A young and under-prepared geologist climbs a mountain in the winter and faces peril, but turns defeat into victory and alarums into merry meetings and some most delightful (and warm) measures. A long romantic tale of Christmas romance gifted and unwrapped in the most unlikely of places and circumstances with plenty of erotic thrills for enjoying in your own sleeping bag.
Size: 97 KB (18,132 words)
Genre: Romantic
Sex Contents: Some Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, Fa/Fa, Consensual, Romantic, Reluctant, Group Sex, Oral Sex, Pregnancy, Slow, Workplace
Review by burka_oz [other reviews by burka_oz]
Reviewed:
An old story (2009) from a great author who has written many tales (87 all up) that I have enjoyed a number of them. Oddly enough I had never read this great story.
I know very little about geology and fossils and science things like those but this tale filled in lots of gaps in my knowledge.
The MC, a budding geologist has an injury that fails him out of his summer geology camp. He has to make a last-ditch effort and take on a geology camp in the frozen North of Canada, the Land of Ice and Snow, and not much else. His experiences gaining knowledge of how to survive in the Arctic are classic. The people he meets are not the biggest problem, the environment is harsh and unforgiving.
Then comes the night when circumstances mean he has to share a tent with two of the females of his cohort. Share seems to be the best word to describe how they spent a couple of days in a blizzard. Share. Share and more share!
I really enjoyed the tale except for the rushed ending. I thought I was on a fast-moving escalator with no way to make it slow down. I can understand the reason for the rush, to make a competition deadline. I don't understand the author not coming back to the tale and finishing it off properly. Stultus is a good author, why leave really good work unfinished when it could be completed and become an excellent tale?
OK, enough of that. Others have also mentioned it. Maybe he will return to it one day. I hope he lets me know so I can update and refresh this review.
So to the Scoring:
The Plot was looking really good till the end. 7.
Technical: No real problems so an 8.
Appeal to the reader: Difficult to choose. I loved the tale but would the predominant science put off the average reader? For now, it will be an 8 subject to an update in the future.
Oh, and there should be bonus points for tying in the Title with that awful tent, which technically would have been, as others have said, drenched in the water of condensation.
But hey, it's fiction.
