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5.0 out of 5 stars
Must-Read Guide for Kissers, March 4, 2010
Seal it with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss by Violet Blue (Cleis Press, 2010, $12.95) is the ultimate guide to kissing, whether you're a shy beginner or experienced make-out vixen. Blue's tone in this book is conversational, like good girl talk. She orients her lessons toward women to want to make out with guys, but there isn't a person alive who couldn't benefit from some of the tips in this book.
The quiz in the early chapters will sort you into one of four kissing personalities: Sweet Lips, Power Puss (which happens to be the category this reviewer falls into), Hot Lips, or Pure Delicious Poison. Whatever your kissing style, Blue walks you through how to make that first kiss happen (and how to deal with any and all awkward situations that might arise therefrom), how to make it memorable, and even how to get your lips ready for the perfect kiss ahead of time.
The last chapters in this book are for more advanced students of the kiss. They include tricks on how to use all your senses to enhance that kiss experience, from the perfect make-out music and movies to treats you can eat to make your pucker irresistible. For the ultimate kissing fun, try some of the kissing games she suggests...either at parties (as is the great teen tradition) or one-on-one with your sweetie.
The kissing games and some of these techniques occasionally tend toward the risque, but overall this book is fairly appropriate for ages thirteen and up. It's about kissing, not sex. A cool mom or aunt would get this book for her teenage daughter or niece. In fact, teens (especially boys) would do well to at least flip through it before making their way out into the world of making out.
Violet Blue should know what she's talking about: she's a nationally recognized sexpert. A popular columnist of the San Francisco chronicle and frequent lecturer at UC Berkeley and UCSF, she also writes the blog [..] . She writes about the intersection of human sexuality and technology...though rest assured the tips in Seal it with a Kiss are all low-tech and gadget-free.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A "How To" Kiss, February 11, 2010
Blue, Violet. "Seal It With A Kiss: Tips, tricks and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss", Cleis Press, 2009.
A "How To" Kiss
Amos Lassen
Kissing is so important and it can mean so many different things. I am sure that all of us can use a little improvement in our kissing techniques and Violet Blue aims to teach us what we need to know. She has written this great little book to do just that. We learn that timing is everything and that it has to do a lot with delivering a good kiss. Of course there are other things to consider as well--body language, knowing when someone wants a kiss, avoiding hickeys and razor burn and other misfortunes--who knew kissing could be so complicated?
The book is wonderfully entertaining just as kissing is. It is also informative and enlightening. Blue writes with an exceptionally readable style and I am sure that it is because you knows how to employ wit in her writing.
I doubt that many of us ever think about kissing techniques but after reading this I believe you may very well begin doing so. Blue gives us the real scoop on kissing and if you miss out on it, you have only yourself to blame.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
a playful little book for the diva in all of us, February 1, 2010
I'm not real big on self-help books. Not that there aren't portions of me that don't need improving - there are lots of those; more than I care to dwell on, to be frank - but when I pick up a book, I'm usually looking to be entertained a bit. And reading about how to fix what's wrong with me is not exactly my idea of a good time. But when I saw Violet Blue's Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss, I knew that I'd found the exception to my rule. Truly, how can you get any more fun than a book on kissing? Here's a little book that sure to appeal to the diva in all of us. After reading this delightful little book, you'll want to grab your significant other and do a little practicing of your own. Because practice does make perfect, you know.
Seal It with a Kiss is playful, fun, informative and entertaining at the same time. This book offers dos and don'ts, exercises and enlightenment, and instructions on lead up and follow-through of a huge variety of kisses. What kind of kisser are you? What do you do when he's a kissing dud - is he worth rehabilitating, or should you just toss him back into the sea with the other fishes? Ms. Blue answers these questions and explains how to perfect your pucker as well as proper care for your oh-so-smoochable lips. She offers advice on how to avoid stubble burn (yowch) if your guy's the bristly sort, how to tailor your kissing technique to the personality of your quarry, and how to first capture his interest and then reel him in with your fabulous kissing skills.
Ms. Blue writes with a friendly, almost confiding tone, as if to say "listen up, girlfriend, and I'll show you how it's done right." And while she comes across as an authority of the subject, she never talks down to her audience. The tone is not "oh you poor loser, let me help you get it right," it is "girl, get your bad self and killer kisses out there and knock `em dead!"
I found myself grinning constantly as I read this book. In addition, as well as it being a source for humorous and engaging advice, I believe this title could prove to be a valuable addition to the bookshelves of romance authors. It might help those who wish to add a little additional fun and realism to those fictional smooches.
Until I read Seal It with a Kiss, I never thought much about kissing technique. Just pucker up, baby, and go for it, I thought. But now I find myself eager to experiment on my unsuspecting husband. And I wonder...should I sneak up on him with a Mack Attack? Charm him with Angel Kisses? Become the ultimate Snuggle Bunny? Is this going to scare the hell out of him after so many years of marriage? Probably so! But I'm starting to think that perhaps under this forty-something, frequently overworked and tired exterior there may lie a maven of mack waiting to emerge. Poor man will never know what hit him.
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