16 comments:

vampbard said...

Sophomore year of college. Star pitcher for baseball team. Wow. He was so into me! Perfect, right? Until I realized I was working my ass off & he wasn't doing anything but partying. I expected that it would be enough that he worshipped the physical stuff about me. It wasn't. Ran into him, a decade later. Nervous, because I'd broken up with him without completely resolving why. I used to daydream, before then, that he was pining away for me. In a way he was...But I was happy with my decision, finally.

February 2, 2013 at 7:58 AM

Liz said...

So, I'm loving The Boss. The only thing that gave me pause was the age difference between the two main characters. (zomg spoiler?)

It kind of makes me feel like Neil took advantage of Sophie (well, he DEFINITELY did, considering what he did before he left her), but yeah... JUST MY THOUGHT. :)

February 2, 2013 at 10:24 AM

Twimom227 said...

Okay, I'm going to talk about this chapter and avoid the question... hehe

I liked this chapter a lot because we got to see more of who Sophie is behind her job and a one-night-stand she'll never forget. I enjoyed seeing how she responded to life and interacted with Holli. And I LOVED how she confronted Neil and his respond. Perfect!!

February 2, 2013 at 10:39 AM

vampbard said...

Hee! We should talk about the bathtub... I totally agree that Sophie's reaction was perfect! @Liz- not a spoiler! We all should have read chapter 1 before discussing :-) Feel free to react to any part of the two chapters!

So. The bathtub.... Definitely learned that I don't want hardwood floors in my bathroom! Hee!

February 2, 2013 at 10:51 AM

Jenny Trout said...

The bathtub reveals a dark secret about my writing... I'm just doing this to talk about awesome fixtures I can't afford for my own my bathroom. I've built this entire book around that bathtub! XD

February 2, 2013 at 11:26 AM

Christine Hurtt said...

Firstly, I want to say that I am LOVING The Boss. LOVING IT. I love that Sophie seems like a real person and her complicated emotions come through really well (I mean, it seems like a normal reaction to the situation to both want and resent this man). I'm looking forward to seeing how it all plays out. Also, the sex seems super hot.

Speaking of which, I feel like the description of the spanking scene involved Neil's hand doing some acrobatics... I found myself wondering "If his thumb is there... and his fingers are there... whew that sounds hot... but how his the hell of his hand.. huh?" Did I miss something? Or, am I just not picturing it correctly?

February 2, 2013 at 12:47 PM

Laura said...

Ohmigod...I can't tell you how much I'm loving The Boss. Each time I've come to the end of the chapter, I'm all sad face.

I, for one, honestly love that Sophie is a real person, with some real actual sexual experience. I think the second chapter with it's insight into her life, already makes her seem more real than Ana has seemed over the course of all three books. I think you would be hard pressed to find a young woman in New York working in fashion who didn't drink and smoke pot. So, I felt that part of the story was real.

My only real Huh? moment came during the recalling of the sex scene that Christine Hurtt is talking about...Being a lesbian, I was trying to sort of map out how that would work, and unless Neil has hands much, much larger and more bendy than mine, I just don't see it.

That being said, I love this story so far. I am in agony waiting for the next chapters. You're doing a fantastic job...and I will be buying some of your other Abigale Barnette books. I've already downloade Bride of the Wolf, and loved it, but I'm definitely going to download more. ;)

February 2, 2013 at 2:39 PM

Lucy said...

I agree that I was confused about what his hand was doing in that scene as well! But otherwise, greatly enjoyed this chapter. Especially like the 2 m's - mary jane and that other bathtub-related one - because girls in their 20's in books are generally not portrayed as enjoying either of these, and being a girl in my 20's myself, I can tell you that many, many of us definitely do, so kudos to Jen for having the truth right out there like that.

February 2, 2013 at 3:14 PM

Laura said...

Also, I was just saying to a friend that it's a shame that you have ethics, because this story is already sooo much better than 50 Shades and it would be so nice to see this make some of the money that 50 Shades did. Although....so many of EL's rabid fans are idiots and would rather flay you alive than read a book that is actually good.

February 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM

Megan said...

The Boss is awesome so far! I was so excited to get m e-mail today with this post in it. Have shared it and will continue to share it all the way through to the end. It's awesome so far! Can't wait for the next chapter!

Enough exclamation points for you? :)

~Meg

February 2, 2013 at 3:49 PM

vampbard said...

re: Hand acrobatics... The way I read that section, Neil was using two hands. The 'heel' hand...that was all it did, IMHO.

February 2, 2013 at 4:12 PM

Twimom227 said...

LMOA... How much do you LOVE that we are discussing the positioning of his hand during sex?! That's what makes this discussion so much fun!

February 2, 2013 at 4:50 PM

Jenny Trout said...

I don't know what I was thinking with the hand thing, LOL! I had written it one way, and a beta had said, "That doesn't work," and I tried to figure it out another way and I think I clearly just made it worse. But I'm totally charmed by the number of conversations I've had about fingering since I posted that chapter. I'm totally leaving it in the original post, but when I offer the full book as a .pdf download at the end of the whole thing, that scene will be corrected. :D

February 2, 2013 at 9:28 PM

Becky Csernik said...

I'm having a lot of fun reading this, and am so glad I was shown your website! My amazon wishlist has grown considerably! I don't care for the drug use (mock me if you must, it's like, my opinion man) but I'm enjoying it otherwise! Thanks for sharing it free!

February 3, 2013 at 8:15 AM

Becky Csernik said...

I'm having a lot of fun reading this, and am so glad I was shown your website! My amazon wishlist has grown considerably! I don't care for the drug use (mock me if you must, it's like, my opinion man) but I'm enjoying it otherwise! Thanks for sharing it free!

February 3, 2013 at 8:16 AM

Nicki Merz said...

Haha, I loved her reaction to be asked about "What do you want me to do to you?" I imagine my reaction being similar, if not even less decisive. I always thought that seemed like a really awkward question. That being said, reading these chapters is actually my first venture into the romance/erotic genre, so I'll admit the thing that made me hottest under collar was the bathtub. Because that bathtub seems amazing.

February 3, 2013 at 11:31 PM