Review: The Intimacy Experiment

 

 

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Naomi Grant has built her life around going against the grain. After the sex-positive start-up she cofounded becomes an international sensation, she wants to extend her educational platform to live lecturing. Unfortunately, despite her long list of qualifications, higher ed won't hire her.

Ethan Cohen has recently received two honors: LA Mag nominated him as one of the city's hottest bachelors and he became rabbi of his own synagogue. Low on both funds and congregants, the executive board of Ethan's new shul hired him with the hopes that his nontraditional background will attract more millennials to the faith. They've given him three months to turn things around or else they'll close the doors of his synagogue for good.

Naomi and Ethan join forces to host a buzzy seminar series on Modern Intimacy, the perfect solution to their problems--until they discover a new one--their growing attraction to each other. They've built the syllabus for love's latest experiment, but neither of them expected they'd be the ones putting it to the test.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: April 2021

Mature content: yes

Review: After reading The Roommate and finding it, quite frankly, more a waste of time than anything else, I was a bit weary of going through the same with The Intimacy Experiment. However, since I had downloaded the two books at the same time, I decided I just needed to get it over with...

I have to say was pleasantly surprised. There is a lot of talk about sex in The Intimacy Experiment, but there are much fewer actual sex scenes than in The Roommate, and there's actually a plot, character development and even some very interesting advice about dating.

 

I didn't like Naomi in the first book, but now that she's the main character in this one I discovered she has many hidden depths. It's challenging to break through the former-sex-industry-worker stereotype and see her as someone who actually has some important lessons to share, and that's a lesson to us all. Ethan's character is a bit more subdued, but their dynamics is great and the way they manage to break through the barriers of what seemed a nearly impossible match at first is on of the best parts of the book.

The Intimacy Experiment is certainly not a book for everyone, but I found it way better than the first one and it certainly can be read as a stand alone (you'll be missing a bit of background on Clara and Josh, the main characters from The Roommate but it really won't affect the story of this one so much). 

 Happy readings, 

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