Slow Dancing [Paperback]

Joan Elizabeth Lloyd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997

Maggie O'Malley is a flamboyant, warm-hearted professional escort with a large clientele of male admirers, but she has never had success in friendships with women. Barbara Collins is a sexually repressed thirty-something just released into the world after the death of her invalid mother. Barbara has never had a love affair with a man. The novel begins when Maggie goes to bed with chest pains. She awakens in the "Decision Room" where she meets Angela and Lucy, representatives of heaven and hell. Because these arbitrators cannot agree on the eternal future of the good-hearted call girl, they send Maggie back to Earth with an unusual assignment: to introduce Barbara to the joys of loving. Maggie's fate will hinge on the success of her mission. The story revolves around the relationship that develops between the two women and what they teach each other about love, friendship and sex. Through a series of lascivious lessons and misadventures, Barbara masters the pleasures of the erotic and eventually becomes romantically involved with a wonderful man with whom she shares deliciously sinful, yet wonderful sex. Since Maggie's mission didn't turn exactly the way either Angela or Lucy had anticipated, the two supernatural agents agree that Maggie will be sent out on more assignments...Slow Dancing will delight both the readers of Joan Elizabeth Lloyd's previous books and lovers of light erotic reading.

Product Details

• Paperback: 214 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786704365
• ISBN-13: 978-0786704361
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,220,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars OOOOHHHH BABY!!!!! I highly recommend it., February 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Slow Dancing (Paperback)

I say 4 out of 5 stars. It is a well-rounded book in that it has the draws people want. Sex, voyerism, revenge, violence and yes, intrigue. The sex - descriptive, informative and adult written. The voyerism - a license for and us to walk on the wild side with the main character and to do things we never would have done in our real worlds. The revenge - I believe will please your sense of justice for the inner child in all of us. The violence - probably not the type you think but still there. The intrigue - how will the story progress? Will the character cross those boundries that we want to cross all the time but don't. Will you regret finding that you have reached the last page like I did? I believe so. Now you ask "If this is how this critic felt about 'Slow Dancing' then why not rate it a 5? I am a hard sell and it did have a drawback for me - it softened the line between good and evil. A line in this case that I believe should not have been softened but then maybe you should decide for yourselves.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As the author, I know you'll have fun with Maggie & Barbara, June 14, 1998

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Joan Elizabeth Lloyd ([e-mail]) (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slow Dancing (Paperback)

I'm the author of Slow Dancing and I've received hundred of letters from men and women alike who've fallen in love with Maggie, the 'entertainer' who, as an angel (?) returns to guide Barbara through a world of sensuality. Throughout the journey both Barbara and Maggie learn the meaning of true relationships - and great sex.

4.0 out of 5 stars WOW as a male reader WOW, July 18, 2004

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Sloppy-Joe (Pahrump NV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slow Dancing (Hardcover)

This novel was very erotic and also heartwarming in a way without giving the entire book away, I found myself really careing about the charecters and hoping for the happy ending, well there is a twist at the end that was beautifully written, If your into romance, erotica or an entertaioning read this is the book for you. I rated it 4 stars as some of the scenes were repeated from previous novels.