A wife who is adamant about fidelity cheats. An honest man lies and lies and lies. Getting fired seems like the unluckiest thing that can happen to Jeff - or is it an opportunity? How do you rank lucky events? Heck, how can you even recognize their true nature at the time?
Size: 192 KB (36,332 words)
Genre: Romantic
Sex Contents: Some Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, Consensual, NonConsensual, Drunk/Drugged, Heterosexual, Humor, Cheating, Slow
Review by Price26 [other reviews by Price26]
Reviewed:
Daghda Jim wrote some great stuff, and this is one of my favourites. Jeff and Stacy have been married for six years when he realizes that things aren’t good, and haven’t been good for about a year. Then he gets laid off in a cost-cutting exercise, and Stacy cans him the very next night. In a novel twist, his secretary Gloria, newly promoted to fill his spot at a lower salary, hires him back as her secretary. And he buys a lottery ticket in celebration of being in work again. You can see exactly where this one is going, can’t you?
Actually, no, you can’t. The main part of this story is about how Jeff has a life-changing idea that transforms the technical literature section that he and Gloria run – and stick it to those who have done them wrong. There are several good sub-plots hanging from this, including Stacy and her lover, the boss who laid him off, and some awesome legal shenanigans. Some of them are pretty technical, but our author steers his way through without losing us. And the big question ... can a man who has been brutally betrayed by two women ever learn to trust a third? Can she trust him?
There are a few minor issues in how this story is told; there are a couple of accidental spoilers and the time line gets a little ropey in places, but I’m only carping here. The plot is a great one, the descriptions vivid and humorous, the spelling and grammar beyond reproach. It’s written in an easy style and is almost believable, the tension kept going to the end.
I wish I could write this well. If you don’t know Daghda Jim’s work yet, please give him a try.
