It disturbs me that I cannot recommend these books to my friends on account of the profusion of gratuitous and overly descriptive sex (which is a novelty in some ways, but is still the subject of nagging by my cultural sensibilities.) I feel embarrased to read the books in public because of the nudity and eroticism of the cover art, (with oldschool, Emily Post style ettiquette looking over my shoulder.) I feel like I'm carrying around a Romance novel ( you know...the ones with a picture of a hulk of a manly man embracing a voluptuous and bodice-clad woman.) Like when I was reading Micah in the bookstore, there was a man on my right and another on my left, and I was desperately trying to hide that damn cover (lovely art, but not my taste in book cover.)

What is interesting to me is that LKH was asked during an Italian interview why her books had so little sex. In her blog, LKH said that that was the first time she had ever been asked that.