Ursula's Reviews > The Player and the Pixie

2.5 stars.
Initially, this seemed like a funny story about an Irish rugby player dude who is hot, rich and a man-whore, but shite in bed. Sean has lots of ONS but can’t actually get any of the women to orgasm.

Ironically, he will never learn how to from those girls, because all they want is to add him to their trophy shelf (cue lots of series of naked Sean in his bed after said ONS)- they fake their orgasms all the way! Not sure which of the two I disliked more, the man-whore or his groupies. We do get to know Sean better, and there is much more to him than what he chooses to show the world. But I have a problem with angry young men who wallow in their self-pity and don't just get on with making their lives positive and productive. It just seems so self-indulgent.

My first problem with this was that, in this day and age of Internet porn and Youtube, you can watch a million How to give a woman an orgasm videos that go into graphic (I'm talking close-up) detail. So the scenario was rather implausible to begin with. I'm not saying that it doesn't make a nice change from all these accomplished lovers who go straight for the G spot and give multiple orgasms every time! But it was a bit OTT for me. I was also fascinated by Sean's need to get shit-faced drunk every time before sex- surely that would affect his performance? On-field and off-field.

Added to this strange plot: Lucy agrees to show him/coach him on how to get her off. Yup.



Secondly where was Lucy's family loyalty? After Sean had behaved so badly towards her brother? It made me respect her just that little bit less.

In the end it became a bit sordid and just plain yuk. Sean might have been better off paying a high class prostitute to help him understand a woman’s lady-parts! That Lucy agreed to have sex with him -for teaching purposes only, no relationship, thank you very much- was off, especially given who he was. Even if she did have a lady-boner for him.

I understand what these authors were trying to do- flip the genre on its head a bit- but I'm afraid it didn’t really work for me. Good writing, and good sex scenes, though. Lady-boner, anyone?