In Too Deep

By: Portia Da Costa

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

I just want a taste of you. Or a touch. My fantasies about you plague my every waking hour. My only comfort is imagining that similar fantasies might obsess you too. When young librarian Gwendolynne Price starts finding increasingly erotic love notes to her in the suggestion box at work, she finds them both shocking and liberating. But who is her mystery admirer and how long will he be content to just admire her from afar...?

©2008 Portia Da Costa (P)2012 Random House Audiobooks

So very hot!!

What a super sexy story. I was hooked after the fir 2 lines. I will listen to this one again

Oh, so yummy!

If you could sum up In Too Deep in three words, what would they be?

Enthralling, Titillating and Hot!

Who was your favorite character and why?

Nemesis. He made me yearn to be Gwendolyn!

Which scene was your favorite?

I can't pick one. There were way too many. But I did like the scene where Gwendolyn secretly watched the Professor masturbate.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, and I did!

Any additional comments?

I think the narrator did a very good job. I will listen to this one over and over!

Naughty & Wonderful

This was soooooo sexy. I couldn't bring myself to turn it off. A credit well spent, truly.

Oh my...

A brilliant combination of erotica, suspense (of the titillating kind) and romance. The narrator is OUTSTANDING. She makes the book a very personal experience, especially as it's written in first person. Not for the faint-hearted, i.e. if you like just a little bit of hotness in the romantic stories you read then this story might be too much for you. Portia and Imogen transport you, in the opening scene, directly to Gwendolynne's first letter from 'Nemesis' and it is... ...well, you've got to listen to it to see what I mean :) I love this book because it has just the right combination of everything for my taste in erotica and it is also very believable. Gwendolynne is not a perfect Barbie doll and neither is Daniel a perfect Ken, though his physical attributes are very adequate, even with his 'spectacles'. It's believable too because the core of Daniel's situation gives clear insight as to why he might choose such intensity in his interactions with Gwendolynne. Lovely ending too. A very satisfying book. A++++++++++
P.S. This book was published in 2008 so it precedes Fifty Shades of Grey by four years. It is far better, from so many points of view, especially the writing style, which is impeccable.

In Too Deep - Steamy story

I really enjoyed this book. I like the way Portia writes, and the language she uses is intelligent and skillfully intimate.
I couldn't put this book down, I loved Nemesis & Daniel, and the way we were kept guessing.
The book would have made 5 stars if the story had not eneded a bit abrubtly. I won't go into details but one minute it is the climax of the story and the next it is over. However, I still loved the book and will listen again and would definitely recommend to others. Imogen Church was wonderful as the narrator.

I wanted to like it but just couldn't

Okay I am torn here, sometimes I loved this book, sometimes I really didn't like it.

Things I didn't like:
1. British slang that I just didn't get. I have read books in the past with British slang and I got over it but this book just didn't have enough to get me past it.
2. Over half of the steamy scenes in the book were in fantasy form, meaning they didn't really happen it was just the female lead thinking/daydreaming/trying for a steamy scene.
3. Due to the shortness of the book and combined with the vivid fantasies the chemistry between the characters fell a bit flat.
4. I felt like I got 25% of the story in the first 6 hours and 75% in the last 2 hours....so it dragged a bit and then the ending was rushed, which was disappointing.

Things I really liked:
1. The narrator really pulled the book off, so often with a female British narrator I am reminded of Mary Poppins or Angela Landsbury and the steamy scenes become creepy to me, but this lady was good.
2. The steamy scenes were graphic without being crude, major plus there!
3. The idea behind the book was original, could a secret admirer be the guy you are crushing on? And if he was could that up the fun of dating?
4. The female lead was a size 16, she was not a wafer thin model type and she made it work for her!

All in all I was disappointed and know this book could have gone better, but it wasn't a total waste. Not worth a credit, but if it makes it into the $4.95 sale go for it!

Marvelous!!

This was fabulously written and marvelously narrated! Deliciously sexy, yet the plot still compelling! Hoping for another...

Yummuy & so much fun!

Where does In Too Deep rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I enjoyed it a lot...would love more by this author

Who was your favorite character and why?

"Prof. Hottie"

What does Imogen Church bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Delightful - brought chacters to life

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Well-written, All sex romance

I liked this story, but its likeability waned at 3/4s through it because I tired of all of the sex and that being the entire basis of the romantic relationship between divorced librarian, Gwendolyn Price and historian, Daniel Brewster (aka Professor Hottie). And I especially tired of hearing about how moist and wet Gwendolyn was in her vaginal area. I love erotica, and this is good. But I just wish it had more of a balance, a bit more focus on non-sexual aspects of a romantic relationship and the characters’ lives in order to keep me engaged. With all of the sex, it all becomes a bit too predictable after a while. And an all-sex story, even as well-written as this one, struggles to stay entertaining when nothing else is there. It’s the reason why most of the stories in the erotica section are less than an hour. This author tried to include another factor, a small mystery focused on mystery-man, Nemesis, in order to make the story about more than just sex. But the mystery also had sex as the focus, so that didn’t go anywhere, not away from sex, anyway. Still, they are some of the hottest sex scenes, albeit, overdone after a while.

The story has several Britishisms, and the narrator handles all of the characters well. And I liked that Gwendolyn was sized 16-18, which Daniel loved. But the story never went below an 8 on the heat scale of 1-10 with 10 being the hottest. So I was ready for it to be over when it ended, though I really enjoyed it through more than half of the book.

Wowzers!

What a naughty British tale of a secret admirer and a librarian. Hold onto you knickers, bc this book will drive you wild!