cover image A Fare to Remember

A Fare to Remember

Opal Carew. St. Martin’s Griffin, $15.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-11668-0

In this laughably puerile chain of sex scenes disguised as a novel, a cab driver named Stevie, who happens to come from a moneyed family but cut ties to live a more down-to-earth life, picks up an astonishingly good-looking businessman fare. She decides to go against what she says is her normal behavior and initiates unprotected sex with him against an alley wall before even learning his name, which turns out to be Reid. A similarly absurd string of decisions leads to inviting Reid’s best friend, Dylan, to join them in the bedroom, where the three of them engage in a number of also-unprotected sex acts that Carew (Tempting the Boss) has clearly never bothered to research. The hilariously cheesy porno-flick dialogue and farcical descriptions (including a “meaty popsicle”) make this ostensibly erotic tale an easy miss. (Apr.)