE you take a bath before you walk into church on sunday HOT, EROTIC, Better than Sweet Potato pie.....good to the last drop......SEX.

Delirium.

And so, unfortunately....Tracy broke down my RULES....and the children's father benefitted (Oh, HE LOVES him some Tracy Price Thompson!!!!). Meanwhile--I'm mad at old girl for not warning me.

This is NOT "A Woman's Worth". This is tantillizingly delicious "button"-reading. Perfect for slow boring nights or rides on the train to work.

I hope this review makes you buy the book. It really is GOOD and you won't be disappointed. To be honest, although "A WOMAN'S WORTH" was more "literary"----I kinda like the characters in this book better. They are laugh out loud true to life and some of them are doing things we WISH we could do before we hit pass 40.

But within reach. And that's what I love about Tracy's writing. She's so real.

I love her writing style.

Make sure you treat yourself to this (**And get your man a copy).

KOLA

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lessons Learned, February 9, 2006

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LOCKSIE "ARC Book Club Inc" (Mt. Vernon, N.Y./Coram, N.Y.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knockin' Boots: A Novel (Paperback)

The Military is the background for this tale of sexual addiction and self - hatred. Kevin and Emile are best friends and foster brothers who were sexually abused by their foster mother Dirty Sue. Both are now grown men serving in the military, Kevin a top demolition instructor and Emile a commander, neither would have thought that the severe abuse put on them by Dirty Sue would lead them both down the path of self destruction.

Kevin is married to Fancy Lawson. To the outside world Kevin is a hard working loving husband and Fancy is the one they see out shopping for sex all over town, so they believe she's cheating on him. What people don't know is that Kevin is a abusive heartless man with a serious sexual addiction, he will do anything to get his sexual fix, even send his wife out to solicit partners to play out his perverted sexual fantasies.

Sparkle is Fancy's best friend, sassy and sexy she thinks she's all that and a bag of chips. Sparkle has major issues with black men who date outside their race and would never date a white man or would she?....

Emile worships the ground his white girlfriend Becky Ann walks on. He has no respect for black women and says "too many trifling and confused black women running loose and I can do fine without them". He treats Becky Ann like a queen, but his attitude towards black women doesn't sit well with her and causes big problems...

Tracy Price-Thompson has bought two excellent issues to the table and we are reminded that sexual addiction and self-hatred are serious problems that can lead to HIV and alcoholism and will ultimately bring you down along with your friends and family.
I enjoyed this book and would recommend it.

Locksie
ARC Book Club Inc.

Star Rating *****5.0