Seductive Seas

Books 1-4 Seductive Seas LitRPG Series

By: Calico Jack

Narrated by: Sierra Kline

Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Totaling 40,000 words, it includes:

• Seductive Seas: Online Swashbuckling Harem
• Seductive Seas: Level Up & Man Up
• Seductive Seas: The Harem In Harm's Way
• Seductive Seas: NPCs Strike Back

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High adventure goes down here! Literally!

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, bucaneer’s booties, andvarious 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.

Fun and games on the high seas.

It strikes me that there doesn't seem to be a explanation for the stars that are given. So I thought I'd start giving my take on it.
1 horrible no redeeming qualities.
2 ok there are redeeming qualities.
3 good worth reading, or well written but not my cup of tea.
4 great but there's something off.
5 loved it.

A great beginning for a series. I can't wait for more of this. I know this is erotic but I personally didn't find it (panty wetting). Argh I want to say more about this story but I absolutely hate spoilers, so I won't go into details.

The narrator brings the story to life, drawing me in.

I've recently had several conversations with people that have said that one of the things they'd like to see in a review is if I'd read/listen to it again. So I'm now adding that to my reviews.
Yes I do believe that I may listen again.

Reasons I enjoyed this book:
Wonderful characters, Page-turner, Great world building, Unpredictable, Original, Easy-to-read, Entertaining, Action-packed, Twisted, Steamy, Funny.

Bookshelves/tags:
adult, adventure, contemporary, erotic, humorous, island, litrpg, multiple-partners, open-ended, pirate, polygamy, read, recorded, series, ships, short.

This book was given to me for free at my request from the publisher or author and I provided this unbiased voluntary review.

Dropped the Ball on the Ending.

This was going to be a 5 star review until the end. I absolutely loved the story, but there is no resolution at the end. He should have struck some kind of deal with the NPC's, or made some kind of last minute patch that kept his love interest sentient and reset the others.
The reference to workers comp was one of the funniest things I have ever heard.

Also, this is not really LitRPG, it's sci-fi.

I would love for the author to continue this series and give us a happy ending.