Virgin Territory

by Suzanne Carey

SHOULD SHE OR SHOULDN'T SHE?

It was every man's nightmare...and it was coming true for hard-hitting newspaper columnist Phil Catterini. Lovely Crista O'Malley wanted him to change her status as the last virgin in Chicago, and if he didn't honor her request, someone else would! Phil was a man with a mission -- protecting Crista's virtue and his beloved bachelorhood at the same time.

Phil should have known he'd been attempting the impossible. He tried his best...and ended up married!

Men! First, Crista couldn't get past the third date because she wouldn't, and now she had herself a wonderful husband who didn't love her because she would. But the new Mrs. Catterini was determined to turn Phil into the most happily married man in the world!

Genres: Contemporary

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1990

Reviews

[Vintage]

I should have listened to Naksed!

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I didn't DNF when, in the first page, the heroine excuses her date-raping date because he is actually a good guy. Nor did I when she produced her Big Announcement (that she is - gasp - a virgin) to stop said date rape when physically struggling didn't stop it. The announcement worked by the way. I didn't even stop reading when the hero wanted to write an article about the last virgin standing and hope they get comments so she can decide if she wants to change her virgin status because apparently she is too brain dead from all the pent up hormones to make the decision on her own. Had to stop when he told his mom about her in the kitchen after dinner.

This was written in 1990. A teensy bit anachronistic even for then.

Sad to say, never got to the wedding and post-wedding schmooze with his ex-fiancee.

It's on Open Library and no one is waiting for it. Can't imagine why.

[Naksed · Rating 1 out of 5]

This the worst story I have read from this author so far (I have been going through her books in chrono). I thought I had reached the bottom with her purple-prose-tastic tale of a Navajo Coyote Man and his White Cornsilk Woman in Love Medicine. But that was before I met the sniveling, wussy, mama’s boy, absolutely worthless hero of Virgin Territory. This guy leaves his wife, the heroine, the very day they return from their honeymoon, to go have coffee with his ex-fiancée, the same woman that he cheated on with the heroine before eventually eloping with the heroine. From there, he goes to his mama’s house so she can coddle him because the big baby has the sniffly wifflies and only mama can make him feel better. He doesn’t have the balls to confess to either his ex-fiancée (who btw had no problem cheating on him too but at least she owned up to it) or to his mama and papa that he secretly eloped with the heroine. He keeps referring to the heroine with her maiden name. When the heroine wises up and leaves his ass, he ponders making a grand gesture to win her back like renting out a billboard or an airplane message but he is too cheap to fork over the money. Instead, he uses his dumb newspaper column to avow his love for her to the public at large. I need to go get a Tylenol 3 now.