Ruth Gogoll

Me di cuenta del efecto que me producía su magia, y ni siquiera tuve la impresión de que lo estuviera haciendo a propósito. Poseía un encanto natural y su exquisita educación solo servía para realzarlo aún más. También sabía, sin embargo, que era capaz de dejar ambas cosas a un lado si le apetecía. Tal vez eso formara parte de su atractivo.» Un encuentro mágico, una atracción singular en un bar de Berlín cambiará el rumbo de dos mujeres. La protagonista, una prostituta lesbiana (que tiene por clientas a las mujeres más exquisitas de la burguesía alemana) se ve obligada a replantearse sus relaciones cuando conoce a una ejecutiva sensual y apasionada. Este encuentro casual será el inicio de una intensa historia de amor cuyo núcleo argumental se centra en las relaciones sexuales fuera de la pareja. Una historia que explora los límites del amor y del deseo, los recovecos de la pasión y del compromiso.… (meer)

I would never say that love stories are the end all and be all for my fiction life, but I have to confess they mean more to me than they should. Certain passages pop out at me as if they are random, yet also as if they are meant to be seen at this point in my life. I don't really believe that much in Fate or meaningful coincidences, but it does help when I read something eerily relatable at the exact time I need them.

The second in the L As In Love series is immensely better than the first one. It's far less shallow and people actually try and have meaningful relationships, even if they do mess them up.

Several different lines spoke to me, which is great right about now, since there's something very freeing and wonderfully non-isolating in knowing others (no matter how fictional they may be) would get your pain:

-A woman is presented again and again with insoluble conundrums, and she simply has to resign herself to the basic fact: things are what they are.

-Sometimes we can’t defend ourselves from our own feelings, even if we want to... even if our good sense tells us something else.

L as In Love (Book Two) may not be the powerhouse Ruth Gogoll's Forbidden Passions and Taxi To Paris are, but when it comes to slow building friendship, emotion and romance it's still pretty nice. :)… (meer)

While nowhere near as good as her Forbidden Passions, Ruth Gogoll's L as In Love is fast-paced, interesting and like a much less dramatically draining PG version of Showtime's L Word. Major pet peeve: lack of character descriptions and the character of Marlene (with her verbal abuse and use of sex as the answer to everything) is so unbelievably dislikeable it's hard to fathom anyone going near her. I kept reading because Ruth Gogoll and Susan Way make a great writing team.

The lack of being faithful to their girlfriends on the part of most of the characters is why I found L Word so hard to watch at times. The amount of people in the novel keeps any one story from being fully realized, so this is part of a four book series. I suppose I'll start the next one in the hopes that someone finds true love. :)
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