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Can't wait for another book from Nityda!

Revisado: 01-29-24

Just amazing content as always. Nityda is the real deal for trauma healing and social justice thinking!

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Pleasantly Unresolved

Revisado: 02-15-16

The Wednesday Group was a pleasant read. I felt that author, Sylvia True really dealt with what I think the issues would be that spouses connected to partners recovering from or continuing to be addicted to sex would have to deal with. I honestly felt that to adequately deal with the amount of characters introduced in the book, the author should have added length and really delved in to each character more. The book began with True working hard to set the scene and develop a firm relationship between all the members of the group, which she became very successful at doing. I learned a lot about the dynamics of support groups and much that I didn’t think about as being involved during the reading of this book such as matching members and how their strengths and weaknesses would play off of one another. The politics of the university research, thesis preparation and supervision came into play in a big way as well which only added to the story, but was fairly unnecessary when the focus could have been on helping the women get through their crisis. Each of the women in the group were put in very different circumstances due to their spouse’s sex addiction: there were lost jobs, pregnancies, left spouses, near suicides, the loyal wives and mothers, problems with the children due to the addiction and many more issues that these women had to deal with on an outward level. Inwardly, they were all messes and the author conveyed that each woman dealt with the addiction in a different and meaningful way. The story while it bounced back and forth between members of the group primarily focused around Hannah whose husband acted out from a previous abuse with men. One of the opening scenes has Hannah catching her husband sneaking around on her and I was thankful that none of the sexual scenes were highly graphic in this novel as most of them would have brought nothing but heartache and pain to another character. I think the biggest issue I had with The Wednesday Group was the lack of focus on resolve for any of the characters unless True meant to convey that spouses of sex addiction really sustain no resolve other than to move on singularly or that it is an ongoing process. Many characters were left in the heart wrenching pain they began with with little progress to what they were feeling initially. Yes progress was made through friendships and support and emergencies, but little to finally help them get over the main hump of the betrayal. I would have also liked to see the side of a male in the group as I felt that by keeping it all females it stereotyped sex addicts as men and the spouses of sex addicts as women and I don’t feel that that is an accurate balance for such a difficult subject. True is an eloquent writer, she was able to explain some of the feelings of madness in correlation to actions in ways that were beautiful, thought provoking, and engaging for the reader. Overall, this book was a good read, there just could have been so much done that could have given the characters resolve and the reader resolve in the end. It ends with a cliffhanger that while it was foreshadowed throughout the course of the novel, could have been better dealt with given more time.

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Innocent to Confident --Aloof to Well Centered

Revisado: 02-04-16

I take my reading seriously, so reading a book based on erotica is not my forte. That all said, I love books about the music industry and this was one I couldn’t pass up. I was thoroughly glad that I chose to read Insider: Exodus End World Tour, Book 1. My affinity for this book began page one however a few hours in, I was getting irritated by the amount of sexual material as it was overkill. Toni’s absolute awe of the things that could be done sexually was very off putting as well . It was frustrating to hear her say things constantly like wow, how does that work, or oh, I didn’t know that could be done. I often questioned her upbringing which was on a farm primarily isolated with her little sister Birdie, but even that was like, okay this girl who’s been through college, has watched porn and masturbates is really not that naively innocent. The portrayal of Toni’s loss of innocence once again came to my question in her later deeply sexual journal entries with her new found confidence. It was just a very overnight change for this character. Another mild irritant while reading this book was the author’s use of random words that seemed misplaced, but there were only a couple handfuls of those. By mid-book, with the amount of sex, I considered my options: whether I should keep reading or move on to something else. It was both Logan’s and Toni’s supreme character development, the small uncovering of the band’s secrets, the missing journal and Susan’s role in the whole novel that helped me to forge through. I am glad I did. Insider: Exodus End World Tour became everything I could have asked for in a music industry fiction novel. By book’s end, the characters were fully developed and had made mass changes, there was just enough drama to keep the reader turning the page, and it ended up having more of a literary feel as Logan and Toni both dealt with their family issues. The end Birdie story line felt rushed and very out of place for the novel, but a necessary evil to move the plot forward. I wish the author would have taken more time with this end and the telling of it to help Toni progress to the next level. Birdie making the decisions she did in her quick manner and Toni’s seemingly little care about those decisions and their implications seemed out of character for them both. Even Logan, who isn’t the quickest to pick up on human emotion questioned Toni on how she was feeling about these events before she really delved in, in a paragraph or two. Also, the band’s, especially Regan Elliot’s quick change of heart seemed rushed and needed to be fleshed out as well. Despite all this, the book became one of my favorites and I can barely wait for book two to come out. While I am new to Olivia Cunning, I plan on reading the Sinner’s series and I understand she writes racier stuff. I think with Cunning’s ability to turn a plot the way she does and to see human needs, wants and desires, paint a word description picture and offer just enough detail to allow her reader to make their own pictures without stupefying them, she has a great career not only in erotica and romance but in many other genres as well. The audio book presentation of this book really gave the characters a new depth and I would strongly recommend it.

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