One of the best in the series: sensual, slow-burn, ramps up the erotic tension. There's a fuller sense of characterisation which helps the sex build. Imaginative sex scenes. Fun read.

Interesting story idea. GOod.

Scheduled to post 4/14/15.

Choose your own adventure porn. Yes, please. That's what SilkWords does and I fully support it. STORM AT SEA was super short. I was surprised when I came up on the end so suddenly. It was rather anticlimactic in that regard because it ended so quickly but most of it I did like.

The sex was hot. Really freakin' hot. Loved it. I did two passes through the story to get a little more well-rounded experience of choosing my own adventure porn and all of the encounters that were had that didn't include the protagonist's husband were amazing and creative and so incredibly steamy. I loved them.

But the encounters that involved her husband as the main source of pleasure? Incredibly overwritten. The author decided to use her cache of ocean metaphors for that scene and it just completely drowned out the sex (pun somewhat intended). It was about the protagonist finding herself and opening up and blah blah blah ocean waves blah. She basically wanted to reignite her sex life with her husband and I found it really disappointing that the sex scenes with the two of them, which should have been the steamiest, were the most lackluster and "profound." Like the author didn't want this to be entirely porn without plot so all the substance was dumped into that single scene. It was the main reason I went back through the book again because I wanted to see if I could get a different outcome with the husband. Nope. He got shafted.

Had it not been her husband and was just another random dude she met in that club I wouldn't have had such an issue with it. But the story is a husband and wife doing this together to forge their bond. Except their bond was buried under water metaphors to the point where the sex was barely visible. Soured the book for me a bit. The rest of it was fantastic but the husband was like a bucket of ice water. Total killer because, I don't think, he was done right and given what was due for the story.

Still, I fully support choose your own adventure porn. Just not this one so much. I mean, read through it and just choose the scenes that don't involve her husband as the main source of pleasure and you'll be fine. Defeats the purpose of the overarching story but there you go. Sacrifices must be made.

3.5