Review: Story good, price was way high for such a short story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2012
I liked the story, but it was very short and it ended abruptly -- 1840 out of 1944 marked locations, no table of contents, no page count. I don't think it even made it to novella length. I'd say it was definitely more a short story.The book sample is fairly accurate and you should read it before buying the book, but you may want to consider these points as well:For the price, you may want to consider another book or wait until it becomes part of an anthology or something, because 4 bucks seems a little high in my opinion, and that's why I only gave it 3 out of 5.It's too bad, too, because it had a lot of potential to be a good action or thriller story. If the author could have expanded on the heroine's past -- Kristyn née Carrie -- or perhaps the mild conflict between Kristyn and Scott's / Andrew's SEAL teammate, Tommy -- NOT a gentleman SEAL by any standard -- it could have been at least a good novella with a dark, amped up twist that ends happily.But, that didn't happen, and though the sexual tension at the beginning does work well, it develops into a somewhat hot menagé that ensues between the three main characters. As Kristyn says at one point, "We had some fun before you left, but that was just sex." ...and that pretty much sums up the story. Not a lot of emotion tied up in their intimacy, until the end and even then, it was fairly bland.------------------SPOILER ALERT------------------The one amusing part with the story is where the two SEALs finally get to the point of having a naked threesome with Kristyn, and then Andrew (a.k.a. Drew) brushes up against Scott's... how shall I put this?... member. And, being a masculine, straight guy, he says, "Are you nuts? F***!" and Scott says, "Dude, what did you think would happen? Threesome means three people. You're supposed to share." Then Drew answers, "I don't want to touch your d***!" then Scott counters, "I don't see how you think we can do this without touching each other. Even if it's not our d***, then it's something else. Haven't you done this before?" That really made me laugh. Drew didn't seem to think through the ramifications of having a threesome with Scott and Kristyn... and it made me remember an observational joke made by comedian Ron White from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour concerning a friend of his watching porn between a man and a woman... something about male anatomy being flaccid or rigid and which he preferred and its relationship to homo-erotica and homophobia. (You can look it up if you are interested in the joke -- I'm not going to explain it here.)That particular scene was great and I was hoping there would be more amusing tidbits throughout the story, but that was the only one that I remember enough to tie it to this book. Again, it was too short and lacking in some areas for it to be a really good book for the price.