Swashbuckling Harem Adventures
That's the aim of Seductive Seas. Deetz knows his team has built a great game and is ready for the big release of this MMORPG. His boss, the beautiful, steely-eyed Carly, wants a final demonstration of the game's selling points, however - seductive encounters and the combat mechanics.
It isn't long before the head game designer is sucked into the story with the gorgeous, submissive NPC Zetta as he begins a quest to not only convince Carly the Seductive Seas game is ready for launch but finds himself strangely astride two worlds - and drawn to two women who could not be more different.
The Seductive Seas series is a high adventure, fantasy ero romance that has something for everyone - beautiful women, strong personalities, pirates, treasure, role-playing games, steamy encounters between the sheets, virtual reality. And an imperfect, relatable hero who struggles with doing right by multiple women and multiple worlds.
This volume includes the first four installments of the Seductive Seas.
Review written by Ray Johnson of the LitRPG Audiobook Podcast and is for the audiobook version of this story
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By: Calico Jack
Narrated by: Sierra Kline
Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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I’m going to give props where props are due. Too often I’ve read a few of these books that deal with sex one way or another in which the author knows dick about the Litrpg genre like the horrible Fantasy Swap Online by Alyson Belle or the malignantly offensive Ganged book I reviewed on this show. It is obvious that those books were written as WTM cash grabs by individuals who couldn’t care less about the Litrpg community, because they obviously didn’t invest one minute of research into any gamelit books to help with the writing of their stories.
Captain Calico Jack, however has clearly read a few lit books because he has the progression down, and the gaming crunch in the right places. As I said before, he even comes up with a pretty slick trick for a harem/adult book with chastity belts that require tasks to be performed, i.e. quest or leveling, to get them unlocked. Thus a salty dog could acquire a veritable bevy of bodacious buccaneer babes, but never get to indulge in unlawful carnal knowledge one hundred percent of the way if he failed to unlock their safe guards.
I will say the sex is salty and steamy, and the books definitely fulfill the need for a pirate Litrpg after a drunken night of watching a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon. Sierra Kline pulls off the sexy pretty well and made the dry beach sand feel wet and moist when she needed to, and I’m not talking about some ocean foam shooting across sandy toes. I think she plays the MC, Deetz, a male lead well in addition to the gamer gals and Deets’s boss. She certainly makes the sand steam and toes curl. I honestly think she did a good job here.
My only real issue is that the real world romance doesn’t compete with the in game stuff. I really wish that we would have spent less time outside of the game and more on the high seas. The story outside is not nearly as interesting or fun as the gaming stuff and kind of drags things down a bit as it moves forward. I was a little disappointed that despite the fact that we are in a book dealing with privateer’s privates, buccaneer's booties, and various other seamen we never once saw Deetz perform an Angry Pirate on his boss while in the real world. If you don’t know what kind of a sex act an angry pirate is I encourage you to look it up because it is unbelievably funny, and something you’d only do to a lover once.
I will say that if you do get this book please get the four book collection. Book one was released as a single, and my guess is it as just to test the waters, no pun intended. While the story is interesting and carries a lot of potential it isn’t worth a credit for one book. In fact, this book clocks in one minute shy of four hours, so it really feels like half a book.
Final score 7.4. The book is short and feels like half a book or a book in progress to some degree. Actually it feels like 4 short stories tied together rather than one solidly long book. The real world stuff stepped on my gaming toes but I will say that if Calico makes more I’ll be happy to give them a listen. Deetz is a good gaming character. Best part is it isn’t a WTM book, or if it is then the author did his research.
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Score: 7.4 out of 10