Frequently goofy and had interesting characters, but the middle section kind of lost my attention a few times. Not sure if it was because the h/h spent so much time alone, without the family and friend interactions that characterize the best of JAK's work.

The sex scenes were also... a bit different and made me really curious about Harlequin's style manual for sex scenes in the 1980s.

[In the first one, Julian interrupts Emelina's fake orgasm to, ahem, show her that she's a true woman of passion. Another scene later on gets much closer to capture fantasy territory than I'd been expecting. ( )