The Siren - book review

 Overall this was a fair book with both advantages and disadvantages. Basically the story is weak but the characters and relationships are interesting and I found myself curious how the story would end. The book about writing a book is an interesting twist. A major disappointment is that the sex is lacking. There is BDSM but it's minimal and not really part of the story. Still, it was worth the read and I'll move on to the next book in the series.

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K is for Kinky - Book Review

I loved this collection of short stories. The stories were fun and hot. The different authors took on a variety of subjects that really kept my attention. Each author's unique style made each story a new and delightful experience. These are very entertaining.

Typical of this book series, each author explores a different kink and uses their own writing style to create a special erotic scene. Each is creative and unique and explores a different fetish.  

Alison Tyler has put together several collections and knows what she's doing.

My favorite story is Coin Operated where a woman uses her man as a fuck toy making him do exactly what turns her on most. While the fetish is objectification I found it exciting because it was him doing what pleased her most and her opening up and letting him know what she really wanted. It was real in that he didn't have to guess or read her mind and it made them both happy. Good communication and sharing ones fantasy is really sexy in my book.

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Prize of Pain - Book Review

It's hard for me to describe how awful this book is - Just thinking about the horror I put myself through to finish this book is painful.

The back cover description is completely wrong - There is no game show, no prize to be won, and absolutely nothing remotely erotic. The only one man who is described at any length in the book has no opportunity for cheating as he goes through his indoctrination of torture. His four stages of extreme torture are described in the most nauseating detail. The third scene is a golden-bath scene where 46 pairs of women pee on him while he is chained in a glass tub being heated by gas flames. Ms. Swanscome goes all out to describe this scene for over 100 boring and sickening pages.

This book is one arduous torture scene after another devoid of anything sensual: It  totally sucks! Save yourself the misery and don't waste your money.

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The Killer Wore Leather - Book Review

A murder mystery set at a kink convention - The set up sounds great, but overall, I wasn't thrilled.

Basically my complaint is that it wasn't exciting or suspenseful. I was bored listening to everyone whine about everything. The main convention host was constantly complaining about how hard it was to run a convention, how understaffed he was and how he wasn't making money. The lead detective was constantly complaining about how she wasn't treated fairly at the police department and that her new partner was close minded. The contestants were each complaining about everything and over-all, the characters were just a bunch of cry-babies.

Maybe the problem with this book is that Laura Antoniou knows the convention's inner workings too intimately and exposed the sordid and mundane facts too well. It really takes the bloom off the rose and spoils the fantasy of sexy dominatrices, macho gay studs and the whole beautiful fetish scene. She bursts the bubble of the convention fun too - Only one person, a volunteer, actually gets laid and nobody seems to be having fun. With all the potential sex and fetish toys to explore, Ms. Antoniou spends all her pages describing the stage workings and ticketing process instead actually exploring the dungeon and other exciting fetish stuff. I liked the subject and the setting, but I was really expecting more naughtiness with my murder.

She knows her stuff but is just wasn't a fun read. Maybe her next one will be better.

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The Priestess - Book Review

Adam, is assigned to investigate the disposition of a will and that brings him to the House of Ishtar. This fetish club is run by Mrs. Radford, who decides they need to get some dirt on Adam to ensure his loyalty to their situation. The book starts off slow with him being seduced by several women but does get exciting when the scene shift to an asylum far from civilization where Adam is secured in a rubber strait-jacket by Ms. Diana Thornhill. She's under the misconception that he's a spy sent to ruin her already struggling operation. This is where the sex gets really perverse as Adam is forced, not so unwillingly, to service the all female staff. The bondage and lesbian scenes in the asylum are well written and very exciting.

While the plot of the story, complete with office infighting, corporate back-stabbing, jealousy and carnal lust is pretty silly: It's enough to keep the reader interested. Not a bad read.

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Fifty Shades of Grey - Book Review

I really enjoyed this book. It was very entertaining and that's one of the main reasons we read book.

I liked the characters: Ana is very independent and witty which was fun to read. I could easily relate to her struggles to reconcile her heart and her brain. I liked the way she talked about her inner goddess and her conscience like they were other people giving advise and opinions. And she had some very funny observations, like calling him “Fifty Shades of Screwed Up.”

I liked Christian Grey: He was flawed but trying to find a way to cope with his issues. He wasn't just buying companionship; He was developing compatible partners. He was very honest and forth coming with his needs and never tricked or coerced Ana into anything.

The sex was good too. Not just the vanilla sex but the BDSM too. I thought it was presented very fairly which is very unusual for most stories. It was lighter than I'd expected but accurately presented.

The plot was not very complex or deep but it wasn't that kind of story.

I've seen several reviews that disparage this book and I have to attribute that to envy. This book broke through to the main-stream and they, the disparagers, are just being petulant because E.L. succeeded and they didn't.

Well worth the read. I've already started the sequel, Fifty Shades Darker.

12 Steps to Hell - Book Review

This is NOT erotica with BDSM themes; It's torture porn: Extreme, non-consensual torture for the amusement of sadists. I did not enjoy this book and discourage others from reading it. It was disgusting.

Dale is seduced by Goddess Kimiko and her assistant Aiko into joining their household as a sex slave with the lure of endless sex at the feet of these two Asian beauties. He is promised that his twelve month ordeal  will be rewarded with marring Kimiko and becoming Man-of the-mansion. Instead, Dale is tricked into enduring more and more intense torture, as the 12 step program continues. And after enduring twelve months of extreme torture including: burning, starvation, body mutilation and becoming their human toilet, he is instead locked in permanent chastity and bondage. He is doomed to a life of never ending torture and suffering because that is what these two women truly enjoy.

I suspect that only Jeffery Dommer, and his criminally abusive friends, would have read this to the end and said they liked it. This book has nothing to do with Safe, Sane, and Consensual sex play and fails as extreme fantasy erotica. This is not edge play - This is non-consensual torture.

I strongly recommend this book be avoided. I disposed of the copy I read because there was no reason to keep it. Read the full review here.