The Practitioner

By: Ronica Black

Narrated by: Brittni Pope

Johnnie Hamilton has conquered a lot in life. An anxiety disorder, loss of her business, and homelessness have been difficult to overcome. But Johnnie has come through the other side to find success as an artist. Now, however, she's lost her creative drive and she's struggling to produce.

Elaine Taylor has an interesting job. She's a “creative practitioner”, known to awaken her clients' creative side by using many different approaches, including a sensual or sexual approach. Most of her clients are male and she likes it that way. Women are the last thing she wants in her life, having lost the most important woman she's ever known, her wife.

Fearing she'll lose all she's worked so hard for, Johnnie takes her friend's advice and calls a lone number on a business card, steps into Elaine's office, and shakes up both their worlds forever.

©2017 Ronica Black (P)2018 Bold Strokes Books, Inc

On the fence with this book!

Overall, the book was decent. The premise was an interesting one to begin with, but I became exhausted with the book towards the last third of it. The characters had good depth and great chemistry up front, but seemed to wash out as the book went on. They went on a journey that seemed to not fit with the rest of the book and didn't make sense to me, almost like two different stories mashed together. The narrator, on the other hand, was fabulous! I could listen to her all day!

God I love Brittni Pope

I also love the deep connection these two shared I wish they hadn’t had to hurt each other so much along the way.

loved it!

I really enjoyed this audiobook! if I could have, I would have finished it in one day (instead of two). so, there's a sexy artist who is in a rut, in need of... inspiration. the artist gets talked into trying a practitioner to help get those creative juices flowing again. there's an instant attraction for both women, but that's just the beginning. the story has sad moments and lots of soul searching/healing, and sex. this audiobook was much more than I expected. I will look up other books by this author.

Love

I loved this book it just sucked me right in! And OMG I so love Brittni’s voice she could read the phone book and I would listen

Much angst, little resolution

I don’t mind angst, especially when characters like these have so much to work through, but usually you can count on some resolution to satisfy after putting up with so much of it. Unfortunately this book is 90% will-they-won’t-they and the characters refusing to address their issues. After so much back and forth, I’d hoped to see the main characters finally stand up to their antagonists, but then the book ends without much actual addressing of those issues. Also: I grew up in Phoenix and it NEVER rains that much—even during monsoon season. So why is it always raining?? Everyone is always “wet” or “damp”. The desert is dry, just FYI. On the bright side, the sex scenes were hot as an Arizona summer.