Review: Left me quivering . . . with dismay
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
This is the tale of a swinging couple in their fifties (presumably their previous adventures are covered in parts 1-7, but don't worry -- you don't need to be up to speed on the plot to read this) and their weekend with Jasmine, a flexible and freaky acquaintance.Adam and Trish have been swinging for a while apparently, so having a woman join them for the weekend is pretty old hat.  Nothing about this book would have been so bad except for its fatal flaw. The style is workmanlike, but not terrible.  The characters are mostly described in ways that are appealing (there is a labial obsession that is a bit odd, but to each their own, I say).  The problem are the physical impossibilities that pop up from time to time.There is a poolside session of digital manipulation early in the story.  A woman accepts the totality of her lover's hand in way she never has before.  And then, as he describes the aftermath, he talks about how he can see her cervix.  I'm no expert, but I don't think that is how the cervix works.  There is another scene where Greek love is being described and he muses that his partner must do it a lot because she is so loose.  Again, that isn't how it works.  There were other implausibilities involving sex in a pool (mainly the statement that lube wasn't needed even for certain acts) that caused me to raise an eyebrow.The entire story gave me the sense that I was reading the result of fervid imagination rather than something based on reality and it kind of killed it for me.  I don't expect the authors of swinging stories to have lived every situation and position, but I ask them to be at least someone in touch with how the human body operates.