Overview: i am not an eric jerome dickey fan. i tell you this now because i’ve found that readers can be broken down into two groups: those who love it and those who hate it. there’s no gray area at all. oddly enough, readers can alternatively be broken down into two different groups: those who are fans of EJD’s previous works (with the exception of “Drive Me Crazy”) and those who aren’t. odder still is the fact that the fans of earlier EJD works hate the last 2 while those of us who only read 1 or both of “Drive Me Crazy” and “Genevieve” LOVE THOSE BOOKS. so what did you learn? well, the way i see it, EJD’s writing style may have changed. and old die hard fans aren’t feeling the new eric.

what you gonna do but give the man a break? people change. feelings change. its the nature of the art for an artist to mature and have his work mature along with him. unfortunately, development often comes with the high risk of losing one’s old audience. hopefully new EJD fans like myself can help offset those numbers.

Who: the title character and her unnamed husband, who narrates. early on the hubby tells us that the wife detests the common pronounciation of her name, Genevieve, but we don’t learn the correct prounounciation until the end. i guess this should add to the mistique and intrigue of her character, but as i’m an impatient assface i spent an hour googling the pronounciation to no avail, only to have it spelled out for me later. note: i’m not gonna tell you. i read the book. you gotta read the book, too.

What: damnit i hate this question. how do i answer this without spoiling it for you? sigh
hubbly laments at the start of the novel about how his intense love for his beautiful and phenomenally accomplished wife goes unreciprocated. she’s as cold as brand new bling and its driving him mad.actually, that’s not quite what we first learn. in the first few pages the narrator details incredible sex and toe-curling orgasms. so how the heck do we go from the best ab workout ever to “my wife barely knows i’m alive” ? trust. you might think you know. but you have no idea. well….you have an idea, but you’re probably wrong. then again you could be perceptive as hell, but you should read the damn book anyway.

also note that this is another one of those stories that employs the increasingly popular mechanism of the anti-climactic ending. however annoying, its still a good book damnit and i highly recommend it.

read the damn book!