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A bestselling hot, hilarious eBook by USA TODAY indie author Alice Clayton, the freshest voice to hit publishing in years. “An instant classic…highly recommended!” (New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Probst).

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a Kitchen Aid mixer to die for, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O. Adding insult to O-less, she also has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Every moan, spank, and—was that a meow?—punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has—yep, you guessed it—no O. Enter Simon Parker. When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has…well…mixed results. Because with walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick. A delicious mix of silly and steamy, this is an irresistible tale of exasperation at first sight.

Length: 385 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Alice Clayton worked in the cosmetics industry for over a decade before picking up a pen (read: laptop). She enjoys gardening but not weeding, baking but not cleaning up, and finally convinced her long-time boyfriend to marry her. And she finally got her Bernese Mountain Dog. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B00B73MULG
Publisher : Gallery Books (14 February 2013)
Language : English
File size : 6915 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 385 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 43,466 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- 3,008 in Women's Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 3,628 in Romantic Comedy (Books)

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Fun and sweet

Reviewed in Australia on 12 July 2020

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I’ve rounded up. Not quite a 4 for me, but pretty close. I’m not sure what it was missing. I was a little unsure at the start. But then it got more funny, less blush worthy. I definitely had a giggle a few times. Caroline was an interesting mixture of sweet and shy, but genuine and ballsy. It worked somehow. And I enjoyed her humour with a dash of crazy.
Like Caroline, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like Simon. But he grew on me, and I found him fun and thoughtful by the end.
The relationship with their friends was a little confusing, I kept losing which person was which. But all the characters were mature and interesting.
Not sure I want to read the next one. Maybe if the mood strikes.

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Not quite what I thought

Reviewed in Australia on 30 January 2020

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I loved the interplay between the friends but the ending didn't feel resolved; I actually turned the page to read the next chapter and found the acknowledgements.

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Springa

The sassy humour may not be to everyone's taste but I liked it and will be looking for more books from ...

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2018

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Wasn't sure what to expect from this book but I ended up enjoying it. The sassy humour may not be to everyone's taste but I liked it and will be looking for more books from this author.

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Mrs Nerina A Matten

Very sassy read indeed. Bed down and enjoy this one.

Reviewed in Australia on 23 October 2018

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It’s a wonder anyone could stand the romantic haze. I loved this one, very humorous and joyful tale of love in all its forms.

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Andi

Read it. Seriously.

Reviewed in Australia on 9 August 2016

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You can't go wrong with this author! One of my all time favourite writers. Her writing is spot on and her characters are hilarious. She is a master of creating fictional worlds that I wished were real. If you like light hearted, lough out loud, knock your socks off romance then this one's for you.

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nharris

Don't judge a book by it's cover!

Reviewed in Australia on 11 August 2014

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Wallbanger was recommended to me, at first I was hesitant, It isn't a book I would have picked myself, but I LOVED it!!!
The characters are Brilliant, the story is very well written and left me wanting more!
Highly Recommended!

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Stevie-Leigh Morrison

Boring

Reviewed in Australia on 4 February 2014

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Don't get me wrong, I didn't enjoy this book at the beginning but oh god it gets bad! I lost interest in it! Caroline started to annoy me! I wouldn't say the book is with the 10.99 I paid!

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Jacqui

What an awful book

Reviewed in Australia on 16 July 2014

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I really struggled to finish reading this terrible book. It was so predictable and unrealistic at the same time. I didn't like any of the characters.

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weebeastie

Genuinely dreadful.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2019

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I was very disappointed by this book, which I bought after seeing the title on a list of the best romance novels of the year. I have read a great many romances in my time, written in a wide variety of styles, but this one was trite, repetitive, and poorly written. Caroline sounds and acts like a bratty teenage girl, and the way she talks about herself is baffling- obviously we are all familiar with conflicting emotions and impulses, but do we REALLY need to have narrated internal arguments between anthropomorphised entities including Brain, Backbone, Heart, Nerves, and the worst of all, her sex drive- Lower Caroline (at times cringingly abbreviated to LC)? It takes EL James' ridiculous Inner Goddess/subconscious gimmick to a whole new, painful place. I tend to give these sorts of novels a bit of a pass on plot/sentence structure/whatever if the sex scenes are at least convincing, but they weren't. They were just incredibly wordy and lacking in anything approaching real feeling. A shame.

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Michelle

Dont waste your money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2020

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I can't believe I DNF this book for two reasons.
Number 1- I NEVER EVER DNF a book! It is unheard of. No matter how "bad" a book is I still try and push through!
Number 2 - out of 165,024 ratings on goodreads this book got a 4 star rating. Also every person I have spoken to who has read this book thought it was HILARIOUS. So when I saw this book for free on @bookbud I had to get it right!?

Now I am no way a prude, from looking at the cover alone I knew this book would be steamy, hell even from the opening sentence I knew what to expect! 20% into this book I thought okay when does the story actually start? Caroline is constantly woken up by her neighbour and his overnight guests, even to a stage where a picture falls off the wall and hits her on the head. I didn't find it funny. Caroline talks to her "area" more than she would talk to humans.

I didn't get the humour, the characters and the lack of storyline really annoyed me. I really really wanted to like this book.

Sorry but this book gets a massive thumbs down from me.

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canary fan

Absoutely beautiful, funny love story READ IT YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 April 2016

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What a brillant book this was. I loved it - it was funny, witty and interesting, romantic and a real love story. It kept me up all the hours god sent.
I read it on the tiolet , in the bath, in the car not while driving of course!!!!! I read it in about 3 days i could not put it down.
The characters were so likeable and fun and the way the story bulit up was so beautiful. It made me laugh and it made me go gooey it was a really enjoyable book.
I think the way Caroline changed Wallbanger with out him even knowing it really was such a nice story line. The Spain trip was written to perfection and it was not rushed. I loved the end as well with the food and raunchy stuff in the kitchen. It was probably one of my favourite reads this year because it had me hooked. No doubt about 5 stars I just wanted the story to have a follow up book.

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Erin Kirsty

It was ok but lacked the steaminess I expected.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2014

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This is the first in Alice Clayton’s The Cocktail Series and it’s something that I’ve been looking forward to reading for quite a while. I started this as part of the #SexMeUpReadathon that the girls over at Gosling Girls Book Tours were running between the 21st and 25th of July.

The story is all about main character Caroline Reynolds. Caroline has just moved into her new apartment in San Francisco with her cat Clive. She’s got a great job, this brand new apartment, she’s not had successful sex for a while and what is NOT the perfect remedy? The sex god next door.

I was really looking forward to reading this hoping that I would like it and I can’t lie I was a teensy bit disappointed!

At first I liked Caroline’s character. She was funny and interesting and I liked the way that she engaged with you as a reader through the almost interactive narrative. I found some of her quirky thoughts and names for her “hoohah” funny and I thought that her character had a little extra pep, similar to the main character in a chick-lit novel.

The story was predictable insofar as the next door neighbour – so aptly nicknamed “Wallbanger” – was indeed a wallbanger. I thought that this was a fun introduction to the other main character in the story – Simon Parker. I enjoyed that they had a bit of a love/hate relationship going and when it turned out that it was a small world after all their relationship started to take on a new meaning. I liked the progression from friends to more although I expected it to be faster and with more chemistry than what I felt there was.

I read through the story quite quickly but felt more like I was just trying to finish it more than I was hooked. I think it was a more heavy mix of silliness than steaminess and that wasn’t what I was hoping for so it let the book down a bit for me. The writing was good throughout and the story had enough of a mix of predictability and the unknown to keep you interested.

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Emma (Book Angel Booktopia)

Hysterical, cute, romantic and sexy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2013

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Ohh you guys I love this book so much, it hilarious. I giggled my way through it much to the disgust of my children who were trying to watch a movie at the time. I read it in one sitting staying up til 4am just so I could follow what happened between Simon and Caroline.

Told in first person narrative from Caroline's point of view. She really is a wonderful character, really in tune with herself apart from her missing O lol. She's pretty, intelligent and independent with 2 wonderful friends that really stick together, an enviable career with an even more enviable boss. Her love of baking, hugging her kitchenaid and watching The Barefoot Contessa and her cat, Clive, were all so relatable for me. Although she is 26 she really could have been any age between 20 and 40 she had that sort of air about her. Her inner monologue's were such fun to follow.

After confronting her neighbour, Simon, about the noise level of his nocturnal activities they form an unlikely friendship, further enhanced as Caroline's BFF's hit it off with Simon's friends. Its really easy to be judgemental about Simon in the beginning but as the plot unfolds it becomes blatantly obvious that there is so much more to him than meets the eye. I particularly adored how comfortable and natural Simon and Caroline were around each other right from the start. They didn't try to be anything other than themselves in order to impress the other one. Their shared passion for food brought a huge smile to my face, they didn't care about being piggy in front of each other - see what I mean about comfortable

Watching the relationships progress and the characters develop within the narrative was amazing. I really don't want to go into details about the plot because I am hoping you'll give this one a go because I am absolutely positive you are going to love it as much as I did.

You've all seen my new catchphrase - `It's All About the Romance' - well this book provides not only the hot steamy romance but a cute, laugh out loud, story with the kind of relationship I can only dream of having.

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