Disappointment...

I've had the new Alex Jordaine book on order from Amazon for months and it came the other week and I've finally got around to starting to read it. I'm not gonna review it properly yet because I'm still only on page 42, but it is such a disappointment so far, and that's a real shame because the last two books were great. You may remember the other day I had a little rant about how novelists fall into this trap of making everyone in their books stunning, gorgeous, bronzed and toned, with simmering/piercing/delete as applicable eyes, etc etc...
Well, in this book Alex has fallen into the same trap, describing everyone at a dinner party as staggeringly good looking... sigh. Wouldn't it be more interesting if the hero was actually not at all good looking, but was rather possessed of a raw sexuality?
It's long been a belief of mine that merely being good looking does not make you 'sexy' and people who aren't especially good looking can still be devastatingly sexy. In fact, some women who are considered 'stunning', like, lets pick an example at random 'Elle McPherson'... I can't ever imagine her fucking or sucking cock or doing anything mildly 'deviant' and as such she has zero sex appeal to me.
That's probably why people rave about (for example) TV cook Nigella Lawson, she's not classically beautiful and she's no waif, but she looks like she knows how to have a good time, and she'd just as likely suck you off as bake you a cake. Maybe she'd even suck you off while baking you a cake and that sounds like a win/win situation to me.
Similarly the plain-jane type of girl, who may not make an impression in a room full of overly made-up, heel-tottering, fake-nailed, hair-extensioned, tango-faced gold-diggas, but who may just be the sexiest and most broad-minded women there...
Anyway, back to the book, I'm sticking with it, and I'm hoping it gets better, because frankly at the moment it's a bit of a disappointment.