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Blue: The Color of Desire

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There is a glut of [bad stories] out there that present a completely ridiculous and unrealistic view to the 'vanilla' world outside of the lifestyle that some of us embrace daily. This is not one of those books - this presents a completely true world, a believable scenario that I think not only helps us kinky folk dream, but gives us something that we can strive toward. Honest, moving, and sometimes emotionally jarring. These are two real people, in a real relationship, not the cardboard cutouts that we don't seem to be able to escape in this genre.

Parts of this often read like a page from my own life, and the other parts are what I want to live. Thank you, Pat Linney - you've given us a wonderful new voice in the world of BDSM erotica, one that I pray will be heard again and again for years to come...

Blue: The Color of Desire is one of the few novels that don't illustrate BDSM in a negative manner. The story is tantalizing - and the S&M parts drip with sensual prose in their brutal facade. Blue is quite a wonderful protagonist. Her love for her master helps her endure the painful training process. At the end of each session, she is rewarded with affection and enormous pleasure. This novel - along with Breaking the Girl and The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - is a favorite of mine. Erotica has become one of my favorite guilty pleasures, and I shall pull this wonderful book out of the shelf whenever I need a guide to inventive eroticism.

This book is quite amazing both in subject and style. I want to be Blue, what woman doesn't? To be loved and obsessed over, to experience hard sex all mixed in with adoration and domination, always knowing that the Master worships you. The chapter called "Blue in Cuba" is too hot to be real, to travel to exotic places and make up sexy stories at the same time. 5+ stars to Patrick Linney for originality and lust.

Linney's "Blue: the Color of Desire" is absolutely one of the best pieces of erotic literature I've ever read.

Using poetic language, taut symbolism, and exquisite imagination, Linney tells the story of a young woman who falls in love with her English professor -- a man called only "Sir" throughout the book. Their desires turn out to be dark, painful, and tinged with blue. Blue? Yes, blue:
Blue as in erotic.
Blue as in the sadness and pain of unfulfilled sensual longing.
Blue as in bruised. Black and blue.
Blue is also the name the young woman takes for herself at the start of her journey.

There really is no good way to descibe the plot; we see a series of episodes or vignettes which highlight the shifting dynamic between Blue and Sir as their relationship progresses. There are notes and emails, short-story-style fantasies, and brief torture scenes. Nothing is extraneous, nor is anything too brief to convey a specific feeling. As in a BSDM relationship, we are allowed into the mind of the submissive, Blue, but Sir remains somewhat distant, an enticing mystery.

This book is not adventure-smut or porn to read while you're home by yourself on a lonely Saturday. If you're just looking for a hot story with a great plot, try Laura Antoniou's "The Marketplace" series, or Chelsea Shepard's "Two Moons" series -- both of which are quality writing, something of which the world of BDSM fiction needs MUCH more.

"Blue," however, is literature, and it should be read slowly, carefully. It should be savored, so that the nuances of the writing can seep into you. The relationship between Blue and Sir is truly unconventional, even in the world of power-exchange. Linney pushes the boundries of what can be called an "erotic relationship."

I *highly* recommend this book, and I sincerely hope that Linney (and his blue muse) try writing erotica again in the near future.

You have to read this all in one sitting, there's no other way. Normal girl discovers craving for submission seems like an ordinary story, but there's nothing ordinary here. Linney gets inside her desire, inside the master's doubts and real life, inside the cravings that drive sexuality. A great read, short and sweet and sometimes incredibly harsh.

intense ... simple ... complex ... tortured and incredible.
In his own words.....
"when did I cease to be
the woman who offered herself
and become simply yours?"
such style ... such a perfect package to be kept under the mattress to dream on .... making a girl want more..... more...... please more

Patrick Linney is one excellent writer - I wish I could write something like this. It's tantalizing, crazy hot, poetic, and fascinating. Dominance is such a poorly handled subject by most writers, but this one's got it just right.

Wow - I received this book and "Many Kisses" in the same shipment...and still haven't recovered! Hot, powerful, tight poetic writing about BDSM in both, yet they're completely different in style and content. "Blue" is inventive and fairly short, but not in that trendy way (a few words on a page), more in the style of a man telling a story he'd... almost rather not tell.

This story is about a teacher (the master) and the student "Blue" who for a few hours a week exist together in a fantasy world including S/M and bondage. The book is well written, but if your looking for something with a super in depth plot with only parts of the book being sexual, this might not be what your looking for. This book was full of hot scenarios and language , definitely meant to arouse. You may feel the need to put the book down and take a break :-)

Deliciously naughty and sexy to read, short and sweet and mean and everything else you want a good BDSM book to be. This one's a tie with 'Many Kisses' for my favorite modern BDSM book ever!