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Four Together
Sophie and Josh are the couple who still whisper and kiss and make out in public long after everyone else has stopped. After six years together, they still have sex a lot, two or three times a day, pretty much every day, and often in stupid places too. They are always on the verge of being caught.
One day they are. While Josh is groping Sophie outside a stranger’s house, the owners of the house come home. Sophie is embarrassed, and tries to slip away, but to her surprise, the couple who’ve just caught them seem to want to watch.
She is even more surprised to realize she doesn’t care, and neither does Josh. So they do. They let the other couple watch, while Sophie gets off on Josh’s fingers. And then they are asked inside, and the talking and flirting seems to be leading to partner-swapping, in the gentlest, politest way imaginable.
Sophie isn’t shocked. She actually thinks it might be fun, and Josh seems interested too. Sophie is sure their relationship is strong enough to survive any problems this might cause, so she lets herself be talked into sharing sex with another couple. And it turns out to be one of the best things she has ever done.
One day they are. While Josh is groping Sophie outside a stranger’s house, the owners of the house come home. Sophie is embarrassed, and tries to slip away, but to her surprise, the couple who’ve just caught them seem to want to watch.
She is even more surprised to realize she doesn’t care, and neither does Josh. So they do. They let the other couple watch, while Sophie gets off on Josh’s fingers. And then they are asked inside, and the talking and flirting seems to be leading to partner-swapping, in the gentlest, politest way imaginable.
Sophie isn’t shocked. She actually thinks it might be fun, and Josh seems interested too. Sophie is sure their relationship is strong enough to survive any problems this might cause, so she lets herself be talked into sharing sex with another couple. And it turns out to be one of the best things she has ever done.
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First published March 1, 2013
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About the author
Tess Mackenzie
55 books34 followersHey goodreads! Um, hi. Wave.
So first, thank you to everyone for being interested enough to read this. And the stories. Really, just thank you all heaps for reading what I've written until now, and wanting to read other things, and just for everything, really. I'm really, really grateful to everyone who's interested.
And thank you also to whoever is putting books up here. That's cool, and I really appreciate it!
So what’s going on with my books is a bit weird and kind of confusing, and I just wanted to explain properly so it’s clear.
Basically, everything I write is free to read on my website, or on Wattpad, and usually on Smashwords too, including all the stories in the anthology collection books that are for sale some places.
What happens is I mostly write short stories, and as I write them I put them up those places. Then, after a while, the anthologies collect the existing stories, and bundle them into tidier ebooks and print books.
So the stories in the anthologies are the same ones as are in the individual, single ebooks, and the ebooks can be read free, all over the place, if you’d rather to that.
So this is just to say all that, so no-one doesn’t realize and feels cheated or something. And also, I hope I used enough bold!
The anthologies at the moment are...
Getting Into a Girl's Shorts: Short Sometimes-Erotic Fiction about Women With Women
It Doesn't Always Rain: A Collection of Literary Erotica
Squishy Group Hugs: Collected Smut
...and the book pages at Amazon or wherever say which stories are in where.
So basically, there's no need to pay for anything unless you want to, and there’s nothing unique in the paid books, so don’t go thinking otherwise.
Which all sounds a bit weird right? Everything's free except it isn't?
Basically, while it would be nice to sell billions of books one day, I really also just want people to read what I write, and I also don't want anyone to feel pressured to hand over money, and this is how it ended up. So all a bit Wattpad, and that way of doing things, rather than the more normal print-book kind of model. And also yes, it is basically a devious plan to, um, I don't know, win you over, I guess, and guilt you into one day eventually buying things. But really, really mild guilt, I completely promise. So don't worry if you never end up buying anything. Read all the same!
So anyway. We're all clear on how this works now? Yay!
Um, what else. So just to say this too, really clearly, so I don't accidentally offend someone or something, I WRITE EROTICA so anything near me is potentially rude. Please don't get offended and then upset and then angry. Anger is bad for you and whatnot.
Um, yeah. Sorry to shout.
And I'm not here especially often either, so just to say that in case I haven't found the inbox or something! I'll work it out.
So that's all.
Except, just, thank you for reading what I’ve written until now. It makes a big difference that people are, and I’m starting to get the hang of all this, I think! So thank you.
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December 11, 2013
First, let me start off with saying this book was written well - when you consider it from a stylistic viewpoint. It had form, and somebody took the time to lector it.
I seem to NOT be open to couples ménages. It’s kind of funny – because I like reading most taboos out there, and I am no stranger to sharing as a theme. Sadly, the couple swapping is just too weird for me. I think it’s a theme that has too many factors,too many variables. It’s nearly impossible to make it work. Plus, I don’t like swinging either, and this hits too close to that. It just doesn’t scream commitment to me, and I like commitment. Sex games are all fine and dandy, but if it smacks of stale relationships, then I want no part of it. There are exceptions to this, and I applaud authors that pull it off. Now, after I pointed out that I do cringe over swapping of any kind, I have to underline that I found the emotional turmoil underdeveloped in the extreme. I would like to say that this statement is based sorely on facts, and not preference.
If you want to sell me a romance that is unconventional, you need to focus on details. You need to convince me to like it. You are not selling a book to just one erotica fan – you are selling it to the general mass of erotica readers. Sure, it’s all hot. Sex sells, and all that. And it is a novella, so page time is limited. But, I need a solid reason to remember a read for more than 10 minutes after reading it, not to mention liking it enough to recommend to friends. This book is selling sex, but in a way that leans toward porn. We are all sexual creatures, true. Alas, if I’m reading a sexy book, the accent, for me, is on the fact that it’s a book and not a two-bit newspaper sold by a creepy guy at the all-night market.
The characters were crazily accepting. We are stuck solely in the head of a female member of one of the pairs, so development is lacking on that front as well. Still, it could have been overrode by dialogue. Full sex between criss-crossed partners was not shown ‘on-screen’, but it was implied as something that is a fixed point in the future. Yet, even thought the main couple is unsure about their footing in decision making, the sexiness of the situation is constantly pushed at the reader. Jealousy and comparison (between the artfulness of the different females) is glossed over. Please, even Tiffany Reisz books, that have so much partner swapping you need a map, deal with the motive of jealous partners as a realistic factor. Comparison is a fact of life. It's human nature. All the same, in this particular book, the author wants to wrap it all in to a pretty bow with the ending – in which the couples start ‘dating’. The decision making behind this move was, yet again, done behind the scenes, leaving the story lacking and the plot with major holes. Btw, me? I would never start dating somebody as a couple foursome after a few weeks of sex and two outings. But that’s me, all responsible about life altering decisions. Crazy person here! Watch out!
Even as a free read, this novella didn’t do much for me. The whole experience was blah, especially since it was a read that had a kind of ‘If you dare read it’ label. I dared. And even though the theme is not something I usually go for, I wasn’t bothered enough to rant. The fact that characters lacked depth, and their adventure was utterly deprived of natural growth - was strong enough to deter me from anything else.
I seem to NOT be open to couples ménages. It’s kind of funny – because I like reading most taboos out there, and I am no stranger to sharing as a theme. Sadly, the couple swapping is just too weird for me. I think it’s a theme that has too many factors,too many variables. It’s nearly impossible to make it work. Plus, I don’t like swinging either, and this hits too close to that. It just doesn’t scream commitment to me, and I like commitment. Sex games are all fine and dandy, but if it smacks of stale relationships, then I want no part of it. There are exceptions to this, and I applaud authors that pull it off. Now, after I pointed out that I do cringe over swapping of any kind, I have to underline that I found the emotional turmoil underdeveloped in the extreme. I would like to say that this statement is based sorely on facts, and not preference.
If you want to sell me a romance that is unconventional, you need to focus on details. You need to convince me to like it. You are not selling a book to just one erotica fan – you are selling it to the general mass of erotica readers. Sure, it’s all hot. Sex sells, and all that. And it is a novella, so page time is limited. But, I need a solid reason to remember a read for more than 10 minutes after reading it, not to mention liking it enough to recommend to friends. This book is selling sex, but in a way that leans toward porn. We are all sexual creatures, true. Alas, if I’m reading a sexy book, the accent, for me, is on the fact that it’s a book and not a two-bit newspaper sold by a creepy guy at the all-night market.
The characters were crazily accepting. We are stuck solely in the head of a female member of one of the pairs, so development is lacking on that front as well. Still, it could have been overrode by dialogue. Full sex between criss-crossed partners was not shown ‘on-screen’, but it was implied as something that is a fixed point in the future. Yet, even thought the main couple is unsure about their footing in decision making, the sexiness of the situation is constantly pushed at the reader. Jealousy and comparison (between the artfulness of the different females) is glossed over. Please, even Tiffany Reisz books, that have so much partner swapping you need a map, deal with the motive of jealous partners as a realistic factor. Comparison is a fact of life. It's human nature. All the same, in this particular book, the author wants to wrap it all in to a pretty bow with the ending – in which the couples start ‘dating’. The decision making behind this move was, yet again, done behind the scenes, leaving the story lacking and the plot with major holes. Btw, me? I would never start dating somebody as a couple foursome after a few weeks of sex and two outings. But that’s me, all responsible about life altering decisions. Crazy person here! Watch out!
Even as a free read, this novella didn’t do much for me. The whole experience was blah, especially since it was a read that had a kind of ‘If you dare read it’ label. I dared. And even though the theme is not something I usually go for, I wasn’t bothered enough to rant. The fact that characters lacked depth, and their adventure was utterly deprived of natural growth - was strong enough to deter me from anything else.
December 11, 2013
Guess it's time to put this author to bed. This is the fourth book I've read from her and undoubtedly the worst. Don't get me wrong...she knows how to include hot scenes, but that's about it.
July 5, 2013
Four Together kept me interested from the start and was a quick read. I liked how things got to the point and the character descriptions left it up to your imagination to fill in the blanks.
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April 6, 2017
Smart, smutty. Got perhaps a little "same"y as it went on (it's about novella length, and at least 70% sex--not a complaint!) but had some very interesting scenes of characters who are rather more adventurous than the norm negotiating as they figure out their boundaries. And I'm always a slut for erotic negotiation.
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