I didn't think this book had much of a plot. I only bought it for a good raunchy read and it fulfilled that area quite well. I wouldn't recommend this book though and I won't bother reading any of her other books.

[library e-book, plot summary elsewhere]

The rating is based on the importance of the novel as a period piece, and the entertainment value.

Is there any distance between Isadora Wing and Jong? To me there was a lesson that a '70's woman author like Wing, with money rolling in from her first book, could be so easily pushed around and mentally dominated by her husband, because those were the times.

A 70's throw back and a good light summer read. Charming yet alarming, reminding us of how women of the era where treated as possessions and had little autonomy...

I bought this book because I had just had my heart broken by an ex who decided to admit he had had a 2 year affair with a woman who he felt a great connection with. In pain, I thought a book like this would make me feel better, like talking with a friend who really gets it because she too has experienced the same. At first I found a lot of the books many revelations to be kind of silly, forced, not believable. But by the time I was rounding the last corner of the story I really began to feel sad it was almost over. I would give this book a good review and recommend it to anyone who's been stuck in a relationship and lacking the belief that there are so many other great fish in the sea, even if in many cases only for a good lay and some ego stroking.

This is the second part of [Fear of Flying]. Here, Isadora is 3years older than she was in the first book, but incredibly more mature. Very erotic, very sincere. I read this book in Spanish [Isadora emprende el vuelo].

Fun read, but didn’t care for the end. Seems more like a memoir than a novel, which I really think it was. This feeling (that it was really a memoir), made me realize why the ending as she wrote it, didn’t work out as I would have liked. I hope that makes sense because I don’t want to give it all away. Overall, I enjoyed it.

I had her back until the epilogue

The heroine in this book seems to lead a life of passion, intrigue, and interesting randez-vous; the kind of life housewives daydream of. But there's only so much relating I can do to a character that's so selfish in her relationship with her husband.

If "Fear of Flying" "changed my life," then this book reaffirmed those changes. I almost liked it more than "Fear of Flying," because while "Fear of Flying" was about the re-birth of lust, this is about the re-birth of love.

Not as good as Fear of Flying, but enjoyable still. Sometimes I felt myself empathizing with the author as she braced herself to step out on her own and become the person she feels inside. More often though I felt bad for all the characters as they drift through lives of prurient adolescence that lasts well past middle age.

Not quite as captivating and mind-bending as Fear of Flying... still, a satisfying sequel and a reminder that however intense one's personal problems may seem, it's all relative. Small conflicts will seem magnified in times of prosperity, and Jong reveals her awareness of this reality in her brief epilogue.

The next in the series of "Isadora Wing" novels by Erica Jong. Brilliant and biting in the true style of one of my favorite authors, this one is especially enjoyable for a romantic fling Wing pulls off in her estrangement from her rigid husband. Raunchy without being a corset-ripping, Fabio romance novel.