In the house shared by Michael, a novelist, his beautiful wife Hilda, and their maid, events occur to daze and confound the wildest imagination. In his diary, Michael, who is hopelessly, yet willingly, trapped in this bizarre menage, sets down the day-to-day events that lead to his ultimate death--which are presented here uncompromised. Original.
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TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF LOVE IS TO BE ENLIGHTENED!,
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This review is from: Excess of Love (Mass Market Paperback)
I first read EXCESS OF LOVE by Jac Lenders over twenty-two years ago. I was very pleased to see it reprinted in 1996, then again in 2000. EXCESS OF LOVE is a novel that takes a bold look at a form of love that was seldom discussed out loud in public twenty years before. Things are a little more opened in this day and age. That I would call this book a classic in the field of "erotica" is surely an understatement. Few other novels have been written which depict the subject of "Female Domination" with such clarity, honesty, and even perhaps such love. Written as a diary, EXCESS OF LOVE is the story of Michael and Hilda Mansell. They are a couple that lives in England and have a rather unusual marriage based on the belief of female domination. Michael, a novelist, is the slave of his beautiful, but cold wife, Hilda. She is the Goddess that he worships, and his role is to submit to whatever demands are made upon him. The top floor of their three-story home is Michael's prison, and he is never allowed to leave it without Hilda's permission. In fact, the door leading up the third landing is kept locked at all times, and Hilda is the only person with a key. To test the love of her submissive husband, Hilda will at times cruely punish and humiliate Michael in ways that would seem depraved to those outside of such a relationship. To Michael, it is simply another way for his wife to demonstrate her love for him. Though occasionally fearful of the things Hilda does to him, Michael also finds himself sexually excited at the same time. When Hilda takes Peter as her young lover, Michael is tied to a chair in his quarters and forced to listen to their lovemaking on the intercom system. He finds himself to be both jealous and excited at being cuckolded by his lovely wife. Over a period of months, Hilda begins to mold and shape the relationship between her and the two men, much like a skilled director, bringing the two of them closer together, until each is able to completely accept the other. Peter eventually becomes comfortable enough to accept the husband being tied and bound in the same room as he makes long, passionate love to the Mistress of the house. There is also the new maid, Olive, who not only has to clean the house, but assists Hilda in dominating her husband. As Hilda tells Olive, "There are men who want to cry with pain, some who want to feel that there is no mercy for them. Some can only live happily as slaves. They are told what to do and what not to do, and they get punished all of the time, and the men love it." Olive soon learns the power of the whip and how ecstatic it can be to control another human being in a sexual manner. Over time, however, Olive and Michael develop a close relationship with each other that leads to jealousy on Hilda's part, and it isn't long before tragedy unfolds. Whatever one may think with regards to the type of marriage Hilda and Michael have, the one thing that stands out in the book is the strong love both have for each other. It doesn't matter what Hilda forces her husband to endure, there is never a doubt that she truly loves him, or that he loves her more than life itself. EXCESS OF LOVE was certainly written by someone who has had personal experience in a relationship of this type. Of that, there can be no question. The author clearly understands the psychology behind the actions and never for one moment looks down upon his characters in the book. He has written them as flesh and blood...as people the reader can care about, no matter what their sexual preferences might be. The only difference between the Mansells and other folks is how they choose to view the nature of love and express it between themselves. Certainly this novel was written for a very small, select audience. That it has continued to be reprinted over the last twenty years says something for the quality of writing and how the subject matter is treated. The reader should be warned that this novel is sexually graphic and will be offensive to a great many people. There is only one other novel that I have read over the last two decades that comes even close to the quality and truth of this book and it is titled, MY DARLING DOMINATRIX. Written by Grant Antrews, readers can still purchase this and EXCESS OF LOVE through Amazon.com. Finally, I don't know if Jac Lenders is still alive or not. To my knowledge, EXCESS OF LOVE is the only novel which he wrote. If by some chance Mr. Lenders is alive and by some strange twist of fate reads this review, perhaps he will consider writing another novel. I would love to see how he'd deal with the same subject matter in today's opened society.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A classic femdom novel, baroque, unusual, and philosophical,
By Semanticus@aol.com (Cypress, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Excess of Love (Paperback)
I first read this book about 20 years ago, and I consider it a classic of the type.Michael is kept in bondage and punished severely by his caring but aloof wife, Hilda. His excess of love compells him to assist in helping her to take a lover to enjoy in front of her imprisoned slave. Hilda also tempts him with her new, young maid, who in turn seduces him (causing him extreme punishment), possesses him, and finally suffers with him under the bondage and punishment of the passionate but cold, Hilda. This very well written novel has non-cardboard characters with depth and emotions, an unique story line, and graphic corporal punishment, scatalogical, and bondage scenes. The reader is swept up into the forboding mystery of Hilda's character, and the slavishly devoted and tragically needy character of Michael
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