Permission Jo Bloom blog tour

PERMISSION BY JO BLOOM

Paperback published by Legend Press 28th July 2022

ISBN 9781915054562

Pages 272

Can your marriage survive if you’re both having sex with other people?

After more than 20 years of marriage. Fay and Steve are happy enough, though life’s become routine and lack excitement. Fay believes an open relationship could reignite the spark they’ve lost. But can sex ever just be sex?

Steve eventually agrees to the idea of sleeping with other people, but first they must set some ground rules, no sex with friends, no telling the kids, and a limit how many times they can see the same person. Can their marriage survive non-monogamy even if they have permission?

MY REVIEW

Today I’m shouting loudly Permission by Jo Bloom is the perfect book choice for book clubs to discuss, and for all book bloggers.

Can you even imagine being married for 20 years when when your partner suggests after having sex, to try an open relationship. How would you feel? I would be absolutely livid.

Faye and Steve are happy enough after being married for 20 years. After one evening of them having great intense sex, Faye asked her husband have you ever thought what it would be like to have an open relationship? Just try something different? Faye loves her husband but she is the force behind this as she likes the idea of a little sexual adventure.

I got the feeling that Faye here seems to pulling all the strings, being the boss making this decision, that her and her husband should have sex with different partners. After Faye went to a catholic school, I couldn’t quite believe that she has thought up this idea having sex with a stranger.

However for Steve he is not into this kind of thing that his wife wants him to do. For Faye it might be an easy thing to do having sex with someone else, considering she fancies a guy at her spin class.

Before Faye starts having sex with anyone, Steve is quite savvy he prints out some rules for consensual non-monogamy that Faye must sign.

To me they both seemed to have a happy sex life.

Having an open relationship will this help Faye and Steve to grow closer? Could this recharge their sex life? I couldn’t wait to read on to find out how this was going to plan out.

I highly recommend reading Permission by Jo Bloom, as we always think this type of thing having an open relationship would come from a man’s point of view, so I loved it that the table was turned and twisted by a wife who wants the open relationship.

I would like to thank Legend Press for inviting me to take part in the Permission blog tour and for sending me a proof copy to review.

About author Jo Bloom

Jo’s debut novel, Ridley Road, was published in 2014 and adapted into a major four-part series for BBC One in 2021. Jo has worked as a freelancer in the communications field for over twenty years, with a focus on arts publicity and e-learning. She also contributed to the book review section of Time Out, London for a few years. Prior to this, she lived and worked in Prague and New York. She now lives in Brighton with her family. Permission is Jo’s first contemporary novel.

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