6-4=3

finished. not my favorite of yours. not bad, just didn't work for me.

this was not as smooth of a read as most of your works. felt like too many characters and narration bounced around a lot. Felt like a bit of an experiment. I'm at the start of chapter 3 but have lost most of my interest in the characters.

Good story. Not quite enough pathos for me in regards to Sandy, who obviously went off the deep end. Ryan, for his part was always a scumbag right up until the end but I felt like Sandy was just damaged goods who let people use her and got in over her head. The sad thing is, with as much as she loved Ben, if she had told him about her past and they had gotten her help, it probably never would have happened. Just goes to show - there should be no secrets in a marriage.

Great read. Might have been a little more interested in the psychosis of Sandy there especially more towards the end. I felt like I wanted a couple more sentences or paragraphs on her unraveling. Would be interesting to know if she had gotten a final conversation with Ben in, could she have gotten help or any sense of self awareness before becoming a stone killer ?

This was a great story, full of twists and turns, and it is a five-star story, for sure. It seems like in the end the good guy wins which I love in a good story. Very well-written and very entertaining. Great job!!!

I enjoyed the story very much, as I do most of StangStar’s work, but I do have one negative criticism.

I understand why she was talking to someone on social media, because she didn’t have a very happy marriage, but he was not in the same position when the story started.

Fortunately, it all worked out for this couple, but connecting inappropriately with people on social media has been the bane of many a marriage.

Just sayin….

Reading some of the comments was almost as much fun as reading the story, which I enjoyed very much, five stars worth. Like a lot of commenters, I wish that Tabitha and Joe Bob could have got back together, after all he also cheated on her. There was one bit that had me confused for a while, when Ryan went to see Mel after the restraining order, he was in the house trying to sweet talk Melanie. How did he get in with the locks being changed and why didn't she call the police on him?

Well, there were a lot of fucked up people in this story and some of them got what they deserved.

Enjoyed the story. Thanks for your writing. Wish you were still writing.

All your stories have a steno pool. Steno pools haven’t been a thing since the PC was invented in 1981.

5th year of High School... LOL!

Not your usual…. More like Just Plain Bob squared…

A big shaggy dog story….

Oh well, I’ll continue to hope for better from you

We'll be sure to tell your husband you'd forgive him if he impregnated another woman, and screwed a bunch more, all while you were adoring him and working your ass off for him, AngelRider. I mean, you're not immature or anything, are you? Far less a hypocrite, right? So you'll be just fine with it, I'm sure.

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I felt bad for Tabitha too, but "poverty, poor upbringing, and poor education" are not an excuse for the grave she dug herself. I grew up poor, with poor upbringing, and I'm a highschool dropout. I know others worse off than me. None of us would do what she did. All of us would happily tar and feather her for doing it. It's not just men who despise cheating sluts, regardless of the sex organs that slut happens to possess. Decent women do too.

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Reconciliation is nice and all, but if "judgemental men who (have scars from infidelity)" piss you off more than pedophiles and child rapists...there's something deeply, deeply wrong with you.

Sandy is a very broken toy. In many of these stories, it amazes me just how evil some of these loving spouses can be. In this one not so much so many broken people, some just stupid or lazy but in all actual personalities with their own share conflicting emotions and, like we all do to some degree, some self gaslighting. We all have some dichotomy of emotions we are able to hold onto without it revealing to ourselves that we are the bad guy in someone else's story even if we don't see it that way, it is. thax for a great read

Enjoyed the story. Would have liked it better if Tabby and Joe got back together.

Couldn't finish it. ????

Sandy has serious psychological problems rooted in relationships before Ben. I feel bad that she got roped into this stupid fuck Greg to help Betty arrangement. That was dumb. Then oher guys got involved by observation and blackmail. It is odd because it is hard to say she did it for the sex. She barely got off on the four guys let alone Gregg by himself while Ben turned inside out while making love. Maybe it started to help Betty, got out of control but she used it to get prepared in her own mind to Ben. Of course she is a headcase, but sad to see she got used and manipulated by assholes. But no reconciliation was possible. Heck this author doesn't even let the cheating spouse to the victim spouse almost ever. Ryan was just a jerk and a tool. Good to see Ben and Melanie end up happy together. Would have been more interesting and gray if Sandy got sucked into a blackmail scheme and it made it harder to dump Sandy. Oh well. This author seems to like when the wives cheat they have thressomes and gangbangs. Just an observation.

I rank this as the author’s worst. None of the interwoven tales was interesting.