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11May

Review: Slap, Tickle, and Tie by Peter Birch

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Slap, Tickle, and Tie by Peter Birch

http://www.amazon.com/Slap-Tickle-and-Tie-ebook/dp/B006P2V01A/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336743459&sr=1-1

ASIN B006P2V01A

1 out of 5 paddles

Mr. Birch started out this book with a brief discussion of what is a fetish. Expecting this to be an introductory chapter of a larger and more in depth discussion I continued on. Then came the second chapter and the third, each time I found a brief and cursory discussion of an aspect of a fetish or sexual kink such as bondage or spanking positions.

Followingthe fourth or fifth chapter I returned to the beginning pages and discovered a small passage where this is a compilation of eight articles about the author’s favorite fetishes.

This explanation satisfied me, some what.

As I read on I wondered who the audience would be of this book. The total beginner might pick up the book thinking they were going to learn a lot about kink but they would come away disappointed. Each fetish along with the discussion of bondage and spanking doesn’t attempt to explain or understand the psychology of why people may be attracted to it. Someone interested in exploring kink and wanting to learn more come away with the feeling of not having actually learned anything. An individual within the BDSM community would react even more so because all this book does is give the author’s preferences.

I’m always interested in discovering new material, whether a book or an article that can be used to refer people to who have a yearning for something more and wonder if BDSM and kink are what they are missing in their lives. I can’t see telling anyone with little or no kink/BDSM background to use this book for anything. It would more likely scare them away than inform.

Reviewed by Ronni

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28Apr

Review: Addicted to Love by Kris Williams

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Addicted to Love by Kris Williams

http://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Love-Enslavement-Krissy-ebook/dp/B006WSVN2I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335591634&sr=8-1

ASIN B006WSVN2I

1 out of 5 paddles

Review:

Krissy is frightened of her boyfriend Mitch. After two years living with him, their terms change as Mitch wants to own Krissy as his slave. He wants to be a Master. The first three sentences of this story caught my attention. I was hoping it was going to be good. Instead, I’m disappointed. To say I didn’t like this story is an understatement. It wasn’t the non-con or the rape or the beatings which made me dislike the book. I’ve read more sadistic books and gotten off on them. This story is a disappointment because the writer, Ms. Williams is perpetuating disgusting misconceptions of BDSM.

If this story was a BDSM fantasy story, then I might be able to accept this story and find it hot. Instead, this book is reads as a contemporary BDSM piece with a D/s and SM theme with Master and slave. This story makes a mockery of the Master and slave element. Make no mistakes, Mitch is not a Master. In the story, Ms. Williams keeps repeating Mitch is a Master and that he needs to be this cruel and brutal to show Krissy who is boss. What this shows me, is Ms. Williams’ complete lack of understanding of either D/s or Master and slave dynamics. I recommend Ms. Williams do a little more research on how a Master/slave relationship works. This story is written with lack of understanding in the BDSM lifestyle. The fact that Mitch expresses his right to beat the shit out of Krissy because he is the MASTER is a key tip off for me that this is not a BDSM friendly book. Instead, this is a BDSM hostile book. This book is a good example of a bad Dom.

14Mar

Review: Pleasure Haven by Genevieve Ash

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Pleasure Haven
Genevieve Ash
Xcite Books [link to buy]
ASIN B006U1EHIE

Rating: 1 out of 5 paddles

Blurb:

An erotic novella with mixed themes including spanking, female submission and role play.

Trish lives a quiet, happy life until she meets Josh, and he turns her world upside down. Worlds apart, they record erotic audio books, their voices merged in a studio far away, until one day they are brought together in a small recording booth.Their attraction immediate, the close proximity and titillating words, make it impossible to deny their lust for one another. Although distance and commitments keep them apart, they become writing partners and manage to find ways to come together for both business and pleasure. When Josh decides to cross the Pond and visit Trish on her home turf, she takes him to a secluded cabin in the woods where “making up for lost time” takes on a whole new meaning.

Review:

Pleasure Haven is a short story that has very little BDSM involved. Trish and Josh met while recording erotic audio books. Now, they meet every so often and work on new stories together.

I liked both characters. They are a partnership that is really only together for the sex over the years. But, this trip proves to be something more. Trish is a fun character willing to try new things and take a chance. Josh states time and again that their relationship is a partnership, but they do try a few role plays in the bedroom.
I wasn’t overly impressed with Pleasure Haven, but I did enjoy the simple contemporary romance with a few kinky bits hinted t. I didn’t feel like it was very erotic or BDSM themed. When I finished the story, I couldn’t remember any spanking or anything kinkier than a few outfits. Pleasure Haven is a cute short story that has its merits, those merits for me just didn’t fit with a BDSM theme.

14Mar

Review: The Gate by Kaitlyn O’Connor

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The Gate
Kaitlyn O’Connor

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Overall book 1 out of 5
BDSM/kink 0 out of 5 paddles

The concept at the core of The Gate is an interesting one,solid.

In a future moon colony, where government monitoring and control has become the norm, Carly becomes obsessed with her virtual sex partner, the only person who offers her a release from her cramped and boring life. When she attempts to divine the identities of the people who contributed to the program, she learns that he may be based on a real person: Devlin Bear, her best friend’s brother. The real Devlin is dead, killed in a lab accident while working on a top-secret government project, but when Carly orders a cybernetic sex doll programmed with her virtual lover’s personality, she discovers that the doll really does think that he’s Devlin Bear. He may, in fact, be Devlin Bear. And now that he’s back, there are people who want what he knows.

There were things I liked about this book. Devlin and his sister Brenda are both Arapaho. There’s a really nice bit about how the Arapaho language, being a “dead” language despite still being spoken by, you know, actual living for-real Arapaho, was left out of the translation databases in a typically privileged and dismissive jerk move. The language is now being used to organize rebel efforts and circumvent the nearly-constant surveillance. I thought that was really cool.

The feeling of being watched was well-evoked, and we never for a moment forget that Carly’s world is one of intrusive and disturbing governmental voyeurism. I, like a lot of folks, have a fear of being watched constantly, of having my behavior monitored and judged,and having my suitability as part of society judged by what I do in private, so this hit home in a major way.

07Mar

Review: Deja Brew by Mardi Ballou

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Deja Brew
Mardi Ballou
Ellora’s Cave [link to buy]
ASIN B006RHHFXK

Rating: 1 out of 5 paddles

Deja Brew by Mardi Ballou is a story with great potential that, unfortunately, it doesn’t live up to. Lisa and Jack are lovers and business partners trying to talk a witch into allowing their company to market a radically new potion she’s devised, deja brew. The potion can transport the drinker’s mind to a time in their own past to experience it again, fresh. Dora, the witch, has concerns about mass marketing such a potion and the general public’s ability to deal with seeing the past in perfect clarity as opposed to through the haze of memory. The conflict erupts when it becomes clear that Jack and Lisa are taking Dora’s concerns in totally different lights.

I have no complaints about the purely technical aspects of Ms. Ballou’s writing. There are no awkward word choices, or glaring errors in format of spelling to distract the reader from the story. The problem is the story itself. It just doesn’t sing, if you will. Throughout the 80 or so pages of ebook, the reader is left with the impression of actors dutifully going through their lines and actions, but with no passion or energy. I felt no affinity for the characters; there was nothing that made me care about whether Lisa or Jack would stay together. I didn’t even care whether the potion would eventually be marketed or not.

20Feb

Review: Freedom is Slavery by Louis Friend

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Freedom is Slavery
Louis Friend
[link to buy]
ISBN-10: 0557207096
ISBN-13: 978-0557207091

Rating: 1 out of 5 paddles

The reading and evaluation of this book went through several stages. When reading the introduction anticipating a novel I discovered in fact it was a series of short stories as the author refers to them or fantasies as he discusses. I agreed with him as I read the Introduction that fantasies do not necessarily have to come true but are not bad to indulge.

I read the first story, Sybarta and then the second, Big Fun in a Small Space and they were indeed enjoyable, but left me wanting and wondering. What happened to the rest of the story, or if I kept reading there would be at some point and intersection where they would come together? This seemed a logical assumption as each story were all told from the same first person point of view. Plus as I read the narrator of the story was always male. But slowly the realization set in that there was no more to any of the stories, nor do they come together to form a whole. Each story is separate and distinct, except for the teacher sequence in the middle of the book, but even then only the characters are the same.

What happened though as I read the first few stories was to understand that they don’t really stand as what I normally consider stories.There are always 2 and sometimes 3 characters, but the primary character in each episode is simply referred to as “I”, with no descriptors of the person and minimal reference to who he is, other than male. The secondary character is usually given a short physical description and where the story is taking place is mentioned.

13Jan

Review: Pandora by Slave Nano

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Pandora
Slave Nano
Andrews UK (AUK) [link to buy]
ASIN B005ESFOF4

Rating: 1 out of 5 paddles

When you read the blurb for this book you might be deceived into thinking it’s going to be a good read. Unfortunately that’s not really what you get. It’s a good story concept that if fleshed out from a novella to a novel, may work for some readers who like futuristic stories.

Pandora lives in a futuristic time when China rules Britain. All the reader is told about how this came to be is, there was a war. She has brought a house that’s inhabited by a spirit, a previous Domme who lived in the house, the Goddess Nemesis. A psychic contacts one of the Goddesses slaves (who happens to have the same name as Pandora’s futuristic household management system) and from that point Pandora decides she needs to become a dominatrix. She starts with her boyfriend, who responds immediately to her domination even though he’s described as disinterested in Pandora. Then the next thing you know, Pandora has other male slaves who pay her to be their Domme. You don’t really get told where they come from, or how she’s found them, they just appear. As do the secret police who take her into custody and torture her. The psychic and her household management system come up with a plan to release Pandora from her captors. Their plan is as far fetched as the book.

11Jan

Review: Three Men and a Bounty by Gigi Moore

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Three Men and a Bounty
Gigi Moore
Siren Publishing [link to buy]
ISBN-10: 1606018922
ISBN-13: 978-1606018927

Rating: 1 out of 5 Paddles

Well, partner, what ya got here is a tale of the old west, about three men who find they have a right powerful hankering for each other. As if a menage wasn’t complicated enough, one of the men is a US Marshall, and a former slave. In the post civil war period, that’s a big complication. But wait, the author apparently thought, let’s make it even more complicated. Let’s make one of the other men a shape-shifter, able to take the form of a wolf at will.

There are so many potentially big issues that this story could have addressed, or used to dramatic effect, but most of them get short shrift. James is the black US Marshall, and the oldest of the three men. The racial issue gets brought up often, but when it comes to the other two men, there’s little exploration of how they feel about their attraction to a man of color. This is a constant problem with the story, every issue that should prove a barrier and provide some drama to the story is often simply brushed aside. For more than half the book, we’re told that shifters like Troy, the middle man in the threesome, are feared and hunted down like the animals they become. When Troy decides almost spontaneously to show what he is to his two admirers and shifts into his wolf form, their reaction could easily be summed up as simply, “Cool!” No fear, no suspicion, nothing. Just instant acceptance with few, if any, questions.

09Jan

Review: Body Temperature and Rising by KD Grace

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Body Temperature and Rising
KD Grace
Xcite Books [link to buy]
ASIN B0067MDE3A

Rating: 1 out of 5 Paddles

When my father first saw the movie “Field of Dreams,” and we asked him about it, his only response was, “It was a screwy damn thing.” That is exactly how I felt about this book.

Confusing, closer to porn than erotic romance, and lacking in any real BDSM, this book was a struggle to read and a relief to finish.

The basic premise is that Marie Warren and her landlord, Tim Merriweather, are “Ghost Riders” able to bring ghosts back to the flesh to indulge in sex. But they don’t know that until they are taken in hand by members of the Elemental Coven, a group of witches made up of three ghosts and the head witch, Tara. The three ghosts, Anderson, Fiona and Sky, all have their own ways to come back to the flesh.

The coven is under attack by a demon named Deacon, who threatens all of them in order to torment the Tara, whose mother was responsible for his death.

After many amorous interludes, Tim and Marie are able to put Deacon into a coma and end the immediate threat so that the coven can indulge in an orgy with each other.

Because Deacon can control others through their dreams, it is hard to tell throughout the book when the characters are dreaming and when they are awake. A change of font would have been a help here.

While the sex is plentiful, it is not particularly hot. And the only inkling of BDSM is that Deacon carries a bullwhip and sometimes uses it to enhance the sexual pleasure of his victims as he draws them under his spell. He also ties his helpmate to the bed once.

02Dec

Review: Home Cookies by Vic Winter

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Home Cookies
Vic Winter
Torquere Press [link to buy]
ASIN B005MSZR4E

Rating 1 out of 5 Paddles

Drey’s friend Ruby likes to play matchmaker, fixing him up with numerous blind dates. Her gaydar is far more accurate that Drey’s but he has yet to click with any of the men he meets. Ruby’s latest attempt is Milton, and by the end of the two men’s evening together we know the way to Drey’s heart is cookies.

Home Cookies is a short story – just 13 pages in print. It’s a tiny little slice of life, a single evening, a date, told from the point of view of Drey. Ruby has Drey and Milton meet in a bar, and for Drey it’s practically love at first sight. Drey’s infatuation grows through dinner, so of course he’s thrilled to be invited back to Milton’s place.

This is a sweet tale, but nothing special. It’s difficult to get into anything deep in a short story. The one sex scene is rather tame, and there’s zero BDSM content, which is why I’ve rated it so low. It might make a pleasant lunch-
time read.

Reviewed by Michael

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