Laura's Dark Side: A Wife Sharing Romance Kindle Edition

Laura & Chris have a marriage that is on cruise control, and their tank is running low on sexual fuel. All of a sudden, their close friends, Jenna & Rob, go screaming by in the marital fast lane, with Jenna in the hotwife driver’s seat and Rob happily along for the ride. Jenna plays the perfect temptress, helping Laura embrace her darkest of secrets with some deliciously scripted driving lessons, with Arnica’s incredible writing yet again separating her from the field as one of the leading authors in this genre.When all is said and done, Jenna convinces Laura to take a pit stop, with Chris giving Laura the green light to fill up the tank, take the wheel and explore her own marital fast lane on the Hotwife Speedway. Chris is thrilled to be in the stands, with a front row seat at the finish line.PLEASE write the sequel, Arnica. Let’s see how dark Laura can get when she and Chris give Tony the keys . .

Butler’s stories are always artfully told. This is no exception.I particularly liked her turning around one of her own story gimmicks. Usually, her cuck husband is an emotional mess, stumbling blindly around, so slain by his wife’s hotwife hotness is he. He’s too confused and panicked to get out a coherent sentence.Here, it’s the putative hotwife herself. Laura becomes tongue-tied and reticent as the chance for some strange develops. Her husband Chris is the calm one. Laura can hardly converse with a hot guy coming on to her in a club while she’s out with her wild friend Jenna, already a hotwife. Jenna and the men laugh at her; she’s like a hot librarian, they say.The couple’s non-verbal nature has made their marriage tepid. They don’t know what to say to each other anymore, not even when they get a date night away from kids.They realize simultaneously while watching Jenna make out with a black guy one night that they are both turned on. Their own subsequent sex confirms it. But even when Chris tries to talk about it, even when it’s clear he’s okay with Laura experimenting, she can neither agree out loud nor admit it to herself.She’s ready to go down Shame Road even as she begins and enjoys her adventures. This isn’t what wives and mothers do! She never consciously decides to do anything, not even when she goes all the way in the finale. She just keeps getting sucked into it, mostly by Jenna, and going along.“Laure’s Dark Side” has a nice double edge to it. Yes, she develops an obsession with BBC. But it’s also about how she regards the whole thing: letting out a side of herself so bad that she can’t face it, forcing it to lurk in the shadows until the beast just busts out.

A husband doesn’t react this way. Missing the realism of how a husband would react killed this story.He was angry and then all of a sudden he wasn’t. That is not how humans behave. This story would have been much better if it had taken the time for them to deal with how the emotions would have really worked.And no way would a husband let his wife be anywhere near a woman like Jenna once she showed her true colors. She didn’t care an ounce for their marriage. She would have split them up in a heart beat. She had no soul.And then lastly, Laura was nothing but a cheating wife with a terribly weak husband. It would be so refreshing if these stories had a strong husband who could let his wife have this pleasure because he was strong... not because he was weak. Thanks a tragedy.

Arnica Butler defined reparations with this lengthy story of sexual greed and intimate inadequacy. This cuckolding lifestyle is the wanderers bitch. The music has to stop even for the most profoundly eager marriages. Chris and Laura won't be getting any take backs and the justification of these painful means is that in the end I'm convinced they both got what they wanted and deserved. Im not throwing stones in a world made of glass. The fragility of marriages in today's less restrictive times finds structure and rules eaaier to find. Arnica does a great job painting her picture and developing her characters. It's the reader who takes the chance. This one scores well in that the protagonist, the cuckold is the hero. Allbeit, the last to come to the table, when he arrives, he finds his wife has already been fed. The confidence of her lover made waiting worth it's weight. Masculinity seems to be the secret ingredient and yet set aside he met his wife for the first time. Should he hate himself or thank the man who found her? In my opinion, it doesn't matter. For Chris, he let his wife show him his place and he was to be happy he was late. This fantasy is so hard to accept, Arnica confirms it by making it real. I would love to think this could be successful but making mistakes this irreversable are for authors and to me that's the greatest appeal.

First off I would like to say I like Arnica as a author and have a lot of her books.Some I like, some I am indeffereynt to and some are hot as hell!She has a knack of drawing the reader into her stories with just enough details to peak his imagination enough to fell in blanks to suit himself.Her sex scenes definitely stir you up!But sex without a believable storyline can be as uninspiring as a storyline without the expected sex.I didn't like the incessant mind games in this story, why go on and on describing an emotional self debate when a sentence or two was more than sufficient.I also didn't get the wife's sudden change and never got the vibe there was any jelious worry on the husband's part.The thrill is the risk of something happening you hadn't expected of loosing something you hadn't expected to loose but they lived through it.The old adage, you don't know what you have until you loose it is so true. Sorry for the rambling review.This is in no way a critism of the author just this story.

A really excellent book. It starts by building the characters, Laura and Chris who are very rounded and believable individuals.Then the story slowly unfolds, and it is excellent.What I found surprising about this book is how I could really “see” both main charachters. It made the later developments in the story much more powerful.My only quibble is that it felt about 100 pages too short and I doubt there will be a sequel given where the story ended but a very worthwhile read.Try to pace yourself and really savour it rather than succumb to the temptation to binge read it. It is worth taking your time.

While it didn't break new boundaries, and did involve a lot of the usual stereotypes in this niche market - the black bull - the hotel room/bar, nevertheless well executed

Story had nice balance between Laura's life style and the sex content. As always, book delivered on time and in fair condition for its' previous use. Thanks Awesome Books.

Long, slow, tantalising build up, decent characters (characterisation is generally poor in this genre, but this is an exception). Really enjoyed it.

Laura and Chris are a fairly typical couple. Successful careers but after two kids and 12 yrs of marriage, they’ve lost their connection and a way forward for their marriage. On a first date night in a long time, it’s all going wrong until they see the wife of close friends (Jenna) on an apparent “date” of her own. That’s the flake that starts the snowball rolling for their marriage.This story was riveting from start to finish. As the story progresses, the couple begins to communicated more and, although they weren’t always on the same track, they always came back together.The story isn’t overly dependent on sex, but what there is is emotional and compelling. Fortunately, over the course of the book, they discover their two fantasy lives/kinks are complimentary.I’m a character development guy; I want to see couples like this grow personally and together. Their adventures certainly help to resurrect their sex life and assist their develop as individuals. Laura feels/carries herself as if she’s a too tall mouse; it’s wonderful to see her confidence soar. Rob has some hidden fantasies; over the course of the book, he’s able to embrace and enjoy them.Their friends Rob and Jenna have some sort of a Hotwife relationship. Jenna is definitely on the wild side, yet she’s an invaluable instigator in Laura’s development. How she advances Laura’s evolution is a study in leadership. Rob is a great sounding board and supporter of Chris while Chris navigates his uncharted waters. As the story approaches its crescendo, it’s Jenna that has the intelligence, insight, connections and interpersonal skills to orchestrate the finale.I wouldn’t call this a Hotwife/Cuck story. I’ve only recently become aware of Stag/Vixen relationships. I’m feeling this is more Stag/Vixen as Laura can be encouraged but not dominated and Chris doesn’t back down yet let’s things unfold. (I do admit I’m baffled when a woman or man administers a fantastic BJ, particularly from their knees, that it’s assumed they’re submissive - I simply conclude they like sex and are good at it.) To my mind the jury is still out on how this relationship unfolds. Only a sequel will answer for sure.