She cheated. And it turned him on. Travis never thought his wife would cheat on him. Never considered it once in nineteen long years of marriage...until Rick entered their lives. Travis never thought an affair would turn him on...until he found Annie’s diary and started reading about his wife’s attraction to her new, younger editor. Confident and attractive, Rick made his intentions clear. He wanted Annie, and she responded. She was tempted. She was attracted. She was conflicted. Suddenly, Travis is able to see Annie the way Rick does—the way he used to before his perception was dulled by the long years of marriage. Annie is an attractive, smart, fun woman, with an adventurous side ready to be unleashed. Travis never thought he’d want to watch his wife sleep with another man...until he did. And then it became his obsession. Annie’s Affair follows Travis as he witnesses his wife fall into the arms of another man, and becomes just as complicit in the betrayal as his wife.
I have read most of Kenny Wright's novels. I thought that Training to Love It, Just Watch Me and The Girlfriend Experience were the top of the Hotwife class. This isn't precisely a hotwife book, but I thought it was fantastic!
Frequently these types of books are written from the husband's POV. This book brought much of the wife's perspective in through her diaries and a little espionage through the husband, which made for a really wonderful story. Together there was a great deal of foreshadowing and explanation, which made the actual events even more exciting.
This book had less character development than I prefer in these types of stories. While the diaries explained some of the wife Annie's thinking, I didn't feel she or husband Travis really grew through the experience. There were elements of her thinking in the last chapter, but it wasn't clear her thought processes were fully engaged, or explained, as she fell completely into the affair.
I feel the discussion about people in long term relationships becoming disinterested is a genuine problem that this book highlights. It would be interesting to see these authors tackle the boredom issue where a couple pulls back from the brink and reinvents their marriage.
While the above might be viewed as a criticism, the rest of the story is so strong and the sex so hot - both husband and lover - I really wish I could give it a mark above a 5.
I sincerely enjoyed the diary entries. This again proves what an excellent author Kirsten McCurran is. I have enjoyed many of her stories. I look forward to reading the next books from these authors and commend them on their outstanding collaboration.
All in all a well written book with lots of steamy stuff. I generally don't read books with cheating involved but both of the authors of this book have written so many other books I have loved that I thought I would give this one a shot. I wasn't disappointed and with all of Kenny Wrights' books there is a HEA. This one definitely threw a curve at the whole hot wife, cuckold genre and it works in this context. I also enjoyed the fact that the female perspective of the diary entries was actually written by Kirsten McCurran, another author who I enjoy. Good story and very well written and if you want steamy sex scenes you won't be disappointed.
I thought the story had an interesting angle. It jumped right into the action, which was nice. And the sex scenes were written well. Unfortunately, none of the situations felt very real to me. I didn't quite like the husband's perspective. And Annie in particular didn't seem like the smart, independent women she was purported to be.
Overall, an okay reading experience, just not quite what I was looking for.
Shame about the redundant parenthesised subtitle in the title to this book, as I feel it dumbs it down unnecessarily.
That one quibble aside, this was a great read. I love that Annie did what she did for herself, that she never stopped loving her husband, and that she believed he didn't know what she was up to. I prefer stories told from a woman's perspective, and Annie's diary entries fulfilled this requirement well enough.
If infidelity is your thing, this is one of the better cheating stories I've read. Lots of steamy scenes between Annie and the other man, and with her husband, with a satisfactory resolution that sees the marriage survive with both partners on the path to a stable future together.
This will cut deep if you think your wife could behave like Annie. Annie is smart, well educated, but something is missing in her life. The man she is married to has become complacent, less virile, and so she turns to a good looking younger man, to take his place. She becomes his slut (her words) submissive betraying her husband. Now her husband begins to suspect something and turns to Annie's secret diary. The rest is the story
Another great story by two of my favorite writers in this genre. The story of an affair that awakens something in the husband and the wife. A situation that could destroy a marriage but ultimately makes it stronger and so much sexier.
Wow, just wow. I just finished re-reading this for the second time. It's 6:00 a.m., and there's no way I can even think about sleep, or going to work, or doing anything.
This book brought back every horrible, awful, painful memory I have of my first marriage. A failed first marriage. What happened to Travis is so close to what happened to me, the first time through, I kept putting my Kindle away. I couldn't keep reading.
My ex-wife cheated on me much the same way Annie did in this book, with a co-worker. And while I enjoy the cuckold genre, I'm not, nor could I ever be, a cuckold.
No spoilers, but I could never have handled it the way Travis does. I'm too jealous of a guy.
I'm not writing a review at this time. I can't. I will in a few days or maybe weeks.
I have to say Kenny Wright is masterful. I haven't read Kirsten McCurran's books before, but her diary entries were a genius move.
Sorry Kenny, your writing is great as always. But this one is just not my cup of tea. Just couldn't get into the whole cheating wife plot. But at least now I know. And also, way too long. Thanks for your work though.
Certainly an interesting read , and one that would recommend one that would read again, slightly mind provoking on the issue about "what if" he hadn't mentioned the diary at the end though, don't know if there's any mileage left in the storyline .
This is a well-written book about a troubled married couple. There’s an illicit affair by the wife with a younger man. Her husband becomes so obsessed with his wife’s affair that he allowed it to continue so he could spy on his wife and lover in the car, in the bedroom and online.
The most explicit parts are described in diaries kept by the wife (written by co-author Kristen McCurran) that the husband secretly discovered. The diaries detailed how the wife allowed herself to be seduced by an aggressive younger man who was also her boss. The sex scenes, while explicit, aren't this point of this book. Instead, we are presented with a couple who didn’t understand each other’s sexual motivations and needs, even after 20 years together. When the couple confronted both the wife’s affair and the husband’s kinky obsession with it, they sought out therapy which resulted in a semi-HEA.
I’ve read a number of Kenny Wrights books & this is right up there with the best of them. You have to keep reading to see how the situation will end. Hot and very well written. I will have the reader hooked.