From Publishers Weekly
Now playing: the second verse of Nelson's wildly popular debut (
Sexual Healing), with Marvin Gaye again providing the thematic backup for the over-the-top sexual shenanigans and ribald politics embraced by the proprietors of A Sister's Spa. This time out, Yale-educated lawyer LaShaWanda P. Marshall, and fellow spa founders Lydia Beaucoup and Acey Allen recreate their successful unorthodox Reno, Nev., spa on a boat moored off Martha's Vineyard. As Wanda puts it: œWe were offering women multiorgasmic sex without the complications or mating, dating, or a relationship, and they were hungry for it, In Martha's Vineyard, the crew appeals to the established black community to open its arms to the new business while battling a mobster trying to shake them down, a racist madman in their midst and a president who aims to outlaw anything but sex-for-procreation with a bill called œNo Child, No Behind. It's a dopey mix of overbroad sexual and racial politics, but the sisters still manage to sizzle—and elicit smiles with their insatiable appetites for love, social justice and the sex trade.
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Review
“As a social commentator, [Nelson’s] pretty fearless. She also knows how to construct a compelling narrative. Happily, she scraps neither of these talents as a novelist.” (New York Times Book Review )
“Sexual Healing is a wild, sexy ride...a fearless look at what women want, and a fresh take on how they can get it ...You’ll emerge refreshed and invigorated, in body, mind, and soul.” (--E. Lynn Harris, A Love of My Own and Any Way the Wind Blows )
“Sister Jill isn’t just a foot soldier in what passes for war between the sexes. She’s our commander-in-chief and follow we must.” (--Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day and I Wish I Had A Red Dress --Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day and I Wish I Had A Red Dress --Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day and I Wish I Had A Red )
“A hot summer read from the sizzling social commentator and author of Volunteer Slavery and Sexual Healing.” (Ebony )
“Let’s Get It On is imbued with a complex narrative that involves the mob and politics. . . . In terms of life about the yacht, let’s just say Nelson spins a super sexy yarn just in time for summer.” (AOL Black Voices )
“With its sex-positive message and unapologetic emphasis on female enjoyment, Nelson’s latest makes for a zingy beach read.” (Kirkus Reviews )
“The sisters still manage to sizzle—and elicit smiles with their insatiable appetites for love, social justice and the sex trade.” (Publishers Weekly )
“Jill Nelson tells it like it is. . . . And while the novel lives up to its name, at its core this is the story of friends having one another’s backs.” (Essence )
