Anatomy of a Single Girl (Anatomy #2) by Daria Snadowsky

With Judy Blume-like honesty and insight, this sequel to Anatomy of a Boyfriend is about life after first love--romance, sex, friendship, family, and the ups and downs of life as a single girl.

After everything that happened—my first boyfriend, my first time, my first breakup—jumping back into the dating game seemed like the least healthy thing I could do. It’s not that I didn’t want to fall in love again, since that’s about the best feeling ever. But as a busy college premed still raw from heartbreak, which is the worst feeling ever, I figured I’d lie low for a while. Of course, as soon as I stopped looking for someone, an impossibly amazing—and devastatingly cute—guy came along, and I learned that having a new boyfriend is the quickest way to recover from losing your old one.

The moment we got together, all my preconceptions about romance and sex were turned upside down. I discovered physical and emotional firsts I never knew existed. I learned to let go of my past by living in the present. It was thrilling. It was hot. It was just what the doctor ordered.

But I couldn’t avoid my future forever.

In Daria Snadowsky’s daring follow-up to Anatomy of a Boyfriend, eighteen-year-old Dominique explores the relationship between love and lust, and the friendships that see us through.

Hardcover, 227 pages

Published January 8th 2013 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers 

As with the first book, Anatomy of a Boyfriend the author takes the reader to a whole new level of detail when it comes to serious sexual relationships. 

Dominique's exploration into a new relationship brings about questions of safety and tests. The author goes into detail about doctor's visits, types of protection as well as mental stability before jumping into the decisions of having a sexual relationship. As Dominique has explored a hard core relationship and what she considered love eventually ending in heartbreak. Her new relationships come with a lot more thought and decision making. Although acting in the heat of the moment is not completely off bounds. This time she is going in mentally and physically prepared. 

She is home for Summer vacation from college and doing an internship at the local hospital. But it just so happens that being home brings up a lot of old feelings, and a new relationship. But how serious is the relationship going to be when she knows she'll be going back to school soon?

This time around she's asking more questions, finding what it is that she wants from a relationship both physical and not and learning new things about her body. With a boyfriend that is not shy of giving her instructions on what a guy expects as well.