Book Review - The Ex Effect by Jo Watson - #HolidayReading Cruise

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Title: The Ex Effect

Author: Jo Watson

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Headline Eternal

Publication Date: 13th February 2025

Rating: 5 Stars

They had a night to remember. For all the wrong reasons.

Thirteen years ago, Ash was planning the night of her life with her high-school boyfriend, Logan. They were madly in love, wild about each other, and had been waiting patiently for this moment. It was going to be perfect.

That is, until it went down in very unsexy flames. Logan disappeared and Ash was left, quite frankly - and very inconveniently - sexually cursed.

After years of disastrous dating and even more disastrous sex, cinematographer Ash has almost given up. But some seriously flirtatious emails with location agent Maximillian Adam, to set up a scouting trip, offer her hope. Because if rumor is to be believed, Maximillian Adam might just be God's sexual gift to women.

Is Max going to be the one to finally break the curse? And, even better, break it over and over again?

Or when Ash and Max finally come face to face, will they both get so much more than they bargained for?

How much fun must Jo Watson have had in coming up in all the incredibly bad sex scenarios that have littered Ash's life, leading to her believe she is under a sex curse. 

I swear every time you think you must have heard them all, Ash recalls others, that is one seriously unlucky woman. 

And it all started thanks to her first boyfriend, and the time they were meant to lose their virginity.  It went wrong and then went from worse to catastrophic. 

There is so much creativity, and giggle worthy moments in this story, that it was a joy to read. 

There are also some incredibly hot and steamy scenes, which were rather pleasurable! 

Not to mention getting an insight into a few different Safari camps in Africa, which spoke to my love of travel. 

This was just a brilliant holiday read, from an author that I always devour. Loved every second of this. 

Thank you to Headline Eternal and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.