Colin always had one burning to see his wife in the arms of another man.
He knew he was luckier than most guys with the fantasy. His wife, Dana, didn't threaten to leave him when she found out. They've talked about it. Roleplayed.
Everything but doing it.
Only their kids are getting older, and they're off on a weeklong vacation at a resort and amusement park where they suddenly find themselves with way more free time than they've had in years. And suddenly Dana is acting like maybe she'd be willing to dip her toes in the fantasy at long last!
But a fantasy this dangerous can never be simple. Colin always swore he was only interested in watching Dana, but all that changes when a beautiful woman approaches him. A beautiful woman who has some experience of her own in this fantasy, and wants to share this moment with Colin and Dana...
Twists, turns, and all sorts of unexpected new experiences await in Vacation Share, a 120,000 doorstopper of a hotwife novel from Lexi Archer, author of your favorite books about wives who stray and the husbands who love them for it!
Firstly, I’ve enjoyed many of this author’s works. And it’s obvious this book must have been a labor of love for her. She is a great storyteller and it’s well written.
But I feel obligated to let you know what you’re up against if you decide to tackle this book. Mainly, of the eight hundred-plus pages, at least seven hundred are the husband's self-talk and dialogue with his wife. I can only assume Lexi wanted to instill as much reality as she could into the married couple's journey toward wife-sharing.
Colin and Dana take their two teenage children on vacation to a resort and amusement park. The kids are old enough to roam on their own which leaves the parents with alone time to discuss (lots of discussion ) Colin’s long-held fantasy of sharing his wife with another man. Reluctant at first, Dana finally agrees to test the waters. When he sees her leave the pool with a strange man he instantly begins to doubt his fantasy. But in the meantime, he's hit on by a younger blonde woman and goes back to the room for some playtime himself.
Eventually, they hook up with a younger couple for some mutual sharing and caring. The sex scenes are ok I guess but it took so long to get there they were kind of anticlimactic.
This is a bit unique in that all of the sexual shenanigans are within a stone's throw of hundreds of other tourists and in the adjoining room of their teenage children.
Again, well written, but just so long and with anti-climatic sex scenes, that I had to go with just three stars. But if you like reading seven hours of self-talk then you should enjoy this book.
I rented this from Kindle Unlimited for free. I will NOT BE BUYING THIS! This is a story about a couple who have been married for seventeen years. They are both thirty nine and have been together for twenty years. They have two teenage kids. Steve booked a trip to a theme park and rented a hotel onsite with separate rooms for the kids a good distance from their own. Colin’s hope is to talk Angela into being shared. It’s been a fantasy for several years. The early part of the book involves his efforts to seduce her into making it a reality. The dialogue is very good, but it tends to get overly repetitive. The same points repeat ad nauseam. The couple are attractive and very close. She’s afraid it will come between, and rightfully so. The premise that a woman approaching forty, with two kids, who has a body that is acknowledged as ‘hot’, should not be difficult to convince the point. She had to work to accomplish that. It’s nearly impossible without effort, diet, and exercise. (plus good genes). Angela takes a lot of convincing that she’s gawker bait. Her confidence is lacking. This is a section of the book that could stand editing. I disagree with the premise that men approaching forty get sporadic erections just talking to their wives. It’s not as common at forty as it might have been in their twenty’s. The machinery is no longer as finely tuned. Now, as planning occurs, that might change. It’s a big difference when things appear to being forthcoming. This entire plot is an effort to explain how couple get into to sharing spontaneously. The results are more exciting than the other motivations. Infidelity, from either partner, is a product of deceit and lying. A very few stories are spontaneous one offs. Jason Lenov’s ‘Craving’ is a classic. Ms Archer uses all too much self dialogue. What man, while putting sunscreen on a strange woman, has his finger up her, making her cum, and while that’s happening, goes ruminating about Instant Messaging and it’s impact on dating? Let alone a half page of it. Timing kinda sucks. Thats a thought stream best left for another time. She needs an editor with better scissors. We only get into Colin’s head. Time would be better spent, if we also spent some time in Dana’s, instead of ultradeep, exploration of Colin’s. All this time spent in the cuckolds brain is good for angst, but terrible for concise reading. This story is about setting up two couples to introduce swinging and sharing. Colin and Dana, Grace and Dan. The older couple are nearly forty, the younger couple are in their upper twenties. Grace approaches Colin as he’s watching Dana from across the pool as she plays with a stranger. Grace knows what she’s seeing and initiates play with Colin. Dana gets jealous as she’s cumming from Adrian (stranger), so she gets up and goes to his room for sex. Colin notices her absence and they go to his room to see if Dana’s there. She isn’t. When Dana texts him a picture of what she’s doing, Colin and Grace do the same. When Dana gets back to the room, Grace and Colin are finishing. When the door ‘clicks’ open, Colin and Grace have a three minute conversation,. “who is it’? Can we hide? Will she be angry? Where can she hide? Colin and Grace talk back and forth with several comments,.....ALL BEFORE DANA STEPS IN TO BE SEEN! (she would be faster in a broken wheel chair.) Dana just came back to the room after her infidelity, finds Colin doing the same, and she's pissed. This technique and style continues when the four of them are together to consummate the flirting. The four of them are on the same kingsized bed, and Grace is playing with Colin. Dan is playing with Dana. The choreography is a joke. You can’t picture anything from the description of what’s happening. What you get is Dan ruminating about Emily Post and Dan Savage (Whats the polite way to behave) as he’s excited watching Dan and Dana and ignoring Grace’s activity. This goes on for pages and pages. Conversations between all four in conjunction with the ‘activity’.
I started this book four months ago. I like Ms Archer, but this book is screaming for a content editor. Far, Far too much self dialogue for inside Colin’s mind and not enough action. It needs to be trimmed by 70%. Allow us to see a bit inside Dana’s mind, and clean up the hideous choreography. I stopped reading out of disgust, but it’s a borrowed book and I am loath to return it without at least scanning it to the end. It’s not any better the second time. The characters are likable, the emotions appear genuine. His thoughts would be interesting if they were reflection after the fact, but to interject them as overlays on the events taking place are overdone to the point of being repulsive. Edit, Edit, Edit, Edit. There’s so much fat the meat is lost.
The real irony is that in every last sentence of the fantasy he mentions,... it’s all about WATCHING HER play. In the last chapter she makes a habit of turning him into a cuckold. She runs off to flirt and screw another guy in private. The verb in all his sentences,.. WATCH,... goes to hell.
He watches her,.. pick the guy up. The best way to end that, is let her WATCH hubby out with a paid escort. Nothing changes their attitude like competition.
This is a long book to start with. It has interesting, likeable characters. It is well written as her books usually are but it seems she put a little extra work in this one. There is a slow build up, but it is always interesting. The sex is very good and not so over the top that it becomes silly. Highly recommended.