My favourite one of all is the first sex scene in Agnes And The Hitman which was co written by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. Now, Crusie has written some of my all time favourite funny, imperfect sex scenes so, in truth I could have chosen several of her books, but it is Agnes that wins the gong in my eyes because it’s also angry sex. If you can make angry sex funny then why don’t you just go ahead and take all my money?!
Agnes is a chef with major anger issues. There’s a lot going on her life not least of all someone’s trying to kill her and her uncle has sent a hitman called Shane to protect her. She’s just found out that her fiancé, Taylor, is married to someone else and she’s got him pinned against a wall with a very big, very sharp fork to his throat and is trying really hard not to kill him.
Shane disarms her and sends the ratfink packing. That only makes Agnes madder. So mad she’s tries to go after Taylor but Shane pulls her back and she’s struggling and cursing and trying to get out of his hold with every ragey molecule in her body and he’s trying to subdue her and they fall back onto a bed and she’s still struggling and he won’t let her go until she settles down and promises she’s not going to hunt Taylor down.
There’s a lot of heat and friction being created in this struggle and things start to shift and change subtly (which is so brilliantly done) and Agnes starts to think there might be better ways to burn off her anger because she really wants to pound someone so why not Shane? They have chemistry after all. Shane is not opposed to this idea and he’s the type of guy who’s happy to give a woman any kind of sex she wants even if it means dodging her blows.
Her rage is magnificent and stokes the sexual tension and Shane trying to contain her whilst giving her what she wants is magnificent and the banter is awesomely magnificent. Not pretty or cute or Hollywood but raw and real while Agnes uses sex as an anger management tool and Shane is just trying to hold on and survive the experience.
It is hot and sexy and so, so, so funny. Seriously, it is all the things and I cannot recommend it or this book highly enough. I am lucky enough to own a signed – by both Jenny and Bob – hardback of this and it’s probably one of the few things I would run back into my burning house to save.
Yes. It is that good.