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The Barbarian Geisha (Black Lace)

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I wish that these types of books would have some way of telling you what their authors personal fetishes are. While I'm very open minded, I'm personally not into anal sex, and this book was one long tribute to it. I don't mind reading it in my erotica, but I prefer it to play a much smaller part. I'm surprised the poor heroine could ever even sit down, because she was getting it back there constantly. I guess what bothered me was the complete focus on it, almost to the exclusion of any other sort of activity. The best erotic books, the ones I go back to again and again, have a lot of variety, something for every mood-meat and potatoes to barely legal wild stuff. However, if you really like to read about backdoor action, this would definitely be the book for you.

... I didn't feel that anal played all that large a role, and what was there was subtle. In fact, this book had most of the Black Lace required scenes: oral, anal, female-female, light BDSM from both sides, with the main characters as both dom and sub, etc. Some of the scenes were gratuitous, though most seemed to enhance the characters. The reader gets a good look at the pseudo-Japanaese culture of the book, and partially gets to know Anabelle, a very unhappy, young woman, and Nakano, her master. The charaters are observed from a distance, though, and the author never lets you get too close to them, interrupting any sort of intimacy with a out-of-place sex scene. The sex wasn't all that sexy, and the plot wasn't terribly convincing. It was okay, but if you really want great Black Lace, read Emma Holly.

I wonder if Ms. Royal confuses the term geisha with tayu or oiran which mean courtesan. This whole plot that based on Annabel Smith who jumped overboard and stranded on feudal Japan and her master, a daimyo Nakano (strange enough he didn't have clan name though) was displeased with Annabel "pillowing" performance that he ordered Annabel to be trained as a geisha, seemed absurd to me.
A geisha is an entertainer, not a sex performer contrary to popular opinion and stereotypes. Though geisha sometimes had sexual relationships with their clients, they were supposed to entertain primarily through their accomplishments.
So, when Ms. Royal went to describe one of Annabel training was to give a perfect handjob, I laughed aloud. That's something new.
This whole historical blunder could be avoided if Ms. Royal spent a little more time in research.