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The Bearskin Rug by Jennifer Stevenson

Early on, protagonist Jewel Heiss fondly looks back on a relationship she’d had at seventeen with the family’s septuagenarian lawyer. He said to her, The world runs on sex. There’s no life without sex. Make sure you have fun at it.

If you can read that and smile, the chances are pretty good you will enjoy this book. Jennifer Stevenson, whose first book, trash sex magic, garnered critical acclaim, appears to be offering fluffy chick lit with a side of sex in this last book of her trilogy, but under the wacky goings-on, she comes to grips with a surprising range of issues relating to sex: age, emotional damage, the cost of love, the cost of what one thinks is love, self-knowledge, mother-daughter dynamics, commitment, sex for pay, sex for play (porn).

The SF Site Featured Review: The Bearskin Rug.