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Cyber Lovers
Feel free to invent the next 24 hours... we can do anything we want in this world... we have no restrictions from other people, or time constraints... it's just us, in our cyber world'. Michelle and Mike reunite via the internet. Twenty years before, when they were work colleagues married to other people, they had had a brief but intensely passionate affair, only to end the relationship to save their marriages. Now they find themselves remembering the shared interests and views that first drew them together. The months pass, and they gradually move from e-mails to texting to video calls, always wondering if today is the day they will be found out. This new cyber world' they find themselves in offers them the opportunity to embark on a new, vibrant, no-holds-barred, virtual' relationship, based on the joyously blissful moments they had shared all those years earlier. As they become ever closer in their imagined life as a couple, they find themselves asking the question: will they ever meet again in the flesh? Written as a series of e-mails and instant interactive texting, this novel is full of LOVE, LUST, ROMANCE, SEDUCTION, EMOTION; it is RAUNCHY, PASSIONATE, EROTIC and SENSUAL. You will not only feel Michelle and Mike's love... you will almost be able to taste it... Tender as well as explicit, this is a must-read for anyone who has ever indulged in a forbidden love affair, found love on the internet, or indulged in cybersex!
475 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 19, 2014
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March 24, 2015
I have come across the cover a few times on social media, and eventually curiosity got the better of me. Initially it was a difficult read, is it took me well out of my comfort zone! It felt strange, like I was peeking secretly into someone's personal e-mails, and reading their inner most intimate thoughts! Which of course, I was...
D.Turner did an amazing job, keeping a consistent awareness throughout the book of the world just beyond the physical. I became drawn in, almost excitedly waiting to see how he - or she - will respond to the mails, messages or [eventually] the adventure of video calling!
"NAUGHTY" She told him, which made me chuckle, as she is no angel herself!
The book is raunchy, sultry and I had to put it down a few times to contemplate the world they have chosen to be in, together. It is laced with love, growth, insecurity and difficulty - with the added danger of being discovered. Having spend lots of time with my husband on skype and Second Life [still one of our most favorite get-away weekend times!] I could easily relate to the environment being created between the pair.
I have to comment on the love-scenes between the two as well - I think it is beautiful how D.Turner did not always go full on crude and crass - but at time their exchanges were poetic, beautifully prosed - bringing warmth, passion and desire to the forefront. The intensity of their emotions cannot be dismissed and the longing for the 'real' thing seeps through.
The book wasn't what I expected, it was however, more than I bargained for. I think anyone who has been in a long-distanced relationship [and I know of so many who are!] this book will grip you around the heart tightly, give you a big hug and let you know "We know what it is like!" If you have never been in such a relationship - it will certainly open your eyes to the 'realness' of living and loving in this way.
You can approach the book from two sides:
1. As a erotic romance
2. As a reality of life and long distance romances.
Whichever you do, the book will play on your mind quite a bit! For me, it left me wondering "How are they? Did they get to where they wanted to be? Will they continue this new beginning, creating sexy cocktails in slinky dresses and beautiful settings?"
Well done, on the creation of this book, on the newness of the idea and of taking romance into an era not often explored!!
xxx
Adri
D.Turner did an amazing job, keeping a consistent awareness throughout the book of the world just beyond the physical. I became drawn in, almost excitedly waiting to see how he - or she - will respond to the mails, messages or [eventually] the adventure of video calling!
"NAUGHTY" She told him, which made me chuckle, as she is no angel herself!
The book is raunchy, sultry and I had to put it down a few times to contemplate the world they have chosen to be in, together. It is laced with love, growth, insecurity and difficulty - with the added danger of being discovered. Having spend lots of time with my husband on skype and Second Life [still one of our most favorite get-away weekend times!] I could easily relate to the environment being created between the pair.
I have to comment on the love-scenes between the two as well - I think it is beautiful how D.Turner did not always go full on crude and crass - but at time their exchanges were poetic, beautifully prosed - bringing warmth, passion and desire to the forefront. The intensity of their emotions cannot be dismissed and the longing for the 'real' thing seeps through.
The book wasn't what I expected, it was however, more than I bargained for. I think anyone who has been in a long-distanced relationship [and I know of so many who are!] this book will grip you around the heart tightly, give you a big hug and let you know "We know what it is like!" If you have never been in such a relationship - it will certainly open your eyes to the 'realness' of living and loving in this way.
You can approach the book from two sides:
1. As a erotic romance
2. As a reality of life and long distance romances.
Whichever you do, the book will play on your mind quite a bit! For me, it left me wondering "How are they? Did they get to where they wanted to be? Will they continue this new beginning, creating sexy cocktails in slinky dresses and beautiful settings?"
Well done, on the creation of this book, on the newness of the idea and of taking romance into an era not often explored!!
xxx
Adri
November 19, 2015
D. Turner's "Cyber Lovers" is a voyeuristic experience as you read the private and personal 21st century correspondence between two lovers who are married to different people. Twenty years ago, Mike and Michelle had an affair that was eventually discovered by their partners. Forced to go their separate ways, they never lost the love and passion that they felt for one another.
When they are reunited online, the two lovers rekindle their affair. The only difference this time is that they are limited to the cyber world of email, texting, and Skype. Feeling safe in their cyber world, they begin to piece together an ideal life in which they are married to each other. The reader is given an experience not unlike peering over the shoulders of the participants as they take trips together and build a home on an island in the Indian Ocean. This erotic read is definitely for adult eyes only as they graphically depict sensual, torrid sexual fantasies.
These exchanges became the basis for the book that is presented for us to enjoy, and enjoy it I did!
When they are reunited online, the two lovers rekindle their affair. The only difference this time is that they are limited to the cyber world of email, texting, and Skype. Feeling safe in their cyber world, they begin to piece together an ideal life in which they are married to each other. The reader is given an experience not unlike peering over the shoulders of the participants as they take trips together and build a home on an island in the Indian Ocean. This erotic read is definitely for adult eyes only as they graphically depict sensual, torrid sexual fantasies.
These exchanges became the basis for the book that is presented for us to enjoy, and enjoy it I did!
April 19, 2017
A Brilliant and Absorbing Contemporary Erotica Read
Cyber Lovers is one of the best erotic contemporaries I’ve read in a really long time. The book opens with a Preface giving the reader a glimpse of the back story behind an affair twenty years past between a woman named Michelle and a man named Mike. The two had met, fell in love, and had a brief affair while both were married to other partners. The affair eventually was found out and ended when both Michelle and Mike made the decision to remain with their respective spouses and patch up their marriages. Fast forward to twenty years later. The story takes place in the era when the Internet began to play a prominent role in people's everyday life. A time when ordinary people experienced their first tastes of a technological advancement that allowed them to communicate and interact instantly with others from whom they were physically distant. The technology made this interaction both instant and immediately gratifying via email, interactive text messaging, and Skype video calls. While Michelle and Mike had parted and returned to their respective spouses and families, they had remained in touch through infrequent telephone calls. The story proper opens when Mike provides his email address to Michelle, and through the magic of the online world, they start to communicate with each other again on a near daily basis. Predictably, the renewal of their acquaintance awakens old feelings and rekindles old affections that the passage of time had never quite managed to extinguish. At first, the emails are characterized as chummy catch-ups between two people who had once been intimate, but as one would expect, with regular interaction restored, things quickly heat up, and the embers from the long-past affair are kindled once again into a raging fire of lust. In addition to regular emails, the two are soon interactively connecting through chat, and eventually, video calls via Skype. The two do eventually get together in the physical sense near the end of the tale, but their cyber interaction via the Internet is the true focus of the book which one might expect given the title. Most anyone over the age of 35 can likely recall the time when communicating with others online became such a regular and integral part of our daily lives. Some of us might also admit that we too have had our own personal experiences with "cyber love." Reading this book will no doubt bring to mind for many readers some of the romantic and licentious relationships we may have forged with distant past partners via an Internet connection. For some, those relationships may have remained firmly rooted in the virtual world, while others may have eventually been physically consummated in the desert of the real. If any of that applies to you, then expect Cyber Lovers to provoke a personal trip down memory lane in that regard. Make no mistake, this book is firmly in the erotica camp. Do expect to read some very explicit and graphic sexually-charged commentary as Michelle and Mike share their lustful desires for one another online. There is, of course, no shortage of slang words that tend to be used between people during informal speech and while engaged in sexual intimacy online, terms referring both to male and female sexual bits as well as vivid descriptions of various erotic couplings. That's to be expected of course since Michelle and Mike describe to each other what they desperately long to share with each other sexually on the physical plane. That is, after all, no pun intended, the overarching thrust of the book. Still, in my opinion, there was nothing in the pages of Cyber Lovers that would offend the sensibilities of the average sexually open adult who enjoys a bit of titillating reading. The subject of engaging in online sexual interaction was I thought handled quite tastefully and was not at all presented in a crude or salacious manner, the type of writing that too often defines erotic literature. The fact that the online sexual interaction between Michelle and Mike take place against the backdrop of the reawakening of true romantic love rather than just a bit of self-serving prurient fun aimed at relieving some concupiscent impulses is really what makes this book work. While Cyber Lovers appeals on many levels, the thing I found most compelling was the unique stylistic manner in which it was presented. The book is written in an interesting, and I'd say experimental point of view. There is a bit of third person point of view by a detached observer sparingly used, but in a true sense, the authors tell the story through a series of intimate emails, interactive text messages, and Skype video calls shared by Michelle and Mike. That effectively puts the reader in the position as the third person detached observer, quite literally in a voyeuristic sense as the reader is given complete access to every private and extremely intimate online interaction between two lovers. In a real way reading the book is akin to finding and reading someone's love letters never intended to be read by anyone but those involved in the romance, or even a personal diary containing intimate and private things the writer never intended to be read by anyone. It was the voyeuristic view of Michelle and Mike exploring their sexuality and lustful thoughts and urges with each other that I think was one of the most fascinating and arousing aspects of the book. On reason, I found the book such a compelling read was because voyeurism to me, at first blush, seems a passive thing. But in this book, it is active in that it plays into the powerful dynamic of the unwitting exhibitionism of Michelle and Mike as they describe to each other again and again, the sexual acts they long to share with each other. Where's the conflict in the book? It lies in the fact that Michelle and Mike, still married to their same respective spouses, are once again engaged in an affair with each other, albeit an online one this time around. Though their love for each other seemingly knows no bounds, they both remain committed to staying in their respective marriages for the sake of their families. That, of course, makes it impossible for them to be together in the physical realm, even though they both clearly long for that. The conflict is what truly resonates and separates Cyber Lovers from the run of the mill type erotica read that merely describes again and again in excruciating detail, the various ways and means of erotic coupling between a man and a woman. I won't go so far as to say Cyber Lovers is a perfect book in every way. I can easily imagine some readers might find in tedious to read nearly 500 pages of emails, chat messages, and Skype video call narratives. But it was this unusual and unique point of view that was the aspect I found the most captivating. It served to pull me into the story very quickly and soon I felt I knew the characters as intimately as if they were old acquaintances. Overall, Cyber Lovers is an entertaining read, and if you enjoy indulging in a little erotica now and again as one of your secret guilty pleasures, I think you'll find the book an absorbing read.
Cyber Lovers is one of the best erotic contemporaries I’ve read in a really long time. The book opens with a Preface giving the reader a glimpse of the back story behind an affair twenty years past between a woman named Michelle and a man named Mike. The two had met, fell in love, and had a brief affair while both were married to other partners. The affair eventually was found out and ended when both Michelle and Mike made the decision to remain with their respective spouses and patch up their marriages. Fast forward to twenty years later. The story takes place in the era when the Internet began to play a prominent role in people's everyday life. A time when ordinary people experienced their first tastes of a technological advancement that allowed them to communicate and interact instantly with others from whom they were physically distant. The technology made this interaction both instant and immediately gratifying via email, interactive text messaging, and Skype video calls. While Michelle and Mike had parted and returned to their respective spouses and families, they had remained in touch through infrequent telephone calls. The story proper opens when Mike provides his email address to Michelle, and through the magic of the online world, they start to communicate with each other again on a near daily basis. Predictably, the renewal of their acquaintance awakens old feelings and rekindles old affections that the passage of time had never quite managed to extinguish. At first, the emails are characterized as chummy catch-ups between two people who had once been intimate, but as one would expect, with regular interaction restored, things quickly heat up, and the embers from the long-past affair are kindled once again into a raging fire of lust. In addition to regular emails, the two are soon interactively connecting through chat, and eventually, video calls via Skype. The two do eventually get together in the physical sense near the end of the tale, but their cyber interaction via the Internet is the true focus of the book which one might expect given the title. Most anyone over the age of 35 can likely recall the time when communicating with others online became such a regular and integral part of our daily lives. Some of us might also admit that we too have had our own personal experiences with "cyber love." Reading this book will no doubt bring to mind for many readers some of the romantic and licentious relationships we may have forged with distant past partners via an Internet connection. For some, those relationships may have remained firmly rooted in the virtual world, while others may have eventually been physically consummated in the desert of the real. If any of that applies to you, then expect Cyber Lovers to provoke a personal trip down memory lane in that regard. Make no mistake, this book is firmly in the erotica camp. Do expect to read some very explicit and graphic sexually-charged commentary as Michelle and Mike share their lustful desires for one another online. There is, of course, no shortage of slang words that tend to be used between people during informal speech and while engaged in sexual intimacy online, terms referring both to male and female sexual bits as well as vivid descriptions of various erotic couplings. That's to be expected of course since Michelle and Mike describe to each other what they desperately long to share with each other sexually on the physical plane. That is, after all, no pun intended, the overarching thrust of the book. Still, in my opinion, there was nothing in the pages of Cyber Lovers that would offend the sensibilities of the average sexually open adult who enjoys a bit of titillating reading. The subject of engaging in online sexual interaction was I thought handled quite tastefully and was not at all presented in a crude or salacious manner, the type of writing that too often defines erotic literature. The fact that the online sexual interaction between Michelle and Mike take place against the backdrop of the reawakening of true romantic love rather than just a bit of self-serving prurient fun aimed at relieving some concupiscent impulses is really what makes this book work. While Cyber Lovers appeals on many levels, the thing I found most compelling was the unique stylistic manner in which it was presented. The book is written in an interesting, and I'd say experimental point of view. There is a bit of third person point of view by a detached observer sparingly used, but in a true sense, the authors tell the story through a series of intimate emails, interactive text messages, and Skype video calls shared by Michelle and Mike. That effectively puts the reader in the position as the third person detached observer, quite literally in a voyeuristic sense as the reader is given complete access to every private and extremely intimate online interaction between two lovers. In a real way reading the book is akin to finding and reading someone's love letters never intended to be read by anyone but those involved in the romance, or even a personal diary containing intimate and private things the writer never intended to be read by anyone. It was the voyeuristic view of Michelle and Mike exploring their sexuality and lustful thoughts and urges with each other that I think was one of the most fascinating and arousing aspects of the book. On reason, I found the book such a compelling read was because voyeurism to me, at first blush, seems a passive thing. But in this book, it is active in that it plays into the powerful dynamic of the unwitting exhibitionism of Michelle and Mike as they describe to each other again and again, the sexual acts they long to share with each other. Where's the conflict in the book? It lies in the fact that Michelle and Mike, still married to their same respective spouses, are once again engaged in an affair with each other, albeit an online one this time around. Though their love for each other seemingly knows no bounds, they both remain committed to staying in their respective marriages for the sake of their families. That, of course, makes it impossible for them to be together in the physical realm, even though they both clearly long for that. The conflict is what truly resonates and separates Cyber Lovers from the run of the mill type erotica read that merely describes again and again in excruciating detail, the various ways and means of erotic coupling between a man and a woman. I won't go so far as to say Cyber Lovers is a perfect book in every way. I can easily imagine some readers might find in tedious to read nearly 500 pages of emails, chat messages, and Skype video call narratives. But it was this unusual and unique point of view that was the aspect I found the most captivating. It served to pull me into the story very quickly and soon I felt I knew the characters as intimately as if they were old acquaintances. Overall, Cyber Lovers is an entertaining read, and if you enjoy indulging in a little erotica now and again as one of your secret guilty pleasures, I think you'll find the book an absorbing read.
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